Remember these stories? Al Gore’s “Reality Minions” think the North Pole is melting – except that’s NOT a photo of the North Pole and Follow up: the bogus ‘North Pole…
Month: August 2013
Al Gore makes a Category 6 level blunder
UPDATE: 8/23/13 1:00PM PDT Its seems there’s blunders to go around. The Washington Post now says they “misquoted” Gore. Given his penchant for saying and doing dumb things in the…
Hindcasting climate shifts in the Pacific
From the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) The potential for successful climate predictions Hindcast experiments capture long-term climate fluctuations Will there be rather warm or cold winters in…
How global warming research is like pot research
While pro-warming political pundits like to demonize climate skeptic research by comparing it to that of tobacco company research and marketing, it seems there is a parallel between the story…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for August 22nd, 2013
I don’t think that headline means what they think it means: Separating Science From Spin on the Global-Warming ‘Pause’ What’s causing a temporary slowdown in planetary warming, and why should…
Double the Burn Rate, Scotty!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Lots of folks claim that the worst possible thing we could do is to allow the third world to actually develop to the level of…
Al Gore compares climate skeptics to anti abolitionists, racists, homophobes, and alcoholic families
UPDATE: I missed this in the interview, since it wasn’t in the publicist release, it would be a shame not to highlight it. Would there be hurricanes and floods and…
Hump Day Hilarity: Great moments in planet saving energy engineering
British fracking protestor Prajna has it all figured out. Tom Wilson interviewed this guy at the fracking protest in Balcombe England. A cartoon from Josh follows. Prajna Have you protested…
IPCC throws Mann's Hockey Stick under the bus?
While the media circulates the talking points pre-release “leaked draft” of IPCC’s AR5 amongst themselves, there are a few nuggets of interest coming out here and there we can write…
Stalking the Rogue Hotspot
[I’m making this excellent essay a top sticky post for a day or two, I urge sharing it far and wide. New stories will appear below this one. – Anthony]…
National Geographic’s Junk Science: How long will it take for sea level rise to reach midway up the Statue of Liberty?
Assuming that it can actually get there? Today on the WUWT Hot Sheet, we reported that there was more fear-mongering imagery from National Geographic, as seen at right. Steve Wilent…
When somebody hits you with that new 'IPCC is 95% certain' talking point on global warming, show them this
People send me stuff. The IPCC has announced (via a “leak” campaign only to selected media outlets, such as Reuters, NYT, WaPo) that they are now 95% certain. From Reuters:…
Quote of the week …about that 97% consensus
For those that have heard about that claimed “97% consensus” on global warming from John Cook and the SkS Kidz, here is a thought from the oldie but goodie department:
A new paper pushes back on the 'Arctic amplification is making extreme weather' idea
There has been much worry that extreme weather is the result of changes in the Arctic. For example: Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University, 25 January 2012. The “Arctic Paradox” was coined…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for August 20th, 2013
Bill McKibben thinks Al Gore has been ‘diminished’ by skeptics: We actually had a charismatic leader in Al Gore, but he was almost the exception that proved the rule.
IPCC caught out with an old, known, and uncorrected error pending their new AR5 report
UPDATE: 11:15AM PDT 8/20/13 The IPCC reads WUWT, and directly responds below – Anthony Spot the error. The IPCC can’t. Story submitted to WUWT by Tony Thomas Leaked reports of…
Shocker: Global warming may simply be an artifact of clean air laws
Pollution controls have contributed to a more transparent atmosphere, thus allowing for “…a staggering increase in surface solar radiation of the order of ∼20% over the last decade.” A new…
Oh Mann! Climate baiter Mann claims he is a 'baitee'
Oh, this is rich. via Junkscience.com, Mann claimed he was “baited” into filing a lawsuit. Satirical cartoon from Cartoonsbyjosh.com Michael Mann filed three briefs last week in the ongoing defamation…
2013 is a record low year for U.S. tornadoes
While many climate alarmists still try to tell us that global warming will increase tornadoes, we are in the middle of a tornado drought, and well below normal. Normally we’d…
Paper suggests a decrease of tropical cyclones ahead
More inconvenient results for Al Gore and the mouthpiece of “Forecast the Facts” Brad Johnson who like to claim that tropical storms will increase due to global warming. A paper…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2013-08-17 (August 17, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project
Sea Ice News Volume 4 number 4 – The Maslowski Countdown to an 'ice-free Arctic' begins
A grand experiment is being conducted in the Arctic this year that may not only falsify a prediction made in 2007, but may also further distance a connection between Arctic…
Monthly Averages, Anomalies, and Uncertainties
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I have long suspected a theoretical error in the way that some climate scientists estimate the uncertainty in anomaly data. I think that I’ve found…
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