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Tropospheric hot spot 20 Aug 2013 | 01:30 am
The current topic under discussion at ClimateDialogue is the tropospheric hot spot: Is it there, and if not, so what? Invited discussant are Steven Sherwood of the University of New South Wales in Syd...
The fallacy of the middle ground 6 Aug 2013 | 12:44 am
There’s been quite some climate discussion in the Political Science section of the Guardian lately. Warren Pearce had an invited post in which he asked the rhetorical question “Are climate sceptics th...
The Dutch view on the future of the IPCC – what it does and what it does not say 16 Jul 2013 | 01:12 am
Guest post by Hans Custers. Dutch version is here. The IPCC invited the governments of all participating countries to give their view on the future of the climate panel. The IPCC is a complex organiz...
EGU General Assembly: The Arctic, Models, and Data 7 Jun 2013 | 07:21 pm
Guest post by Heleen van Soest In April, the annual European Geosciences Union conference was held in Vienna, Austria. Heleen van Soest, MSc student Climate Studies at Wageningen University, attended ...
Consensus: Behind the numbers 18 May 2013 | 12:07 am
The much reported paper by John Cook et al finds a very strong consensus about human caused climate change in the scientific literature: Of those abstracts expressing a position on the cause of global...
Long term persistence and internal climate variability 30 Apr 2013 | 08:15 pm
After a long hiatus, Climate Dialogue has just opened a second discussion. This time it’s about the presence of long term persistence in timeseries of global average temperature, and its implications ...
Documentairy “Thin Ice” now available on the web 22 Apr 2013 | 11:20 pm
The documentairy “Thin Ice“, with spectacular images and interviews with a few dozen of well-known and lesser well-known climate scientists, is available for viewing tonight on their website (which fe...
Melting of the Arctic sea ice 25 Mar 2013 | 10:41 pm
Guest post by Jos Hagelaars. Dutch version is here. This was the title of a discussion that was held on the recently launched website ClimateDialogue regarding the possible causes of the decline in Ar...
The two epochs of Marcott 19 Mar 2013 | 11:29 pm
Guest post by Jos Hagelaars. Dutch version is here. The big picture (or as some call it: the Wheelchair): Global average temperature since the last ice age (20,000 BC) up to the not-too distant future...
Response to John Christy’s blog post regarding ‘Klotzbach Revisited’ 6 Mar 2013 | 01:42 am
Guest blog by Jos Hagelaars Dr. John Christy wrote an extensive blog post as a response to my Dutch ‘Klotzbach Revisited’ post (English version here), it is published on “Staat van het Klimaat” and WU...