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…
Month: October 2014
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…
Video: Why science reporter Seth Borenstein at the Associated Press is more about 'New Catch Phrases' and less about science
Worth repeating, in their own words on video, from Pierre Gosselin’s “No tricks Zone”: Amazing…AP Reporter Seth Borenstein Emphasizing Value Of “New Catch Phrases” To Hype Up Climate Stories! By…
Slimed by Naomi Oreskes – In Defense of Dr. Fred Singer
Guest opinion by Ron Arnold The Oreskes documentary calling Dr. Fred Singer a “Liar for Hire” is a repeat of a nearly identical attack on him twenty years ago. An…
Red or Blue pill? Light sensitive diatoms may hold key to a big portion of the climate puzzle
From the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research: In between red light and blue light: Leipzig researchers discover new functionality of molecular light switches Diatoms play an important role in water…
FEMA edict to U.S. states: 'Provide a Climate Plan or Lose Funding'
h/t TriplePundit – FEMA, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, has issued draft guidance which demands that states include an assessment of climate risk in their 5 year disaster plan,…
California trees 'smart response' to drought
Via WUWT reader NEO in “Tips and Notes” – Research ecologist Nathan Stephenson crawled around magnificent Giant Forest, checking young giant sequoias for damage from California’s three-year drought. Instead of…
Fire at Didcot power station means the UK power grid is in for a rough ride this winter
Peter Miller writes in WUWT Tips and Notes: There has been a major fire tonight at Didcot B power station in the UK – this plant provides around 3% of…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #154
The Week That Was: 2014-18-11 (October 18, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and…
Study: Improved electricity access has little impact on climate change
From the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Improving household electricity access in India over the last 30 years contributed only marginally to the nation’s total carbon emissions growth during…
Secret Post Facto Changes in the IPCC AR5 Report
Brandon Shollenberger writes: I thought you might be interested to hear the final version of the IPCC AR5 WGII report has been published, and a number of changes were made…
Poland To Veto EU's 40% CO2 Reduction Proposal
From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser: New Unilateral CO2 Targets Would ‘Destroy European Industry’ Poland Warns Climate change scepticism is on the rise in Europe. Governments are not going…
Claim: Cheap energy stimulates the economy too much – Natural Gas will not reduce CO2
Eric Worrall writes: A new study published in Nature has revealed that switching to cheap Natural Gas will not reduce CO2 significantly, because all that cheap energy will stimulate the…
World Disasters Report for 2013 – lowest number of catastrophies and deaths in 10 years
Alexej Buergin writes in WUWT Tips and Notes about a report from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) that puts climate alarmism’s claims of increased…
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