Christmas Quiz: tallbloke style

Welcome to the annual quiz. As always the beautiful Anthea will be assisting contestants with their pens and paper…

Winning prize is a ‘raid at tallbloke towers’ Josh Cartoons commemorative mug.

Who Said – and When?

1) “Within 15 years, global temperatures will rise to a level which hasn’t existed on Earth for 100,000 years.”

2) “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,”

3) “We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.”

4) “The Arctic is screaming,”

What do these numbers refer to?

5) 1.9 metres (6ft 3in) by 2100

6) likely to rise by more than 2C across the UK by 2050, says major new Met Office report

What:

7) “climate scenarios do not fully represent the uncertainties inherent in climate prediction”

8.) “aerosols are thought to be responsible for a large fraction of the seeds that form cloud droplets.”

9) “is Earth’s “biggest heat bucket.” ”

10) “has long been sounding an alarm, because their continent is so close to the northern magnetic pole”

Which Email numbers: (H/T David Appell)

11) Shukla/IGES:
[“Future of the IPCC”, 2008] It is inconceivable that policymakers will be
willing to make billion-and trillion-dollar decisions for adaptation to the
projected regional climate change based on models that do not even describe and simulate the processes that are the building blocks of climate variability.

12) Thorne/MetO:
Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical
troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a wealth of others. This is just downright dangerous. We need to communicate the uncertainty and be honest. Phil, hopefully we can find time to discuss these further if necessary […]

13) Thorne:
I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it
which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run.

14) Carter:
It seems that a few people have a very strong say, and no matter how much talking goes on beforehand, the big decisions are made at the eleventh hour by a select core group.

15) Wigley:
Mike, The Figure you sent is very deceptive […] there have been a number of dishonest presentations of model results by individual authors and by IPCC […]

16) Overpeck:
The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guid[e] what’s included and what is left out.

17) Wilson:
I thought I’d play around with some randomly generated time-series and see if I could ‘reconstruct’ northern hemisphere temperatures.
[…] The reconstructions clearly show a ‘hockey-stick’ trend. I guess this is
precisely the phenomenon that Macintyre has been going on about.

18) Bradley:
I’m sure you agree–the Mann/Jones GRL paper was truly pathetic and should never have been published. I don’t want to be associated with that 2000 year “reconstruction”.

19) Adams:
Somehow we have to leave the[m] thinking OK, climate change is extremely complicated, BUT I accept the dominant view that people are affecting it, and that impacts produces risk that needs careful and urgent attention.

20) Jones:
We don’t really want the bullshit and optimistic stuff that Michael has written […] We’ll have to cut out some of his stuff.

21) Mann:
the important thing is to make sure they’re loosing the PR battle. That’s what the site [Real Climate] is about.

22) Wilson:
Although I agree that GHGs are important in the 19th/20th century (especially since the 1970s), if the weighting of solar forcing was stronger in the models, surely this would diminish the significance of GHGs. […] it seems to me that by weighting the solar irradiance more strongly in the models, then much of the 19th to mid 20th century warming can be explained from the sun alone.

23) Jones:
I’ve been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 would be to delete all emails at the end of the process.

24) Briffa:
UEA does not hold the very vast majority of mine [potentially FOIable emails] anyway which I copied onto private storage after the completion of the IPCC task.

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