Tag Archives: Kevin E. Trenberth

What do you get when you rub two climatologists together?

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

The Current Wisdom: Climate Change Controversy in the Wall Street Journal Guest post by Patrick J. Michaels (reposted from cato.org) This edition departs from our usual routine because of the very vitriolic fight that has broken as the result of … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Gore, Hansen, Trenberth to make Antarctic PR expedition

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

From the you’ve got to be effin kidding me department comes news of the epic journey to Antarctica. What do they hope to prove? I don’t know, it seems like nothing but a publicity stunt, especially since the sea ice … Continue reading →

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The team trying to get “direct action” on Soon and Baliunas at Harvard

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

Direct Action at Harvard By Steve McIntyre Attention has been drawn today to Mann’s request to other Team members for suggestions as to how to take direct action at Harvard against Soon and Baliunas. Not noticed thus far is that Kevin … Continue reading →

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Kenneth Trenberth on Nobel and religion at Christmas

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

0462.txt (h/t to Rog Tallbloke) date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:58:09 -0700 from: Kevin Trenberth subject: The first Nobel and other Christmas greetings to: IPCC-group Seasons greetings to you all, my fellow Nobel Laureates (even if we did not get … 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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Trenberth: null and void

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

Via Eurekalert and Wiley-Blackwell The human cause of climate change: Where does the burden of proof lie? Dr. Kevin Trenberth advocates reversing the ‘null hypothesis’ The debate may largely be drawn along political lines, but the human role in climate … Continue reading →

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Pielke Sr. on that hide and seek ocean heat

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

Torpedoing Of The Use Of The Global Average Surface Temperature Trend As The Diagnostic For Global Warming By Dr. Roger Pielke Senior There is a new paper by Gerald Meehl of NCAR and other collaborators  that has been announced in the media; i.e. … Continue reading →

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Trenberth’s missing heat? Look to the deep

Posted on September 18, 2011 by

From the National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research  an explanation for Global Ocean Heat Content Is Still Flat. Key point from the press release: Observations from a global network of buoys showed some warming in the upper ocean, … Continue reading →

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Trenberth gets a rebuttal to Spencer and Braswell published: turnaround 1 day

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

Turbo Peer Review is the new normal it seems. Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit writes: Bishop Hill draws attention to the publication of Trenberth’s comment on Spencer and Braswell 2011 in Remote Sensing. Unlike Trenberth’s presentation to the American Meteorological … Continue reading →

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Pielke Sr. on Skeptical Science’s attacks on Spencer and Christy

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

Scientific Robustness Of The University Of Alabama At Huntsville MSU Data By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. As a result of the persistent, but incorrect (often derogatory) blog posts and media reports on the robustness of the University of Alabama MSU temperature data, … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Week – Wuebbles Weather World

Posted on September 9, 2011 by

Serially warm reporter Dan Vergano of USA today wrote an article on the “Current Extreme Weather and Climate Change” report, released this week that says it’s all our fault. With a peer review team like this one, what other conclusion … Continue reading →

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Journal Deliverance: The True Story of the Climate Hillbillies

Posted on September 5, 2011 by

Guest post by Les Johnson (With apologies for lifting the Daily Bayonet tag line multiple times below). “Interconnected” is the theme of this post. It starts of course, with the resignation of Wolfgang Wagner, from the journal called Remote Sensing, … Continue reading →

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The science is scuttled: Abraham, Gleick, and Trenberth resort to libeling Spencer and Christy

Posted on September 4, 2011 by

NOTE: This will be a “sticky”  top post for awhile, new posts appear below this one. UPDATE: Josh weighs in with a new cartoon. I was hoping to have a quiet holiday weekend away from WUWT doing some household chores. … Continue reading →

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Fallout from Our Paper: The Empire Strikes Back

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. LiveScience.com posted an article yesterday where the usual IPCC suspects (Gavin Schmidt, Kevin Trenberth, and Andy Dessler) dissed our recent paper in in the journal Remote Sensing. Given their comments, I doubt any of … Continue reading →

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The folly of linking tornado outbreaks to “climate change”

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

In times of tragedy, there always seems to be hucksters about trying to use that tragedy to sell a position, a product, or a belief. In ancient times, tragedy was the impetus used to appease the gods and to embrace … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Current News, Disaster, Opinion, thunderstorms, tornadoes, weather | Tagged , , , , , | 69 Comments

Quote of the Week – it’s a doozy

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

Finally, a scientist gets it, speaks out about it, and a reporter in a major media outlet publishes the words that say in even stronger terms what I said last Thursday about Dr. Richard Muller’s testimony before Congress. From the … Continue reading →

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Weekly Energy and Climate News Roundup

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) On Tuesday, the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling issued a 300 plus page report that was long on recommendations … Continue reading →

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Trenberth reacts: edits speech to fix copying, leaves “deniers”

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

Well that’s what I get for taking a nap today. I had been checking Dr. Trenberth’s manuscript regularly at the AMS website, and of course while napping he (or somebody) changed it. Of course Steve McIntyre caught it and points … Continue reading →

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Unequivocal Equivocation – an open letter to Dr. Trenberth

Posted on January 15, 2011 by

This essay from Willis appeared on WUWT overnight Saturday while I slept. After reading it this morning, I decided to make it a sticky at the top of WUWT (I also added the open letter reference) because it says everything … Continue reading →

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Saturday Silliness – Josh on Keven Trenberth’s AMS speech

Posted on January 15, 2011 by

Inspired by Willis, and adapted from DJ Meredith’s comment on WUWT, a cartoon on Kevin Trenberth, who seems determined to  explode any credibility Climate Science has left.

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Trenberth’s upcoming AMS meeting talk: ClimateGate Thoughts

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

Dr. Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) a U.S. publicly funded research center, uses the term “denier” six times in this upcoming talk, which he has submitted as a preprint to the American Meteorological Society (AMS) … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, politics, presentations | Tagged , , | 319 Comments

New paper on ARGO data: Trenberth’s ocean heat still missing

Posted on January 6, 2011 by

Four out of five ARGO data studies now show Ocean Heat Content declining Readers may recall that Dr. Kevin Trenberth said this in one of the Climategate emails: “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming … Continue reading →

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