Guest post by Bob Tisdale INTRODUCTION As a preview of the upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report (AR5) due out in September 2013, in this post,…
Month: April 2012
Rainfall has a greater impact than rising temperature on crop yields
From Wiley-Blackwell Is rainfall a greater threat to China’s agriculture than warming? Impact of climate change on China explored in new plant science virtual issue New research into the impact…
Bad battery "karma" – Taxpayers’ Green ‘Investment’ in Battery Company Withers
By Paul Chesser, National Legal & Policy Center A123 Systems – the taxpayer-funded electric vehicle battery manufacturer that famously shipped duds to Fisker Automotive, which caused one of its luxurious…
Climate Craziness of the Week: '$300 gets you a hockey stick signed by Mike Mann'
You just have to laugh. Scott Mandia aka “SuperMandia” (seen at left) outdoes himself with a new level of craziness. And here we thought Mike Mann really didn’t like hockey…
Spencer’s posited 1-2% cloud cover variation found
In a nutshell, with a −1.6%per decade change in cloud cover during 1954–2005, it becomes a climate forcing. While China is not the world, it bears consideration. The Hockey Schtick…
NWS Dallas on yesterday's tornado outbreak – just another statistic, no mention of "global warming"
Paul Homewood advises of this report just up on the National Weather Service Dallas website: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/2012/20120403-summary.pdf I’ve extracted and posted it below: Summary: A full assessment of the events of…
A new paper in Nature suggests CO2 leads temperature, but has some serious problems
This is an attempt to redefine the graph made famous by Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth that showed temperature leading CO2. From a press release embargoed until 1PM EST…
Why mitigating CO2 emissions is cost-ineffective
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley A couple of weeks ago I appeared before the California State Assembly and told legislators that the cost of the State’s cap-and-trade legislation, which comes…
Roy Spencer's UAH report for March
See also Dr. Christy’s report from yesterday here UAH Global Temperature Update for March 2012: +0.11 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly jumped…
UC Berkeley study: switch to nuclear from coal in the West
From the University of California – Berkeley while China (and Slovenia if Jim Hansen will shut up) surges ahead with coal power generation, some scholars are fretting over meeting carbon…
The National Wildlife Federation Jumps The Shark
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach SOURCE It doesn’t happen often … some would say not often enough … but I’m speechless.
UAH Global Temperature anomaly up in March at 0.11°C
Global Temperature Report: March 2012 U.S. hits record highs in March, Iowa is ‘warmest’ place on Earth Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade March temperatures…
NASA’s Hansen tries to tell Slovenia not to build a power plant
This really is abuse of Hansen’s position at NASA, what next? Meanwhile China keeps building coal plants, where’s your letter to them Jim? Of course China would tell Hansen to…
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I’ve been getting a lot of support emails like this, so I figured it is time to bring the issue front and center: Thought I would let you know that…
Well, that didn't take long to run the "climate is severe weather" scare story
The tornadic outbreak in Dallas is barely over and already there’s a rush to scare the public over non-existent links between tornadoes and climate. The Daily Caller reports: On the…
Update on Fakegate – what we know so far
Background on Fakegate from The Heartland Institute 1. What is Fakegate? On February 14, 2012, an environmental activist named Peter Gleick sent to liberal activists and sympathetic journalists several documents…
EU Climate Policy In Freefall
From The GWPF via Dr. Benny Peiser Sagging carbon prices lost nearly 14% of their value yesterday (2 April) as recession and a warm winter sparked a predicted 2.6% drop…
Proxy Science and Proxy Pseudo-Science
Guest post by Pat Frank It’s become very clear that most published proxy thermometry since 1998 [1] is not at all science, and most thoroughly so because Steve McIntyre and…
I'm not waiting by the phone for the Nobel committee to call
I was rather surprised to see this interview in Physics World with Dr. Richard Muller (h/t to Bishop Hill) with this praise. “If Watts hadn’t done his work, we would…
Rewriting history: "treatment" of climate sceptics disappears from University of Oregon press statement
UPDATE: University of Oregon responds, see Update #3 below. I’ve been purposely ignoring this ugly pronouncement related to “Planet Under Pressure“, because well, it was just so beyond ugly and…
Another Obama sanctioned taxpayer funded boondoggle goes bellyup
From WSJ: The financial pipeline was cut short before engineers could begin operating the Blythe Solar Power Project, a 1,000-megawatt system with capacity to power 300,000 homes, according to the…
300 soundings from 19th century compared to Argo data
From the University of California – San Diego Scripps Institute, you gotta love the subheading in this PR. I didn’t know robots could travel back in time. Gosh, I learn something new…
Josh relieves the pressure
Matt Ridley’s wonderful book The Rational Optimist provided some upbeat fodder for Reader’s Digest which Matt has posted on his blog. As it has been ‘Planet under pressure‘ week I thought I would…
No lessons learned from Climategate ? Fred Pearce and the New Scientist attack anti-nuclear book
Guest post by Martin Cohen When philosopher and long-standing climate sceptic Martin Cohen, and distinguished energy economist Andrew McKillop published a book on nuclear economics [2], they expected it to arouse…
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