Before alarmists like Bill McKibben and Joe Romm start caterwauling about the tornadoes in the south yesterday as being a signature of “global warming”, I caution them not to make…
Month: December 2012
Kerry as Secretary of State: Global warming first, world hunger, disease, and nuclear arms second
Guest post by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times With barely a whimper from the media, John Kerry is President Obama’s official nominee for Secretary of State. Mr.…
Bethlehem and the rat-hole problem
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley In the closing minutes of the final plenary of the U.N.’s Doha climate summit, when no one else had anything further to add, I spent…
Sailing On The Moon Wind
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I grew up on a remote cattle ranch surrounded by miles of forest, far from street lights. The nights were large and silent and very…
Some Christmas gift notes for Dr. Michael Mann
As reported this past weekend, we had a hilarious case of Mann overboard! Since then, it has become the #1 story on WordPress worldwide. It stems from a $10 calendar…
Scientists Report Faster Warming in Antarctica
Photo Credit: NC State From the New York Times: West Antarctica has warmed much more than scientists had thought over the last half century, new research suggests, an ominous finding…
IPCC AR5 Chapter 11 – Maintaining the Spin
Guest post by David M. Hoffer In my first article on the leaked AR5 Chapter 11 draft, I focused on the extraordinary lengths to which the IPCC has gone to…
Beyond bizarre: University of Graz music professor calls for skeptic death sentences
[Update, Parncutt has pulled his page, the webcite link still works, 1:00 am PDT 12/24/12 ~mod] UPDATE2: 9AM PST 1/24 The Parncutt page now gets a 404 “file not found”…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2012-12-22 (December 22, 2012) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “Is this what science has…
IPCC Chapter 11 – Bankruptcy Protection
Guest post by David M. Hoffer IPCC reports AR1 through 4 were published in relative obscurity. ClimateGate and the emergence of the blogosphere as the primary forum for debate of…
The Higgs boson takes science center stage for 2012
From the American Association for the Advancement of Science the winner and many worthy runners up in science for this year. No mention of Climate/AGW. Science’s Breakthrough of the Year:…
Too Funny! I send Michael Mann a free WUWT calendar as a Christmas gift, and he goes full conspiracy theory
Some days, you just have to laugh. As WUWT readers know, we’ve had the Josh 2013 Skeptic Calendar done independently in the UK via Bishop Hill, and of course we…
Stupidest global warming/climate change story of the past decade
While Matt Ridley makes mincemeat of über alarmist Joe Romm’s latest ridiculous claims, I started doing a search for stories to do a “year in review” for such things. I…
Joe Romm demonstrates himself to be an angry know-nothing in his attack on Matt Ridley’s WSJ essay – Ridley responds
Guest post by Matt Ridley Joe Romm of ThinkProgress described my Wall Street Journal op-ed as: riddled with basic math and science errors Yet he fails to find a single…
Friday Holiday Funny: The Twelve Days of Climategate
Concept and wording by Anthony, art and prose tweaking by Josh of CartoonsByJosh.com (be sure to visit his tip jar) As sung to the tune of The Twelve Days of…
NOAA Mixing Their Niños
Guest post by Paul Homewood In their attempts to disguise the fact that 2012 will likely turn out to be one of the colder years this century, NOAA have made…
Haigh Anxiety: a psycho-comedy of errors
Guest post by Alec Rawls In an interview with NewScientist magazine, Imperial College professor of atmospheric physics Joanna Haigh scoffs at the idea that late 20th century warming could have…
A link between climate, ice melt, and volcanic eruptions is found
When the ice melts, the Earth spews fire GEOMAR researchers discover a link between climate and volcanic eruptions It has long been known that volcanic activity can cause short-term variations…
El Niño-Southern Oscillation Myth 3: ENSO Has No Trend and Cannot Contribute to Long-Term Warming
Guest post by Bob Tisdale This is the 3rd part of a series of posts that present myths and misunderstandings about the tropical Pacific processes that herald themselves during El…
Climate sensitivity low, alarmist sensitivity high
Reactions are coming in worldwide worldwide to figure 1.4 of the IPCC AR4 draft report. and the revelation that climate sensitivity is lower by aerosol analysis than the IPCC officially…
Keep doing that and you'll go blind
Statistical failure of A Population-Based Case–Control Study of Extreme Summer Temperature and Birth Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The story of how global warming causes congenital cataracts in newborns babies…
An animated analysis of the IPCC AR5 graph shows 'IPCC analysis methodology and computer models are seriously flawed'
This post made me think of this poem, The Arrow and the Song. The arrows are the forecasts, and the song is the IPCC report – Anthony I shot an arrow…
Why doesn't the AR5 SOD's climate sensitivity range reflect its new aerosol estimates?
This article is a detailed complement to Matt Ridley’s Op-Ed today in the Wall Street Journal: Cooling Down the Fears of Climate Change Evidence points to a further rise of…
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