Josh writes: Bob Ward’s tweets today have been a revelation – historic even – see the Bish’s post here. Happily they have coincided with a couple of Antarctic stories that…
Month: May 2014
What caused a 1300 year deep freeze 12,800 years ago? New PNAS paper says it wasn't an impact
About 12,800 years ago, the last Ice Age was coming to an end, the planet was warming up. Then, inexplicably, the planet plunged into a deep freeze, returning to near-glacial…
Over two decades of failure in climate talks – maybe it is just time to give up instead of trying game theory?
How climate talks can be more successful May 12, 2014 by Angela Herring, Northeastern University For more than two decades, members of the United Nations have sought to forge an…
National Climate Assessment – a flash in the pan
It seems the mainstream media has a short attention span…
The world's only climate refugee is denied status
Kiribati man loses his appeal for ‘climate refugee’ status in New Zealand Submitted by Eric Worrall While predictions of millions of climate refugees have been rather wide of the mark,…
What film to recommend in fifth grade class to counter climate alarmism?
This request came in from WUWT reader Michael, who’s concerned that “My daughter’s fifth grade class is currently being indoctrinated regarding “human caused” climate change.” and he wants to know…
The Guardian's Suzanne Goldenberg jumps the shark again – gets called out by NYT
The wailing today is that the collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet has already begun. It’s pretty bad when other environmental reporters start calling you out on it, such as…
Antarctic Sea Ice At Record Levels
From The Australian, 12 May 2014 Graham Lloyd Antarctic sea ice has expanded to record levels for April, increasing by more than 110,000sq km a day last month to nine…
Claim: Climate change may worsen summertime ozone pollution
From the National Science Foundation: Americans face 70 percent increase in unhealthy ozone levels by 2050 Ozone pollution across the continental U.S. will become worse as global temperatures rise. Credit…
A baseless Mann UVa email – claims by Mann spliced and diced
Richard S. Courtney writes in comments on the Mann and misrepresentations thread… Anthony: In the same week as MBH98 was published I wrote an email on the ‘ClimateSkeptics’ circulation list.…
Claim: 'The Southern Ocean winds are now stronger than at any other time in the past 1,000 years,' CO2 blamed
From the Australian National University and the department of “claim anything” comes this reversal over what was said two years ago about Antarctica: “If this rapid warming that we are…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-10-05 (May 10, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “In war-time, truth is so…
Manmade 'climate disruption' – the hype and reality
Distractions, agendas, false realities, and policies that bring much harm but few benefits Guest essay by Paul Driessen The White House has released its latest National Climate Assessment. An 829-page…
Tol creates new IPCC wiki – anyone can take part
Dr. Richard Tol writes: One of the ideas that came out of the AR4 debacle was to create an IPCC wiki: Put the entire report online for people to comment…
FT: 'No one trusts Washington on climate change'
The 841-page National Climate Assessment released by the US government last week has been described as “sobering”, but Americans do not appear sobered. Story submitted by Eric Worrall The Financial…
The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 8 – The Southern Oscillation Indices
The Southern Oscillation Index has been mentioned often in comments at WattsUpWithThat, in this series of blog posts about the upcoming El Niño. Curiously, Australia’s BOM Southern Oscillation Index for…
Open Thread Weekend – Mann Overboard! Edition
I’m traveling today, so an open thread seems useful. Some topics might be:
John Cook's 97% consensus claim is about to go 'pear-shaped'
pear shaped (slang) A British expression used to indicate that something has gone horribly wrong with a person’s plans, most commonly in the phrase “It’s all gone pear shaped.”The OED…
Spiking temperatures in the USHCN – an artifact of late data reporting
Correcting and Calculating the Size of Adjustments in the USHCN By Anthony Watts and Zeke Hausfather A recent WUWT post included a figure which showed the difference between raw and…
Melting by 2035? Hardly! New study shows most Himalayan Glaciers are stable and in a steady state
WUWT readers may recall that the IPCC famously claimed (using fake data) that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. That date later turned out to be a blunder of epic…
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