The Spencer-Braswell & Dessler papers

This page is a collection of posts related to the controversy surrounding the Spencer and Braswell and Dessler papers regarding climate sensitivity and cloud feedback/forcing arguments.

Papers:

The Dessler (2011) paper is in press at Geophysical Research Letters.  Dessler et al. is a critique of Spencer and Braswell (2011), .

Spencer and Braswell (2011)  is a critique of  Dessler (2010).

Dessler (2010)  is a critique of Spencer and Braswell (2010).

Related: Lindzen and Choi (2011)

Stories:

The page is ordered newest at the top, oldest at the bottom.

Pielke Sr. on Skeptical Science’s attacks on Spencer and Christy

Dessler gets schooled by Spencer [Cartoon by Josh]

Dessler: “People who discount the science of climate change don’t do it because they’ve read the science”

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: My Initial Comments on the New Dessler 2011 Study [Roy Spencer]

Dessler’s GRL paper video

Hot off the press: Dessler’s record turnaround time GRL rebuttal paper to Spencer and Braswell

Monday mirthiness: Autumn – time to test fireworks [Cartoon by Josh]

Journal Deliverance: The True Story of the Climate Hillbillies [Les Johnson]

The science is scuttled: Abraham, Gleick, and Trenberth resort to libeling Spencer and Christy

The Spencer and Braswell story goes viral

BREAKING: Editor-in-chief of Remote Sensing resigns over Spencer & Braswell paper

Rise of the 1st Law Deniers [Roy Spencer]

Spencer and Braswell on Slashdot

Fallout from Our Paper: The Empire Strikes Back [Roy Spencer]

Pielke Sr. on new Spencer and Braswell paper [Roger Pielke Sr.]

Science has been sitting on his critique of Dessler’s paper for months”

The Dessler Cloud Feedback Paper in Science: A Step Backward for Climate Research

Spencer on water vapor feedback [Roy Spencer]

Congratulations (finally) to Spencer and Braswell on getting their new paper published

Related:

Climate Audit
Spencer on Cloud Feedback Dec. 30, 2007
Trenberth: “Unbelievable” Breakdown in Defensive Zone Coverage July 31, 2011
The Stone in Trenberth’s Shoe Sept. 6, 2011
Dessler Data
Spencer Data

The BlackBoard
CERES and the Shortwave Cloud Feedback

Climate Etc.
Spencer & Braswell’s new paper>Spencer & Braswell’s new paper
Update on Spencer & Braswell
Update on Spencer & Braswell: Part II
Spencer & Braswell: Part III