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…
Month: May 2014
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…
The ocean ate my global warming
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Willie Soon sends me a fascinating paper by Beenstock et al. on sea-level rise. Beenstock, famous for taking a down-to-earth approach to climate issues, asked…
Gavin's TED talk – climate model sensitivity training
Love him or hate him, it is worthwhile to understand where he is coming from, so I present this video: The emergent patterns of climate change According to TED: You…
NOAA Expert: Lake Superior may have ice in June
Submitted by Eric Worrall George Leshkevich, a NOAA expert on Great Lakes ice, suggested in an interview that he wouldn’t be surprised if there was ice on Lake Superior in…
Claim: U.S. corn yields are increasingly vulnerable to hot, dry weather – Data: corn yield trend positive
While a recent report tells us current droughts in the western USA hardly make the top ten, we have this from Stanford University, a claim about drought related crop insurance…
Watch Earth from orbit – LIVE stream
The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) was activated April 30, 2014. It is mounted on the External Payload Facility of the European Space…
Climate change causes severe weather? 2014 tornado count about half of normal
Despite claims of “severe weather is increasing”, and even after several days of tornado activity in the Midwest and the South, 2014 is still below normal compared to recent years…
How Would A Super El Niño Affect RSS in 2014? (Now Includes March Data)
Image Credit: WoodForTrees.org Guest Post By Werner Brozek, Edited By Just The Facts I will attempt to answer the question in the title from two different perspectives. First of all,…
Study: 'worst drought of this century barely makes the top 10 '
From Brigham Young University: Tree rings reveal nightmare droughts in the West If you think the 1930s drought that caused The Dust Bowl was rough, new research looking at tree…
ISEE-3 Reboot Project Technical Update and Discussion
By Dennis Wingo This update comes 18 days after we started our Rockethub (http://rkthb.co/42228) project to raise $125k to allow us to attempt to contact, evaluate, and command the International…
Friday Funny – 'industrial strength skeptic in a can'
Josh writes: Victor Venema’s comment the other day about needing 30 alarmists posts to balance out a Curry post rang true – skeptic arguments are that good!
The Sea Level Cycles Get More Elusive
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my last post on the purported existence of the elusive ~60-year cycle in sea levels as claimed in the recent paper “Is there a 60-year…
Nigel Lawson: Cool It
Standpoint, May 2014 This essay is based on the text of a speech given to the Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment at the University of Bath. There is…
Study: weather, not climate, is a political force in May Day
Ow, my brain. Below is the actual title of a publication referenced by Springerlink. While the title seems ridiculous, there is a valid point. The paper says it is from:…
In some coastal cities, subsidence now exceeds absolute sea level rise up to a factor of ten
There is a story in the Daily Mail cited by the GWPF which talks about subsidence due to groundwater extraction. For example, North Jakarta Indonesia has sunk four meters in…
Top Ten Skeptical Arguments that Don’t Hold Water
(Note: this originally published on Dr. Spencer’s blog on April 25th, and I asked if I could reproduce it here. While I know some readers might argue the finer points…
Claim: climate change targeting wine grapes
Neiker-Tecnalia studies the effects of climate change on Tempranillo grape wines Climate change is set to affect the quality of the wines of the Tempranillo grape variety, according to the…
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