From the London School of Economics and Political Science: The growth of the science PR industry has resulted in an overly exaggerated presentation of research findings. Science journalism is not…
Month: June 2014
Is One of the Objectives of All Alarmists to Be a Source of Misinformation?
Near the end of the June 3rd post The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 10 – June 2014 Update – Still Waiting for the Feedbacks, I discussed that misinformation about…
NOAA shows 'the pause' in the U.S. surface temperature record over nearly a decade
NOTE: significant updates have been made, see below. After years of waiting, NOAA has finally made a monthly dataset on the U.S. Climate Reference Network available in a user friendly…
Free money! All you have to do is to be a 'climate victim'
Billionaire Tom Steyer creates fund for Climate Victims Eric Worrall writes: Californian Billionaire Tom Steyer has just created a fund for victims of climate related extreme weather. The new initiative…
National Association of Scholars: 'much of the U.S.-sponsored research behind the “scientific consensus” on global warming may be less rigorous than its advocates would have the public believe'
Short-Circuiting Peer Review in Climate Science Peter Wood, Rachelle DeJong. National Association of Scholars How reliable are the scientific findings on which the Environmental Protection Agency bases its proposed regulations? …
Farmers Insurance Group pulls the plug on idiotic 'weather is climate' lawsuit
From the Insurance Journal: Insurer mysteriously withdraws high-profile lawsuit for climate damages in Chicago flooding case Evan Lehmann, E&E reporterClimateWire: Thursday, June 5, 2014 Farmers Insurance Co. has withdrawn its…
Why Climate Change Doesn't Scare Me
Guest essay by Walter Starck Be scared, the experts tell us, be very scared. Well there is certainly cause for concern, but not about those “rising” temperatures, which refuse to…
Sunspots and Sea Surface Temperature
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I thought I was done with sunspots … but as the well-known climate scientist Michael Corleone once remarked, “Just when I thought I was out…
Richard Tol Fights back – with an article in the Guardian showing that Cook's 97% consensus is actually 'nonsensus'
Consensus is irrelevant in science. There are plenty of examples in history where everyone agreed and everyone was wrong. While I admit to being quite surprised they’d allow him equal…
End of an error
Celebrate it at the 9th International Heartland Conference, Las Vegas By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Don’t miss this spectacular conference in the City of American Culture 2014. The Ninth International…
Termites, fungi, models, and climate change
From the University of Central Florida Climate change models could have a thing or two to learn from termites and fungi, according to a new study released this week. For…
The Weather Forecast That Saved D-Day
The most important weather forecast in history In memory of my father Hans who, in 1944, took part in the liberation of Europe with the Royal Engineers in the Italian…
Study: Greenland's July 2012 'insta-melt' was triggered by a combination of warm weather and carbon soot
WUWT readers surely remember all the media hype over this story. This was REP’s last entry on WUWT: As WUWT readers are aware, there has been a great deal of…
Friday Funny: Life is a Gas!
Kevin Benn of Sweden writes with some poetry… Hi Anthony, [This] was an outlet for my frustration at not being able to engage local politicians or journalists in an open…
Antarctic Sea Ice Increase and Global Warming
by Norm Buske Although I am a long-time, casual skeptic of global warming, I agree that evidence of severe, largely anthropogenic warming of the Northern Thermal Hemisphere (NTH) is compelling.…
Newsbytes: Greens Lose Battle As Germany Prepares To Lift Ban On Fracking
From the GWPF: How Fracking Helps America Beat German Industry Germany is set to lift its ban on fracking as early as next year, after caving in to business demands…
U.S. Postal Service issues 'global warming' Forever® stamp?
This just in from the U.S.Postal service. (h/t to Marc Morano) In 2014, the U.S. Postal Service introduces Global: Sea Surface Temperatures, a new Forever® international rate stamp. Hmmm, not…
New paper: man-made aerosols have had a net cooling effect since beginning of industrial revolution
More aerosols, means more clouds, which means cooler temperatures. Now that we are cleaning up aerosols worldwide, this may explain why the Earth is getting slightly warmer – more sunlight…
When worlds collide – study says our moon was formed by a collision with planet-sized body
From the European Association of Geochemistry New isotopic evidence supporting moon formation via Earth collision with planet-sized body A new series of measurements of oxygen isotopes provides increasing evidence that…
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