Despite all the gloom and doom from people like Paul Ehrlich and the warmers who say global warming will stunt food production, the reality is far different. It seems the…
Month: October 2014
Sanity: Subsidies for solar farms to be cut to help safeguard farmland
From:Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP New rules will ensure more agricultural land is dedicated to growing crops and food Farmers will…
Weather Channel Founder John Coleman: There is no significant man-made global warming at this time
John Coleman, the founder of Weather Channel, has written an open letter, in which he claims the theory of anthropogenic climate change is no longer scientifically credible. So far The…
Finally Some Reality from RealClimate – But, Unfortunately, They Remained Unreal about Some Things
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The post Ocean heat storage: a particularly lousy policy target + Update at RealClimate finally presented a few realities of the global-warming metric known as…
Scary climate stories for Halloween from the AGU
Guest essay by Joel O’Bryan A read through of the presenter’s abstracts for the upcoming 2014 AGU Convention in San Francisco, December 15-19, I found these two presentation abstracts which…
Solar Update October 2014
Guest essay by David Archibald This essay provides a series of graphs that describe the current state of the sun in context with its history. Figure 1: Oulu Neutron Count…
Solar flare danger – massive sunspot the size of Jupiter takes aim at Earth
The potential for a massive solar flare directed at Earth is looming large. An SDO/HMI view of the visible sun showing the largest sunspot of solar cycle 24, AR12192. Image…
Claim: Recently discovered Arctic microbe is key player in climate change
From the University of Arizona As permafrost soils thaw under the influence of global warming, communities of soil microbes act as potent amplifiers of global climate change, an international study…
Where Was Climate Research Before Computer Models?
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball I think, Essex and McKitrick’s Chapter, Climate Theory Versus Models and Metaphors, in their book Taken By Storm, is a very good analysis of…
What would Thucydides do? How to create negative atmospheric pressure in the Ebola hot-zone
While not our usual fare, I provide this guest essay for discussion without comment, as it is concerned with an issue of great interest and impact to millions of people…
Quicky Mid-October 2014 El Niño Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This is a quick update on the status of the sea surface temperatures of the equatorial Pacific, along with a brief discussion of the recent…
Study: Changing winds cause melting of coastal Antarctic glaciers
From the AGU: Anthropogenically induced changes in winds in the Southern Hemisphere are playing a key role in recent warming of subsurface waters around Antarctica, according to a new study…
Splattergate II: Machine Gun Shopping Mall massacre promoted as an expression of Green Conscience
Eric Worrall writes: James Delingpole has today written about the latest PR disaster from deep greens trying to pretend they are normal people – an award winning graphic novel which…
Eye roller: 'Climate change shrinks goats'
From Durham University, and the “would you, could you, with a goat” department comes this inanity. They can’t come up with any other explanation, so it must be ‘climate change’.…
Climate Craziness of the Week: 'Exhale up to the atmosphere. Love away the carbon dioxide.'
From: “LOVING THE EARTH” reflections on yogaecology, climate change, permaculture and community, the only thing missing is the unicorns (h/t to WUWT reader Hank Veild) Meditation for Climate Change This meditation…
John Cook's claim of a 'warmer southern ocean' is proven wrong
Paul Homewood notes: According to John Cook, Antarctic sea ice has been expanding because the Southern Ocean is getting warmer. He also claims that anyone thinking more ice is due…
Quote of the week – massive climate FAIL by Mashable's Andrew Freedman
Wow, this is even dumber than Freedman’s story (complete with photoshopped images of airplanes in rising sea water) Quite possibly the dumbest example of ‘Tabloid Climatology’ ever from Climate Central’s…
Bolt: Bob Ward should apologize to Dr. Bob Carter over 'the pause'
Andrew Bolt demands an apology from Bob Ward, the incorrigible climate spinmeister of the Grantham Research Institute over “the pause”, along with others. I agree, next to Mann, Ward is…
The Answer is NOT always in the data – why data analysis is always contaminated by human value judgements
Eric Worrall writes; Mike Whitehorn, chair of analytics at Dundee University, has written a fascinating article on The Register, about why data analysis is always contaminated by the value…
New paper debunks 'ocean acidification' scare, finds warming increases pH
Via the Hockey Schtick: A paper published Friday in Climate of the Past reconstructs water pH and temperature from a lake in central Japan over the past 280,000 years and…
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