by Judith Curry

Happy New Year!

An end of year post.  Not that I have much to say at the moment, but I think we need a new thread.

Here are a few ‘end of year’ articles, looking back and looking forward.  I put these forward for discussion, let me know if you have spotted others.

• Matt Ridley: We’ve just had the best decade in history. Seriously.
• Marshall Shepherd: 20 experts predict the most significant weather and climate advances of the next decade.
• Larry Kummer: Celebrate our bright future on New Year’s eve!

I don’t have the stomach for climate alarm prognostications at the moment, but I suspect that we have not yet reached peak craziness.

2019 at Climate Etc.

I didn’t have that much time to blog this past year.  But here are some of CE’s greatist ‘hits’ for 2019, in case you missed some:

• The toxic rhetoric of climate change
• Legacy of Climategate – 10 years later
• Climate Change: What’s the Worst Case?
• Madrid
• Early 20th century global warming
• Resplandy et al. Part 5: Final outcome
• Escape from model land
• National Climate Assessment: A crisis of epistemic overconfidence

I’ve been trying to check in 3x per day to moderate the comments (but sometime I forget).  Overall the comment threads are much better, but I have to do some pretty heavy moderating.  If I get sick and tired of deleting too many of your comments for violating blog rules, i will put all of your comments into moderation, and they have to be released manually.  Thank you for your efforts in not violating blog rules.

Prognostications

I don’t have any prognostications to make, other than that I will continue to be too busy

However, I will predict another crazy year of ‘extinction’, ‘crisis’, etc.

Happy New Year!

Wishing all of you a healthy, happy and prosperous 2020.

A special thanks to CE’s 2019 guest posters:  Nic Lewis, Larry Kummer, Javier, Andy West, Planning Engineer, Vaughan Pratt, Paul Viminitz, Garth Paltridge, Alberto Zaragoza Comendador, Donald Rapp, Ralf Ellis, Clive Best, Ross McKitrick, Kevin Murphy, Alan Cannell.

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December 31, 2019 at 06:33PM