The reliance on models like the Global Climate Models that can never be properly verified by comparison to observations must always keep that in mind.
Tag: Models
Glacial Armageddon! 2/3 to vanish by 2100!
2/3’s of glaciers to melt by 2100! Lions and Tigers and Bears! Too bad Seth Borenstein wasn’t around to report on the 90% of glaciers that vanished before AGW was…
Claim: Model Pinpoints Glaciers at Risk of Collapse Due to Climate Change
Meltwater seeping beneath Arctic glaciers puts thickest and fastest at risk of sudden collapse
Covid and Climate: A Tale of Two Hysterias Part 2
Perhaps the last word lies best with the towering American essayist H. L. Mencken, who wrote that “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and…
The rocky road to accurate sea-level predictions
“As we said, choosing the wrong equations for the under-ice landscape can have the same effect on the contribution to sea-level rise as a warming of several degrees”, Åkesson says.
The Greenhouse Effect In A Water World
There are multiple lines of evidence, however, that challenge the strong water vapour feedback to a small initial CO2 forcing. These strong positive feedbacks are central to the IPCC narrative.
Claim: Disease-transmission model forecasts election outcomes
To simulate how interactions between voters may play a role in the upcoming presidential, gubernatorial and senatorial elections, a Northwestern University research team is adapting a model that is commonly…
TURNER: Models Can’t Accurately Predict Next Week’s Weather, So Why Should We Trust Them To Predict Climate Change?
From The Daily Caller Daniel Turner Contributor June 01, 2020 11:34 AM ET It’s curious … SpaceX has all the money in the world, and they didn’t hire someone who…
Study: Integrating satellite and socioeconomic data to improve climate change policy
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News BureauShare Print E-Mail CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Bangladesh is on track to lose all of its forestland in the next 35-40 years, leading to a rise in…
“Predictive models” rarely are predictive
Guest “Yogi Berra’ism ” by David Middleton Predictive models dominate our lives — not always for the betterBY MERRILL MATTHEWS, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 05/06/20 The vast majority of Americans are…
Brutal Takedown of Neil Ferguson’s Model
From Lockdown ScepticsStay sane. Protect the economy. Save livelihoods. An experienced senior software engineer, Sue Denim, has written a devastating review of Dr. Neil Ferguson’s Imperial college epidemiological model that…
Researchers, Lawmakers Cry Foul After Harvard Quietly Edits Study Suggesting Pollution Leads To More COVID Deaths
From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter May 03, 2020 2:02 PM ET Maryland Rep. Andy Harris wants the Environmental Protection Agency to review a Harvard University study suggesting…
Nature Has Been Removing Excess CO2 4X Faster than IPCC Models
Reposted from Dr. Roy Spencer’s Blog February 5th, 2020 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Note: What I present below is scarcely believable to me. I have looked for an…
Ozone-depleting substances caused half of late 20th-century Arctic warming, says study
Implicated in a third of overall global warming at the time Earth Institute at Columbia University A scientific paper published in 1985 was the first to report a burgeoning hole…
Were IPCC’s 1990 medium-term warming predictions accurate? No.
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley In the increasingly vain hope of success in flogging the dead horse Global Warming, revisionists are increasingly trying to pretend that climatologists’ original predictions of…
1D Model of Global SST Shows 40% of Warming Since 1979 Due to Early Volcanic Cooling
From Dr. Roy Spencer’s Blog January 14th, 2020 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. In 2017, Christy & McNider published a study where they estimated and removed the volcanic effects…
Delingpole interview on the success of polar bear conservation & failed survival models
From Polar Bear Science Posted on October 28, 2019 Tomorrow I will be giving a public lecture in Paris on polar bear conservation success and the spectacular failure of the…
Models, Feedbacks, And Propagation Of Error
Guest post by Kevin Kilty Introduction I had contemplated a contribution involving feedback diagrams, systems of equations, differential equations, and propagation of error ever since Nick Stoke’s original contribution about…
Study: Climate change is leading to unpredictable ecosystem disruption for migratory birds
Ithaca, NY–Using data on 77 North American migratory bird species from the eBird citizen-science program, scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology say that, in as little as four decades,…
The One-sided Worldview of Eco-Pessimists
From Quillette written by Joanna Szurmak and Pierre Desrochers This essay draws in part on the authors’ new book Population Bombed! Exploding the Link Between Overpopulation and Climate Change (Global…
Uneven rates of sea level rise tied to climate change
From Eurekalert Public Release: 3-Dec-2018 Findings could help improve regional sea level forecasts National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research The pattern of uneven sea level rise over…
Antarctic melting slows atmospheric warming and speeds sea level rise
From Eurekalert Public Release: 19-Nov-2018 The research is the first to show how the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet will affect future climate University of Arizona As the Antarctic…
A Few Thoughts on the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4)
Guest post by David Middleton The current draft of the report can be found here: Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Fifth-Order Draft (5OD) After a cursory review of the document, a…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #280
The Week That Was: 2017-08-05 (August 5, 2017) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week. “The important thing is not…
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