Image Credit: Cryosphere Today – University of Illinois – Polar Research Group By WUWT Regular Just The Facts For those beating the “imminent Arctic ice death spiral” drum, 2013 has…
Month: October 2013
We Must Get Rid of the Carboniferous Warm Period
Guest essay by Phillip Mulholland Late Carboniferous to Early Permian time (315 mya — 270 mya) is the only time period in the last 600 million years when both atmospheric…
Evidence that Clouds Actively Regulate the Temperature
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I have put forth the idea for some time now that one of the main climate thermoregulatory mechanisms is a temperature-controlled sharp increase in albedo…
Crash boom bang
The smart money is starting to abandon the CO2 vessel Guest essay by Fred F. Mueller The IPCC and its supporters in the media, in NGO’s and in governments have…
The Cloud Radiative Effect, Take Two
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, in my last post I took a first cut at figuring the cloud radiative “feedback” from the CERES dataset. However, an alert commenter pointed…
Norway's wheat production impacted by Climate Change
Guest essay by David Archibald A correspondent in Oslo writes: “The official view in Norway is in contrast to what the people experience because of cooling weather: Late spring gives…
Bill McKibben's excellent eco-hypocrisy
I’ve sometimes thought Bill McKibben was little more than a do as I say not as I do type fraud, especially since he flies so much. #greensgobyair . Seems I…
IPCC Calls Off Planetary Emergency?
Guest essay by Marlo Lewis Okay, they don’t do so in as many words. But in addition to being more confident than ever (despite a 16-year pause in warming and…
Using a climate model to map global atmospheric conductivity
From the University of Colorado at Boulder CU-Boulder researchers use climate model to better understand electricity in the air Electrical currents born from thunderstorms are able to flow through the…
No Matter How the CMIP5 (IPCC AR5) Models Are Presented They Still Look Bad
UPDATE: I’ve added a comment to the end of the post about the use of 1990 as the start year. # # # After an initial look at how the…
The Great Climate Shift of 1878
Guest essay by Jeffery S. Patterson My last post on WUWT demonstrated a detection technique that allows us to de-noise the climate data and extract the various natural modes which…
The Cloud Radiative Effect (CRE)
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [UPDATE: An alert commenter, Ken Gregory, has pointed out that in addition to the temperature affecting the CRE, it is also affected by the changing…
The 2013 IPCC AR5 Report: Facts -vs- Fictions
Guest essay by Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Professor of Geology, Western Washington University Mark Twain popularized the saying “There are liars, damn liars, and statisticians.” After reading the recently-released [IPCC…
Pielke Jr. Agrees – 'Extreme weather to climate connection' is a dead issue
I wrote the day after IPCC AR5 SPM was released in Thoughts on IPCC AR5 SPM – discussion thread: ============================== On the plus side, contrary to ongoing claims from that alarmist…
UAH Global Temperature Report: September 2013 – up
While NASA GISS is offline, there’s no shutdown at UAH. From Dr. Roy Spencer: The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for September, 2013 is +0.37 deg.…
IPCC's High-impact, low-probability risk media talking points
‘Abrupt Climate Change’ may turn out to be an IPCC own goal Guest essay by Barry Brill It’s one thing to terrify the populace with apocalyptic rhetoric and images of…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Climate Boiling Point
From the James Hansen said the oceans would boil and the Tabloid Climatology™ department… As a long-suffering member of the television news media, some-days, I just want to find the…
IPCC Climate: A Product of Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics Built On Inadequate Data
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball “If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess” – Ronald Coase. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. – Anonymous.…
The IPCC flip flop on year 2100 temperature projections
Andrew Montford at Bishop Hill recently posted links to the AR5 second order draft materials and comments dated March 28th, 2013. With those available it allows us to begin constructing…
What would the IPCC have written if there had been 12 years of rapid warming?
Climatologists now require 20 to 30 years to even consider any climatic trend: Is that really honest, or is it just very convenient? Guest essay by Stephane Rogeau of France…
Dr. Kiehl's Paradox
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Back in 2007, in a paper published in GRL entitled “Twentieth century climate model response and climate sensitivity” Jeffrey Kiehl noted a curious paradox. All…
You don't want to see sausage or climate policy being made
Tom Nelson points this out – IPCC sausage-making details: Saudi Arabia cautioned against “giving policy makers the message that CO2 drives global warming” Summary of the Twelfth Session of the…
Why Climate Science is Fallible
Guest essay by Dr. David Deming We live in a scientific age. The sciences are viewed as the only real sources of authoritative information. Knowledge derived from other epistemological systems…
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