Guest essay by Brandon Shollenberger It’s nothing but laundering lies. The authors don’t come out and directly say anything untrue, but they intentionally create and promote misunderstandings to inflate the…
Month: July 2013
Solar Cycle 24 Update
Guest essay by David Archibald Recently, a number of newspaper articles spoke of the potential of cycle 25 to be “Weakest Solar Cycle In Almost 200 Years”. “We’re in a…
Ride the Space Shuttle into space, on the outside of the booster no less
If you are a space enthusiast, this is well worth 400 seconds of your time for the unique perspective it offers…like strapping a HERO Go Pro camera to a booster…
American Academy of Arts and Sciences president to resign in resume scandal
At least she didn’t claim to be a Nobel prize winner. Via Slashdot: “The 233-year old American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced that its longtime President and Chief…
Another uncertainty for climate models – different results on different computers using the same code
New peer reviewed paper finds the same global forecast model produces different results when run on different computers Did you ever wonder how spaghetti like this is produced and why…
The IPCC has a real pack of trouble on its hands
By Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the midst of finishing its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) on…
Climate Craziness of the Week – taxing sunlight
No, I’m not kidding. Truly, idiocy has no bounds. In Spain, they appear to have actually done this, with fines up to 30 million Euros for non compliance. The stupid,…
Friday Funny – the walk of shame
Josh writes: Dana said in a tweet that I don’t ‘put any intelligent thought’ in my cartoons, see screen shot below. I guess that means he thinks they are clever!…
Dr. Willie Soon Guest Comment: 'Is What I Say Beyond the Boundaries of Reasonable Discussion?'
Guest essay by Russell Cook Although I am no more than an ordinary citizen, my email address book reads like a “Who’s Who” list of skeptic scientists and speakers. Among…
NOAA: Another 'AGW caused heat wave' is actually just natural variation
You may remember headlines like these last summer: With Blow-Out March Heat Wave, Meteorologist Masters Says ‘This is not the atmosphere I grew up with’ The 2012 Heat Wave: “Almost Like Science…
Sea Surface Temperature and Anomalies Along the Projected Track of Tropical Storm Dorian
The National Hurricane Center announced the formation of Tropical Storm Dorian. So we’ll take look at the sea surface temperatures and anomalies along its projected storm track. See Figure 1.…
Oh, what a difference a year makes in Greenland melting
ARCTIC SUMMER SNOWSTORM By Joseph D’Aleo CCM Remember a year ago when few days of July ‘warmth’ with strong blocking over Greenland had the media abuzz over some melting? Last…
Dana Nuccitelli discovers the 'Streisand effect'
This could be a Friday Funny, but oh well, humor waits for nobody. A few days ago I made this prediction in response to a tweet: For those who don’t…
My personal path to Catastrophic AGW skepticism
Note: if the name below is familiar to you it is because of this article from Monday. This will be a sticky post for a day or two, new stories…
Gavin on why the Arctic methane alarm is implausible
Guest Essay by Dr. Gavin Schmidt, NASA GISS Yesterday, I carried this story: An alarmist prediction so bad, even Gavin Schmidt thinks it is implausible Today, on Twitter, Karel Haverkorn…
Part 1 – Comments on the UKMO Report about “The Recent Pause in Global Warming”
INTRODUCTION I’ve received a number of emails and requests to comment on the recently released 3-part report from the UK Met Office titled “The Recent Pause in Global Warming”. See…
An alarmist prediction so bad, even Gavin Schmidt thinks it is implausible
Gosh, it’s that “methane ‘splode” again. This time the Guardian makes an easily testable hypothesis emblazoned in the headlines that we’ll be sure to remind them of in two years.…
Hump Day Hilarity: tales from the ret_ward
Fun and games on Twitter from the Grantham Institute’s Bob Ward: That was at 12:41 AM – 24 Jul 13. Good thing that just over five hours later he recognized…
Newsbytes: Sunspot Enigma – Will Inactive Sun Cause Global Cooling?
From Dr. Benny Peiser and the GWPF We Really Don’t Understand Our Climate Something is happening to our sun. If history is anything to go by, the sun’s change of…
Reactions to 'the pause': Grasping at strawmen in hidey holes
It has been quite entertaining to watch the various explanations coming out to rationalize “the pause” in surface temperatures for the last 16 years. For example, as Jerome Ravetz points…
Forget summer in the UK and wonky Met Office predictions, atmospheric rivers and floods loom
Like this one: Image from NOAA ESRL From the Institute of Physics Atmospheric rivers set to increase UK winter flooding The prolonged heat wave that has bathed the UK in…
Tuesday Tittering – Drill baby, drill
Josh writes: Apparently Dana Nuccitelli works for the fossil fuel industry, see here and here, so I thought a cartoon of him at work would be helpful. If you want to get…
Why we do what we do – 'It changes people.'
Jonathan Abbot writes in comments on 2013/07/23 at 12:59 pm My 10 year old daughter just read an article in National Geographic Kids about global warming. ‘The world is getting…
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