Posted on 6 October 2013 by John Hartz

SkS Highlights

Dana continues to expertly slice and dice the phoney baloney being served by prominent climate deniers in IPCC model global warming projections have done much better than you think and Why Curry, McIntyre, and Co. are Still Wrong about IPCC Climate Model Accuracy. As to be expected, both garnered the most comments of the articles posted this past week.

Toon of the Week

Quote of the Week

"We have simply one goal and one objective and we always have, which is to take the science, the economics of climate change and what's happening internationally in terms of action and present it in a clear and understandable and authoritative way to the Australian public," he (Tim Flannery) said.

Climate Council, which replaced the axed Climate Commission, reaches $1 million funding target, ABC News, Oct 5, 2013 

SkS Week in Review

• 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #40B by John Hartz
• Why Curry, McIntyre, and Co. are Still Wrong about IPCC Climate Model Accuracy by Dana
• Residence Time and Prof Essenhigh by Glenton Jelbert
• Lawson, Climate Change and the Power of Wishful Thinking by gpwayne
• 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #40A by John Hartz
• IPCC model global warming projections have done much better than you think by Dana 
• Public talk explaining our consensus paper & answering critics by John Cook

SkS Rebuttal Article Updated

Dana's article, IPCC model global warming projections have done much better than you think has been incorporated into the rebuttal to the myth IPCC global warmingprojections were wrong and added to the SkS debunkings of the most popular myths about the IPCC.

Coming Soon on SkS

• SkS social experiment: using comment ratings to help moderation (Sphaerica)
• The components of Earth's Climate System: a primer (John Mason)
• 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #41A (John Hartz
• Why climate change contrarians owe us a (scientific) explanation (gpwayne)
• Two degrees: how we imagine climate change (David Holmes)
• Global warming – a world of extremes and biological hotspots (John Abraham)
• Time to change how the IPCC reports? (Kevin Trenbeth)
• Double Standard on Internal Variability (tamino)

In the Works

• What the new IPCC report says about sea level rise (Freya Roberts)
• Why trust climate models? It’s a matter of simple science (Scott K Johnson)
• The 2012 State of the Climate is easily misunderstood (MarkR)
• How did Ancient Coral Survive in a High CO2 World? (Rob Painting)
• Moncking up the Numbers (Rob Honeycutt)
• The Sun Has Cooled, So Why Are The Deep Oceans Warming? (Rob Painting)

SkS in the News

The Cook et al. (2013) consensus paper was cited by Hoffman et al. (2013).

Phil Plait at Slate's Bad Astronomy referenced Dana's Why is the IPCC AR5 so much more confident in human-caused global warming?.

In an interview with NBC News, Phil Plait also endorsed SkS as a top climate myth debunking resource.

KXAN TV used the Escalator and referenced other SkS resources.

Ring of Fire Radio referenced Dana's The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report and Fox News found to be a major driving force behind global warming denial.

Media Matters referenced the SkS debunking of the myth that the IPCC is alarmist.

CAS 4+U referenced Dana's The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report.

SkS Spotlights

In his Bad Astromomy blog post on Slate, Phil Plait expertly takes on a wide variety of science issues including climate change. Plait's recently posted articles on climate change:

• Climate Change: It’s Real, and It’s Us
• The Climate Change Denial Machine Is Going Up to 11
• As Climate Change Report Draws Near, Deniers Raise Voices, Bury Heads Deeper

Plait is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. His latest book is Death from the Skies! These Are the Ways the Universe Will End