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:…
Month: August 2013
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…
My presentation at Doctors for Disaster Preparedness
From July 13th 2013 in Houston. I was invited to give a presentation, and I adapted Dr. Matt Ridley’s excellent essay: A Lukewarmer’s Ten Tests and added supporting graphs and…
IPCC's Pachauri channels Al Gore
People send me stuff. Here is slide 1 of a recent presentation in Finland by Rajenda Pachauri, head of the IPCC. I’ve added Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth for comparison. What…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for August 17th, 2013
Cook's latest data release casts further doubts on his consensus paper http://t.co/MV4KaihOYB — Richard Tol (@RichardTol) August 17, 2013 ============================================================= Fox News Channel features Climate Depot on Obama’s bypass of…
Has Google seen the light?
by David Archibald Google’s motto is “Don’t be evil”. Well, a couple of years ago Google had sided with the forces of darkness in the global warming battle – a…
The IPCC's new certainty is 95% What? Not 97%??
Just 2% short of the magic 97% number, I’m sure the SkS kidz will be devastated. From Reuters: Drafts seen by Reuters of the study by the U.N. panel of…
NOAA's claim on El Reno tornado may not hold up
Tornado Widths– NOAA Makes Changes In Procedure By Paul Homewood NOAA have claimed that the El Reno tornado, in Oklahoma in May, was the widest tornado on record. As I…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for August 16th, 2013
Who needs a constitution or congress when you alone know what’s good for the American people? New EPA boss promises dictatorial action on global warming While speaking at the University…
Historic variations in temperature number Four-The Hockey stick
Guest essay by Tony Brown Section 1 Summary of a previous article; A short while ago I published an article on ‘Noticeable climate change’ during the past 500 years, based…
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