Tuesday
Jun192007
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Some climate snippets
Jun 19, 2007 Climate: Cuttings Following on from its exposure as... erm... erroneous, Steve McIntyre has invited Phil Jones of the Hadley Centre to withdraw his 1990 paper in Nature. The Bishop wonders if he will respond, let alone comply.
Tim Blair notes a prominent Australian environmentalist doing a bit of a flip-flop on the subject of drought. (via Gust of Hot Air)
IPCC lead author Kevin Trenberth notes a number of surprising features of future climate:
- There are no predictions in the IPCC report and there never have been. There are only scenarios.
- None of the models used by IPCC use the current climate as their starting point and "none of the climate states in the models correspond even remotely to the current observed climate."
- "[W]e do not have reliable or regional predictions of climate"
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