Category Archives: Global warming

Dana Nuccitelli Misleads and Misinforms in His First Blog Post at The Guardian

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

The Guardian has a new blog called Climate Consensus – The 97%. The two primary authors are to be Dana Nuccitelli, a regular contributor at SkepticalScience, and John Abraham, Associate Professor at the University of St. Thomas. Dana Nuccitelli’s first … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alarmism, ENSO, Global warming, Ocean Heat Content, Sea Surface Temperature | 136 Comments

English Winters Back To Normal–Julia Blames Global Warming!

Posted on April 12, 2013 by

By Paul Homewood According to the Sun, Britain’s winters are getting colder because of melting Arctic ice, the Government’s forecaster said yesterday. Met Office chief scientist Julia Slingo said climate change was “loading the dice” towards freezing, drier weather — … Continue reading →

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The Blatant Errors in the SkepticalScience Video “Global Warming over the Last 16 Years”

Posted on April 7, 2013 by

David Rose’s October 2012 article in the MailOnline generated a multitude of responses around the blogosphere. The article was titled Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released… and here is the chart to prove it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, ENSO, Global warming, Sea Surface Temperature | 69 Comments

Warming and worry go AWOL

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

Some stories this week that show global warming aka climate change is beginning to fade away as an issue. From the 3C Headlines blog: Global satellite temperatures confirm hiatus of global warming, while the general public and mainstream press are … Continue reading →

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Future shifts in rainfall

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

From UC Berkeley: Rising temperature difference between hemispheres could dramatically shift rainfall patterns in tropics By Robert Sanders, Media Relations  BERKELEY — One often ignored consequence of global climate change is that the Northern Hemisphere is becoming warmer than the … Continue reading →

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“Global warming predictions prove accurate”– Guardian

Posted on March 31, 2013 by

Guest post by Paul Homewood http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/27/climate-change-model-global-warming The Mail on Sunday ran an article by David Rose a couple of weeks ago, pointing out just how woeful most climate models had been in predicting global temperatures in the last decade or … Continue reading →

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ENSO Myth Number 4 – The Variations in the East Pacific and the East Indian-West Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures Counteract One Another

Posted on March 27, 2013 by

OVERVIEW This is the fourth post in a series that presents myths and failed arguments created by proponents of manmade global warming about the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). A list of the earlier (with links) and future posts follows the … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Global warming, Sea Surface Temperature | 24 Comments

On Dana1981’s Meaningless ENSO Exercise at SkepticalScience

Posted on March 21, 2013 by

Dana Nuccitelli (Dana1981) of SkepticalScience has redefined El Niño and La Niña years in a meaningless exercise to show that the warming trends of El Niño, La Niña and ENSO-neutral years are comparable. It confirms his limited understanding of El … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Global warming | 70 Comments

Did Global Warming Prevent a Record-Breaking D.C. Snowstorm?

Posted on March 8, 2013 by

Guest post by Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels We haven’t seen any media stories relating global warming to the Wednesday’s weather in D.C. We are certain that this would not have been the case had more than … Continue reading →

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‘Ground Zero for Global Warming’? State of Alaska temperatures in 2012 refused to cooperate

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

People send me stuff. While some claims have been made that “Alaska is Ground Zero for Global Warming” it turns out that the state of Alaska was significantly below normal in 2012. For example, Fairbanks had the coldest year in … Continue reading →

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Aerosols from Moderate Volcanos Now Blamed for Global Warming Hiatus

Posted on March 2, 2013 by

While looking for quotes on an upcoming post about Ocean Heat Content, I ran across the press release for a new paper (in press) by Neely et al, which blames the recent slowdown in global warming on smaller more moderate … Continue reading →

Posted in Aerosols, Consensus, Global warming, Uncertainty, Volcanoes | 276 Comments

Fact check for Andrew Glikson – Ocean heat has paused too

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

Over at The Conversation Andrew Glikson asks Fact check: has global warming paused? citing an old Skeptical Science favorite graph, and that’s the problem; it’s old data. He writes: As some 90% of the global heat rise is trapped in the … Continue reading →

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Global Warming To Bring Colder/Warmer Winters

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

By Paul Homewood It seems that every time we get some snow, another “scientist” is wheeled out to explain that, no matter how cold it gets, it is all down to global warming. In the last week or so, we … Continue reading →

Posted in Global warming, snowfall, Temperature, Weather | Tagged , , , , , , , | 117 Comments

New ebook: The Manmade Global Warming Challenge

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale INTRODUCTION Many bloggers are very active in the climate change debate around the globe. In advance of an expected intensification of that debate this year, I’ve written a new essay about the natural warming of … Continue reading →

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Global warming – more complex than we thought

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

From the University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST, more modeling mania for the future. New research shows complexity of global warming Greenhouse gases versus solar heating Global warming from greenhouse gases affects rainfall patterns in the world differently than that from … Continue reading →

Posted in Global warming, Modeling, Rainfall | Tagged , , , , , , , | 133 Comments

So far, Al Gore appears to be losing ‘the climate bet’

Posted on January 19, 2013 by

No cause for alarm at five-year mid-point of the Armstrong-Gore climate “bet” By J. Scott Armstrong In 2007, University of Pennsylvania Professor J. Scott Armstrong’s attention was drawn to former VP Gore’s concerns about global warming. Having spent five decades … Continue reading →

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A bit of a bombshell from the AGU IGBR: Black carbon is a larger cause of climate change than previously assessed

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

From the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme via Eurekalert, some of the heat gets taken off CO2 as the ‘big kahuna’ of forcings, now there is another major player, one that we can easily do something about. I’ve often speculated that black … Continue reading →

Posted in Aerosols, Carbon soot, Global warming | Tagged , , , | 169 Comments

Drought, Hurricanes and Heat Waves – 2012 in Perspective

Posted on January 6, 2013 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale Drought, Hurricanes and Heat Waves – Climate Change and Global Warming in the United States – 2012 in Perspective In this video, we’ll examine the exceptional and historic nature of the recent drought in the … Continue reading →

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The age old battle of the thermostat – the ‘Goredian’ Knot of global temperature

Posted on January 1, 2013 by

People send me stuff. Reader Kurt writes: I just found your excellent website and have book marked it and will visit it often for updates. One simple question the global warm-mongers have never been able to answer is…

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Antarctic warming courtesy of Mr. Fix-it

Posted on December 27, 2012 by

Just a little something he threw together Guest Post by David Middleton First the breath-taking headlines… Scientists Report Faster Warming in Antarctica, New York Times (WUWT commentary) West Antarctic Ice Sheet warming twice earlier estimate, BBC West Antarctica warming much … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Climate Craziness of the Week, Climate FAIL, Global cooling, Global warming, NASA GISS | Tagged , , , , | 104 Comments