Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University Global warming theory predicts that rising levels of CO2 will gradually warm the air and…
Day: July 22, 2013
The Day the Earth Smiled – stunning photo from Saturn by Cassini spacecraft
From NASA: In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in…
Nighttime heat waves on the increase in Pacific NW
More examples of the nighttime heat sink effect of UHI. Asphalt, concrete, bricks and other infrastructure holds the energy from daytime solar insolation and releases it at night as LWIR.…
Dana Nuccitelli's 'vested interest' ? – oil and gas
As a skeptic of AGW, I and many of my peers are often subjected to scrutiny and accusations of being in the employ of “big oil”. It’s a standard line…
Paul Ehrlich wrong again: World Cereal Production Set To Reach Historic High
There’s a surging current of alarm that we’re headed for a food doomsday by 2050—that the world’s food-producing capacity will crash before population peaks at 10 billion. Don’t you believe…
Why the NOAA Global Temperature Product Doesn’t Comply With WMO Standards
The opening paragraph of NOAA’s press release NCDC Releases June 2013 Global Climate Report begins with alarmist statistics and an error (my boldface): According to NOAA scientists, the globally averaged…
A low-sensitivity climate model that outperforms the Met Office's HADGEM2
Climate sensitivity is IMHO, the most important unresolved issue in climate science. A number of recent papers, including the IPCC AR5 leak, plus the recent Economist leak of a later…
Stoat – unhinged
William Connolley, aka the wiki warrior of climate, runs a blog called “Stoat” under the National Geographic brand. In his latest episode rant, he is complaining about his personal perception…
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