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Goddard’s Folly
As many of you are already aware, Steve Goddard contributed a post to WUWT about the planet Venus. The theme was that the extreme temperatures on our neighbor planet aren’t due to the greenhouse effect, but due to the extremely … Continue reading
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Adjusted Global Temperature Data
Way back in 2011 I co-authored a paper with Stefan Rahmstorf (Foster & Rahmstorf 2011, hereafter FR11) in which we adjusted global temperature in order to remove (as best we could) the influence of factors we knew were only temporary, … Continue reading
How Far to the 1.5°C Limit?
The Paris accord set a lofty goal: to prevent Earth’s average surface temperature rising more than 1.5°C above “pre-industrial,” i.e. its value before the industrial revolution. The choice was made not just because every tenth of a degree makes the … Continue reading
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Global Warming Picks Up Speed
July 2023 was the hottest month in history, maybe even the hottest in the last 120,000 years. The months that followed broke monthly records by surprisingly large margins. It’s no wonder that 2023 has turned out to be the hottest … Continue reading
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An Honest Appraisal of the Global Temperature Trend
The “Heartland Institute” is hosting their 14th annual “ICCC” convention this weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada, to carry on their mission as one of the world’s leading organizations of climate deniers. One of the sessions listed on their schedule for … Continue reading
Global Temperature Evolution 1950 to 2018
It’s been a while since Foster & Rahmstorf (2011) took global temperature time series and removed our best estimate of the changes due to known fluctuating factors, the el Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), aerosols from volcanic eruptions, and variations in … Continue reading
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Global Warming: How Far to 1.5°C?
There’s been a lot of talk recently about limiting global warming to 1.5°C, mainly focused on two things: 1) how important it is, and 2) how difficult it will be. This raises an important question: how far have we come … Continue reading
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I am not a climate scientist
Reader “Deltaeus” expressed his frustration about many aspects of the “debate” about climate change, including the fact that there are shallow arguments all over the place. I’d like to respond to some of his comments.
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Don’t Settle for Easy Answers about Global Warming
You are not a dummy. But climate deniers treat you that way.
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USA Temperature: can I sucker you?
Suppose I wanted to convince people that temperature in the USA wasn’t going up, it was going down. What would I show? Let’s try yearly average temperature in the conterminous U.S., also known as the “lower 48 states” (I’ll just … Continue reading
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