UPDATE: A cartoon from Josh drawn about a year ago has been added. See below. By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The United Kingdom Independence Party, the only climate-skeptical party in…
Month: May 2014
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-24-05 (May 24, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: The greatest enemy of knowledge is…
Can GISS And Other Data Sets Set Records in 2014? (Now Includes April Data)
Guest Post by Werner Brozek (Edited By Just The Facts) GISS and other sets are poised to set new records in 2014, even without an El Nino. The present GISS…
Monckton and Monty – dead parrot parody of IPCC
First, if you have not seen the Monty Python “dead parrot” sketch in your lifetime, before you read the satire from Christopher Monckton below, watch this video. Just click on…
'Settled science' – paper claims the Universe is static, not expanding
New evidence, based on detailed measurements of the size and brightness of hundreds of galaxies, using The Tolman test for surface brightness, indicates that the Universe is not expanding after…
My local newspaper editor lowers the boom on "climate change" as a catch-all
Thank you, David Little of the Chico Enterprise Record. Readers please note: I had nothing to do with his Sunday column opinion piece, it is as much a surprise to…
It's The Evidence, Stupid!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I hear a lot of folks give the following explanation for the vagaries of the climate, viz: It’s the sun, stupid. And in fact, when…
Open Thread Weekend
This holiday weekend, be sure to remember the U.S. Memorial Day, which is Monday. I’m offline except maybe for some time tonight and tomorrow morning.
Sea Ice News Volume 5 #2 – NOAA forecasts above normal Arctic ice extent for summer 2014
By Joe Bastardi and Anthony Watts (based on an email exchange) This is interesting. NOAA is forecasting the months of August, September, and October of 2014 to have above normal…
Steve Burnett's Hard vs. the Soft Sciences Essay; An Ongoing Debate Central To Climate
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Steve Burnett’s “Hard vs. the Soft Sciences” essay is interesting but misses the problem in studying climate and other generalist areas in an era…
Friday Funny – the scientific method
Not Josh nor Fenbeagle, but still pretty funny. I think maybe this comic was penned around the time Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth came out, which was enough to make any…
John Kerry reaches new highs of beclowning himself with temperature
I’m pretty sure he’ll blame his blathering on the heat. You have to wonder if privately, many leading climate alarmists are saying quietly “shut up John you are blowing our…
The best way to win an argument
Mike Jonas writes: The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation, UK) looks at analysis that could lead to more moderate attitudes. This BBC article provides some food for thought that is relevant…
Climate alarmists make major blunder in reporting Antarctica ice loss results
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin Total ice loss from latest study is “consistent” with, not “double” prior study measurements Numerous recent climate alarmist articles addressing the recent study results reported…
Weather station 'X'
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…
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…
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