Guest post by Mark Richardson who is a Research Scientist in the Aerosol and Clouds Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. All opinions expressed are his own and do not in any way represent those of NASA, JPL or Caltech. Should scientists choose to believe provably false things? Even though that would mean more inclusive debates with a wider range of … Read Full Article about Serious mistakes found in recent paper by Connolly et al.
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Scafetta comes back for more
[latexpage] A new paper from Scafetta and it's almost as bad as the last one. Back in March, we outlined how a model-observations comparison paper in GRL by Nicola Scafetta () got wrong basically everything that one could get wrong (the uncertainty in the observations, the internal variability in the models, the statistical basis for comparisons - the lot!). Now he's back with a new paper in … Read Full Article about Scafetta comes back for more
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Unforced variations: Dec 2022
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The #ConcordOslo2022 workshop
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A CERES of fortunate events…
[latexpage] The CERES estimates of the top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes are available from 2001 to the present. That is long enough to see that there has been a noticeable trend in the Earth's Energy Imbalance (EEI), mostly driven by a reduction in the solar radiation reflected by the planet, … Read Full Article about A CERES of fortunate events…
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