Tag Archives: Patrick Michaels

Did Global Warming Prevent a Record-Breaking D.C. Snowstorm?

Posted on March 8, 2013 by

Guest post by Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels We haven’t seen any media stories relating global warming to the Wednesday’s weather in D.C. We are certain that this would not have been the case had more than … Continue reading →

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Reality check: Who believes Hurricane Sandy was/was not caused by global warming?

Posted on October 30, 2012 by

This list of who’s who is instructive to review. It says a lot about credibility of the “Sandy was caused by global warming” argument being pushed by activists and media. Compare who’s pushing the agenda versus who isn’t buying into … Continue reading →

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Unable to effectively refute the contents, the alarmosphere resorts to calling a new report ‘counterfeit’

Posted on October 22, 2012 by

I laughed when I got this press release last night: CatoScience.txt – Fake ‘addendum by conservative group tries to undo federal climate report A soon-to-be-released Cato Institute report, posing as an “addendum” to a 2009 federal summary of climate change … Continue reading →

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Discovery News Category 6 hurricanes – ‘batshit stupid’

Posted on September 4, 2012 by

Hurricane expert Dr. Ryan Maue pulls no punches when it comes to putting John Abraham of the Climate Science Rapid Response Team in his place: Here’s what Abraham has to say at Discovery News: 

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Editorial: ‘Hansen is simply wrong’ and ‘his hypothesis is a complete and abject failure’

Posted on August 7, 2012 by

UPDATE: 9:55 AM  PDT 8/8/12 A graph of Palmer Drought Severity Index -vs- GISTEMP data has been added from Dr. Michaels. Looks like another “GISS miss”. There’s a lot of blowback against James Hansen’s recent (non tested) PNAS paper, trying … Continue reading →

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Newly found weather records show 1930′s as being far worse than the present for extreme weather

Posted on July 14, 2012 by

The Heat Was On—Before Urbanization and Greenhouse Gases By Patrick Michaels on World Climate Report Sure is hot out! And what better time for a paper to appear in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology describing the construction of … Continue reading →

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Climate Science From the Onion?

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

Guest post by Dr. Patrick Michaels Three items appeared last week that make me wonder if The Onion is surreptitiously acquiring science journals and trade publications. Here’s what one, “ScienceNordic” says it does on its home page: Our team of … Continue reading →

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WSJ pans ‘climate warrior’ Michael Mann in book review.

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

All I can say is “ouch”! Mann of course will be sending his usual letter to the editor whining about unfair treatment. He’s really just misunderstood you see. Excerpts from the review by Anne Jolis: The book’s climax is a … Continue reading →

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Climate modeling turkey shoot, western style

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

Western U.S. Precipitation Extremes—How Did This Turkey Get Published? By Dr. Patrick Michaels When it comes to changes in future precipitation across the United States, climate models projections are all over the map. In other words, they provide no useful … Continue reading →

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A Response to Skeptical Science’s “Patrick Michaels: Serial Deleter of Inconvenient Data”

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

Guest post by Patrick Michaels When the battle is being lost, there is a tendency to try to raise a level of distraction to shift the attention away from the desperate situation at hand. Such is the noise being raised … Continue reading →

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The End is Near for Faith in AGW

Posted on June 25, 2011 by

When the public learns about huge faults in the skeptic scientist accusation, combined with the faults in the IPCC, the result may send AGW into total collapse. Guest post submitted by Russell Cook I’m preaching to the choir here when … Continue reading →

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Bias In the Peer Review Process: A Cautionary And Personal Account

Posted on April 20, 2011 by

by Dr. Roger Pielke Senior There is an informative article by Ross McKittrick McKitrick, Ross R. (2011) “Bias in the Peer Review Process: A Cautionary and Personal Account” in Climate Coup, Patrick J. Michaels ed., Cato Inst. Washington DC. This … Continue reading →

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Yes, Virginia, you do have to produce those ‘Global Warming’ documents

Posted on January 6, 2011 by

Published on Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com) By: Christopher C. Horner, David W. Schnare and Robert Marshall Reprinted with permission from the authors.  Yes, Virginia, you do have to produce those ‘Global Warming’ documents Today, Virginia taxpayers, a state lawmaker and a … Continue reading →

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