Guest essay by Joe Born Is the Bern Model non-physical? Maybe, but not because it requires the atmosphere to partition its carbon content non-physically. A Bern Model for the response…
Year: 2013
Mechanical Models
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [NOTE the update at the end of the post.] I’ve continued my peregrinations following the spoor of the global climate model data cited in my…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2013-11-30 (November 30, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: Even then [18th century] it…
New emotification of global warming: selling the sizzle of melting glaciers
From the American Institute of Physics, some research they lament doesn’t carry “the same emotional wallop as images” related to “climate trends”. Oh, darn. Maybe they need to link up…
The Josh-WUWT 2014 Climate Skeptics Calendar is now available
Here is your chance again to join “Josh of the Month Club”. Samples follow.
Zombie comet ISON dies again
We discussed the ISON ISOFF again nature of comet ISON in this WUWT thread, now it looks like ISOFF again. From NASA’s Spaceweather.com (h/t Fernando): Comet ISON is fading fast…
Schellnhuber hits the wall of reality: full stop
Pierre Gosselin writes: Europe Climate Policy Blows Engine…”Giant Failure” … Scientists “Failed Tricking Their Way Past Democracy” …”Mood Of Resignation” Good news! This is about one of the most damning…
Climate, Stadium Waves, and Traffic Waves
In a recent paper, Marcia Wyatt and Judith Curry posited about “Stadium Waves” and climate, suggesting that the ‘stadium-wave’ signal propagates like the cheer known as “the wave” at sporting events…
How a lay climate skeptic's view can count on global warming
Putting Sir Isaac Newton on the right path Short story by Christopher Bowring When lay global warming skeptics point out to alarmists that the recent seventeen year period of steady…
Study: lack of cloud physics biased climate models high
The Hockey Schtick brings this to our attention. It seems Dr. Roy Spencer was prescient with his observation: “The most obvious way for warming to be caused naturally is for…
Friday Funny – Sekrit Kidz Science
Today’s Friday Funny from Josh is a double feature with the SkS kidz and the Royal Society, who seem to be acting like the kids when they demanded a secret…
The Important Difference between Climatology and Climate Science
Why did the Royal Society need secret meetings? Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Recent events underscore problems with understanding climate and how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…
On personal and professional weather stations
Please allow me a bit of self indulgence here. As some of you may know, the technology of measuring and displaying weather is my specialty. I operate a business in…
The Guardian's 'ursus bogus' moment
Dr. Susan Crockford writes: Regarding: Science self-corrects: bogus study claiming Roundup tolerant GMO corn causes cancer to be retracted This ratty story reminds me of the polar bear incident I just…
Comet ISON appears to be toast – goes "poof" in video, then comes back to life
Note: See updates below for the ISON ISOFF ISON nature of this comet that has everybody guessing. Picture at right also updated to reflect the new “zombie” status of this…
Science self-corrects: bogus study claiming Roundup tolerant GMO corn causes cancer to be retracted
Whoo boy. This sounds like a familiar climate episode. Andrew Revkin tips me to this retraction of a paper that got screaming headlines worldwide, and says this along with the…
New paper: climate models short on 'physics required for realistic simulation of the Earth system'
I’m pleased to have had a chance to to review this new paper just published in the Journal of Climate: An Evaluation of Decadal Probability Forecasts from State-of-the-Art Climate Models…
Lakes discovered beneath Greenland ice sheet
From the University of Cambridge The subglacial lakes are the first to be identified in Greenland The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, discovered two subglacial lakes 800 metres below…
A call to action – give #ClimateThanks
Another Internet campaign that could go horribly wrong… Tom Nelson advises me that the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications decided to prod readers into giving “Climate Thanks” this Thanksgiving…
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