Tag Archives: Kevin E. Trenberth

Kevin Trenberth struggles mightily to explain the lack of global warming

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

Tom Nelson captures this delicious irony, apparently it isn’t a travesty any more, it’s the sun. About these ads

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Trenberth Still Searching for Missing Heat

Posted on March 26, 2013 by

Kevin Trenberth is one of the authors of new Balmaseda et al (2013) paper Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content. I find the title of the paper somewhat odd. The paper is based on the European … Continue reading →

Posted in Ocean Heat Content | Tagged , , , | 101 Comments

Trenberth dials up the warming predictions

Posted on November 8, 2012 by

From NCAR: Future warming likely to be on high side of climate projections, analysis finds November 08, 2012 BOULDER—Climate model projections showing a greater rise in global temperature are likely to prove more accurate than those showing a lesser rise, … Continue reading →

Posted in Modeling | Tagged , , | 196 Comments

Trenberth: Climategate caused a loss of funding

Posted on October 12, 2012 by

From a story in The Melbourne Age: Professor Trenberth is a bruised survivor of the so-called ”climategate” scandal, which involved the theft and publication of thousands of emails that had been sent between some of the world’s most influential climate … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 149 Comments

Quote of the Week – it’s a travesty of the blandities

Posted on October 11, 2012 by

Dr. Kevin Trenberth has another travesty on his hands.  UPDATE: Commenter Lee Harvey has the best point I’ve seen so far.

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Now, alarmists are making the public believe in the extreme weather boogeyman

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

A new survey has been released by Yale in cooperation with George Mason University. In it, 74% surveyed say “global warming is affecting weather in the United States”. Personally, I blame Seth Borenstein, Kevin Trenberth, Bill McKibben, Joe Romm and … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Opinion | Tagged , , , | 64 Comments

Trenberth still hyping extreme weather events and climate change

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

Despite the recent editorial in Nature saying that there’s no current connection between the two, NCAR’s Dr. Kenneth Trenberth is going to pitch connections between extreme weather and climate change anyway at an upcoming seminar at the University of New … Continue reading →

Posted in extreme weather, Presentations | Tagged , , | 59 Comments

The Kevin Trenberth / Seth Borenstein aided fact free folly on the USA heat wave

Posted on July 3, 2012 by

I cringe every time I see stories like the one being pushed in the Associated Press today by AP science writer Seth Borenstein. My Way News – This US summer is ‘what global warming looks like’ http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120703/D9VP9J681.html Even Drudge picked … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, heat wave, Weather | Tagged , , , , , , | 127 Comments

‘What global warming really looks like’ – Michael Oppenheimer FAIL

Posted on June 28, 2012 by

Well, I warned everybody yesterday. That briefing was put together by Climate Nexus, an advocacy and communications group. An accompanying report on heat waves and climate change was released simultaneously at climatecommunication.org The usual suspects put that document together. See … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Wildfires | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 130 Comments

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 →

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

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 →

Posted in Al Gore, Antarctic, GLOC, James Hansen | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 152 Comments

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 →

Posted in Climategate | Tagged , , , , , , , | 34 Comments

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 →

Posted in Climategate | Tagged , , , , , , , | 44 Comments

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 →

Posted in IPCC, Modeling | Tagged , , , , , , , | 101 Comments

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 →

Posted in Climate News, Trenberth's missing heats | Tagged , , , | 168 Comments

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 →

Posted in Oceans, Trenberth's missing heats | Tagged , , | 160 Comments

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 →

Posted in Modeling, Oceans, Trenberth's missing heats | Tagged , , | 205 Comments

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 →

Posted in Peer review, Spencer-Braswell and Dessler | Tagged , , , , | 69 Comments

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 →

Posted in Climate ugliness | Tagged , , , , , , | 63 Comments