People send me stuff. This made my day, so I thought it was worth sharing. Remember this? New pictures of the hole in Yamal – and Pingo was its name-o Matt…
Month: August 2014
Somebody in psychology finally 'gets it' about Stephan Lewandowsky and John Cook and their 'smear science'
Social psychologist Jose Duarte pulls no punches in describing Lewandowsky’s failures of science in the “Moon Hoax” paper and the later retracted “Fury” paper. And then goes on to describe…
Speaking of emotionalism and global warming…use of 'Extreme weather' as an emotional motivator is up nearly 1000 percent
Our previous story showcased a study that linked emotionalism and global warming activism. And so it goes with Network News, using the “if it bleeds it leads” strategy to make…
The 'Weepy Bill McKibben Effect': Study links Emotionalism and Global Warming
This is something we’ve known about for quite some time, but it is nice to see it quantified. For those who don’t know about the “Weepy Bill McKibben Effect” or…
UAH July global temperature – essentially unchanged from June
From Dr. Roy Spencer: The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2014 is +0.31 deg. C, unchanged from June (click for full size version):
BOMBSHELL: Study shows greenhouse gas induced warming dropped for the past 14 years
Paper finds a decrease of IR radiation from greenhouse gases over past 14 years, contradicts expected increase – cloudiness blamed for difference. A paper published in the Journal of Climate…
Study: Large volcanic eruptions cause drought in eastern China
Via AGU, and the “science is settled” department, once again we learn things we didn’t know about climate. In most cases, the annual East Asian Monsoon brings heavy rains and…
U.S. forest fires versus climate model predictions
While we have one of the lowest US fire seasons to date on record so far… (Data at right from National Interagency Fire Center plotted by Tony Heller) …we have…
Surprising facts about climate change in Portugal: Why the climate catastrophe is not happening
By Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt www.kaltesonne.de As Portugal came out of its second unusually wet winter in a row, some people already fear these could be the first signs…
CO2 data might fit the IPCC hypothesis, but it doesn't fit reality
Opinion by Dr. Tim Ball I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories,…
350.org climate clowns gather to demand end to fossil fuels, while oblivious to their surroundings
I always get a kick out of climate protest marchers, because these rent-a-rants generally make complete fools of themselves, and the process is very entertaining to watch. For example, this…
National Review gives Michael Mann the ****stick
Not just a Hockeystick, but borrowing from official CNN language last week, this appears to be the legal equivalent of a f***stick. It is quite a read. McIntrye, McKittrick, Christy,…
Death Valley sets new cold temperature record by wide margin
A new record: low maximum temperature beats the old one by 15 degrees! From the NWS in Las Vegas:
More on the Lewandowsky and Oreskes Co-Authored Paper Risbey et al. (2014)
In this post, we’ll discuss more inconsistencies in the recently published paper Risbey et al. (2014). These are major flaws in the paper…above and beyond the faults and curiosities discussed…
Solar cycle 24 – magnetic activity down, twin peaks seem certain
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has published its latest graphs for the month of July, and while sunspot and radio flux numbers showed little change and increased respectively, the…
The Greatest Climate Myths of All – Part 3: The Global Average Chimera
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 Carl Sagan’s scientific…
What stratospheric hotspot?
There’s no predicted hotspot in the upper troposphere, and cooling of the stratosphere is now the new indicator. New paper finds “greenhouse cooling” of the stratosphere over past 52 years…
Climate Change Not so Global
UQ study – Global change takes thousands of years Story submitted by Eric Worrall A University of Queensland study into New Zealand glaciers has discovered a huge disparity between Southern…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-08-02 (August 2, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than…
And this excuse makes 30. Dueling press releases on 'the pause', blaming Pacific Trade Winds on 'Atlantic warming'
Previously, we had 29 excuses for “the pause” now we have 30. When a paper is published by multiple authors, the universities of those authors often produce separate press releases…
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