Tag Archives: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

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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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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Shocker – Ken Caldeira resigns as IPCC AR5 lead author

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

(via Tom Nelson) Ken Caldeira resigns as IPCC lead author, saying: “…it is not clear how much additional benefit there is to having a huge bureaucratic scientific review effort under UN auspices…” New Directions for the Intergovernmental Climate Panel – … Continue reading →

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Ben Santer’s “damage control” on UAH global temperature data

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

The post below on Dr. Roy Spencer’s blog that contains responses from Spencer and Christy deserves wide distribution and attention, because it shows just how badly Ben Santer and John Abraham want to squelch this dataset. Particularly amusing is the … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on December 18, 2011 by

Quote of the Week: We’ll fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass. Our goal is to make this new kind of ethanol practical and competitive … Continue reading →

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CO2 Sensitivity is Multi-Modal – All bets are off

Posted on December 18, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein A multi-modal probability distribution, such as the graphic below [from Schmittner 2011], cries out “MULTIPLE POPULATIONS”. Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (expected temperature increase due to a doubling of CO2 levels, all else being equal) is distinctly … Continue reading →

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The CRU crew says: “what we really meant was…”

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

In all the hubub last week, I missed this press release from the University of East Anglia. In it, they try to explain away some of the first highlighted email phrases. But we’ve all moved well beyond those now. The … Continue reading →

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Why all the cloak and dagger stuff if this is all settled science…?

Posted on November 26, 2011 by

Reader “just the facts” writes in comments: Here is an example of Phil Jones trying to avoid a FOIA request, but he apparently struggles with the implementation…:

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New study in Science shows climate sensitivity overestimated

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

From Oregon State University  some news the team and especially Kevin Trenberth just really don’t want to hear. I covered this on a tip from Dr. Pat Michaels back on Nov 9th titled: Climate sensitivity- lowering the IPCC “fat tail” and … Continue reading →

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Shades of Foster Grant

Posted on November 20, 2011 by

Tamino Misses The Point And Attempts To Distract His Readers By Bob Tisdale The obvious intent of my recent post “17-Year And 30-Year Trends In Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies: The Differences Between Observed And IPCC AR4 Climate Models” was to illustrate … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on November 20, 2011 by

Quote of the Week: “If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is … Continue reading →

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Santer’s “17 years needed for a sign of climate change” compared against the IPCC models

Posted on November 19, 2011 by

I recently covered a press release from Dr. Ben Santer where it was claimed that: In order to separate human-caused global warming from the “noise” of purely natural climate fluctuations, temperature records must be at least 17 years long, according … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny: Zombie head exploders and the new IPCC report

Posted on November 18, 2011 by

Maybe Joe’s head can be a new source of renewable energy. Just like a zombie, his head keeps coming back from the dead and exploding anew, seemingly every day. All we need to power this is to write more annoying … Continue reading →

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The GWPF Responds To New IPCC Report

Posted on November 18, 2011 by

Natural Variability To Dominate Weather Events Over Coming 20-30 Years Press Release London: For many decades to come, and probably longer, mankind’s influence on the frequency of extreme weather events will be insignificant. According to a preliminary report released by … Continue reading →

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Tisdale on model initialization in wake of the leaked IPCC draft

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

Should Climate Models Be Initialized To Replicate The Multidecadal Variability Of The Instrument Temperature Record During The 20th Century? Guest post by Bob Tisdale The coupled climate models used to hindcast past and project future climate in the IPCC’s 2007 report … Continue reading →

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Does the Trenberth et al “Earth’s Energy Budget Diagram” Contain a Paradox?

Posted on October 26, 2011 by

Guest post by Bob Fernley-Jones by Bob Fernley-Jones AKA Bob_FJ CAUTION: This is written in Anglo-Oz English. Here is the diagram as extracted from their 2009 paper, it being an update of that in the IPCC report of 2007 (& also … Continue reading →

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Greenpeace and the IPCC – The Edenhofer Excuse

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

Guest post by Shub Niggurath It has been a recurring pattern that the most dramatic of conclusions arrived by the IPCC, are shown to arise from unsubstantiated or exaggerated claims in literature put out by environmental pressure groups. The latest … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on July 4, 2011 by

Quote of the Week: “Urgent and unprecedented environmental and social changes challenge scientists to define a new social contract… a commitment on the part of all scientists to devote their energies and talents to the most pressing problems of the … Continue reading →

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Greenpeace in our time

Posted on June 18, 2011 by

Josh from cartoonsbyjosh.com has been extra busy this week. He writes of the latest IPCC debacle: Christopher Booker suggested a lovely idea for his latest article They did not use it there… it is here instead ;-) Oh but wait…there’s … Continue reading →

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I’m sure the Chinese will stop if you ask them…

Posted on May 21, 2011 by

It seems the US is to blame…

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