A mystery for you. This weekend (weather permitting) Willis and I will be visiting the location of this weather station in the USA. Can you guess where it is? I…
Day: May 22, 2014
Interesting graph – Fraction of the Globe in Drought: 1982-2012
Unless my eyes deceive me, it looks like there is no net change in global drought area for 30 years. The graph shows the proportion of the planet in drought,…
An Open Letter puts the University of Queensland in a dilemma over John Cook's '97% consensus' paper
Rud Istvan, sends this open letter along for publication and writes: This puts UQ on the horns of a terrible dilemma. The preferred political response is always to sweep such a…
Analysis: What the World Needs Now is a Lot Less Poverty
What is “the biggest single barrier to improving societal resilience to the vagaries of climate.”? In a News & Analysis item recently published in Science, Kintisch (2014) discusses the most…
Unsettled science: New study challenges the consensus on CO2 regulation – modeled CO2 projections exaggerated
I’m really quite surprised to find this paper in Nature, especially when it makes claims so counter to the consensus that model projections are essentially a map of the future…
Lennart Bengtsson speaks on the GWPF and furor over his bullying by his climate science peers
Bishop Hill notes: “Swedish website Uppsalainitiativet has managed to get a guest post from Lennart Bengtsson in which he examines the recent furore over his brief involvement with GWPF and…
NOAA predicts near-normal or below-normal 2014 Atlantic hurricane season
From NOAA: El Niño expected to develop and suppress the number and intensity of tropical cyclones In its 2014 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued today, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is…
An oldie but goodie from Josh – still valid today
Given what has transpired in the last couple of weeks with ‘John Cook’s 97% consensus’ and the revelations about his data, and the University of Queensland invoking the Streisand effect…
A new push to get farmers in Europe worried about warming
Stanford research shows importance of European farmers adapting to climate change New Stanford research reveals that farmers in Europe will see crop yields affected as global temperatures rise, but that…
Global warming might make less biting, itching, scratching
From the University of Montreal , something that might actually be a good thing if true. If warmer temperatures make mostly male insects, then this might also apply to mosquitoes,…
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