{"id":170094,"date":"2010-01-12T12:33:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T17:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.metasd.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2010-01-12T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T17:33:50","slug":"lindzen-choi-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/170094","title":{"rendered":"Lindzen &amp; Choi critique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2010\/01\/lindzen-and-choi-unraveled\/\">critique<\/a> of Lindzen &amp; Choi&#8217;s 2009 paper has just been published, debunking the notion of strong negative temperature feedback in the tropics. I had <a href=\"http:\/\/tamino.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/05\/open-thread-15\/\">noticed<\/a> that its statistical method of identifying intervals in a time series was flawed, and that models cited appeared to sometimes lack volcanic forcings, rendering correlations meaningless. I&#8217;m happy to see those observations confirmed, and a few other problems raised. (I&#8217;m happy that I was right, not that climate sensitivity is higher than Lindzen &amp; Choi suggest, which would be good for the planet.) I haven&#8217;t read the details of the critiques, so I can&#8217;t say whether this really closes the book on the question, but it at least indicates that the original work was a bit sloppy. Since Lindzen is one of the few contrarians who knows what he&#8217;s doing, and it&#8217;s useful to have such people around, I wish he would focus less on WSJ editorials and more on scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A critique of Lindzen &amp; Choi&#8217;s 2009 paper has just been published, debunking the notion of strong negative temperature feedback in the tropics. I had noticed that its statistical method of identifying intervals in a time series was flawed, and that models cited appeared to sometimes lack volcanic forcings, rendering correlations meaningless. I&#8217;m happy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}