From Purdue University: WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Crop producers and scientists hold deeply different views on climate change and its possible causes, a study by Purdue and Iowa State universities…
Month: November 2014
Cloud Feedback
Guest essay by Stan Robertson In a recent post entitled “Changes in Total Solar Irradiance” (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/25/changes-in-total-solar-irradiance/ ), Willis Eschenbach showed a plot of the solar irradiance that impinges at the…
El Niño fades without westerly wind bursts
From AGU: The warm and wet winter of 1997 brought California floods, Florida tornadoes, and an ice storm in the American northeast, prompting climatologists to dub it the El Niño…
Gone fishing open thread
I’m out on Tampa Bay fishing with Ed. You’ll have to fend for yourselves. Feel free to discuss anything within our normal bounds. Fish stories to follow later.
The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 20 – November Update – The Little El Niño That Shoulda’-Woulda’-Coulda’
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale And maybe it will. Weekly sea surface temperature anomalies last week for the NINO3.4 region were at their highest level for the year. Then again,…
Claim: New Global Maps Detail Human-Caused Ocean Acidification
In northern winter, the Bering Sea, dividing Alaska and Siberia, becomes the most acidic region on earth (in purple) as shown in this February 2005 acidity map in pH scale.…
Even China can't jump-start the electric car
China’s Electric Vehicle Policy Not Turning Over November 6, 2014 By Robert O’Neill Toward the end of the past decade, China set itself an ambitious goal: to dramatically ramp…
Climate change – follow the money
One of the greatest inanities that occurs in the climate wars is the claim that skeptics are lavishly funded by “big oil” or other political interests. t is a claim…
On the Elusive Absolute Global Mean Surface Temperature – A Model-Data Comparison
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale With the publication of the IPCC 5th Synthesis Report, I thought there might be some interest in a presentation of how well (actually poorly) climate…
US Midterms: Sierra Club declares Victory
“… While we have lost friends in Congress, we are gaining them in the streets …” Eric Worrall writes: The President of the Sierra Club is confident of widespread and…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #155
The Week That Was: 2014-11-08 (November 8, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: it is “certain that the number…
Wrapped in Lew Papers: The psychology of climate psychologization – Part3
Guest essay by Andy West ∙Third of 3 posts examining papers by Lewandowsky & co-authors before ‘conspiracy ideation’ claims. These papers warn of cognitive bias effects, all of which occur…
UEA Claim: Global warming distracts bees by making them horny
Eric Worrall writes: At the University of East Anglia (UEA), the place that gave us Climategate, researchers have discovered climate change affects the ability of bees to pollinate a rare…
Man-made Global Warming (AGW) is Real: Men Really Created It
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Man-made global warming is real, because it was humans who created the idea and proved, independent of nature, that human activity was the cause. It…
An Empirical Review of Recent Trends in the Greenhouse Effect
Guest essay by Robin Pittwood, Kiwi Thinker Abstract The core of the human caused global warming proposition is that an increasing level of greenhouse gases acts to reduce heat loss…
The Ultimate Irony: Camille Parmesan argues “Texas textbooks need to get the facts straight” on global warming
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University In a recent Commentary posted to the Statesman.com here, Camille Parmesan and the AAAS want…
Irreversible
Josh writes: Following the IPCC Synthesis Report we have had many catastrophists describing the impacts of climate change as ‘Irreversible’ and using the phrase ‘Immorality of inaction’ – I can…
Wrapped in Lew Papers: The psychology of climate psychologization – Part2
This is the second of 3 posts by Andy West examining papers by Lewandowsky & co-authors before ‘conspiracy ideation’ claims. These papers warn of cognitive bias effects, all of which…
On climate, the Right is right – Global temperature update: the Pause is still 18 years 1 month
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley One of the most interesting statistics from the recent mid-terms was the New York Times’ exit poll (Fig. 1), showing that more than two-thirds of…
Waterless Fracking promises more energy, less trouble
Waterless Fracking may increase access to more energy, without the need to deal with the waste water.From the article: Researchers at the Colorado School of Mines claim they have developed…
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