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how about precipitation?
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
can AGW be real, while a student at Cornell has been miseducated into thinking seasonal cold air anomalies in Oklahoma, that they don't remember from 10-15 years ago, is climate change? yes. this thread is so bizarre that I think there is some deeper root that has nothing to do with scholarship.
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Ken, I know the argument that there is attribution without "reality" detection, which is a model based exercise. You got distracted because I said attribution. We can make hot air model statistical changes vs magnitudes worthy of a canonical climate change label, but for what? it's a nothingburger.
November 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm pretty sure you need a model ensemble longer than 10-20 years to get any attributable signal but maybe i'm wrong. anyway, IPCC is all about AGW; if they set up asteroid impact scenarios maybe the context would be different.
November 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
yep
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
i don't even know anymore. we haven't had any asteroid impacts so we should expect about 30 years to experience a climate change by any normal definition. I didn't know this is a hot button topic.
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Why is 30 years unreasonable to declare a climate change from previous reference state? For example, projected changes in West African hydroclimate relative to late-20th-century are expected around 2030s with high forcing RCP8.5. Seems standard. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Robust assessment of the time of emergence of precipitation change in West Africa - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Robust assessment of the time of emergence of precipitation change in West Africa
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
if CC conventions have meaning beyond statistical detectability in GMST then similar SN emergence for ecology should also be around the 30 years. The coincidence that this is same period as classic climate normals simply means forcing is low compared to variability, unlike an asteroid impact event.
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
makes sense. i guess climate since 2000 has been favorable for that species in that location. not sure what you're arguing but anyway sounds like interesting work.
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
when variability of an "exceptionally stable" climate system is ±0.5C, as recommended by Rockstrom, then it takes a bit for the statistics to evolve in the way of a climate change. It's not very controversial normally. There's a bit of a disproportionate piling-on happening about a technicality.
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
If climate change is simply now any variation in GMST then we have some inconsistencies in messaging. However, 20-25 years is bordering on emergence of a forced signal, perhaps SN > 1, especially in the far north - so I guess that's what the dispute is about.
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
There is no dispute that human caused climate change is causing problems.
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
i hear you, but I'm afraid that model ensembles will not produce strong evidence of differences against a counterfactual based on 10-20 years. No attributional claim is possible. Internal variability doesn't go away when it's convenient.
November 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Seems like, in the context of AGW, a 30-year time of emergence beyond some baseline is a fair rule of thumb for a generic place and person to perceive. Most places look and feel pretty much the same as they did 15 years ago, but maybe 30 years ago it was a bit different. isn't that the point?
November 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
don't most climate models get total planetary SW reflectivity trends totally wrong even in hindcast mode? And the ones that get it kinda sorta right can't match transient temperature changes...
November 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Is the SN ratio of GHG climate forcing over such a period really so obvious that an individual at some location can clearly sense it in the same way as an asteroid impact? That analogy seems misleading, no? Isn't it conventional that the signal should only clearly arise over many decades?
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
careful how far you go with that mindset hombre.
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The irony of Guenther is that her own language is classically propagandistic, such as weaponizing social sorting labels designed to promote certain narratives. I earned a social-media block for mentioning that.
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Are we just "rolling 6s on the proverbial climate dice" or is there a real signal there?
November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
95% of the variability is controlled by GMST. If GMST is rising, atmospheric CO2 concentration will never come down (or stabilize).
November 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
who's paying for all this work and for what purpose? what is the correct number of global warming papers per day?
November 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
is oil price dropping to zero one of these wishful thinking, strategic falsehood narratives designed to shape future market behavior?
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Leaning on vulnerability talk doesn’t bolster mitigation arguments - it normalizes loss & suffering. The solutions to vulnerability are different if it is understood not as inherent, but as an actively reproduced condition that is being resisted by vulnerabilised communities.
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
usually thin and impoverished benches are not considered serious threats deserving such intense attention. Either there must be a philosophy that doesn't tolerate the existence of dissent altogether or the threat is larger than admitted.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"I'm just too tired"

I understand climate activism is exciting and sometimes disappointing, but keep in perspective that most types of environmentalism and humanitarian advocacy has been going on much much longer, with far greater setbacks. Climate is still all the rage and in popular media ...
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM