Tag Archives: Global climate model

Omitted variable fraud: vast evidence for solar climate driver rates one oblique sentence in AR5

Posted on February 22, 2012 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls “Expert review” of the First Order Draft of AR5 closed on the 10th. Here is the first paragraph of my submitted critique: My training is in economics where we are very familiar with what statisticians … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – modeling double feature

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

Josh of cartoonsbyjosh.com writes: There is a wonderful George Monbiot article here… http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/jan/26/weather-forecasters-daily-mail …on how the Daily Mail hired ‘Positive Weather Solutions’, a bunch of models,  to do their weather forecasting for them… very funny. But it is the kind … Continue reading →

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Scafetta on his latest paper: Harmonic climate model versus the IPCC general circulation climate models

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

Guest Post by Dr. Nicola Scafetta Herein, I would like to briefly present my latest publication that continues my research about the meaning of natural climatic cycles and their implication for climate changes: Nicola Scafetta, “Testing an astronomically based decadal-scale … Continue reading →

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Unified Theory of Climate

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

Note: This was a poster, and adopted into a blog post by the author, Ned Nikolov, specifically for WUWT. My thanks to him for the extra effort in converting the poster to a more blog friendly format. – Anthony Expanding … Continue reading →

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Send in the clouds, there ought to be clouds (in models)

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

New tool clears the air on cloud simulations LIVERMORE, Calif. — Climate models have a hard time representing clouds accurately because they lack the spatial resolution necessary to accurately simulate the billowy air masses. But Livermore scientists and international collaborators … Continue reading →

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Loehle and Scafetta calculate 0.66°C/century for AGW

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

Guest post by Craig Loehle and Nicolas Scafetta Human Effect on Climate Clearly Detected (but is 0.66 deg C/100yr since ~1950!) Loehle, C. and N. Scafetta. 2011. Climate Change Attribution Using Empirical Decomposition of Historical Time Series. Open Atmospheric Science … Continue reading →

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Skeptical Stocking Stuffers

Posted on December 11, 2010 by

Yesterday on the Friday Funny – the new and improved 4 legged AGW table thread, there was quite a bit of interest in getting T-Shirts of Josh’s latest CAGW cartoon, the “No Shoogle 4 legged CAGW Table” (shoogly means wobbly in … Continue reading →

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New peer reviewed paper shows just how bad the climate models really are

Posted on December 5, 2010 by

One of the biggest, if not the biggest issues of climate science skepticism is the criticism of over-reliance on computer model projections to suggest future outcomes. In this paper, climate models were hindcast tested against actual surface observations, and found … Continue reading →

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