Monthly Archives: December 2011

Climate Science and “The Cause”

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

One of the very first things noticed on WUWT about the Climategate 2.0 emails is the use of the phrase “The Cause” by writers of the emails. Science is supposed to be about cause and effect, causality, etc, not an … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Humor, satire | 48 Comments

Friday Funny – ball lightning and the IPCC

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

Josh writes in that he’s completed a series of livetoons on hearings related to the climate change Act (CCact) in Britain. He felt that one witness who testified deserved a separate cartoon to illustrate the impact. The IPCC doesn’t know … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, IPCC, satire | Tagged , , | 17 Comments

New paper suggests sun may be headed for a Maunder minimum

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

Just published in GRL, a new paper by Lockwood et al that suggests the sun may be headed for a Maunder type minimum.: The persistence of solar activity indicators and the descent of the Sun into Maunder Minimum conditions Key … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | Tagged , , | 189 Comments

Linking an ancient CO2 drop to the Antarctic Ice Sheet using algae as a proxy

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

From Purdue University , another “just in time for Durban” press release. When you see phrases like “the mother of all tipping points” and you know this is overhyped control knob science. Drop in carbon dioxide levels led to polar … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Carbon dioxide | Tagged | 79 Comments

NCAR’s Dr. Kevin Treberth’s ugly intolerance of dissenting views from other scientists

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

And to think I almost wasted my time going to visit Dr. Trenberth at NCAR this fall. This is mind blowing intolerance in professional discourse. Here’s the email, bold mine. email 3946 date: Thu Dec 9 08:28:11 2004 from: Phil … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, hurricanes | Tagged , , , | 115 Comments

What Didn’t Kyoto Do?

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There has been some discussion over the years regarding Tom Wigley’s 1998 estimate that even if Kyoto were to be 100% successful in meeting its targets, it would only have reduced temperatures by an estimated … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 29 Comments

Climate scientist loses court case – ordered to “cease and desist” smearing independent journalist who wrote about IPCC errors

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

Excerpt from Pierre Goseelin’s  NoTricksZone: Der Spiegel today has a story on IPCC bigwig and ultra-alarmist Stefan Rahmstorf, who is also a lead scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and elite member of the Hockey Team. For … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness | Tagged , | 45 Comments

Steve McIntyre on the Bolt report

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

Andrew Bolt interview with Steve McIntyre from the Climate Audit blog, who exposed the infamous “hockey stick”, talking about the leaked emails that expose the warming scare. Watch below:

Posted in Climategate | Tagged , , | 178 Comments

Hiding the decline down under – inconvenient papers censored

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

UPDATE: An Australian science paper I located from 1990 says that century scale sea level trends are 1-1.1 mm per year, and Sydney was 0.54 mm/ year. See below. UPDATE2: a graph of the current SLR for Sydney is now … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy, post-normal science, sea level | 142 Comments

Hockey stick falsification – so easy a caveman kid can do it

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

With apologies to the Geico caveman, paleoclimatology isn’t just for grant enabled scientists anymore. Priceless Climategate email 682: Tom Wigley tells Michael Mann that his son did a tree ring science fair project (using trees behind NCAR) that invalidated the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , | 103 Comments

Open letter to Dr. Erickson, President of Penn State University

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

(Reader Reed Coray submits this letter) I have to admire Penn State’s chutzpah. Smack dab in the middle of one of the biggest ethical scandals in recent collegiate history, Penn State schedules an “ethics seminar” entitled “An Ethical Critique of … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Opinion | Tagged , , | 50 Comments