Climate Dialogue

Exploring different views on climate change. Set up by Dutch institutes KNMI and PBL and science writer Marcel Crok. Tweets by Bart Strengers and Marcel Crok

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My talk on #ClimateDialogue, a 2.5 year experiment in climate change communication with climate skeptics #EGU15 Rm R12 14:00. #GeoSciComm

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Final evaluation report of Climate Dialogue now published: http://t.co/yJJCSjUGgF

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Final report published on the evaluation of the Climate Dialogue project.
http://t.co/98cZsoBPqV

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The PBL and the KNMI stopped their involvement in Climate Dialogue. http://t.co/euC0GERkES

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Short and Extended summary of the Climate Dialogue on Climate Sensitivity is now available on http://t.co/50bLrqADbT

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@pjyng good to hear that our dialogues are useful for educational purposes

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@pjyng Thanks for the tweet and the encouragement

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Direct link to the extended summary is here http://t.co/a6pY90ay6J and the short summary can be found here http://t.co/yjAcTLgmge

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They have different hypotheses to explain the discrepancy between models and observations but agree there probably is not one reason (8)

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The participants agreed that since 1979 (start of the satellite series) models show significantly more warming than the observations (7)

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The controversy is mainly about this second definition. http://t.co/X2qtmSXWtz (6)

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Christy used a second and broader definition, that models simulate a large warming trend high in the tropical mid troposphere (5)

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They disagreed about definitions; Mears and Sherwood used a narrow definition of the hot spot, that surface warming is amplified aloft (4)

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The participants agreed the tropical hot spot is not a unique fingerprint of AGW. Every (strong) forcing should lead to a trop. hot spot (3)

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The participants were Carl Mears (RSS), John Christy (UAH) and Steven Sherwood. All three are very familiar with this "controversy" (2)

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Both the long and shorter summaries of the Climate Dialogue about the (missing) tropical hot spot are now online: http://t.co/X2qtmSXWtz (1)

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@GerritHiemstra the question is: will bigger really be better? For weather probably yes, but for climate it might be no

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@LabradorIce @shubclimate who would you select on the "sceptical" site, claiming large solar contribution to recent warming?

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@LabradorIce @shubclimate there is a whole story behind that, but in any case we have Vaquero, Svalgaard's co-author on his latest paper

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@LabradorIce @shubclimate who would you have invited for this dialogue on the skeptical site (remember we try to present a range of views)