Clik here to view.
Climate survey discussion
On the previous post a discussion about climate surveys erupted. Please continue here. I’ll chime in when I habe more time. I’m curious to hear what you find good or not so good about a particular...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dilemmas in science communication
Slightly different version has been posted and discussed at Planet3 A few weeks ago I attended a meeting on science communication and the increasing public distrust of science. Climate was not the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
open thread april 2012
For all climate related discussions that don’t fit under a recent (yeah, that one) thread. Please be civil.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Comment on EER interview with Fritz Vahrenholt
Also published in European Energy Review (EER). Greenhouse gases are responsible for warming, not the sun Scientists working on climate on a daily basis must have been rather astonished by the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Response to Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence In their reply to our criticisms, Prof Fritz Vahrenholt and Dr Sebastian Lüning exhibit a misunderstanding of various key aspects of climate science....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Climate Science Survey – the questions
In the spring of 2012, a large scale climate science survey was held amongst 6500 scientists studying various aspects of global warming. The survey was spearheaded by the Netherlands Environmental...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Launching ClimateDialogue.org
Guestpost by ClimateDialogue editors Rob van Dorland, Bart Strengers and Marcel Crok ClimateDialogue.org Exploring different views on climate change Goal of ClimateDialogue.org ClimateDialogue.org...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Klotzbach Revisited
Guest blog by Jos Hagelaars. Dutch version here. The average surface temperature of the earth, measured by ‘thermometers’, are released by a number of institutes, the most well-known of these datasets...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Response to John Christy’s blog post regarding ‘Klotzbach Revisited’
Guest blog by Jos Hagelaars Dr. John Christy wrote an extensive blog post as a response to my Dutch ‘Klotzbach Revisited’ post (English version here), it is published on “Staat van het Klimaat” and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The two epochs of Marcott
Guest post by Jos Hagelaars. Dutch version is here. The big picture (or as some call it: the Wheelchair): Global average temperature since the last ice age (20,000 BC) up to the not-too distant future...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Melting of the Arctic sea ice
Guest post by Jos Hagelaars. Dutch version is here. This was the title of a discussion that was held on the recently launched website ClimateDialogue regarding the possible causes of the decline in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Documentairy “Thin Ice” now available on the web
The documentairy “Thin Ice“, with spectacular images and interviews with a few dozen of well-known and lesser well-known climate scientists, is available for viewing tonight on their website (which...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Long term persistence and internal climate variability
After a long hiatus, Climate Dialogue has just opened a second discussion. This time it’s about the presence of long term persistence in timeseries of global average temperature, and its implications...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Consensus: Behind the numbers
The much reported paper by John Cook et al finds a very strong consensus about human caused climate change in the scientific literature: Of those abstracts expressing a position on the cause of global...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EGU General Assembly: The Arctic, Models, and Data
Guest post by Heleen van Soest In April, the annual European Geosciences Union conference was held in Vienna, Austria. Heleen van Soest, MSc student Climate Studies at Wageningen University, attended...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Dutch view on the future of the IPCC – what it does and what it does not say
Guest post by Hans Custers. Dutch version is here. The IPCC invited the governments of all participating countries to give their view on the future of the climate panel. The IPCC is a complex...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The fallacy of the middle ground
There’s been quite some climate discussion in the Political Science section of the Guardian lately. Warren Pearce had an invited post in which he asked the rhetorical question “Are climate sceptics...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tropospheric hot spot
The current topic under discussion at ClimateDialogue is the tropospheric hot spot: Is it there, and if not, so what? Invited discussant are Steven Sherwood of the University of New South Wales in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BBC interview: global warming pause, climate sceptics, long timescales
I was interviewed by Matt McGrath from the BBC last week, as were several other Dutch climate spokespeople (including PBL’s senior scientist Arthur Petersen and skeptical science writer/journalist...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cowtan and Way global average temperature observations compared to CMIP5 models
It is well known that the Arctic is warming up much faster than the rest of the globe. As a consequence, datasets which omit this region (HadCRUT and NOAA) underestimate the global warming trend. A new...
View Article
