From Andrew Bolt at Australia’s Herald Sun below, some sharp evidence in a new paper that the “coral bleaching” scare of the Great Barrier Reef is unfounded and mostly made up. This study indicates that at the scale of the whole GBR there was no net decline in live hard coral cover between 1995 and…
Guest post by J Storrs Hall There are several ways to predict what the temperature trends of the next century will be like. The standard method of prediction in science is to create a theory which embodies a model, test the model experimentally, and then run it into the future for the prediction. There is…
UPDATE: About an hour after this story was posted, Monbiot backs down, see below. – Anthony =========================================== Sheesh, can’t these people read? I find the timing of this more than coincidental. George Monbiot tweets: Secret funding of climate change deniers exposed again: bit.ly/m6Yjlp. Key issue here is that interests never declared. Soon and Balliunas 2003:…
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This makes me wonder if the temperature dip in the 1970’s where everyone was worried about global cooling wasn’t partially driven by atmospheric aerosols. With the advent of pollution controls, certainly we have cleaner (and more optically transparent) skies since then. From the National University of Ireland, Galway comes this: New research initiated jointly by…