Daily Archives: October 21, 2010

Spencer on the Lacis-NASA GISS CO2 paper

    Does CO2 Drive the Earth’s Climate System? Comments on the Latest NASA GISS Paper by Dr. Roy Spencer There was a very clever paper published in Science this past week by Lacis, Schmidt, Rind, and Ruedy that uses … Continue reading

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Opinion, post-normal science | 127 Comments

On Bradley: Blackmail or Let’s Make a Deal.

Guest Post by Steven Mosher Not the funniest Monty Python sketch, but for me it illustrates what the climate wars have finally come down to: blackmail. The examples range from the benign–pressuring journalists not listen to skeptics– to the professional– … Continue reading

Posted in Climategate, Opinion, paleoclimatology, politics, satire | 45 Comments

China halts rare earth minerals to US – Hi-tech affected

China Halts Shipments to U.S. of Tech-Crucial Minerals From LiveScience by Jeremy Hsu A nasty trade dispute appears to have prompted Chinese customs officials to block shipments of rare earth minerals to the U.S. The move underscores a deepening U.S. … Continue reading

Posted in Technology | 119 Comments

Summer 2010 in the Arctic and Other Sea Ice Topics

Guest post by Dr. Walt Meier Now that the summer is over, I thought people might be interested in a bit of retrospective of the sea ice melt season in 2010 and in the longer-term context. NSIDC provided a brief … Continue reading

Posted in Sea Ice News | 163 Comments

Planes, Trains, Automobiles – all bad, some less than others

From the American Chemical Society, a robust model of planes trains and automobiles heating the Earth. So much for Fahrvergnügen. Traveling by car increases global temperatures more than by plane, but only in long term Driving a car increases global … Continue reading

Posted in modeling, post-normal science, Technology | 75 Comments

Climate Model Deception – See It for Yourself

Guest post by Robert E. Levine, PhD The two principal claims of climate alarmism are human attribution, which is the assertion that human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide are warming the planet significantly, and climate danger prediction (or projection), which is … Continue reading

Posted in modeling | 110 Comments