Guest Post by Bob Tisdale From the ENSO-can-contribute-to-global-warming department, we have a new paper from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Arizona (UA). It’s Thompson…
Month: December 2014
CMIP5 Model Temperature Results in Excel
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been looking at the surface temperature results from the 42 CMIP5 models used in the IPCC reports. It’s a bit of a game to…
Claim: Average temperature in Finland has risen by more than two degrees
I looked at a number of Finnish weather stations in the GISTEMP database, and many of them suffer from step changes like the one below and/or data gaps, so I…
The economics of the madhouse
The Children’s Coalition’s insane war on natural gas By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley On the very evening when the first October snow in 74 years was falling outside in Parliament…
Quick Look at the DATA for the New NOAA Sea Surface Temperature Dataset
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: There was an error in the November 2014 update of the ERSST.v4 sea surface temperature data supplied by NOAA. It impacted the data presented…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #161
The Week That Was: 2014-12-20 (December 20, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ############## Quote of the Week: The real problem in speech…
Settled science? The IPCC's premature consensus is demonstrated by the Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball From the start, Richard Lindzen, former professor of meteorology at MIT, said about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis: The…
'Weather Porn' – The latest smear attack on TV Meteorologists who don't kowtow to 'global warming'
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Andrew Tyndall, news consultant: If you don’t tie every event to climate change when reporting the weather, its like pornography Andrew Tyndall, described as a…
NASA's missions reveal the origin of theta auroras
Auroras are the most visible manifestation of the sun’s effect on Earth, but many aspects of these spectacular displays are still poorly understood. Thanks to the joint European Space Agency…
There's a model for everything, including Yellowstone's colorful thermal springs
Scientists from Montana and Germany develop simple new model that explains the brilliant deep hues of Yellowstone National Park’s most beautiful thermal springs WASHINGTON D.C. – Researchers at Montana State…
#AGU14 NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory shows surprising CO2 emissions in Southern Hemisphere
The first global maps of atmospheric carbon dioxide from NASA’s new Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission demonstrate its performance and promise, showing elevated carbon dioxide concentrations across the Southern Hemisphere from…
Friday Funny – Mann Overboard at #AGU14
Today I visited the poster sessions again, where I’m not allowed to take photos. I also visited the commercial exhibition, where I am allowed photography. I was surprised to find…
#AGU14 poster demonstrates the divergence problem with IPCC climate models and observations
Earlier this week I to reported on some of the poster sessions at the American Geophysical Meeting but was told the next day that I’m not allowed to photograph such…
97 Articles Refuting The '97% Consensus' on global warming
The 97% “consensus” study, Cook et al. (2013) has been thoroughly refuted in scholarly peer-reviewed journals, by major news media, public policy organizations and think tanks, highly credentialed scientists and…
#AGU14 Stanford researchers use a girl scout troop as guinea pigs for climate 'behavior change'
From the Stanford University press office: AGU talk: Scaling climate change communication for behavior change In a previous randomized controlled trial, Stanford University researchers developed two curricula for Girl Scouts…
#AGU14 – NOAA establishes 'tipping points' for sea level rise related flooding
via NOAA Headquarters Most of US coast may see 30 or more days a year of floods up to 2 feet above high tides By 2050, a majority of U.S.…
Ironically, Change Catches Up With Climate Change Alarmists in Lima
Guest opinion; Dr. Tim Ball The outcome of the Conference of the Parties (COP) 20 in Lima was ironic, which is defined as “happening in the opposite way to what…
New solar 'climate' explorer spacecraft to be launched
Video follows. NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), scheduled to launch in five weeks, will give forecasters more reliable measurements of solar wind speed, improving their ability to monitor harmful…
New Study: Two Thousand Years of Northern European Summer Temperatures Show a Downward Trend
In a paper published in the Journal of Quaternary Science, Esper et al. (2014) write that tree-ring chronologies of maximum latewood density (MXD) “are most suitable to reconstruct annually resolved…
Early Results from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 Mission to be presented at #AGU14 via Live Stream
Time: Thursday, Dec. 18, 9 a.m. PST In 2014, NASA launched four new missions to study our home planet, including the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 in July – NASA’s first mission…
Arctic Albedo Variations
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony has just posted the results from a “Press Session” at the AGU conference. In it the authors make two claims of interest. The first…
From #AGU14 – satellites detect albedo change in the Arctic, resulting in more absorbed solar radiation
This press session at AGU conference today had quite a lot to say. Personally, I think the issue of carbon soot forcing is one of the strongest drivers of this,…
DECC Forced To Release Data Showing Impact Of Climate Policies On Energy Prices
By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/11292367/Green-policies-to-add-up-to-40pc-to-cost-of-household-electricity.html Earlier I posted on the news that Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) tried to cover up official data showing how electricity prices are expected…
Hump Day Hilarity – model the bouncing ball
Josh writes: Talking of Climate Models, there is another great Climate Audit post titled “Unprecedented” Model Discrepancy where Richard Betts, once again, provides cartoon inspiration in the comments. It’s a bit…
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