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Update on GCCI Post #4: Grid Outage Chart
Update: Evan Mills, apparently one author of the analysis, responds and I respond back. Yesterday I called into question the interpretation of this chart from the GCCI report where the report used...
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GCCI #6: A Ridiculously Narrow Time Window – Glaciers
In a number of portions of the report, graphs appear trying to show climate variations in absurdly narrow time windows. This helps the authors of this scientific report advocacy press release either...
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GCCI #7: A Ridiculously Narrow Time Window – The Sun
In a number of portions of the report, graphs appear trying to show climate variations in absurdly narrow time windows. This helps the authors either a) blame long-term climate trends on recent...
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GCCI #8: A Sense of Scale
In this post I want to address a minor point on chartsmanship. Everyone plays this game with scaling and other factors to try to make his or her point more effective, so I don’t want to make too big...
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GCCI #9: Forcing Observation to Fit the Theory
Let me digress a bit. Just over 500 years ago, Aristotelian physics and mechanical models still dominated science. The odd part about this was not that people were still using his theories nearly...
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GCCI #10: Extreme Example of Forcing Observation to Fit the Theory
In the last post, I discussed forcing observations to fit the theory. Generally, this takes the form either of ignoring observations or adding “adjustment” factors to the data. But here is an even...
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GCCI #11: Changing Wet and Dry Weather
From the GCCI report on page 24: Increased extremes of summer dryness and winter wetness are projected for much of the globe, meaning a generally greater risk of droughts and floods. This has already...
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Update: Evan Mills, apparently one author of the analysis, responds and I respond back. Steve McIntyre picks up my critique on the electrical grid disruption chart (here and here) and takes it further....
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GCCI #12: Ignoring the Data That Doesn’t Fit the Narrative
Page 39 of the GCCI Report discusses retreating Arctic sea ice. It includes this chart: The first thing I would observe is that the decline seems exaggerated through some scaling and smoothing gains....
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Evan Mills Response to My Critique of the Grid Outage Chart
A month or two ago, after Kevin Drum (a leftish supporter of strong AGW theory) posted a chart on his site that looked like BS to me. I posted my quick reactions to the chart here, and then after...
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