National Climate Assessment report: Alarmists offer untrue, unrelenting doom and gloom

Marlo Lewis writes at Fox News about the National Climate Assessment: (cue funeral dirge music) Tuesday the U.S. Government’s Global Change Research Program released its latest “National Assessment” report on…

UAH Global Temperature Report: April 2014 – still no significant change in temperature

From Philip Gentry at UAH  April temperatures (preliminary)

I've been waiting for this statement, and the National Climate Assessment has helpfully provided it

The National Climate Assessment report denies that siting and adjustments to the national temperature record has anything to do with increasing temperature trends. Note the newest hockey stick below.

'Years of Living Dangerously': Pastor Rick Joyner Models Feynman's Ideal Scientist!

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University Richard Feynman idealized the good scientist as someone who displays “a kind of scientific integrity,…

Quotes of the Week: Some early comments on the National Climate Assesment report

I had to laugh at this one, because well, it is soooo typical of Joe Romm and the Center for American Progress, which subsists on a daily diet of gloom…

Some advance copy on the National Climate Assessment Report

I’ve been able to obtain some highlights and findings in advance of release of the full report which is expected later today. It seems the only facet of severe weather…

Claim: Climate change threatens to worsen U.S. ozone pollution

From UCAR:  BOULDER—Ozone pollution across the continental United States will become far more difficult to keep in check as temperatures rise, according to new research led by the National Center…

Significant Arctic Sea Ice Story a Possibility This Year

Joe Bastardi writes on the Patriot Post: There is a huge event being forecasted this year by the CFSV2, and I don’t know if anyone else is mentioning this. For…

Monday Mirthiness – The Science News Cycle

After all the rubbish coming out of Washington today on climate, we all need a laugh. This cartoon was intended to illustrate general science reporting, but works just as well…

What the National Climate Assessment Doesn’t Tell You

By PAUL C. “CHIP” KNAPPENBERGER and PATRICK J. MICHAELS The Obama Administration this week is set to release the latest version of the National Climate Assessment—a report which is supposed to detail the…

How not to measure temperature part 95 – New temperature record of 102° in Wichita, but look where they measure it

Over at Weather Underground, they are all excited about a new monthly high temperature record. Christopher Burt writes: Wichita, Kansas Measures May Monthly High Temperature of 102° On Sunday, May…

Claim: 'Emitting greenhouse-gases could start uncontrollable ice-melt'

From the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), home of Schnellenhuber. Uncorking East Antarctica yields unstoppable sea-level rise The melting of a rather small ice volume on East Antarctica’s…

'Houston, we have a dumbass problem'

I’m truly sorry about the title, but nothing else really describes the ridiculousness of the pronouncement by the White House aide John Podesta over these two satellite images in a…

Surprise! Global warming is 'spatially and temporally non-uniform'

From Florida State University New study sheds light on global warming trends TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — New research by a team of Florida State University scientists shows the first detailed look…

The IPCC And Proprietary Rights – Does The Law Trump Justice?

Nothing is so burdensome as a secret. French proverb Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Attempts to get critical information from agents of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was: 2014-05-03 (May 3, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: On what principle is it…

Weekend Open Thread and Poll

I’m busy with other things today, so an open thread is called for. I’m also asking readers to consider a question.

Subaqueous volcanism: ocean vents and faulty climate models

WUWT reader Pethefin writes: Finally someone addresses the really big elephant in the room: the ocean vents and their role in climate modelling: I covered this possibility in a previous…

A Different Perspective of Global Warming

I was preparing a few graphs for a chapter of my upcoming book (current working title An Illustrated Guide to Global Warming and Skepticism), and I thought readers here would…

The Slow Fourier Transform (SFT)

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach While investigating the question of cycles in climate datasets (Part 1, Part 2), I invented a method I called “sinusoidal periodicity”. What I did was…