Category Archives: Climate_change

Leveraging a Changing Climate: Recent advances in understanding how Species cope with Changing Conditions.

Posted on June 11, 2013 by

Guest essay by Daniel Bourke Introduction The concept of climate change has become a controversial one. By that it is not meant to be said that the happening of climate change is controversial in and of itself, but that it … Continue reading →

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Dilbert becomes skeptical of climate change disaster

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

From Scott Adams (creator of the Dilbert comic strip) blog, who seems to have stumbled across an interview with the author of this video we recently highlighted at WUWT. Scott Adams writes: ================================= Fact Checking: Adams Law of Slow-Moving Disasters … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate_change, Disaster | 129 Comments

Global Warming Consensus Looking More Like A Myth

Posted on February 17, 2013 by

Image Credit – Wood For Trees and Werner Brozek From the Investor’s Business Daily: The global warming alarmists repeat the line endlessly. They claim that there is a consensus among scientists that man is causing climate change. Fact is, they’re … Continue reading →

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Expert predicts ‘Monsoon Britain’

Posted on January 27, 2013 by

Guest post by Paul Homewood h/t Robuk A study, by Professor Stuart Lane of Durham University back in 2008, appears to have been remarkably percipient. Written just after the extremely wet summer of 2007, the study suggests that, far from … Continue reading →

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Challenging the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

Consensus does not necessarily guarantee sound science Guest post by Forrest M. Mims III Consensus is often cited in support of scientific paradigms, including anthropogenic climate change. Australian physicist Tom Quirk has neatly dissected the consensus argument for the human … Continue reading →

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Erratic Environment May Be Key to Human Evolution

Posted on December 26, 2012 by

     Versus      Image Credit: Wikipedia                                 Image Credit: Anne Knock From Live Science: At Olduvai Gorge, where excavations helped to confirm Africa was the cradle of humanity, scientists now find the landscape once fluctuated rapidly, likely guiding early human … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate_change, Environment, Paleoclimatology, Rainfall | Tagged , , , | 62 Comments

Global data doesn’t support Reuters “fracking” Google search trend claim

Posted on December 26, 2012 by

Tom Nelson pointed this out this morning. ‘Fracking’ overtakes ‘climate change’ in Google searches | The Dickinson Press | Dickinson, North Dakota This year, for the first time, U.S. online searches for the term “fracking” became more popular than “climate … Continue reading →

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The Atlantic Magazine’s ’5 Charts About Climate Change That Should Have You Very, Very Worried’… Worried about scientific illiteracy.

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

Guest post by David Middleton I ran into this gem on Real Clear Energy this morning… The article cites terrifying new reports commissioned by the World Bank and the CIA and then launches into a graphical cornucopia of nonsense. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, Climate Craziness of the Week, Climate FAIL, Climate_change, Current News, Disaster, Drought, Environment, extreme weather, Fun_stuff, Greenland ice sheet, Humor, media, Paleoclimatology, Tabloid Climatology, Wildfires | Tagged , , , , , , | 88 Comments

Another climate sticky wicket – ‘climate change is poised to reduce the viability of the maple syrup industry’

Posted on November 20, 2012 by

From the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies  where if you can get past the headline, this is notable: “We found that global climate models omit factors critical to understanding forest response, such as hydrology, soil conditions, and plant-animal interactions.” Point … Continue reading →

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A Big Picture Look At “Earth’s Temperature” – “Extreme Weather” Update

Posted on November 10, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Recently there have been increased efforts to link “Climate Change” and “Extreme Weather” e.g., NOAA links extreme weather to climate change CBS – July 10, 2012, “NASA scientist links climate change, extreme weather” CNN … Continue reading →

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NASA discovers “an Amazon (phytoplankton) rainforest in the middle of the Mojave Desert” – Must be caused by AGW!

Posted on September 29, 2012 by

Guest post by David Middleton NASA Discovers Unprecedented Blooms of Ocean Plant Life… “Part of NASA’s mission is pioneering scientific discovery, and this is like finding the Amazon rainforest in the middle of the Mojave Desert,” said Paula Bontempi, NASA’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, Climate_change, Sea ice | 71 Comments

The rise and fall of Al Gore and Global Warming

Posted on July 22, 2012 by

I noticed with my morning coffee that Tom Nelson had a Google Trends graph that piqued my interest, so I decided to expand upon it a bit before getting back to work. After looking at my results, the title of … Continue reading →

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Chiefio Smith examines GHCN and finds it “not fit for purpose”

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

E.M. Smith over at the blog Musings from the Chiefio earlier this month posted an analysis comparing versions 1 and 3 of the GHCN (Global Historical Climate Network) data set.  WUWT readers may remember a discussion about GHCN version 3 … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate sensitivity, Climate_change, GHCN, Global warming, statistics | 120 Comments

A Big Picture Look At “Earth’s Temperature” – Quarterly Update

Posted on April 15, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” This format received a positive response in the previous article and apparently encouraged Skeptical Science to take A Big Picture Look at Global Warming, thus this article will be updated on a quarterly basis … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate data, Climate_change, Global warming, measurement, Oceans, Proxies, Sea ice, Sea level, Sea Surface Temperature, Snow, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 90 Comments

Climate Change Impacts In The USA are Already (NOT) Happening

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

by Craig Loehle, Ph.D. Many government reports by NASA, NOAA, EPA, USFWS, USFS, USDA and other agencies mention that climate change impacts are already observable in the USA. This is discussed in the context of endangered species conservation, forest resource … Continue reading →

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Briggs schools the “Bad Astronomer” on statistics

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

That letter signed by 16 scientists saying there’s “No Need to Panic About Global Warming” to the Wall Street Journal has caused a great disturbance in the farce. At last count there were no less than  19 blog rebuttals plus one … Continue reading →

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“Dramatic” response by flora & fauna to climate change

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

Birds, plants, and animals adapt to changing weather patterns, who knew? News Release Dramatic Links Found Between Climate Change, Elk, Plants, and Birds Missoula, MT – Climate change in the form of reduced snowfall in mountains is causing powerful and cascading shifts … Continue reading →

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Congressman Rohrabacher’s speech on climate issues

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

Remarks given by Mr. Rohrabacher of California on December 8, 2011 on the floor of the House, a matter of public record. Mr. Speaker, tonight, as a strong advocate of human progress through advancing mankind’s understanding of science and engineering, … Continue reading →

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Birds apparently can’t outfly climate change

Posted on December 8, 2011 by

From Duke University , another Durban doozy, yes we’ll have roasted fowl in the trees because they may not be moving fast enough. Climate change driving tropical birds to higher elevations DURHAM, N.C. — Tropical birds are moving to higher … Continue reading →

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