Tag Archives: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

Quote of the Week: “I have received, monsieur, your new book against the human race. I thank you for it…no one has ever employed so much intellect in the attempt to prove us beasts. A desire seizes us to walk … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

Quote of the Week: “…it is an established rule of the Society, to which they will always adhere, never to give their opinion as a Body upon any subject either of Nature or Art, that comes before them. The ‘advertisement’ … Continue reading →

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New WUWT Feature – Scafetta’s forecast -vs- the IPCC forecast

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

I have a new feature page on WUWT that highlights the work of Nicola Scafetta and his solar-lunar cycle forecast model as it compares to the IPCC forecasts and global temperature reality using HadCRUT surface temperature data. Working with Dr. … Continue reading →

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IPCC’s Pachauri’s “voodoo science” claim comes full circle

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

WUWT readers may recall that when the “Himalayan Glaciers will melt by 2035″ error was first revealed, IPCC chairman Rajenda Pachauri famously labeled claims of the mistake “voodoo science”and then had to retract that slur later. Now it appears there … Continue reading →

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IPCC reviewer resigns from AGU saying: I will not renew my AGU membership

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

Martin Hovland writes in with this statement. It seems that AGU Position Statement keeps costing them members. He writes: Although I have been a long-time member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), I hereby refuse to pay my membership fees. … Continue reading →

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Comedy gold: APS president attacks “inaccurate characterization” of APS position, doesn’t realize he’s attacking an APS quote

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

Guest Post by Alec Rawls When German ex-climate-alarmist Fritz Vahrenholt came out last week as a climate skeptic, he related his moment of epiphany, when he was firsthand witness of the alarmists’ sheer disregard for error: Vahrenholt’s skepticism started when … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Week – “I feel duped”

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

Miguel Rakiewicz writes in Tips and Notes: Spiegel.com has today published the English translation of its interview of “The Cold Sun” author, Fritz Vahrenholt. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,813814,00.html Not only is Vahrenholt a prominent Social Democrat and former German Environment Minister, but also … Continue reading →

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Your tax dollars at work: an NCAR cartoon on steroid use in baseball and compared to climate change

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

From the video description: AtmosNews takes a lighthearted look at an unexpected analogy, explaining why some people call carbon dioxide (and the other greenhouse gases) the steroids of the climate system. Statistics and extreme behavior are involved, whether we’re talking … Continue reading →

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Triangular Fuzzy Numbers and the IPCC

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about “triangular fuzzy numbers” regarding the IPCC and their claims about how the climate system works. The IPCC, along with the climate establishment in general, make what to me is a … Continue reading →

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Germany in skeptical turmoil on both Climate and Solar/Windfarms

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

I have two major stories out of Germany to report, one on the rise of Climate Skepticism into the mainstream, as Germany’s Top Environmentalist Turns Climate Sceptic, saying “I couldn’t take it any more. I had to write this book.” … Continue reading →

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Monckton responds to Skeptical Science

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

Cooking the books By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Mr. John Cook, who runs a website puzzlingly entitled Skeptical Science” (for he is not in the least sceptical of the “official” position) seems annoyed that I won the 2011 televised debate … Continue reading →

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Cites and Signs of the times

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been involved in climate science for a while now, this is not my first rodeo. And I’ve read so many pseudo-scientific studies that I’m starting to develop a list of signs that indicate when … Continue reading →

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Climate change a ‘fundamental’ health risk, expert warns – “[act now] if we are going to maintain this planet as a liveable habitat for humans.”

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

Climate Change Scare continues down-under. Story submitted by Tarun Singh I thought it might be worthwhile to highlight another alarmist propaganda being peddled for science. The below excerpts are from a news item warning on “climate change” http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/climate-change-a-fundamental-health-risk/story-fn7x8me2-1226257929702 A LEADING … Continue reading →

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Hansen’s Sea Shell Game

Posted on January 29, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an old con game that has been played on the suckers for hundreds and hundreds of years. It is done in various forms, with various objects, under various names—three card monty, the shell game, … Continue reading →

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Burt Rutan on Schooling the Rogues

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

Burt Rutan writes in via email about an exchange he had with the proprietor of the website Scholars and Rogues, Brian Angliss. Burt writes: I recently read a treatise showing that CAGW theory is a fraud. I thought it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, global warming | Tagged , , , , , , , | 464 Comments

Sixteen prominent scientists publish a letter in WSJ saying there’s “No Need to Panic About Global Warming”

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

This is quite something. Sixteen scientists, including such names as Richard Lindzen, William Kininmonth, Wil Happer, and Nir Shaviv, plus engineer Burt Rutan, and Apollo 17 astronaut Dr. Harrison Schmidt, among others, write what amounts to a heretical treatise to … Continue reading →

Posted in global warming, Opinion | Tagged , , , , , , , | 295 Comments

The behind the scenes bumbling of the hockey stick

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

Mann oh Mann. Tom Nelson continues to wade through the 5000+ Climategate 2 emails. I’ve selected a few he’s highlighted in the vein of behind the scenes discussion of Dr. Michael Mann’s infamous “hockey stick” which claimed we were living … Continue reading →

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Sense and Sensitivity II – the sequel

Posted on January 15, 2012 by

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Joel Shore, who has been questioning my climate-sensitivity calculations, just as a good skeptic should, has kindly provided at my request a reference to a paper by Dr. Andrew Lacis and others at the Goddard … Continue reading →

Posted in climate sensitivity, modeling | Tagged , , , , , , , | 206 Comments

Monckton responds to Peter Hadfield aka “potholer54″ – plus Hadfield’s response

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

UPDATE: Below is Peter Hadfield’s response in entirety, submitted Feb 7th, 2012. I’ve made only some slight edits for formatting to fit. Comments are open. – Anthony By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Various You-Tube videos by a former “science writer” … Continue reading →

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The climate science peer pressure cooker

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

Will Replicated Global Warming Science Make Mann Go Ape? By Patrick J. Michaels – from World Climate Report About 10 years ago, December 20, 2002 to be exact, we published a paper titled “Revised 21st century temperature projections” in the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness, Michael E. Mann, peer review, satire | Tagged , , , , , , , | 153 Comments

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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What we don’t know about Earth’s energy flow

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

Roger Tattersall (aka Tallbloke) writes on his blog of a WUWT comment. Unfortunately WUWT gets so many comments a day that I can’t read them all (thank you moderators for the help). Since he elevated Dr. Robert Brown’s comment to … Continue reading →

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Paging Mike Mann – your dendrochronologist will see you now

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

Tom Nelson has another Climategate 2 email well worth reading Dendrochronologists get spanked by guy with expertise in tree physiology and wood anatomy ClimateGate Email 1738 “However, there are bounds to dendrochronology, as there are to every field of investigation, … Continue reading →

Posted in Michael E. Mann, paleoclimatology, peer review, post-normal science | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 148 Comments

IPCC Zero Order Draft files found and put back online

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

Galloping Camel writes: The IPCC issued its fourth assessment report (AR4) in 2007, updated for the Copenhagen conference in 2009. This report raised a fire storm of criticism which elicited only a feeble response. As a result the IPCC’s credibility … Continue reading →

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