Friday, August 30, 2013

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Paper: 'Dark Knight' Director Making Climate Change Apocalypse Film
Set in the future, the movie details the toll climate change has taken on agriculture, with corn the last crop to be cultivated. The scientists embark on a journey through a worm hole into other dimensions in search of somewhere other crops can be grown.
Louisiana Much Cooler Than It Was 100 Years Ago | Real Science
The graph below shows maximum temperatures at all Louisiana HCN stations which have been continuously active since 1910. Afternoon temperatures have dropped dramatically in Louisiana.
'Hurricane Marco Rubio' - A Winning Climate Campaign? - NYTimes.com
[Revkin] The trouble is, the science on a connection between hurricanes and global warming is going in the opposite direction, if the near-final draft of next month’s climate science assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is any indication.
Inadequate uncertainty analysis in climate change assessments | Climate Etc.
The bottom line, and in this I agree 200% with the paper, is that climate science would HUGELY benefit from greater incorporation of statistical expertise. The relative lack of this expertise is one factor that contributes to overconfidence in the IPCC conclusions.

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