By Paul Homewood From YAHOO News: The UK is on course to experience the warmest and one of the wettest years since records began more than a century ago –…
Month: November 2014
ClimateProgress’s Joe Romm Translates the IPCC’s 2014 Synthesis Report
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale It’s been months since I’ve wandered over to the ClimateProgress wing of the political blog ThinkProgress. The title of the November 4, 2014 blog post…
"Propter nomen" — Because of the name
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen In the current round of discussion over at Climate Dialogue, which is about the effects of the Sun on Earth’s climate, one of the participants,…
Another government funded eye-roller: USGS bemoans climate change affecting your bird feeder
From the USGS: Who Will Come to Your Bird Feeder in 2075? Released: 11/5/2014 The distribution of birds in the United States today will probably look very different in 60…
Recovering Whales, Ocean Acidification, and Climate Horror Stories
Part 3 of Jim Steele’s Presentation to the Life Members of the International Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Jim is the author of “Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmental Journey to Climate…
Enthusiasm about a Double-Dip El Niño (?) And Global Warming
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale In this post we can learn from someone’s mistakes. The author of the post at Slate clearly misunderstands many aspects of El Niño and their…
Another eye-roller: Global warming will make you sneeze more
Eric Worrall writes: We’re all set to sneeze more often as the globe warms, according to a new study published in PLOS One. According to the abstract; “One expected effect…
Wrapped in Lew Papers: The psychology of climate psychologization – Part1
Guest essay by Andy West ∙First of 3 posts examining papers by Lewandowsky & co-authors before ‘conspiracy ideation’ claims. These papers warn of cognitive bias effects, all of which occur…
Claim: If no action is taken, extreme heat waves will become the norm by the end of the century
From the Joint Research Center: Analysing heat waves – new index allows predicting their magnitude JRC scientists have developed a new index to measure the magnitude of heat waves, in…
How I got my life back – my hearing has been restored to near-normal
This is an extremely personal note, and I have been waiting a week to write to see if in fact the results were real and lasting. I’m happy to report…
The day 'climate change' became irrelevant in politics – Powerful Green Lobby Defeated In US Midterm Elections
Republicans Win Control Of US Senate For Tom Steyer and other environmentalists, $85 million wasn’t enough to help Democrats keep the Senate blue or win more than a single governor’s…
HADCRUT4 Adjustments – Discovering Missing Data or Reinterpreting Existing Data? (Now Includes September Data)
Guest Post by Werner Brozek and Just The Facts: To begin, we would like to sincerely thank Tim Osborn of the University of East Anglia (UEA), Climatic Research Unit (CRU)…
Sorry to Disappoint: Cooling in the North Pacific? Not So Much
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The sea surface temperature anomaly maps from Unisys had many people thinking there had been a drastic cooling of the surface of the extratropical North…
G20 summit airport vetoes 'climate guilt' billboard
Eric Worrall writes: A prominent “climate guilt” billboard which was to have been displayed in Brisbane Airport, presumably somewhere global G20 meeting delegates could see it as they arrive over…
Fun video: A bowling ball and feather fall in world's biggest vacuum chamber
NASA’s Space Power Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, is the biggest vacuum chamber in the world, measuring 30.5 meters by 37.2 meters, and has a volume of 22,653 cubic meters. If…
What would a +2°C warmer world look like?
An argument regularly advanced by alarmists is – can we afford to take the chance? This argument is often associated with a claim that a rise in global temperature greater…
Eye roller: Climate Change Threatens NASA Space Operations – AGW 'could pose a risk to its operations and missions'
Apparently with the new Obama administration version of NASA, failure IS an option. One of the biggest space disasters ever, the Challenger disaster, was caused by FREEZING COLD WEATHER and…
IPCC lead author Prof Myles Allen: 'Alarmism is unhelpful…'
IPCC: NGO Climate Alarmism is causing a Credibility Gap Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to IPCC lead author Professor Myles Allen, the strident alarmism of some climate NGOs is…
John Coleman fires back on the IPCC Synthesis Report
A RESPONSE FROM CLIMATE SKEPTIC JOHN COLEMAN FOUNDER OF THE WEATHER CHANNEL When you read a news story about the United Nations Panel on Climate Change issuing new climate warnings…
Jim Steele's Climate Change Presentation to the IEEE Life Members
Climate Sensitivity and Droughts: Landscape Changes and Ocean Oscillations vs CO2 On October 15, 2014 in Berkeley CA, I was invited to speak to the LIfe Members of the International…
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