Guest Post by Barry Woods I wonder just how many politicians, environmentalists or scientists who use the phrase ‘97% of scientists’ (or those who more carefully use ‘active climate scientists’) to give weight to…
Month: July 2012
Is global warming just another 'End-of-the-World' delusion?
UPDATE: less than 24 hours after posting this, we already have an end of the world prediction naming global warming, see below. New end of the world book treats climate…
Climategate investigation closed – statute limit looms, cops impotent
Bishop Hill has the press release from from Norfolk Constabulary (H/T Leo H) Norfolk Constabulary has made the decision to formally close its investigation into the hacking of online data…
About that overwhelming 97-98% number of scientists that say there is a climate consensus…
Larry Bell writes in his weekly Forbes column about that oft repeated but less than truthy “98% of all scientists” statistic. Supposedly, this was such an easy and quick to…
New paper on Global Water Vapor puts climate modelers in a bind
Where’s that positive feedback that is supposed to manifest itself in water vapor, the most potent natural greenhouse gas? Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. writes: New Paper “Weather And Climate Analyses…
Crack in the Earth: Greenland glacier loses ice island twice the size of Manhattan
It’s business as usual at the Petermann glacier, doing what a glacier does, calving ice into the sea. We reported on another chunk in 2010, four Manhattans in size. Borrowing…
Hansen's Death Trains – now with extra scary 'coal fallout'
WUWT readers surely remember this: NASA’s Dr. James Hansen once again goes over the top. See his most recent article in the UK Guardian. Some excerpts: “The trains carrying coal…
It was the best of droughts, it was the worst of droughts
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Of course, the media are advancing all kinds of claims about the current drought affecting much of the US, because it is the “worst in…
Another paper refutes the Mann made hockey stick – MWP was ≈1°C warmer than current temperatures
This new paper uses a rather unique proxy; high-resolution samples micromilled from archaeological shells of the European limpet, Patella vulgata. Mr. Limpet would be proud. A paper published this week…
New paper blames about half of global warming on weather station data homogenization
From the told ya so department, comes this recently presented paper at the European Geosciences Union meeting. Authors Steirou and Koutsoyiannis, after taking homogenization errors into account find global warming…
Another boost for shale gas – less impact than coal
From the AGU Journal Highlights: Replacing coal with natural gas would reduce warming A debate has raged in the past couple of years as to whether natural gas is better…
Kiwi weather station data shenanigins going to court
Climate change readings ‘inaccurate’ TREVOR QUINN A climate change group has taken the National Institute for Atmospheric and Water Research (NIWA) to court over what they say are inaccurate temperature…
By its actions, the IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Unreliable
Foreword: Readers may recall that we covered the InterAcademy Council finding here on WUWT, in IAC slams IPCC process, suggests removal of top officials followed by IPCC’s Pachauri should resign…
Tornado Season Statistics Update – 'remarkably quiet'
Guest post by Paul Homewood It does not seem long since the February outbreak of tornadoes had Joe Romm noting :- The unexpectedly fierce and fast tornado outbreak so early…
Tisdale: How Does the Evolution of the 2012/13 El Niño Stack Up Against the Others since 1982?
Guest post by Bob Tisdale In addition to the title discussion, this post will serve as the Mid-July 2012 Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Update. It also includes a status update…
WUWT smeared by Scientific American's Bora Zivkovic
This tiff started because of this story by Tom Nelson yesterday, followed by this today. This post is my first involvement as all this happened without my involvement or comment…
Caution needed with new greenhouse gas emission standards
From the University of Calgary New model provides lifecycle analysis of ‘well-to-wheel’ oil sands emissions Policy makers need to be cautious in setting new ‘low-carbon’ standards for greenhouse gas emissions…
Texas Tall Tales and Global Warming
“…extreme heat events were roughly 20 times more likely in 2008 than in other La Niña years in the 1960s” It is this statement that has made headlines across the…
Parts 5 and 6 John Nielsen-Gammon's 'Skeptics are not deniers'
Click titles for each full essay. Skeptics Are Not Deniers: A Conversation (part 6) This is Part 6 of my six-part discussion with Robert G. Brown on paleoclimate, climate dynamics,…
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