I have some important work to do today, and so I’m going to put my interaction with WUWT on hold for a bit. However, I see here an opportunity to…
Month: April 2014
My Friend Billy
(Note – I saved this for the weekend, when people who might read this would likely be more relaxed. This is not the usual fare for WUWT, but it is…
Telling ‘Noble Cause Lies’ About Climate Change Will Backfire
Essay by Tom Harris, originally published in PJMedia Over the past twenty years, we’ve been subjected to a barrage of catastrophic climate change forecasts and prophecies that would put Moses…
Holdren Is Wrong – Cold Winters Are Not Getting More Common
By Paul Homewood As WUWT points out, John Holdren is one of many who have tried to link the cold winter in the USA this year to global warming. In…
Friday Funny – climate 'cliff notes'
Josh writes: As many know I have a bit of a ‘glass half full’ opinion on the state of climate science and with the recent IPCC offerings along with activist…
The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 4 – Early Evolution – Comparison with Other Satellite-Era El Niños
In the preceding post, we looked at the evolution of the weekly sea surface temperature anomalies in two regions of the equatorial Pacific (NINO3.4 and NINO1+2), comparing the data so…
Al Gore dupes 9000 people in Hawaii, insults the rest
The story below is from from Honolulu Civil Beat, who covered a political rally on April 15th by Gore to 9000 people in Honolulu’s Stan Sheriff Center. It is a…
When Greenland was green in warmer times
From the University of Vermont Science: There’s something ancient in the icebox Researchers find 3-million-year-old landscape beneath Greenland Ice Sheet Glaciers are commonly thought to work like a belt sander.…
The Holdren 'cherry blossom vortex', Information Quality Act, and U.S. weather history
CEI is taking John Holdren to task over his “polar vortex” video. In a post today at globalwarming.org we have this: DC’s cherry trees hit their official peak blossom date…
Using Intellectual Property agreements to defeat public disclosure
Phil Jones’ plan to hide from FOIA Eric Worrall writes: Anyone shocked by Mann’s broad claims of academic exemption from freedom of information, due to the “proprietary nature” of his…
Decision in the Mann/UVa case, a blow to open science
Supreme Court of VA sides with University, secrecy, and Mann. The previously claimed destruction of Mann emails now to begin. In this appeal, we consider whether the Circuit Court of…
Not quite Friday Funny: The new Ty-D-Bol Man – a rising tide floats all, er, boats
Some WUWT readers may remember this classic TV commercial: Josh writes: It looks like Lew & crew want to continue to debate the merits of his paper. H/t and many thanks to Jo…
Lewandowsky on 'leakage'
No smear psychological categorization mission is too offbeat for Lew. Now he’s on about “leakage”. Try to stifle the images that conjures up while thinking about your choice of preventative…
Tilted planets may actually have more life favorable climate
Odd Tilts Could Make More Worlds Habitable Pivoting planets that lean one way and then change orientation within a short geological time period might be surprisingly habitable, according to new…
A Clear Example of IPCC Ideology Trumping Fact
By Paul C. Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels Center for the Study of Science, Cato Institute Within the U.S. federal government (and governments around the world), the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel…
UN IPCC AR5 report infected with fatal technical and procedural flaws
UN report’s fatal flaws destroy credibility of WGII and WGIII findings Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The UN IPCC AR5 latest climate assessment process comprising WGI, WGII and WGIII reports…
Satellite captures five volcanoes erupting at once on the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula
Remote. Cold. Rugged. Those three adjectives capture the essence of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. Another word—perhaps more applicable than anywhere else on Earth—is “fiery.” Of the roughly 1,550 volcanoes that have…
Decision expected tomorrow in Mann UVa FOIA case
At the blog “Open Virginia Law” they are discussing the Mann case and potential impacts, as a new session results will be published from the Supreme Court of Virginia, and…
More tabloid climatology: gloom and doom about the jet stream, winters, and global warming
From the University of Utah, an argument that makes you wonder “what started it 4000 years ago”? Looking at another similar study, Joltin Joe Romm called that study Bombshell: Study…
UN IPCC AR5 climate reports: Conjecture disguised as certainty
UN IPCC WG report process fails to integrate critical information Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The world has experienced over the last 15+ years a remarkable absence of increasing global…
Good news: no 'ozone hole' in the Arctic
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plugging an ozone hole MIT researchers find that the extremes in Antarctic ozone holes have not been matched in the Arctic CAMBRIDGE, Mass– Since…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Oh noes! Moths affected by 'hidden' factors of climate change
From the University of Michigan and the department of Mothra studies, comes this big let down. Even though moths are supposedly affected by climate change, “90 percent of them were…
Ditto, Tom – 'here are some things I believe'
Tom Nelson writes in a Response to Don Cheadle, some things I thought worth repeating here, because it succinctly sums up the position of many climate skeptics. =========================================================== (This post…
Quote of the week – beyond 'noble cause corruption'
A lot of popcorn is being consumed these days watching the wailing of the Lewandowsky lemming team as they furiously throw themselves over cyber-cliffs in support of a retracted paper…
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