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Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Was Reading Matt Ridley's Lecture at the Royal Society for the Arts....

... and it was fun to see my charts in it! The lecture is reprinted here (pdf) or here (html). The charts I did are around pages 6-7 of the pdf, the ones showing the projected curve of global warming for various climate sensitivities, and backing into what that should imply for current warming. In short, even if you don't think warming in the surface temperature record is exaggerated, there still has not been anywhere near the amount of warming one would expect for the types of higher sensitivities in the IPCC and other climate models. Warming to date, even if not exaggerated and all attributed to man-made and not natural causes, is consistent with far less catastrophic, and more incremental, future warming numbers.

Michael Mann: piling on the agony « Tallbloke's Talkshop

So, what next? I recommend we all buy bumper bags of popcorn and sit back to enjoy the fun. It’s seems Micheal Mann is happy enough to repeat other people’s libel but gets all righteous when the tables are turned. In this case he’s reached for his Attorney’s phone number before stopping to consider the likely requirements for disclosure the defendant would be entitled to request.

Is Global Warming Causing A Record Breaking Lack Of Tornado Activity? - Forbes

The year 2012 is breaking all-time records for lack of tornado activity, inviting the question whether global warming is causing a long-term decline in destructive extreme weather events.