OSTP rules Holdren’s video released by the White House was “personal opinion” and therefore not subject to Data Quality Act. Guest essay by Sam Kazman Back in January, in the…
Month: June 2014
China and CO2
Guest essay by David Archibald While in Beijing early this year US Secretary of State John Kerry announced that China and the US, the world’s largest emitters of such gases, had…
A sign of cooling? New permafrost is forming around shrinking Arctic lakes
From McGill University Researchers from McGill and the U.S. Geological Survey, more used to measuring thawing permafrost than its expansion, have made a surprising discovery. There is new permafrost forming…
AAAS on reproducibility – 'a cornerstone of science'
Reproducibility — the ability to redo an experiment and get the same results — is a cornerstone of science, but it has been the subject of some troubling news lately.…
No joke: 'Climate change may prevent contact with alien civilisations'
From the you’ve got to be effing kidding me department come this dead serious essay from “The Conversation”, that hotbed of climate alarmism in Australia which somehow got past bullshit…
Climate Craziness of the Week – a new business model for practicing psychologists?
What better way to drum up business than to create a whole new class of psychological affliction? Climate Depot reports: Weather Channel hypes report claiming ‘Climate Change Will Mean More…
Mann Overboard! – It Takes a Village in North Korea Edition
It seems that Dr. Michael Mann has gone off the rails (again) into the sort of conspiracy theory territory that would be a perfect case study for Cook and Lewandowsky,…
UAH Global Temperature Update for May, 2014: up slightly
Will the forecasted El Niño later this year produce a new record? Spencer comments. June 10th, 2014 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric…
Sea Ice News Volume 5 #3 – The 2014 Sea Ice Forecast Contest
While we have done this usually a week ahead in prior years, I’m very late out of the gate this year, as I have a lot of distractions and work…
Australia and Canada decide to take a path of climate realism
Australia And Canada Form Climate Realist Alliance Ottawa Citizen, 9 June 2014 Mark Kennedy The political leaders of Canada and Australia declared on Monday they won’t take any action to…
Why Automatic Temperature Adjustments Don't Work
The automatic adjustment procedure is almost guaranteed to produce spurious, artificial warming, and here’s why. Guest essay by Bob Dedekind Auckland, NZ, June 2014 In a recent comment on Lucia’s…
NOAA reaches out to the blogosphere
UPDATE: NOAA has corrected the typos in the illustrations at the new reanalysis intercomparison website. # # # # # NOAA opened two new blogs recently…and a new reanalysis intercomparison…
Uh oh: Study says 'collapsing' Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica melting from geothermal heat, not 'climate change' effects
Remember the wailing from Suzanne Goldenberg over the “collapse” of the Thwaites glacier blaming man-made CO2 effects and the smackdown given to the claim on WUWT? Well, never mind. From…
Idiotic libel from the 'Skeptical Science' crowd
From the “Collin Maessen is a now a fair game legal target” department and the “SkS double secret publicly browsable Tree-hut archives”, comes this unsupportable claim of ‘criminal hacking’ by…
'Vortex of Stupidity' – the sequel
Many thought the media’s focus on the ‘Polar Vortex’ this winter was pretty stupid, well another kind of similarly stupid vortex is about to reappear again. All we can hope…
Gavin Schmidt is the new James Hansen
NASA Names Schmidt Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, gets honorary lunch ticket to Tom’s Restaurant. NASA has named Gavin A. Schmidt to head the agency’s Goddard Institute…
Beware of false Prophets
By Charles Battig, M.D. Positive public perception of the scientist has long been powerful. The public has the tendency to defer to scientists, as it does to authority in general.…
Sensitivity? Schmensitivity!
Even on business as usual, there will be <1° Kelvin warming this century By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Curiouser and curiouser. As one delves into the leaden, multi-thousand-page text of…
Warming climates intensify greenhouse gas given out by oceans
From the University of Edinburgh and the department of soda pop science, comes something we already knew. I wonder who approved the grant for this one? Rising global temperatures could…
Opinion: Global Warming Claims Are Primarily And Deliberately A Product Of Bureaucratic Political Activity
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. – Mary McCarthy Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball The Daily Mail headline says, “Canada bans government…
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