Two developments suggest that Cook et al 2013 Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature may be soon be headed for “retraction watch”, since serious problems…
Month: May 2013
How much do you want to bet global warming causes sharknadoes?
No, really, after the week we’ve had where every opportunist out there is trying to blame global warming for the Moore Oklahoma tornado, I’m not kidding. Sharknadoes are the new…
Last chance to help fund the 50 to 1 project
Just over a day left now. Note, I have no financial interest in this film, I’m merely one of the people to be interviewed. Thanks – Anthony =========================================== 50-to-1 has…
New WUWT-TV segment: Slaying the 'slayers' with Watts
As readers may know, Dr. Roy Spencer and I have had a long running disagreement with the group known as “Principia Scientific International” aka the Sky Dragon Slayers after the…
Uh oh, the Met Office has set the cat amongst the pigeons
Excerpt from Bishop Hill (plus a cartoon from Josh) showing that the claim of a statistically significant temperature rise can’t be supported, and the Met office is ducking parliamentary questions:…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2013-05-25 (May 25, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week:. Climatologists are pessimistic that political…
New El Niño causal pattern discovered
From the University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST: Climate researchers discover new rhythm for El Niño El Niño wreaks havoc across the globe, shifting weather patterns that spawn droughts in some…
NODC Provides 1st Quarter 2013 Ocean Heat Content Update & Alarmist Writes Science Fiction
This morning I found two emails in my inbox about an alarmist blog post that claims Big Jump in Ocean Warming, in response to the NODC’s recent quarterly update of…
Claim: 400 PPM CO2 gives the weather 'personality' of the extreme kind – rebuttal to CBS News Face the Nation
CBS’s Face the Nation spent fifteen minutes today talking about “climate change” and its relation to the Moore tornado. The news outlet convened a one-side panel, with no climate skeptics…
Briffa, Yamal, reputational damage, and all that
Keith Briffa has just published a new paper using the Yamal-Urals regional chronology data, something long sought after via FOIA requests. That data was withheld, citing it wasn’t cooked done…
Historical Sea Surface Temperature Adjustments/Corrections aka "The Bucket Model"…
Image Credit: Bob Tisdale – bobtisdale.wordpress.com By WUWT Regular Just The Facts The recent Adjustments/Corrections to the HadCRUT4 and CRUTEM4 Temperature Data Sets by the Met Office Hadley Centre and…
Josh on great moments in use of the 'D word'
Lucia notes: As some of you know, Dana flung the “D” word at Richard Tol. He and a sympathizer who uses the handle “@IdiotTracker” have provided interesting definitions of either…
Saturday silliness – more motivation to leave California
Yesterday I lamented the potential banning of fire. For those of you that don’t know, I live in a town that rivals Berkeley for nuttiness. Thanks to the progressive thinking…
Stacked Volcanoes Falsify Models
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, this has been a circuitous journey. I started out to research volcanoes. First I got distracted by the question of model sensitivity, as I…
Time to leave – California wants to ban campfires at the beach
From the Washington Times, idiocy only bureaucrats could muster: “Since man first rubbed a pair of sticks together to make a fire, we’ve gathered around a campfire to cook food,…
97% Undercooked uncertainty
Roman Murieka has a great statistical analysis of the Cook ‘consensus’ paper over at Climate Audit. There’s a surprise result:
Updated climate sensitivity estimates using aerosol-adjusted forcings and various ocean heat uptake estimates
Guest essay by Nic Lewis The Otto et al. paper has received a great deal of attention in recent days. While the paper’s estimate of transient climate response was low,…
Washington Post's photo phraud – it's deja vu all over again
Junkscience.com reports this is what the print copy looks like today for this article by Eugene Robinson. Note what looks like black unfiltered pollutants spewing skyward: But when you look…
The worst consequences of the global warming scare
Guest essay by David Archibald During World War II, one Russian physicist realized that the United States was working on an atomic bomb when articles about high energy nuclear reactions…
Where Lies the Younger Dryas Smoking Gun?
Guest Post by Dan Johnston I have been following the proposed collision theory for the onset of the Younger Dryas for a number of years with considerable interest as it…
Just had an earthquake in California – 56 earthquakes (so far) in cluster near Mt. Lassen Volcanic National park
Felt at my location in Northern CA, details follow
Crowdsourcing An Opensource Temperature Data Monitoring Methodology and Spreadsheet
Image Credit: Walter Dnes By Walter Dnes – Edited by WUWT Regular Just The Facts I have developed a methodology and spreadsheet to capture and chart HadCRUT3, HadCRUT4, GISS, UAH,…
NOAA predicts active 2013 Atlantic hurricane season
From NOAA: In its 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued today, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting an active or extremely active season this year. For the six-month hurricane season, which begins June…
Dana Nuccitelli's Twitter war with Richard Tol over that 97% consensus paper
UPDATE: A chronicle has been added, see below. Uh oh…them’s fighting words: @dana1981 I think your data are a load of crap. Why is that a lie? I really think…
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