I’m killing time. Right now I’m waiting for updates and downloads to complete on my office work computer, a machine that I went to great trouble to make bulletproof. For…
Month: May 2013
More 'ice free Arctic' claims – we've heard it all before
From the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, something we’ve heard before. For example this claim from 2008. Gotta love the use of props to show how climate tipping points work:…
NASA's Gavin Schmidt @ClimateOfGavin goes full emotional – rorts himself with an unsupportable claim, Gleick plays 'me too'
Tom Nelson writes: The end days of the climate hoax are upon us: Award-winning climate communicator Gavin Schmidt calls distinguished Princeton physicist Dr. William Happer and NASA moonwalker Harrison Schmitt…
Even More about Trenberth’s Missing Heat – An Eye Opening Comment by Roger Pielke Sr.
Roger Pielke Sr. was quoted in David Appell’s recent article Whither global warming? Has global warming slowed down? over at the Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media. That…
WSJ op-ed by Schmitt and Happer: In Defense of Carbon Dioxide
‘The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science’ – Dr. William Happer: The demonized chemical compound is a…
Climate models fail to ‘predict’ US droughts
Story submitted by WUWT reader “Clyde” Simulations identify past megadroughts, but at wrong times. “This would be a fine country if it only had water,” observes a settler looking at…
Long Term Tornado Trends
By Paul Homewood It seems that tornadoes, or the lack of them, are back in the news at the moment. American Meteorological Society President, Dr Marshall Shepherd, seems to think…
The curious case of rising CO2 and falling temperatures
Guest essay by Tony Brown Some readers might recall my recent article ‘The Long Slow Thaw?’ In this I reconstructed Central England temperature to 1538 from its current instrumental date…
The effectiveness of CO2 as a greenhouse gas becomes ever more marginal with greater concentration
The political target of limiting the effect of Man-made global warming to only +2⁰C can never be attained. Guest essay by Ed Hoskins According to well understood physical parameters, the…
Global warming and the Titanic II – on an epic collision course?
People send me stuff. This morning I got a note about a new study that says: Over the past decade, ice-loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has been accelerating, raising…
Michael Mann – the 'accidental' warmist
With each passing day, Dr. Mann’s Q score becomes stranger and stranger. Mark Steyn (whom Dr. Mann is suing for libel) observes an emergent phenomenon – Mann’s accidental emergence into…
Note to weepy Bill McKibben – blocking Keystone XL gets you about 0.00001°C/yr.
Keystone XL Pipeline: Examination of Scientific and Environmental Issues By Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger May 7, 2013 Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee…
NASA to fly 'green' rockets
I have to wonder if this is a good idea, what with so many other green ventures not living up to expectations, this might actually end up getting people killed…
Update on the 50 to 1 skeptic documentary video project
Topher Fields talks about some of the issues raised in this WUWT thread, as well as announcing a new participant. Watch this video:
Open Thread
I don’t normally do mid week open threads, but I’ve not found much of interest to write about tonight, and story submissions have been a dry hole lately.
@billmckibben fire season hype extinguished with inconvenient data
The problem with emotional people like Bill McKibben, is that they seldom delve beyond headlines and live in a world of imaginary constructs that fit their expectation. In this case,…
Solar cycle update – sun's magnetic activity still in a slump
Despite some small upticks on sunspot and 10.7cm radio activity, the magentic activity of the sun is still bumping along the bottom. A slight uptick was seen in sunspot count.…
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