From Arizona State University Researchers emphasize evaluation of tradeoffs in battling urban heat island Urbanization will increase average temperatures in Arizona’s Sun Corridor and white roofs can combat that, but…
Month: September 2012
Mike's Amazon Trick
Over at Bishop Hill, there’s an eye opening story by Shub Niggurath about the orchestration of book reviews for Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars using John Cook’s…
Lewandowsky thinks failure to get or find email is conspiracy theory
Wow, this Lewandowsky story just keeps getting more bizarre. It’s like nothing I’ve even seen before. On DeSmog Blog, Lewandowsky says we are victims of “conspiratorial thinking” and promises “four…
Fresh water flea panic – so it must be happening in the oceans too
From York University – quite possibly the most poorly written science by press release I’ve seen this year. The leaps of “may” are profound, and the footbal team analogy is…
SOON AND BRIGGS: Global-warming fanatics take note – Sunspots do impact climate
From the The Washington Times – By Willie Soon and William M. Briggs Scientists have been studying solar influences on the climate for more than 5,000 years.
NYT blames food crisis on "climate change," hides plea to reduce government mandated burning of food for fuel
Even the UN is not biased enough towards climate alarmism for the New York Times, which yesterday bowdlerized a joint statement on the present food crisis from three UN food…
Mars's dramatic climate variations are driven by the Sun
From the University of Copenhagen – something interesting, but not really surprising. It does make me wonder though about dust and carbon soot related to Earth’s own polar ice cap.…
UAH global temperature – up .06C – not much change
UAH Global Temperature Update for August, 2012: +0.34 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for August (+0.34 °C) was up from July 2012…
Game on – NOAA's refusal of documents earns them a lawsuit
We’ll see how badly they want to protect these emails, and if they rise to Mannian UVa protection level seven. Over the last couple of days, CEI’s Chris Horner has…
Madrid 1995: Was this the Tipping Point in the Corruption of Climate Science?
Re-posted from BernieL at Enthusiasm, Scepticism & Science John Haughton writes of it under the heading: Meetings that Changed the World. He may be right but not only in the…
Stephan Lewandowsky’s slow motion Psychological Science train wreck
I’m a bit of a latecomer to this affair, as Lucia and Jo Nova took an early lead on pointing out the many problems with the survey methodology (or lack…
New easy to use reference book for El Niño and global warming
I think readers will appreciate the point by point style that this book is written in. It enables you to zero in on argument rebuttals with graphs and data. Highly…
Is the Current Global Warming a Natural Cycle?
Guest post by W. Jackson Davis and Peter Taylor We were delighted to see the paper published in Nature magazine online (August 22, 2012 issue) reporting past climate warming events…
Solar activity linked to Baltic winter severity
This paper Solar forcing on the ice winter severity index in the western Baltic region, was published yesterday in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. It suggests that the…
Sea Ice News Volume 3 number 12 – has Arctic sea ice started to turn the corner?
Nothing definitive, but interesting. The area plot above is from NANSEN. The extent plot also shows a turn:
Discovery News Category 6 hurricanes – 'batshit stupid'
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…
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day double blunder
Gee, the AGW meme seems to permeate everything these days. Here’s a place where I least expected it to show up, the venerable Astronomy Picture of the Day, one of…
Warming increases biodiversity, except when it doesn't
From the University of York news that warming increases biodiversity. Since that’s a buzzword in the biology protectors circle, you’d think they’d be happy about this. Nope. Research reveals contrasting…
A stern rebuttal to the Stern review
A member of the UK parliament, MP Peter Lilley, has written a scathing rebuttal study to the 2006 “Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change” which has been used…
Weekly Climate and Energy news Roundup
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: In God we trust; all others bring data! Motto of the Apollo Space…
Empirical Model Of The Global Mean Surface Temperature
Cooling of the Multidecadal Cyclic GMST until about 2030’s suggests La Nina conditions will dominate in the next twenty years. Guest post by Girma Orssengo, PhD IPCC’s climate model prediction…
Another failure of climate models – carbon soot warming actually far less than models predict
From Boston College another failure of climate models to capture reality has been exposed by field empiricism. The map below from NASA’s Earth Observatory will likely have to be revised…
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