Awake Evidence

by Judith Curry Climate science is baaaack  Energy Secretary Chris Wright has commissioned a new climate assessment report: A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate  From the Secretary’s Foreword: What I’ve found is that … Continue reading → The post New Climate Assessment Report from US DOE appeared first on Climate Etc..

by Art Rangno How we fooled ourselves about the effectiveness of cloud seeding. The Colorado River Basin Pilot Project (CRBPP, 1970-75) is still the most ambitious, expensive randomized orographic cloud seeding project in US history. It featured an unprecedented amount … Continue reading → The post Cloud Seeding History: Looking Back at the Colorado River Basin Pilot Project appeared first on Climate Etc..

by Nic Lewis The determination of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS)—the long-term warming response to doubled atmospheric CO2 concentrations—remains one of the most crucial yet challenging problems in climate science. Recent exchanges in the literature have highlighted both the complexity of … Continue reading → The post Addressing misconceptions about Climate Sensitivity research: a Response to recent Criticisms appeared first on Climate Etc..

by Judith Curry A month has passed since the DOE climate assessment report was published.  It’s time to reflect on what we might learn from the responses to this Report.  Of particular relevance is the report that was issued earlier … Continue reading → The post DOE Climate Assessment Report: Feedback appeared first on Climate Etc..

by John Ridgway Any politician faced with the challenge of protecting the public from a natural threat, such as a pandemic or climate change, will be keen to stress how much they are ‘following the science’ — by which they … Continue reading → The post The Matthew Effect, Mono-cultures, and the Natural Selection of Bad Science appeared first on Climate Etc..

by John Ridgway In an earlier essay [1] I explained how positive feedbacks can lead to potentially problematic scientific mono-cultures. I also acknowledged that poor research design and data analysis had become commonplace within the behavioural sciences, largely as a … Continue reading → The post Natural Selection of Bad Science. Part II appeared first on Climate Etc..

by Mila Zinkova Reassessing The Coldest March by Susan Solomon On Thursday, 29 March 1912, Captain Scott (1914) made the final entry in his Journal. He wrote:  Since the 21st we have had a continuous gale from W.S.W. and S.W. … Continue reading → The post Captain Scott’s 1912 Antarctic tragedy appeared first on Climate Etc..