The biggest question: how much will the world warm?
Climate scientist Judith Curry estimates how much the world will likely warm in the 21st century.
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Toxic climate propaganda is poisoning US public policy
Dr. Curry explains how toxic climate propaganda contributes to the gridlock in the public policy debate.
The good news undercutting most forecasts of a climate disaster
One of the four scenarios of our future given in the IPCC’s AR5 (2013) is the basis for almost all the disturbing and often apocalyptic forecasts of future climate: RCP8.5. Climate scientists often describe it as the “business as usual scenario”. Scientists, activists, and journalists use horrific forecasts based on RCP8.5 as a core argument …
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Assigning blame for the flooding of Pacific atolls
Summary: Polar bears and pacific atolls (flooded by rising seas) are the poster children for climate change. Oddly, both are weak examples. Previous posts discussed polar bears. Here Judith Curry (Prof Atmospheric Science, GA Inst Tech) discusses the effect of rising sea levels on coral atolls. Kiribati crisis: the blame game Small atoll islands may …
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Touring the frontiers of climate science, the exciting parts of science
Summary: Every field of science has frontiers. Journalists and activists prefer to show us answers (sometimes guesses), and hide the questions which drive science (and produce much of its excitement). Some are generated by the reigning paradigm, which focuses scientists’ work on key issues. Scientists challenging the paradigm ask different questions, ones often considered irrelevant, …
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