Rather than go quietly, they seem to be ramping up: UQ and climate change research 20 May 2014 The following is a statement from UQ acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and International)…
Month: May 2014
Hard vs. the Soft Sciences
Guest essay by Steven Burnett This is an essay regarding the fundamental differences between the hard and soft sciences. While I don’t emphasize climatology much in the essay, I believe…
Antarctica's ice losses on the rise – with a sanity check
From Geophysical Research Letters and the University of Leeds: Three years of observations show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year —…
AP misleads the public, again, saying man made global warming worsens wildfires
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin: Study claimed by climate fear press to support these claims addresses many contributing factors The climate fear media is at it again this time alleging…
How GISS Temperatures Are Diverging From RSS
By Paul Homewood A guest post earlier today by David Dohbro, comparing satellite and surface temperature datasets, appears to have attracted a certain amount of criticism, not least because it…
New excuse for 'the pause' – the wrong type of El Niños
I got this press release today Geophysical Research Letters: Different types of El Nino have different effects on global temperature The El Niño–Southern Oscillation is known to influence global surface…
Bengtsson and others reaction to The Times piece on the 'damaging climate view'
There’s a lot of reaction to the front page story in The Times (UK) seen at left. Here is one from the Science Media Centre where they claim “science meets…
Atmospheric Layers, The Biosphere, The Boundary Layer, Microclimate and Inadequate IPCC Models
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball During a university presentation I said the climate models do not include the Milankovitch Effect. A person challenged me saying he worked on climate…
Congratulations to Joe "Doc" D'Aleo
I’ve known about this for quite some time, but kept it mum, because as Joe wrote in an email exchange today, “Yes, I was nervous that I would get protesters…
Mann's new AMO paper: 'Had I been a reviewer, I would have pointed this out and recommended rejection. '
Mann’s new paper recharacterizing the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation A guest post by Nic Lewis Introduction Michael Mann has had a paper on the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) accepted by Geophysical…
The Climate Wars and the University of Delaware
Guest essay by Jan H. Blits May a public university manipulate a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request of a faculty member in an effort to squelch the politically incorrect side…
Scientists Respond to the Obama Administration's 2014 National Climate Assessment
The National Climate Assessment – 2014 (NCA) is a masterpiece of marketing that shows for the first time the full capabilities of the Obama Administration to spin a scientific topic…
A comparison between global surface temperature and satellite anomaly datasets
UPDATE: This post was properly criticized for being an incomplete analysis, see this update and note to readers below about why it was incomplete. Guest Essay By David Dohbro. Comparing…
The Effect of Gleissberg's "Secular Smoothing"
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach ABSTRACT: Slow Fourier Transform (SFT) periodograms reveal the strength of the cycles in the full sunspot dataset (n=314), in the sunspot cycle maxima data alone…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-17-05 (May 17, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “It is dangerous to be right…
"One Guy With A Marker …" DECONSTRUCTED
Guest Posting by Ira Glickstein John Coleman (Co-Founder of The Weather Channel) made a comment on my: earlier WUWT posting “Ira, please make a video that presents the counter argument…
Shollenberger calls Cook's and University of Queensland's legal bluff!
The 97% Thunderdome is revving up! Brandon Shollenberger has issued a direct challenge to Cook and UQ, and has published the threatening letter about that “secret” data for Cook’s “97%…
A press release I never quite finished reading
Nature Climate Change asks this: How does snow affect the amount of water in rivers? New research has shown for the first time that the amount of water flowing through…
A Queenslander's Guide to Australian Universities
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The university choices faced by my fellow Queenslanders leave much to be desired if you want to avoid being indoctrinated to global warming mantras. Here…
Ten Good Reasons Not To Worry About Polar Bears
Susan Crockford writes: This year marks the 40th anniversary of the signing of an international agreement to protect polar bears from commercial and unregulated sport hunting. The devastating decades of uncontrolled slaughter…
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