Story submitted by Eric Worrall From Australia Network News: Pacific presidents speak out against Australia’s stand on climate change Leaders of small Pacific nations have spoken out against Tony Abbott’s…
Month: June 2014
Twenty-five Climate Models Can't All Be Wrong … Or Can They?
From the NIPCC report: As seemingly never-ending work on developing and improving climate models progresses, there is also a seemingly never-ending set of assessments of how that work is progressing;…
Poll: Californians Say Drought Is The "New Normal," But Favor Investments In Long-Term Solutions
Climate Change not among the top priorities per California voters. From the California Water Foundation: Californians believe this year’s record drought is the “new normal” and favor investments in long-term…
Climate Change is sucking funding away from biodiversity
From the “let’s include climate change is all our work so we’ll keep getting funded” department, comes this admission in the form of a press release from The University of…
Study: Illinois Renewable Energy Standard no help to state’s economy
From the Beacon Institute: (Boston, MA) Closing so-called loopholes in Illinois’s mandated use of renewable energy program, in an effort to expand ‘green’ industries, will harm the state’s economy, according…
The predicted 2014 El Niño is expected to benefit U.S. agriculture
Maybe this will temper the usual expected claims that this El Niño is all about global warming, because we can’t have global warming be beneficial, right? MANHATTAN — A Kansas…
Despite the hype, 'carbon-free' energy sources aren't gaining traction globally
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. tips us to this interesting yet inconvenient graph. The graph below shows data from the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2014, which was released yesterday.…
And then they came for your home mortage tax deduction…
From Georgia State University and the department of “let’s just all live in uniform state sponsored mud huts“, comes this latest inanity, blaming carbon emissions on your ability to get…
Dual tornadoes on the ground in Nebraska
Stunning photo of dual tornadoes within a mile of each other on June 16th, 2014 Photo taken by stormchaser Matt Coker. Click image for full size.
$260 / ton for carbon – the price of salvation
Lord Stern: Models ‘grossly underestimate’ costs of global warming Submitted by Eric Worrall Lord Stern, the British Academic who prepared the “Stern Review” on global warming for Prime Minister Tony…
Wind turbine payback period claimed to be within 8 months
From Inderscience Publishers , something sure to make greens go “See, I told you!”, except for that little fatal mistake at the end. Read on. Wind turbine payback US researchers…
Claim: 'Arctic amplification' has actually reduced the risk of cold extremes in the Northern Hemisphere
From the University of Exeter Arctic warming linked to fewer European and US cold weather extremes, new study shows Climate change is unlikely to lead to more days of extreme…
Another example of 'team science' suppression
Over the past decade, we have seen many examples of what would be categorized as” team science” when it comes to suppressing ideas that are considered inconvenient or contrary to…
Mining proxies for the Southern Annular Mode
Steve McIntyre writes about what he considers another “completely worthless” exercise in statistical data mining, writing: =============================================================== In today’s post, I will look at a new Naturemag climate reconstruction claiming…
Nature abhors a positive feedback
Negative Feedback Prevents Harmful Temperatures from Carbon Dioxide Guest essay by Bryce Johnson The purpose of the article is to contribute to refuting the false alarm that has been generated…
Standard Deviation, The Overlooked But Essential Climate Statistic
Guest essay by Dr Tim Ball Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet. Martin Friedman “Statistics: The only science that…
Open thread – what could we do better?
Introspection is always a good thing, and with that in mind, the suggested topic today – what could we do better at WUWT? Some background first. I get lots of…
Obama invokes 'tauntology' in discussing climate skeptics
There’s tautology: In grammar, the use of redundant words. In logic, a tautology is a formula which is true in every possible interpretation. Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein first applied the term…
In PNAS, a surprising letter: 'Systemic Addiction to Research Funding'
President Eisenhower warned of this. In the world of climate science, we have come to know this simple equation as demonstrated by some of the most zealous proponents of climate…
Stunning admission – and a new excuse for 'the pause' – 'lousy data'
“The Models didn’t have the skill we thought they had…” Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian, a prominent green UK daily newspaper, reports that scientists have given up on…
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