Author Archives: Guest Blogger

The Shifts Hypothesis – an alternative view of global climate change

Posted on April 26, 2013

Guest post by Pavel Belolipetsky The IPCC, Bob Tisdale and others have presented hypotheses to explain 20th century warming. This article presents another. My co-workers and I call it the “Shifts” hypothesis. And we consider it to have advantages over … Continue reading →

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Posted in PDO | Tagged , , | 148 Comments

A compilation of lower climate sensitivities, plus a new one

Posted on April 25, 2013

Still Another Low Climate Sensitivity Estimate Guest post By Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger Global Science Report is a weekly feature from the Center for the Study of Science, where we highlight one or two important new … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate sensitivity | Tagged , , , , | 60 Comments

The beginning of the end

Posted on April 25, 2013

Guest post by Dr. Vincent Gray NZCLIMATE TRUTH NEWSLETTER NO 308 APRIL 25th 2013 I have been neglecting you. Things have quieted down. I am 91 and it is high time I retired, like my friend Will Alexander in South … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Opinion | Tagged , , , | 99 Comments

Efficacy Of Green House Gas Forcing Compared To Solar Forcing

Posted on April 21, 2013

Guest post by Bob Irvine SUMMARY This paper outlines an idea or hypothesis that should be discussed. This idea has the huge advantage of being supported by all the available data both from over the last thousand years or more, … Continue reading →

Posted in Citizen science, Climate sensitivity | 92 Comments

Another “escalator“

Posted on April 19, 2013

Guest post by Jan Zeman Some CAGW proponents argument against the recent stall in the global warming trends with this graph called “escalator”. Source: http://www.skepticalscience.com But one of my favorite “escalators” is this one: Source: http://www.woodfortrees.org The beginnings and the … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Solar | 104 Comments

An Evening with His Lordship

Posted on April 18, 2013

Guest post by WUWT volunteer moderator Andi Cockroft I was fortunate the other night to attend a presentation by Christopher Monckton as part of his Climate of Freedom Tour of New Zealand. Organised and arranged by Climate Realist NZ (not … Continue reading →

Posted in Presentations, Sea level | 70 Comments

On the scales of warming worry magnitudes– Part 2

Posted on April 17, 2013

Should We Worry About the Earth’s Calculated Warming at 0.7C Over Last the Last 100 Years When the Observed Daily Variations Over the Last 161 Years Can Be as High as 24C? Guest post by Dr. Darko Butina In Part … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data | 103 Comments

Is it time to end ethanol vehicle fuel mandates?

Posted on April 16, 2013

Guest post by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times. Last week, Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and other lawmakers introduced legislation in the House of Representatives calling for major changes in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The RFS is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy | 125 Comments

Revisiting Temperature Reconstructions used in Climate Change Modeling

Posted on April 16, 2013

Guest post by Neil Catto When considering historical temperature reconstruction there are three areas which need further examination; historical instrument readings and adjustments for UHI, tree-ring proxies, other paleoclimate proxies and ice-core proxies. To predict the future of climate it … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Proxies | 25 Comments

On the scales of warming worry magnitudes–part 1

Posted on April 15, 2013

A few weeks after my paper came out I have received quite unexpected but greatly appreciated offer from Anthony to write a summary of the paper for his blog site. The paper’s title is: Should We Worry About the Earth’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data | Tagged , , , , , , , | 115 Comments

Pacific Export Terminals: The Raging Environmental War on Coal

Posted on April 10, 2013

Originally published in The Washington Times. Guest post by Steve Goreham Exports from the Pacific Northwest are an ongoing battleground in the environmental war on coal. Last week, the Sierra Club and three other groups announced that they would file … Continue reading →

Posted in Coal, Energy | Tagged , , , , , , | 86 Comments

Hansen finally ‘Muzzled’ by Obama?

Posted on April 8, 2013

Hansen’s resignation from NASA GISS may not be what it seems Guest Post by Chris Horner, CEI So, NASA’s in-house celebrity activist James Hansen says the following in explaining his departure from a lucrative perch — salary alone: $180k per … Continue reading →

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Marcott – 3 spikes and you are out

Posted on April 7, 2013

Guest post by Nancy Green Tamino claims he has added 3 spikes to the Marcott et al proxy data and the Marcott et al process detects them. Source: http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/many_vs_unpert.jpg This, he then proposes, is proof that there are no 20th … Continue reading →

Posted in Marcott et al proxy paper | Tagged , , , | 111 Comments

Government bureaucrats delay life-saving road projects, but let wind turbines butcher bats

Posted on April 7, 2013

Cut fingers, cancer, bats and birds Guest post by Paul Driessen and James H. Rust Georgia residents recently learned that a rare bat has stalled state highway improvements. The May 2012 sighting of an endangered Indiana brown bat in a … Continue reading →

Posted in wind power | Tagged , , , , , | 61 Comments

A Comparison Of The Earth’s Climate Sensitivity To Changes In The Nature Of The Initial Forcing

Posted on April 5, 2013

Guest post by Bob Irvine ABSTRACT The Earth’s feedback response to warming is independent of the nature of the forcing that caused that warming. The question I intend to examine is whether the nature of the forcing will have a … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate sensitivity | Tagged , , , , , | 114 Comments

Uninvented History

Posted on April 5, 2013

Guest post by WUWT regular Caleb Shaw I am always seizing upon things people tell me, parking the statements in my memory, and only years later learning they are untrue.  It is not merely urban myths, (such as the myth … Continue reading →

Posted in Curious things | Tagged , , , | 132 Comments

Global Cooling – Methods and Testable Decadal Predictions

Posted on April 2, 2013

Guest post by Dr. Norman Page 1. Methods and Premises My approach to climate science is based on Baconian empirical principles as presented in a series of earlier posts on this site (http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com)  notably: 6/18/10 Thirty Year Climate Forecast 7/19/12 30 … Continue reading →

Posted in Forecasting | Tagged , | 71 Comments

Climate Policies Increase Risk of Blackouts

Posted on April 1, 2013

Warm and well fed, or hungry in the dark? Guest post by Viv Forbes Which is worse – gradual man-made global warming or sudden electricity blackout? Alarmists try to scare us by claiming that man’s activities are causing global warming. … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, Opinion | Tagged , , | 65 Comments

Dispelling myths about global warming

Posted on March 25, 2013

CO2 did not drive the rapid warming of the 20th century. Story submitted by Stan Robertson The difference between a good idea and a bad idea is often a quantitative matter. For example, many people would think it a good … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide | Tagged , , , , | 139 Comments

The Climate Mechanisms of World Deserts and Limitations in Allan Savory’s thesis.

Posted on March 25, 2013

Guest post by Dr. Tim Ball – a response to this WUWT post on Allan Savory Dr Allan Savory proposes stopping desertification and controlling climate change. His focus is a large natural vegetation area called grasslands. His idea of raising … Continue reading →

Posted in Desertification | Tagged , | 105 Comments