Tag Archives: IPCC

Monckton challenges the IPCC – suggests fraud – and gets a response

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

The IPCC fraud case (but not the planet) hots up Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Two weeks ago I reported the central error in the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (2007) to its secretariat. After the contributing scientists had … Continue reading →

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Even More about Trenberth’s Missing Heat – An Eye Opening Comment by Roger Pielke Sr.

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

Roger Pielke Sr. was quoted in David Appell’s recent article Whither global warming? Has global warming slowed down? over at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media. That portion of the article reads: About 90 percent of this … Continue reading →

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The effectiveness of CO2 as a greenhouse gas becomes ever more marginal with greater concentration

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

The political target of limiting the effect of Man-made global warming to only +2⁰C can never be attained. Guest essay by Ed Hoskins According to well understood physical parameters, the effectiveness of CO2 as a greenhouse gas diminishes logarithmically with … Continue reading →

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Benchmarking IPCC’s warming predictions

Posted on May 5, 2013 by

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The IPCC’s forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report continues to suggest that the Earth will warm rapidly in the 21st century. How far are its projections short of observed reality? A monthly benchmark graph, circulated widely to … Continue reading →

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Monckton asks IPCC for correction to AR4

Posted on May 4, 2013 by

4 May 2013 IPCC Secretariat, Geneva Gentlemen, Request for correction of a serious inaccuracy in the contribution of Working Group 1 to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report   As an Expert Reviewer for the Fifth Assessment Report, 2013, and in … Continue reading →

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A Comparison Of The Earth’s Climate Sensitivity To Changes In The Nature Of The Initial Forcing

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

Guest post by Bob Irvine ABSTRACT The Earth’s feedback response to warming is independent of the nature of the forcing that caused that warming. The question I intend to examine is whether the nature of the forcing will have a … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page – Continued

Posted on March 30, 2013 by

Image Credit: Photobucket.com – GISP2 – Moberg – Keigwin – HadCRUT3 By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” During the first crowdsourcing thread for the under construction WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page, we had a number solid recommendations and WUWT moderator D.B. … Continue reading →

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Dispelling myths about global warming

Posted on March 25, 2013 by

CO2 did not drive the rapid warming of the 20th century. Story submitted by Stan Robertson The difference between a good idea and a bad idea is often a quantitative matter. For example, many people would think it a good … Continue reading →

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CMIP5 Model-Data Comparison: Satellite-Era Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

Posted on February 28, 2013 by

Guest post b y Bob Tisdale As we’ve seen in numerous model-data comparisons, there are few similarities between modeled and observed surface temperatures and precipitation.  See here, here, here, here, and here for examples.  We’ve compared satellite-era sea surface temperature … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

Image Credit: Jo Nova – David Lappi – GISP2 Your help is needed in building the new WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page. Below I’ve posted all of the credible 3rd party paleoclimate graphs I’ve compiled thus far, but I am sure … Continue reading →

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It’s the Sun stupid – The minor significance of CO2

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

Guest post by Dr. Norman Page 1 The IPCC’s Core Problem The IPCC  - Al Gore based  Anthropogenic Global Warming scare has driven global  Governments’ Climate and Energy Policies since the turn of the century. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been … Continue reading →

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New bill to limit IPCC funding from USA

Posted on February 13, 2013 by

Luetkemeyer Seeks to Prohibit Federal Funding for Job-Killing UN Climate Change Initiatives  WASHINGTON, D.C. _ Following last night’s State of the Union Address in which the president pledged to implement a job-killing climate change agenda, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) … Continue reading →

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UV shift in the leaked IPCC report: more inversion of the scientific method

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls A Fox News story on the leaked draft of AR5 got big attention through the Drudge Report the other week. Fox reporter Maxim Lott begins by quoting a sentence from the Second Order Draft that … Continue reading →

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ATI’s FOI request to the University of Arizona ‘excessively burdensome’

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

Chris Horner writes in with this news, I had to chuckle at some of the language UofA used in the reply, seen below, as if Malcolm Hughes and Jonathan Overpeck had to sit in the scribe room on hard wooden … Continue reading →

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Climate seers as blind guides

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

Forecasters often use unscientific computer models Guest post by J. Scott Armstrong Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times The science of forecasting is complex. After 50 years spent studying the issue, I have found there is plenty of … Continue reading →

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Global Warming: Anthropogenic or Not?

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER Professor Robert (Bob) Carter Geologist & environmental scientist Katharine Hayhoe, PhD, who wrote the December AITSE piece “Climate Change: Anthropogenic or Not?”, is an atmospheric scientist and director of the Climate Science Center at … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on January 28, 2013 by

The Week That Was: 2013-01-26 (January 26, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: We never intended a fundamentalist Green movement that rejected all energy sources other than renewable, … Continue reading →

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Yet another study shows lower climate sensitivity

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

Global warming less extreme than feared? Policymakers are attempting to contain global warming at less than 2°C. New estimates from a Norwegian project on climate calculations indicate this target may be more attainable than many experts have feared. Internationally renowned … Continue reading →

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Finally, a climate forecast model that works?

Posted on January 24, 2013 by

Note: Short term predictions are relatively easy, it remains to be seen if this holds up over the long term. I have my doubts. – Anthony Guest post by Frank Lemke The Global Warming Prediction Project is an impartial, transparent, … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on January 13, 2013 by

The Week That Was: 2013-01-12 (January 12, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate … Continue reading →

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