From ScienceNordic: Researchers the world over almost unanimously agree that our climate is changing … But many farmers – at least Swedish ones – have experienced mild winters and shifting…
Month: June 2014
Bastardi: 'potential nightmare.. a tropical cyclone coming at the outer banks on the July 4 weekend'
UPDATE: Latest GFDL model output suggests Bastardi could be right, see below. UPDATE2: New information from Bastardi here shows 4th of July nightmare is shaping up to be true. The…
Claim: 'heat more than natural disasters will drive people away'
From Princeton University With climate change, heat more than natural disasters will drive people away Although scenes of people fleeing from dramatic displays of Mother Nature’s power dominate the news,…
That ocean currents switch flipping thing again
From the National Science Foundation: Press Release 14-081 Ancient ocean currents may have changed pace and intensity of ice ages Climate scientists have long tried to explain why ice-age cycles…
Quote of the week – dirty rotten scoundrels edition
Over the weekend Dr. Roger Pielke Junior let it be known on his Twitter feed that he’s had it up to his “keester” with certain climate activists, especially the ones…
IPCC Method Of Proving The 'Human Caused Warming' (AGW) Hypothesis Forced Deliberate Creation of Misinformation
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-06-28 (June 28, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “I mean, I’m not a scientist…
NOAA's temperature control knob for the past, the present, and maybe the future – July 1936 now hottest month again
Two years ago during the scorching summer of 2012, July 1936 lost its place on the leaderboard and July 2012 became the hottest month on record in the United States.…
Antarctica sets new record for sea ice area
by Harold Ambler The sea ice surrounding Antarctica, which, as I reported in my book, has been steadily increasing throughout the period of satellite measurement that began in 1979, has…
Canada pulls the plug on the U.S. Keystone Pipeline – will send oil to Asia
Approves Asia Supply Route, Ignores US Route H/T Eric Worrall and Breitbart – Obama’s inability to make a decision on Keystone has finally yielded a result – Canada has made…
Problems With The Scalpel Method
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In an insightful post at WUWT by Bob Dedekind, he talked about a problem with temperature adjustments. He pointed out that the stations are maintained,…
The scientific method is at work on the USHCN temperature data set
Temperature is such a simple finite thing. It is amazing how complex people can make it. – commenter and friend of WUWT, ossqss at Judith Curry’s blog Sometimes, you can…
Mann overboard! 'robust debate' edition
There is a great editorial in the Columbus Dispatch by Jay Amrose about the abuse of the legal system by Michael E. Mann and his legal actions to try to…
A Cool Question, Answered?
Guest essay by David Archibald A couple of years ago the question was asked “When will it start cooling?” Of course solar denialists misconstrued this innocent enquiry. There is no…
A trifecta of uncertainty: study finds global precipitation is increasing, decreasing, & not changing
This story from the Hockey Schtick is a verification of an analysis on WUWT from Bob Tisdale: No Consensus among Three Global Precipitation Datasets According to a paper published today in…
Mapping the hottest day of the year in the USA
From NOAA/NCDC, something interesting: a new map showing when to expect hottest days of the year and where. The long thin line on the west coast is interesting because that…
The Science Was Settled Enough? – from the book – Culture and Climate Change:Narratives
Guest Post by Barry Woods I was invited several months ago, to contribute to a collection of essays and narratives about what sort of story is climate change. The book – Culture and…
Hillary endorses Obama climate plan, gets on the "slam skeptics" bandwagon
Steve Milloy writes: Hillary Clinton endorsed the Obama climate plan and slammed coal industry in speech at the BIO conference this week. Clinton also hit the media for giving air…
Research provides new theory on cause of ice age 2.6 million years ago
From Royal Holloway, University of London New research published today (Friday 27th June 2014) in the journal Nature Scientific Reports has provided a major new theory on the cause of…
A Grain Of Salt – Part One: Respect
Guest essay by Caleb Shaw One sign of healthy skepticism is that you take things with a grain of salt, but there is a problem inherent in having this attitude,…
The Greatest Climate Myths of All – Part 2.
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism In part one,…
On ‘denying’ Hockey Sticks, USHCN data, and all that – part 2
In part one of this essay which you can see here, I got quite a lot of feedback on both sides of the climate debate. Some people thought that I…
'Climate Reparations' an idea that seems to be all about money
Climate Reparations—A New Demand Guest opinion by Peter Wood At the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December 2009, leaders from more than a hundred nations gathered to consider an agenda…
Greens Go by Air – Greenpeace edition by Josh
Josh has a nice travel sticker for suitcases to offset this stupidity. From the National Post: One of Greenpeace’s most senior executives commutes 400 kilometres each way to work by…
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