SkS Weekly Digest #9
Posted on 1 August 2011 by John Hartz
SkS Highlights
James Hansen and Makiko Sato granted SkS permsission to re-post Earth's Climate History: Implications for Tomorrow. This article is a popular version of their peeer-reveiwed paper Paleoclimate implications for human-made climate change, accepted for publication in "Climate Change at the Eve of the Second Decade of the Century: Inferences from Paleoclimate and Regional Aspects: Proceedings of Milutin Milankovitch 130th Anniversary Symposium" (A. Berger, F. Mesinger, and D. Šija?i, Eds.)
Toon of the Week
The Week in Review
Coming soon...
- Just Put the Model Down, Roy (bbickmore)
- Spencer's Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedback (Trenberth and Fasullo
- Loehle and Scafetta Play Spencer's Curve Fitting Game (Dana)
- The Ridley Riddle Part Two: The White Queen (Andy S)
- OA not OK part 13: Polymorphs - the son of Poseidon (Doug Mackie)
- The Ridley Riddle Part Three: Like a Northern Rock (Andy S)
- Going Down (Doug Mackie)
- The Last Interglacial Part Three - Melting Ice and Rising Seas (Steve Brown)
- Christy Crock #7: People Need Energy (Sarah)
- A Lousy Two Degrees - Who Cares? (Agnostic)
- No Accounting for Taste (Doug Mackie)
SkS in the News
Mark Diesendorf and Dana Nuccitelli's article on renewable baseload energy was re-posted on The Conversation.
SkS Spotlights
A new paper by Roy Spencer and W. Braswell, On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth’s Radiant Energy Balance, published in the online, open-source, Journal, Remote Sensors, has been thoroughly debunked by a number of climate scientists in a variety of fourms, including:
- Climate change debunked? Not so fast by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience, July 29, 2011
- Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedback by Kevin Trenberth and John Fasullo, RealClimate, July 29, 2011
- Climate Scientists Debunk Latest Bunk by Denier Roy Spencer by Joe Romm, climate Progress, July 29, 2011
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