Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A range of proxy records, supported by contemporaneous descriptions of the weather, all agree that the earth went through what is called the “Little Ice…
Year: 2011
Post COP 17 – The Road to Nowhere
Guest post by Professor Will Alexander Roadmaps The key word used during the COP 17 discussions was ‘roadmap’ used by the European Union delegation. The following is a map of…
Polar bears becoming a problem in some Arctic towns – survey accuracy questioned
This interesting article shows the information and perception gap between scientists that do helicopter surveys of polar bears and the native people who co-exist in their presence.
Comet Lovejoy survives a brush with Sol
From Physorg.com Comet Lovejoy was only discovered a couple of weeks ago. It was supposed to melt as it came so close to the sun that the temperatures would hit…
A little security help for my friends
More than a couple of people have asked me about computer security in the last couple of days, especially after the Tallbloke raid incident.
Don't sell your coat!
This guest post is well worth a read – Anthony Guest post by Harold Ambler What follows is an excerpt from my new book Don’t Sell Your Coat, available here: I…
The IPCC gives me a shock
Yesterday I did something that I never expected to get any results on. My lucky number 1029 paid off.
Polar amplification works both ways
Guest post by David Archibald When I started out in climate science in 2005, the prevailing view in the sceptic community was that carbon dioxide-caused global warming was real but…
To the Guardian: You cannot make good public policy on mistaken premises
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Damian Carrington’s Environment Blog at the Guardian proclaims: Climate deal: A guarantee our children will be worse off than us. This myth —perhaps myth-take…
Congress suspends light bulb ban funding
UPDATE 2: 12/16/11 9AMPST It appears early reports were wrong, junkscience.com now reports that The deal agreed to in Congress merely deprives the Department oF Energy the funds to enforce…
EU carbon trading in freefall
Looks just like what happened to the Chicago Carbon Exchange is about to repeat in Europe. Source: http://www.barchart.com/charts/futures/CKZ11 By Thomson Reuters Point Carbon LONDON | Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:01pm…
UAH global temperature – holding steady in November
UAH Global Temperature Update for Nov. 2011: +0.12 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for November, 2011 remained about the same as last…
Register to become an expert reviewer for IPCC WG1
Here’s an opportunity for input in the next IPCC report. I encourage all readers with relevant expertise to register. See link below. Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel…
Josh on the skeptic computer raid
In case you haven’t heard, UK skeptic blogger “Tallbloke” has had his computers seized by Norfolk police looking for evidence of the intrepid “FOIA” leaker. Josh at Cartoons by Josh…
IPCC declares itself exempt from FOIA laws
From Bishop Hill, such a short story that it is difficult to excerpt, and given the importance, and the continuation reference to the story I broke on WUWT, I don’t…
Wind energy subsidies to be discussed in Senate today–opportunity for input
Guest post By John Droz The matter of how much, if any, federal subsidies that wind energy will get is being discussed (and maybe resolved) today. Here is a video…
Study: Getting the S out of jet fuel may cool the climate
This study from Yale University seems contradictory to what we know about aerosols. Generally more aerosols like SO2 cool the climate, but in this case they are saying “it’s offset…
The R/P Ratio
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In oil, as in other extractive industries, you have what is called the “R/P ratio”. In the R/P ratio, “R” is reserves of whatever it…
National Academy of Sciences appointee caught "making up stuff" to win lawsuit, RICO lawsuit follows
Watch the video below, it is quite something. Amazing that they were stupid enough to tape themselves saying this much less turn it into a documentary! UPDATE: The legal pleading…
Email from UNFCCC: "we won't let Canada out of the Kyoto Convention responsibilities"
People send me stuff… UPDATE: See below for another interpretation Remember how this was phrased? “sign it, it’s just voluntary!” Recall Rio 1992 “Earth Summit” where the meme was “hey,…
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