tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post3788214772949850941..comments2024-02-12T15:25:44.028+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: David Middleton is hot and bothered by the spurt and the Pacific Decadal OscillationSouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-49046387490323067132016-01-17T11:07:07.472+11:002016-01-17T11:07:07.472+11:00The cool phase of the PDO was its golden age, and ...The cool phase of the PDO was its golden age, and we still got COP21. Not much of a record really.Cugelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-77309631625731950922016-01-17T09:28:08.369+11:002016-01-17T09:28:08.369+11:00I've been saying just that at Climate Etc. for...I've been saying just that at Climate Etc. for quite awhile.JCHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-32729511803209022382016-01-17T09:00:00.810+11:002016-01-17T09:00:00.810+11:00Yes, that looks like the striking conclusion of Fi...Yes, that looks like the striking conclusion of Fig 5.<br /><br />I think 2015 will be seen as a defining year in climate science denial Tadaaahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07736188830660481871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-56912560787593101642016-01-17T08:33:25.029+11:002016-01-17T08:33:25.029+11:00It is interesting isn't it?
The IPCC AR5 repo...It is interesting isn't it?<br /><br />The IPCC AR5 report states AGW due to greenhouse gases is running at over 100%. This implies there is some cooling going on.<br /><br />If the cooling was due to the phase of the PDO and not to aerosols, then we will be in for a long period of warming over and above the usual global warming.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11552461190113661645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-30694192915199689342016-01-17T04:32:50.191+11:002016-01-17T04:32:50.191+11:00You are going to have treat with this week's &...You are going to have treat with this week's "Friday (never) funny". It is truly a declaration of faith, and there is one commenter there who claims to have done a thesis on extracting temps from the satellite data in the 1970's. Hmm... considering that the UAH record was not developed until 15 years later or so, one might tend to doubt his claims.<br /><br />Please, please, please disembowel this post and this person's claims.Rattus Norvegicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449457204330125792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-16414240865537555972016-01-17T00:31:24.969+11:002016-01-17T00:31:24.969+11:00Converging multiple lines of evidence implying cau...Converging multiple lines of evidence implying causation never stopped tobacco denying shills like Singer before, do you think consilience will stop Singer and his buddies now in the climate area?jgnfldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-56110353555519167352016-01-16T22:01:30.642+11:002016-01-16T22:01:30.642+11:00That's two whole years of pause that have some...That's two whole years of pause that have somehow 'unpaused' themselves. So we have a new discipline of pausal kinematics to be studied and, presumably, published in a dog astrology journal.Millicentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-80147483891711390312016-01-16T19:55:38.349+11:002016-01-16T19:55:38.349+11:00Just quietly, and using Skeptical Science's tr...Just quietly, and using Skeptical Science's trend calculator, both GISSTemp and Berkeley show that there has been no statistically significant warming (at 95% confidence) since 2000 CE...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/trend.php" rel="nofollow"><br />http://www.skepticalscience.com/trend.php</a><br /><br />That's even after a run of hottest years ever in the modern temperature record.<br /><br /><i>Vive la pause</i>!<br /><br />Will the concept of noise superimposed on signal ever diffuse through the skulls of the Denialati?Bernard J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16299073166371273808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-7294856419444206882016-01-16T14:53:15.082+11:002016-01-16T14:53:15.082+11:00:):)Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-55591241621353411782016-01-16T13:20:58.169+11:002016-01-16T13:20:58.169+11:00You are going to have treat with this week's &...You are going to have treat with this week's "Friday (never) funny". It is truly a declaration of faith, and there is one commenter there who claims to have done a thesis on extracting temps from the satellite data in the 1970's. Hmm... considering that the UAH record was not developed until 15 years later or so, one might tend to doubt his claims.<br /><br />Please, please, please disembowel this post and this person's claims.Rattus Norvegicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449457204330125792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-28088825416649423852016-01-16T12:56:10.635+11:002016-01-16T12:56:10.635+11:00Clever that Watts calls internet commenters "...Clever that Watts calls internet commenters "peer review" to confuse the reality of actual scientific peer review. I believe the latter can actually stop publication of something, which is a pretty big difference between site comments and peer review.TheTragicallyFlipnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-56443683530839255552016-01-16T09:23:09.400+11:002016-01-16T09:23:09.400+11:00"I don't care if he's 80, Easterbrook..."I don't care if he's 80, Easterbrook is an embarrassment to emeritus professors."<br /><br />And that's saying something!Raoulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-12474977171433821432016-01-16T07:57:32.480+11:002016-01-16T07:57:32.480+11:00So far, my prediction seems to be holding. The cli...<i>So far, my prediction seems to be holding. The climate has cooled slightly over the past decade and we have had no warming for 18 years. Time will tell if the cycle continues for another couple of decades. All indications are that it will. We’re just entering a Grand Solar Minimum, which, in the past, has correlated very well with climate. -- Don Easterbrook </i><br /><br />I don't care if he's 80, Easterbrook is an embarrassment to emeritus professors.Magmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-11462291914866693402016-01-16T07:46:18.114+11:002016-01-16T07:46:18.114+11:00You saved the best bit for last - Denier Don's...You saved the best bit for last - Denier Don's "The climate has cooled slightly over the past decade". The denial is getting desperate: perhaps we should call him Desperate Denier Don from now on.<br /><br />Oh that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LVvmaxgZo0" rel="nofollow">reminds me</a>.Millicentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-44154814290129951492016-01-16T04:30:44.416+11:002016-01-16T04:30:44.416+11:00What a great article! I like how these so-called ‘...What a great article! I like how these so-called ‘experts’ used by this denier site pick and choose what they claim is their ‘evidence’. You’ve done a great job exposing them.<br /><br /><i>“So far, my prediction seems to be holding. The climate has cooled slightly over the past decade and we have had no warming for 18 years.”</i><br /><br />Wow! Now that’s a “Whopper”!<br /><br />It’s perfectly clear that reality (the real world) fails to register upon deniers, no matter what the real evidence actually proves. Makes you wonder what kind of lala land they occupy. Certainly not this one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-23669660674561194002016-01-16T01:33:57.647+11:002016-01-16T01:33:57.647+11:00I'm old and a bit bewildered but my wife is a ...I'm old and a bit bewildered but my wife is a barrister (trial lawyer in the US) and she assures me that evidence matters. I don't think it does. I think she's just talking up the value of evidence for personal gain.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10807913317731807617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-77626526303750398152016-01-16T01:25:21.026+11:002016-01-16T01:25:21.026+11:00Well, the very latest is the December number for t...Well, the very latest is the December number for the PDO index is in at 1.01, up from November's .86.<br /><br />From its negative phase, I think it's a little unusual to shoot up the way it has and have it not be a shift to a positive phase. It hit 2.51 in December 2014. I think the highest ever is 2.83.JCHnoreply@blogger.com