An old tale tells that swindlers sold a gullible emperor thin air, under the guise it were a suit of clothes invisible only to the profoundly stupid. None dared publicly…
Month: April 2014
Nature fights poison with carbon dioxide
‘Evil’ carbon dioxide saves plants from another poison. Consider that the next time you eat a piece of fruit. From Saint Mary’s University Taming a poison: Saving plants from cyanide…
Neukom's Science By Proxy
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at Climate Audit, Steve McIntyre is engaged in the slow public defenestration of the latest multi-proxy extravapalooza, a gem of a paper yclept “Inter-hemispheric…
A stunning revelation from a UWA Vice Chancellor Paul Johnson over access to Lewandowsky's poll data
This post will be a top sticky post for a day, new stories will appear below this one. While this issue was covered previously on Climate Audit, I thought this…
July 1912 GISS Anomaly (-0.47) Was Warmer Than January 2007 GISS Anomaly (+0.94) – (Now Includes February Data)
Image Credit: The above graphic was sourced from this article by John Kehr on his blog The Inconvenient Skeptic, and he also authored this interesting article on WUWT. Guest Post…
‘Nobody Really Knows What’s Happening With Climate Change. They’re Just Guessing’
The IPCC Just Agreed With Nigel Lawson Nigel Lawson was right after all. Ever since the Centre for Policy Studies lecture in 2006 that launched the former chancellor on his…
Sea Ice News – Volume 5 Number 1 – multiyear ice on the rise
Multi-year Arctic ice posts a large gain, peak ice occurred later this year. Antarctica had fourth highest minimum. From NSIDC: Arctic sea ice at fifth lowest annual maximum Arctic sea…
Low brow PR antics from 'Skeptical Science' disguised as an April Fools joke
We mentioned before how we thought John Cook’s Hiroshima bomb global warming comparator sidebar widget for websites was ridiculous propaganda. True to form, yesterday the SkS Kidz tried to elevate…
An Inconvenient Sequel- more climate Gore from Hollywood ?
Movie sequels almost never do as well as the original, and given the sort of public opinion we are seeing about global warming/climate change/climate disruption, this idea for a sequel…
Why models can't predict climate accurately
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Dr Gavin Cawley, a computer modeler the University of East Anglia, who posts as “dikranmarsupial”, is uncomfortable with my regular feature articles here at WUWT…
AMO, NAO, and Correlation
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a new paper over at IOP called “Forcing of the wintertime atmospheric circulation by the multidecadal fluctuations of the North Atlantic ocean”, by Y Peings…
The big list of failed climate predictions
Reader “Sasha” responding to Jeff Alberts in comments provided a large list that I thought was worth sharing. Submitted on 2014/04/02 at 8:37 am The question wasn’t “what do people…
What the IPCC left out: the benefits of global warming
It needs catastrophe scenarios to sell their ideas By Rupert Darwall (writing at NRO) With the clock ticking toward December 2015 and the last chance to conclude a global treaty…
Quote of the week, McKibben calls for a 'climate strike' while an MSNBC poll goes horribly wrong
Weepy Bill McKibben is fed up, because he says nobody is listening to the climate sirens any more. He says in an MSNBC editorial published on Tuesday April 1st, that…
Lewandowsky’s Peer Reviewer Makes Things Up
Guest essay by Brandon Schollenberger As most people reading this blog know, a paper by Stephan Lewandowsky, Recursive Fury, was recently retracted. This is a big deal as scientific papers…
Global Warming, er, Climate Change is omnipotent – it has now destroyed April Fools Day
Dr. Roy Spencer has found something quite stunning. Global Warming is Destroying April Fools Day He writes: For the last few days I’ve been trying to think of some crazy,…
It's official – Chicago experienced the coldest four months ever on record
An over a century-old record falls. The average temperature for December 2013 to March 2014 period in Chicago was only 22.0°F, 10 degrees below freezing, beating the old record set…
Simulation in the 'Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy' provides new insight into best arrangement of wind turbines on large installations
From the Wind energy: On the grid, off the checkerboard WASHINGTON D.C., April 1, 2014 — As wind farms grow in importance across the globe as sources of clean, renewable…
LA Times Tony Barboza gets caught fear mongering the IPCC report, becomes first victim of facts that don't agree with claims
This sentence… “One of the panel’s most striking new conclusions is that rising temperatures are already depressing crop yields, including those of corn and wheat. In the coming decades, farmers…
Claim: NSIDC, NASA Say Arctic Melt Season Lengthening, Ocean Rapidly Warming
Video follows. The length of the melt season for Arctic sea ice is growing by several days each decade, and an earlier start to the melt season is allowing the…
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