Daily Archives: February 8, 2010

Sir David King: Half Right on the IPCC and Global Warming Policies, Despite Bad Logic

Posted on February 8, 2010 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Sir David King, erstwhile Chief Scientific Adviser to Her Majesty’s Government, famous for his claim that “climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today—more serious even than the threat of … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC, Opinion | 98 Comments

NOAA’s new website climate.gov – a first day sin of omission

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Today NOAA officially announced www.climate.gov It didn’t take skeptics long to find a sin of omission. WUWT reader Dave N. pointed this one out to me. Let’s start with the lecture to skeptics in the Dec 31st 2009 story “What … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, sea ice | 171 Comments

NOAA’s new ‘climate service’ – not a sure thing yet

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Here’s a chance to tell your congressperson not to waste more taxpayer money on repetitive services already handled by NCDC. This looks to be nothing more than a fast track press release service. Given how badly Tom Karl has handled … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 75 Comments

UCAR: Roof white out helps UHI

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I find it humorous thatUCAR had to resort to modeling to prove something that can be measured empirically. But then again this is UCAR, and they have a big computer at their NCAR office. Painting roofs white would probably help … Continue reading →

Posted in Land use land cover change, modeling, UHI | 130 Comments

IPCC Gate Du Jour: Aussie Droughtgate

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Andrew Bolt of the Herald Sun digs up another issue with non peer reviewed World Wildlife Fund reports in the IPCC AR4. It turns out a new paper in GRL handily disputes the cause of the drought. He writes: Melbourne … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 167 Comments