Aussie Attorney General: "If the [climate] science is settled, why do we need research scientists to continue inquiring into the settled science?"

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Australian Attorney General George Brandis has stirred the climate pot down under, by asking a simple yet devastating question. “If the science is settled,…

Harnessing Infinity: The Promise of Quantum Computing

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Register has published a fascinating video about Quantum Computing, an interview with D-Wave, a company which manufactures what they claim are quantum computing systems.…

Newsbytes: Big Science Is Broken

Also: Poll: Just 6 Percent Of Americans Say They Trust News Media From the Lewpaper department: Science is broken. That’s the thesis of a must-read article in First Things magazine,…

Sea level rise: Plenty of time for Noah to build the Ark

Guest essay by Albert Parker We may consider all the tide gauges in the latest PSMSL survey of relative mean sea level secular trends (http://www.psmsl.org/products/trends/trends.txt ). The population changes year…

Curious: A Total Solar Irradiance nosedive seen in SORCE data

I don’t know if this is a real measurement, and that the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) measured by the SORCE project is real, or if we are seeing another sensor…

Systematic Error in Climate Measurements: The surface air temperature record

Guest essay by Pat Frank Presented at World Federation of Scientists, Erice, Sicily, 20 August 2015 This is a version of the talk I gave about uncertainty in the global…