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Scott Simmons
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I enjoy backpacking, long-distance cycling, trail running, road marathons, nature photography, and birding. I especially like learning more about the geological sciences, especially as they relate to climate science.
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Scott Simmons @scottsimmons.bsky.social · Aug 16
The DOE climate report even misrepresents studies authored by members of the CWG in it's discussion of the urban heat island effect.
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The DOE Report on Urban Heat Islands
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The DOE climate report even misrepresents studies authored by members of the CWG in it's discussion of the urban heat island effect.
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The DOE Report on Urban Heat Islands
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August 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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The DOE report cites Lewis 2022's ECS paper as if it is a legitimate critique of Sherwood et al 2020. I think that is irresponsible scholarship.
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DOE's Challenge to Sherwood's ECS Estimate
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August 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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My thoughts on the new "Critical Review" report by the "Climate Working Group," hired by the Dept of Energy. In my view, it's neither critical nor a review. It's more like Feynman's description of "cargo cult science."
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Initial Response to "A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate
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July 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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By about 1900, global warming rates exceeded 10x the rates experienced during the "rapid" deglaciation events of the Quaternary. Warming rates now exceed 20x what the Earth experiences during these glacial cycles.
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What Counts as Geologically Rapid Warming?
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June 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Spencer's paper argues that UHI warming accounts for 22% of raw GHCN summer (JJA) warming trends in CONUS. With proper area weighting, this is reduced to 10%; this is reduced further if including all months. It's ~eliminated in homogenized nClimDiv & ERA5.
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Review of Spencer's New Paper on Urban Heat Islands
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May 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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How have the predictions of climate contrarians fared? It seems like 10 years after the end of the so-called "pause," it's valid to look at predictions from climate contrarians that this would continue decades into the future.
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How Have Contrarian Climate Predictions Performed?
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May 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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My thoughts on Global Mean Surface Temperatures on 2024.
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2024 Global Mean Surface Temperature
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January 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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My eulogy for one of the best comedy routines in current climate discussions, temperature.global. The site tried to use Heller's simple average of thermometer readings to calculate global temperatures and failed.
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January 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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I propose that we stop using the so-called Dunning-Kruger Effect to describe those overconfident in disinformation while lacking competence in science. I think a different term is needed, and the best I can think of is the Perpetual Sophomore Effect.
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The Perpetual Sophomore Effect
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December 11, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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I finally got around to writing about the 2009 email referring to the 1940s "blip" that has been so terribly misread by contrarians.
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Did Tom Wigley Fudge SST Data to Fit a Predetermined Narrative?
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December 2, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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I found the latest "saturation" paper from Kubiki quite entertaining. Here's my rebuttal.
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Debunking the Latest CO2 "Saturation" Paper
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November 23, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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I found this paper identifying a cooling bias in early 20th century sea surface temperatures fascinating. Here I address what I consider a misreading of the impact of this paper.
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A Cooling Bias in Global SSTs in the Early 20th Century
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November 22, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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This is why I don't pay attention to climate-related MDPI papers. All that I've seen have been garbage.
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Stefani's Paper Illustrates the Failure of MDPI Peer Review
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September 25, 2024 at 2:38 AM
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Emily Judd's new reconstruction of Phanerozoic CO2 and Temperature is a remarkable achievement.
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A New Reconstruction of Phanerozoic Temperature and CO2
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September 24, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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William Happer says ECS is 0.71 K, but that claim even make any sense? I say "no."
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Is Happer Right that Warming by CO2 is Too Small to Matter?
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September 24, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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My rebuttal of a very disingenuous article by the Epoch Times on supposed "ghost" stations in US temperature networks.
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Does NOAA have "Ghost Stations" for US Temperatures?
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April 12, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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Ole Humlum's paper from 10 years ago claims that the CO2 is increasing because of increases in temperature, not the other way around. The paper leaves much to be desired, but it still gets promoted on social media as if it has a point.
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Ole Humlum on CO2 Lagging Temperature
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February 26, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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I haven't seen much like this on Bluesky yet, but posts circulate elsewhere that "show" the log relationship between CO2 and warming means virtually no more warming from CO2. These are all based on irrationally low sensitivities. Corrected graphs are here.
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Correcting Contrarian Graphs on the Relationship Between CO2 and Warming
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February 21, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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Contrarians and deniers love to manipulate paleoclimate data and even misattribute the "work" of bloggers as legitimate science.
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Contrarian Manipulation of Paleoclimate Data
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February 17, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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Contrarians have some rather comical abuses of scientific papers, and one of my favorites is Andy May's abuse of Rosenthal et al 2013, where he blames the burning of witches on the temperatures of water 500 m below the Makassar Straight.
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Does Rosenthal et al 2013 Contradict Climate Science?
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February 15, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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Reconstructions of Cenozoic temperatures and CO2 are leading to estimates of ESS to be between 5 & 8 C, or about 2xECS.
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Cenozoic Climate and CO2 Proxy Reconstructions
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February 13, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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There's some fascinating work being done reconstructing CO2 and GMST across the Phanerozoic.
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Phanerozoic Climate Reconstructions and Sensitivity
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February 12, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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No Trick Zone specialized in trickery and misrepresents science.
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Gross Incompetence and Trickery at No Trick Zone
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February 12, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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A long-term perspective on climate sensitivity.
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Calculating Sensitivity from the LGM
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February 11, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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My thoughts on Roy Spencer's comparison of models to observations. I don't think he did a very good job.
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February 11, 2024 at 2:06 AM