Sorry this update is late. I got sidetracked with the post about Risbey et al. (2014), and the post about the new climate model, now with knobs. This post provides…
Month: July 2014
New paper finds the climate to be 'highly nonlinear'
But, we already knew that from experience. However, a lot of models still treat climate as a mostly or near linear process, and that’s why they aren’t performing particularly well…
Onwards, Ever Onwards
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been remiss in my duties as travel correspondent. When last heard from, the gorgeous ex-fiancee and I were rolling out of Butte, Montana in…
Union of Concerned 'Scientists' frackivists taken to task for willful misrepresentation of facts in Erie, Colorado
Simon Lomax writes at Energy Indepth: Local officials in Erie, Colo., are pushing back hard against a national environmental group for misrepresenting the outcome of a failed “ban fracking” campaign…
California's future energy pipe dream
I wonder how they’ll manage to put 25,000 offshore wind turbines in place after seeing the long battle (back to 2001 for the first permit) to get Cape Wind in…
Climate Science; Winning The Science Battle, But Losing the Policy War
Essay by Dr. Tim Ball (Elaboration of my Heartland Climate Conference Presentation) We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge. Rutherford Rogers So-called climate skeptics, practicing proper science by disproving…
'Climate models not only significantly over-predict observed warming in the tropical troposphere, but they represent it in a fundamentally different way than is observed'
New Paper by McKitrick and Vogelsang comparing models and observations in the tropical troposphere This is a guest post by Ross McKitrick (at Climate Audit). Tim Vogelsang and I have a…
Another benefit of global warming – increased forage plants
From the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo An increase in temperature by 2050 may be advantageous to the growth of forage plants With a 2°C…
The Tyranny of Tautology
A response to A conversation with Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. Guest essay by Scott Bennett Willis Eschenbach described the Kaya Identity as being “trivially true”, his opinion is uncontested by…
Uncertainty in the dirt: another climate feedback loop
From the Carnegie Institution Climate change and the soil Climate warming may not drive net losses of soil carbon from tropical forests Washington, DC — The planet’s soil releases about…
I wonder how this dedicated weather observer feels about having his readings adjusted by NCDC?
In my travels surveying weather stations around the United States, I met many dedicated observers like this one. It is sad indeed that their painstakingly recorded data by observers like…
New Climate Model Introduced, now with knobs!
Due to the cutbacks in funding for climate science, a new climate model has been introduced to help politicians justify unnecessary laws that regulate carbon dioxide emissions…
Greens go by air: Internal food fight over excutive response to airplane travel at Greenpeace – firings demanded
People send me stuff. An entertaining row has emerged over the behavior of the director of Greenpeace International Program, Pascal Husting, and the Greenpeace International Executive Director, Kumi Naidoo. It…
New paper finds transient climate sensitivity to doubling of CO2 is about 1°C
A new paper published in Ecological Modelling finds climate sensitivity to doubled CO2 concentrations is significantly lower than estimates from the IPCC and climate models which “utilize uncertain historical data…
OCO: I can see your house emitting CO2 from here
From NASA JPL and the department of future CO2 emissions ticketing: OCO-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward into the Past NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, which launched on July 2, will…
Of mountains, molehills, and noisy bumps in the sea-ice record
Note: This is a follow up post to this one: Claim: Antartica record high sea ice partially an artifact of an algorithm I’d actually planned to write a rebuttal like…
New climate alarm mascot – white ringtail possums
Embarrassed by the stubborn refusal of polar bears to die out, or even to appear convincingly rare, climate scientists are touting a new poster child species for our collective climate…
Claim: Antartica record high sea ice partially an artifact of an algorithm
From the European Geosciences Union New research suggests that Antarctic sea ice may not be expanding as fast as previously thought. A team of scientists say much of the increase…
Mann's Hockey Stick Goes Zombie
Nuclear war simulation forgets the Medieval Climate Optimum Story submitted by P. Wayne Townsend Yesterday’s Daily Mail carried an article about a simulation of the climate consequences of nuclear war. …
'Goldilocks zone' exoplanets would not be habitable without an ocean
UEA: Oceans moderate the climate Story submitted by Eric Worrall h/t The Register – University of East Anglia researchers have challenged the view that any planet in the Goldilocks zone…
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