Author Archives: Alec Rawls

Is John Cook planning to use systematically biased “correct” survey answers to make unbiased skeptics look biased?

Posted on May 8, 2013

Guest post by Alec Rawls After finalizing a long post on John Cook’s crowd-sourced consensus-rating survey  (to be titled “I take Cook’s survey so you don’t have to”), I submitted my completed survey to Cook’s website and received an automated … Continue reading →

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CO2 sequestration research stumbles onto something useful: a big lithium strike in Wyoming

Posted on May 2, 2013

Guest post by Alec Rawls Most lithium (the lightest metal) is now mined in the Andes (image above), but it looks like the U.S. has more than a little of it too: [T]he Rock Springs Uplift’s 18 million tons of potential … Continue reading →

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UV shift in the leaked IPCC report: more inversion of the scientific method

Posted on February 12, 2013

Guest post by Alec Rawls A Fox News story on the leaked draft of AR5 got big attention through the Drudge Report the other week. Fox reporter Maxim Lott begins by quoting a sentence from the Second Order Draft that … Continue reading →

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Commitment studies belie “consensus” claim that a persistent high level of temperature forcing cannot cause continued warming

Posted on January 9, 2013

Guest post by Alec Rawls They say it all the time: even if there were some substantial mechanism of enhanced solar forcing it couldn’t be responsible for late 20th century warming because solar activity was roughly constant from 1950 to … Continue reading →

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Dana Nuccitelli’s holiday trick for sobering up quick: put a little less rum in your egg nog

Posted on December 28, 2012

Guest post by Alec Rawls When he argues that a reduction in forcing will cause cooling Dana Nuccitelli is not actually talking about drinking. He is talking about the solar forcing of global temperature, but the drinking analogy is a handy … Continue reading →

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Haigh Anxiety: a psycho-comedy of errors

Posted on December 21, 2012

Guest post by Alec Rawls In an interview with NewScientist magazine, Imperial College professor of atmospheric physics Joanna Haigh scoffs at the idea that late 20th century warming could have been caused by the sun: Haigh points out that the … Continue reading →

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A rebuttal to Steven Sherwood and the solar forcing pundits of the IPCC AR5 draft leak

Posted on December 16, 2012

Teaming up with Jo Nova to answer The Team down under: “Professor Sherwood is inverting the scientific method” Guest post by Alec Rawls My leak of the draft IPCC report emphasized the chapter 7 admission of strong evidence for solar … Continue reading →

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Exxon called hateful for producing value

Posted on December 9, 2012

How do we know that Solyndra and First Solar and Fisker Automotive and thirty other failed Obama-subsidized green energy ventures are (or were) highly moral enterprises? Because they are all going bankrupt. They all produce less value for consumers than they cost … Continue reading →

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Art show for children: “In this vision we have poisoned our environment with toxic waste”

Posted on November 22, 2012

Guest post by Alec Rawls A venerable Aussie art gallery has gone over to the eco-propaganda dark side. An exhibition for children at the Ballarat depicts mankind’s impending and well-deserved doom. In the illustration above, post-apocalyptic kangaroo, elk and wolf have … Continue reading →

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Isaac Held’s 2-box model: another failed ocean-equilibration excuse for dismissing solar warming

Posted on November 15, 2012

Guest post by Alec Rawls Dr. Isaac Held, who models fluid dynamics at NOAA, dismisses a solar explanation for late 20th century warming by invoking a 2-box model of ocean equilibration. In his model an upper upper ocean layer (100m … Continue reading →

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Teaching kids to hate mom and dad: “the atmosphere is frying… and we’re kinda blaming you”

Posted on October 27, 2012

Guest post by Alec Rawls Is this video below child abuse? Instead of children exploding or polar bears falling like victims of 9/11, this time it is spectral children hating on mom and dad from a supposedly desolate future. Such childish … Continue reading →

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Muscheler retracts? Offers a NEW excuse for why solar activity can’t be responsible for post-70′s warming

Posted on October 19, 2012

Guest post by Alec Rawls Technically Dr. Muscheler is asking me to retract the title of my post, “Raimund Muscheler says that a steady high level of forcing can’t cause warming“: I am sure that you are aware of the fact … Continue reading →

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Raimund Muscheler says that a steady high level of forcing can’t cause warming

Posted on October 14, 2012

Guest post by Alec Rawls Solar warming and ocean equilibrium, part 4 I emailed Dr. Muscheler about the very strange remarks that were attributed to him in the recently released report on last year’s NCAR workshop: The Effects of Solar … Continue reading →

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Sign-up now open for expert review of AR5 (second order draft)

Posted on September 10, 2012

The second order draft of the next IPCC report will be open for expert and government review from October 5th to November 30th. Sign-up to participate is already open. The application is online at: https://sod.ipcc.unibe.ch/registration/

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NYT blames food crisis on “climate change,” hides plea to reduce government mandated burning of food for fuel

Posted on September 6, 2012

Even the UN is not biased enough towards climate alarmism for the New York Times, which yesterday bowdlerized a joint statement on the present food crisis from three UN food organizations. The UN statement is divided into short term and … Continue reading →

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Warming alarmism spreads faster, like a virus

Posted on August 15, 2012

“West Nile virus spreads faster,” reads the USA Today headline on a story that doesn’t actually say anything about rate of spread, just that the virus is spreading, as one would expect for a pathogen that was first seen in … Continue reading →

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Ninth Circuit’s eco-forays are unconstitutional says dissenting judge

Posted on June 6, 2012

Guest post by Alec Rawls Gabrial Malor at Ace of Spades HQ pulls some choice excerpts from what he calls an “epic broadside” by Judge Milan Smith. After reviewing a number of cases where the Ninth Circuit has upended whole fields … Continue reading →

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Obama wants the Electric Reliability Corporation to stop assessing electric reliability

Posted on May 22, 2012

Guest post by Alec Rawls NERC (the North American Electric Reliability Corporation) must have thought it was taking a step up when a 2005 law made the non-profit group an official advisor to Congress, but that law also brought them … Continue reading →

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Another day, another Central Asian precipitation study finds a link to solar activity

Posted on May 15, 2012

From Sun and Liu 2012: all of the deep solar minima of the last millennium (Oort, Wolf, Spörer, Maunder and Dalton) correspond to periods of drought in the Qilian Mountains of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau according to this tree-ring study. … Continue reading →

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If Obama is going to kill coal, he has to hide the body

Posted on May 11, 2012

Guest post by Alec Rawls The graphics were changed in the last two days, but Conn Carroll at the Washington Examiner took a screenshot of Obama’s “All of the Above” energy policy page on Tuesday. “Notice anything missing?” he asks: … Continue reading →

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