James' Empty Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Roy Spencer has weighed in here (thanks tb) with some analysis of the Lindzen and Choi study that I briefly covered before . It seems that RS has investigated the difference between CMIP (coupled atmosphere-ocean) and AMIP (atmosphere with prescribed sea surface temperature) runs and found that they give completely different answers. In other words, the analysis of AMIP output that LC performed...
Opinion Dominion (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Spencer on Lindzen and Choi climate feedback paper I don't usually comment on the minute detail of some AGW debates, as they can get very complicated, and other blogs can explain it better. But - it is interesting to note that skeptical blog Watts Up With That has run a post by soft skeptic Roy Spencer in which he finds a paper by Lindzen & Choi does not really show what they claim....
The World, According To Me (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Why do BYU Professors hate America? (via KSL ) PROVO, Utah (AP) -- A group of scientists from conservative Brigham Young University has criticized state lawmakers over their recent handling of the climate change issue. The 18 scientists rebuked legislators in a letter sent Oct. 26, five days after the Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee heard from Roy Spencer, an Alabama climatologist...
Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... RSS and UAH, and opposite in direction to boot. UAH was 0.347 and RSS was 0.230 I spoke with Dr. Roy Spencer at the ICCC09 conference (3/10) and asked him about the data divergence. Here is what he had to say: “I believe it has to do with the differences in how diurnal variation is tracked and adjusted for.” he said. I noted that Feburary was a month with large diurnal variations. For that...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
October 2009 UAH Global Temperature Update +0.28 deg. C « Roy Spencer, Ph. D. The global-average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly in October 2009 fell from +0.42 deg. C in September to +0.28 deg. C in October. The tropical and Northern Hemisphere were responsible for this cooling. The global-average sea surface temperature anomalies in October continued their fall from the peak in...
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... sent the letter five days after the Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee heard from Roy Spencer, an Alabama climatologist who doubts human activities are largely responsible for climate change, and Jim Steenburgh, chairman and professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Utah. Summer Rupper, a BYU climate scientist led the letter-writing effort. She said participants...
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... sent the letter five days after the Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee heard from Roy Spencer, an Alabama climatologist who doubts human activities are largely responsible for climate change, and Jim Steenburgh, chairman and professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Utah. Summer Rupper, a BYU climate scientist led the letter-writing effort. She said participants...
