Lake Superior sets a new record for winter ice cover, other lakes are icing up fast. Lake Superior is 92 percent frozen on the surface, breaking a 20-year-old record of…
Month: February 2014
Statistical flaws in science: p-values and false positives
To make science better, watch out for statistical flaws by Tom Siegfried First of two parts As Winston Churchill once said about democracy, it’s the worst form of government, except…
Over two-thirds of the contiguous USA covered with snow
Readers may recall our story from Dec 15th, 2013: Over half the USA covered in snow, the most in 11 years Now, it’s even more. See the map and the 3D…
Report from the Office of the Inspector General: Global Climate Change Program Data May Be Unreliable
From the “we’ve told you so time and again” department comes this agreement with my assessment of the state of the climate programs as conducted by the US Government. Readers…
The Overselling of Climate Modeling Predictability on Multi-Decadal time Scales in the 2013 IPCC WG1 Report – Annex 1 Is Not Scientifically Robust
Guest essay by Roger A. Pielke Sr. Introduction I have posted in the past how the development of multi-decadal regional climate projections (predictions) to give to policymakers and the impact…
Friday Funny – two guys with a ruler blow up the White House global warming video claims
Remember White House science advisor John Holdren’s wackadoodle video about the Polar Vortex? The opening line of the video spoken by Dr. Holdren says ” If you’ve been hearing that…
Proper Cherry Picking
Guest essay by Johannes Herbst There is a much discussed graph in the blogosphere from ‘Tamino’ (Grant Foster), which aims to prove that there is no delay or pause or…
Satellites show no global warming for 17 years 5 months
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The monthly satellite lower-troposphere temperature anomaly from Remote Sensing Systems, Inc., is now available. Taking the least-squares linear-regression trend on this dataset (the bright blue…
Stunning photo: Earth, as seen from Mars
This was just released today by NASA. It is quite a humbling image from the Mars rover Curiosity, though it’s not quite the same impact as the Blue Marble image…
Josh on the certainty of climate sensitivity
Josh writes: Are we now 95% certain? Yes, we are! Hooray! Yesterday we heard from UK climate science community about their work on AR5. The event was called “Climate Change…
Newspaper closes mind: will no longer print skeptical AGW opinions
From the newspaper SouthCoastToday.com Our View: There is no debate on climate change The “debate” over the reality and cause of climate change stopped being scientific long ago. Today, the…
Global Temperature Report: January 2014 Upper Michigan was ‘coldest’ spot on the globe in January
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decadeJanuary temperatures (preliminary)
Another hot model: Forest emissions, wildfires explain why ancient Earth was so hot
The release of volatile organic compounds from Earth’s forests and smoke from wildfires 3 million years ago had a far greater impact on global warming than ancient atmospheric levels of…
On Don Easterbrook’s Updated Projection
Don Easterbrook has updated his projection graph. Unfortunately, he did not update the graph that I complained about a few weeks ago, shown on the left in Figure 1. In…
CRU produces something useful for a change
World temperature records available via Google Earth Climate researchers at the University of East Anglia have made the world’s temperature records available via Google Earth.
Monckton: Challenge to Prince Charles
Lord Monckton invites ‘Chazza’ to spar over ‘unroyal’ global-warming remark His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, Clarence House, London. Candlemas, 2014 Your Royal Highness’ recent remarks describing those who…
Small asteroid slams into Mars, impact captured by orbiter
A reminder that the universe isn’t always friendly. A spectacular image of impact crater follows. From NASA JPL today.
Fighting the Wrong Battle: Public Persuaded About CO2 As Pollutant – Not As Cause of Warming
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Skeptics are winning the battle to reject CO2 as the only cause of warming, but losing the war to the misrepresentation of CO2 as…
Climate craziness of the week: climate change> bigger waves> fish have to swim harder
From the department of obvious science and anything to do with climate change must be bad comes this study from Australian National University: Waves costly for fish Big waves are energetically…
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