The Week That Was: 2014-08-30 (August 30, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and…
Month: August 2014
Climate Cycles, Climate Mechanisms and Determining Accurate Dates
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball | When Did It Occur? Lack of information is a major problem in reconstructing and understanding climate and climate mechanisms. H.H.Lamb gave it as his…
National Geographic's Warming Warning – 10 Years Later
Geoff Sherrington writes: National Geographic Magazine had a Global Warming issue in September 2004. New instruments have given new data. By planning now, NatGeo can make a revised issue 10…
Arctic Ice and the AMO
By Paul Homewood David Rose’s piece in the Mail on Sunday has already been picked by WUWT and Bishop Hill, amongst others. But I want to concentrate on one…
Does Antarctic Sea Ice Growth Negate Global Warming Theory?
LA Times making frantic excuses Eric Worrall writes: The LA Times has published an article which asks whether the faithful should worry about the rapid growth of Antarctic sea ice,…
‘The Arctic sea ice spiral of death seems to have reversed'
The headline is a quote by Dr. Judith Curry from a David Rose article in the Sunday Mail: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million…
Renewable Energy in perspective: Solar and Wind power
Guest essay by Ed Hoskins | Data for the USA, Germany and the UK since the year 2000. These notes quantify the progress and achievement of the massive movement to…
Michael Mann's special purpose Hockey Stick filter has been exposed
Jean S writes at Climate Audit: As most readers are aware, and stated in my post few hours after (ClimateGate) CG broke out, Mike’s Nature trick was first uncovered by…
Spectacular eruption of Mount Tavurvur in Papua New Guinea
While we watch Iceland’s unpronounceable volcano, on the other side of the world, in Papua New Guinea, Mount Tavurvur is already causing damage and threatening lives as well as disrupting…
How not to do a solar power project – great moments in solar engineering
Regarding this article, I think I’ve found a simple reason for this failure, and the reason will shock and surprise you. In the article, a news report by TV station…
Mystery of the sailing stones of Death Valley solved – 'climate change' immediately blamed for no good reason
The discovery of the mechanism that causes “sailing stones” in Death Valley is actually a great example of observational science, it just too bad these scientists ruined the announcement by…
Chemistry parable – Sustainability: The Universal Solvent of Private Property Rights
Guest essay by Charles Battig, MD | The alchemists of old were diligently ambitious in their goals. These antecedents of modern chemistry were not hindered by a lack of knowledge…
A psychologist's scathing review of John Cook's '97% consensus' nonsensus paper
Psychologist José Duarte writes: The Cook et al. (2013) 97% paper included a bunch of psychology studies, marketing papers, and surveys of the general public as scientific endorsement of anthropogenic…
Problems with Statistical Tests of Pre-1958 Atmospheric CO2 Concentration Data
James McCown writes: A number of climatologists and economists have run statistical tests of the annual time series of greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations and global average temperatures in order to…
Younger Dryas climate event solved via nanodiamonds – it was a planetary impact event
From the University of California at Santa Barbara -By Julie Cohen | Most of North America’s megafauna — mastodons, short-faced bears, giant ground sloths, saber-toothed cats and American camels and…
Friday Funny: Full text of IPeCaC’s 2020 report leaked!
WUWT exclusive | Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The shock full text of IPeCaC’s Sixth Assessment Report (2020), the last of an undistinguished series of leaden, multi-thousand-page rent-seekers’ manifestoes, has been…
Climate craziness of the week: Man to live on melting iceberg for one year to highlight climate change
By the way, the iceberg shown in the background of the photo from his video is a fake – done by CGI. That’s not a good way to start in…
California drivers brace for costly new global warming gas tax
Neal Kaye writes | Californians already pay the nation’s second highest gas tax at 68 cents a gallon — and now it will go up again in January to pay…
The volcanic area near Bárðarbunga is erupting
A fissure eruption has started north of Dynjujökull, seen in the photo. A live YouTube stream is available below Authorities in Iceland say the fissure is ~10 km north of Vatnajökull…
Claim: Climate change puts endangered Devils Hole pupfish at risk of extinction
From the University of Nevada, Reno | A claim that more likely has to do with natural drought cycles, fresh water influx, and the PDO than it does with the…
Quote of the week – reality is in the eye of the beholder
One of the biggest issues facing climate science today is the divergence of reality (observations) from the model output. The draft image from IPCC AR5 (seen below) clearly illustrates this…
Global warming pioneer calls for CO2 to be taken from atmosphere and stored underground
From the European Association of Geochemistry | Wally Broeker, the first person to alert the world to Global Warming, has called for atmospheric CO2 to be captured and stored underground.…
A Note on the 50-50 Attribution Argument between Judith Curry and Gavin Schmidt
Guest essay by Bob Tisdale | Judith Curry and Gavin Schmidt are arguing once again about how much of the global warming we’ve experienced since 1950 is attributable to human-induced…
Study: Southwest may face ‘megadrought’ this century
From Cornell University by Melissa Osgood | Due to global warming, scientists say, the chances of the southwestern United States experiencing a decade long drought is at least 50 percent,…
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