25 Quotes by Judith Curry

With some confidence, we can say that these two things are connected, and that there's probably a substantial contribution from greenhouse warming.

This new study really nails down that link.

This firms up the link between sea surface temperatures and hurricane intensity. It is an important piece of the global warming debate.

Even with imperfect data and some uncertainty, it's hard to imagine what kind of errors might be in the data set to give you a long-term trend.

That may seem like a small number, but it makes a huge difference in ocean temperature and it has many consequences.

If you examine the intensification of a single storm, or even the statistics on intensification for a particular season, factors like wind shear can play an important role. However, there is no global trend in wind shear or the other factors over the 35-year period.

If humans are increasing sea surface temperatures and if you buy this link between increases rising sea surface temperatures and increases in hurricane intensity, that's the conclusion you come to.

Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.

Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change.