California Drought Response is based on politically motivated, unsound science and may create emergencies for millions. Read the whole post.
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale –
The National Science Foundation press release Cause of California drought linked to climate change found its way into the mainstream media, with science reporters around the globe adding their hype. That press release is based on the recently published study Swain et al. (2014) “The Extraordinary California Drought of 2013/2014: Character, Context and the Role of Climate Change”, which can be found in the Special Supplement to theBulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS report)Vol. 95, No. 9, September 2014, Explaining Extreme Events of 2013 From A Climate Perspective.
I’ll publish a few comments about Swain et al. (2014) in a few days. But this post is not about that paper.
THE CALIFORNIA DROUGHT – WHO’S TO BLAME FOR THE LACK OF PREPAREDNESS?
As I was reading Anthony Watts excellent post about Swain et al. (2014), Claim: Cause of California drought…
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Anthony’s blog is too complicated with links to everywhere, but some people at Stanford need a basic course on probability rate functions and time series outliers. If you can find the guilty parties, tell them I am willing and able to provide tutoring.
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The Science Channel had a program on the “Little Ice Age” today and concluded that “global warming” will lead to another ice age. You can’t make this stuff up.
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