Daily Archives: September 7, 2009

Guardian: Global warming to trigger “earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches and volcanic eruptions.”

You can’t make this stuff up. It’s worse than we thought. Related: Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing Climate change: melting ice will trigger wave of natural disasters Scientists at a London conference next week will warn … Continue reading

Posted in Alarmism, climate_change, ridiculae | 271 Comments

How have the scientists done on Arctic sea ice forecasts this year? – Maybe not so good.

Steve McIntyre on Climate Audit brings our attention to an interesting sea ice extent forecasting “contest” conducted by the Study of Environmental ARctic CHange (SEARCH). With the end of the Arctic melt season likely just a few days away, it … Continue reading

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 138 Comments

Quote of the Week #18 – “fait accompli”

It seems more and more, people are questioning the supposed consensus on climate change. Now we see some journalists asking questions too. It is said that science is self correcting, politics, not so much, but it has been known to … Continue reading

Posted in Quote of the Week | 46 Comments

German Climate Adviser who says “the West’s carbon quotas are used up” once co-authored a paper saying climate models are flawed and that “global warming is also overestimated by the models”

Yesterday on WUWT,  a post from Luboš Motl told us how climate science has been proposed as a vehicle for wealth redistribution by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber who is the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the … Continue reading

Posted in Carbon dioxide, modeling, politics | 71 Comments