This may appear to be an awkward time to present a model-data comparison. This post will appear between two excellent post at WattsUpWithThat, both of which discuss the flaws in…
Month: June 2013
Comparing climate models – Part One
Guest Essay by Geoffrey H Sherrington ……………………………………………………….. This short note was inspired by Viscount Monckton writing on 13th June on WUWT about the leveling of global temperatures since 1997 or…
'Lewd' behavior: The pathologising of climate scepticism
ESSAY: The shoddy science of sceptic-bashing LOG12 paper by Lewandowsky attempts to turn rational criticism into a psychological illness. “As the influence of environmental thinking has increased its hold over…
Vanishing Snow: Should There Be A Law?
By Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times Last month, more than 100 ski resorts joined the Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP) Climate Declaration. The BICEP…
Hump day hilarity: Big Kahuna Warmy
From the overhyped and virtually overheated UK Met Office meeting yesterday where they tried to explain “The Pause” Telegraph blogger Sean Thomas was there and was able to get first…
Forcing The Ocean To Confess
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach According to the current climate paradigm, if the forcing (total downwelling energy) increases, a combination of two things happens. Some of the additional incoming energy…
A data review to supplement the UK Met Office 'Disappointing Weather Meeting'
A graphical review of 14.5 years disappointing UK weather Guest essay by Neil Catto A meeting today (18th March 2013) took place at the UK Met Office HQ in Exeter.…
Two years to a 1740-type event?
Guest essay by David Archibald Wiggle-matching has been used by the best. Hubert Lamb, considered to be the most meticulous climatologist of all time, used wiggle-matching in this wind data…
The “ensemble” of models is completely meaningless, statistically
This comment from rgbatduke, who is Robert G. Brown at the Duke University Physics Department on the No significant warming for 17 years 4 months thread. It has gained quite a bit…
Quite possibly the dumbest example of 'Tabloid Climatology' ever from Climate Central's Andrew Freedman
Andrew Freedman writes in this Tabloid Climatology™ piece at Climate Central: When Hurricane Sandy struck New York City on October 29, 2012, the dark waters of Flushing Bay poured over…
Dammed if you do, Dammed if you don't
Yes, the headline is purposely that way. From Oregon State University: Dam construction to reduce greenhouse gases causes ecosystem disruption CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers conclude in a new report that…
On Muller et al (2013) “Decadal variations in the global atmospheric land temperatures”
I received an email yesterday morning advising me that Muller et al (2013) had been published. (Thanks, Marc.) The title of the paper is “Decadal variations in the global atmospheric…
New paper by Ross McKitrick – 'temperature data strongly affected by local population growth'
Ross McKitrick writes: I give a demonstration of why the Parker and BEST analyses don’t disprove the evidence of contamination of temperature data, and outline what it would likely take…
It appears that by UN sponsored vote, the world just doesn't care much about climate change
Hilary Ostrov writes about another Internet poll gone horribly wrong: ============================================================== Back in March of this year, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced an “innovative initiative” in which participants…
ERL rejects Richard Tol's comment on Cook et al 2013, but won't say who rejected it
Also, it appears the opinion of ONE board member is all it takes, so much for consensus. Richard Toll provides this communication:
Remember that 'unprecedented' Greenland ice sheet surface melt that was allegedly caused by global warming? Never mind
We covered this extensively at WUWT last summer, including the “unprecedented claim” where a researcher said it was a recurring 150 year event that was ‘right on time‘. It turns…
Carbon sequestration driver: Spiders, why did it have to be spiders?
From the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies New study shows predators affect the carbon cycle A new study shows that the predator-prey relationship can affect the flow of…
NOAA GOES-13 satellite becomes first ever to recover from a micrometeoroid impact
I had been watching this, as my own weather imaging business was affected by it, and I wanted to wait to see if the fix held before writing about it.…
Essay: carbon footprint as 'original sin'
This essay appears today in The Chronicle Review and it makes an interesting claim: What is the carbon footprint, after all, if not the gaseous equivalent of Original Sin, the…
Global cooling as significant as global warming
From Newcastle University Global cooling as significant as global warming A “cold snap” 116 million years ago triggered a similar marine ecosystem crisis to those witnessed in the past as…
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