From the University of Utah Size, duration were like modern climate shift, but in two pulses SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 15, 2014 – The rate at which carbon emissions warmed…
Year: 2014
UKMO Hadley Centre Datasets Appear Split on Whether 2014 Will Have Record-Warm Global Sea Surfaces
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale A few days ago, we showed that global ocean surfaces are, just barely, at record warm levels in 2014, according to the two NOAA sea…
Hilarious irony – Michael Mann to give lecture on 'Professional Ethics for Climate Scientists'
From the ‘truth is stranger than fiction department’, reporting from San Francisco at the AGU Fall Meeting ED11D-02 Professional Ethics for Climate Scientists Monday, December 15, 201408:15 AM – 08:30…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #160
The Week That Was: 2014-12-13 (December 13, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science…
GWPF Welcomes Non-Binding And Toothless UN Climate Deal
Press Release 14/12/14 Lord Lawson: After Lima, UK Climate Change Act Should Be Suspended London 14 December: Dr Benny Peiser, the director of the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF), has…
The Nonsensical “Just What AGW predicts” and Other Claims By Alarmists about “Record-High” Global Sea Surface Temperatures in 2014
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Many of the visitors here at ClimateObservations and at WattsUpWithThat also spend time arguing with climate alarmists at other websites around the blogosphere. With global…
Time for the UN to get out of climate change
Negotiators and Secretary General continue to ignore scientists and public opinion OTTAWA, Dec. 13, 2014 /CNW/ – “Climate change negotiators in Lima, Peru seemed oblivious to the findings of the UN’s…
Another attempt to link climate and extreme weather, to be presented at the AGU Fall Meeting
From Stanford News Service: MEDIA ADVISORY. Stanford at AGU Fall Meeting. Global warming’s influence on extreme weather Understanding the cause-and-effect relationship between global warming and record-breaking weather requires asking precisely…
California Niño/Niña
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This is a quick post about a coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon that had previously not been described. The paper flew by under the radar back in…
Gruber Thinking in Climate Science: Disconnect Between Academia And The Real World.
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball There are many parallels between the Jonathan Gruber story and what has occurred in climate science. Gruber used a computer model to produce justification for…
Moving the goalposts – has Professor Wadhams Explained His Now Changed 'ice-free' Arctic Prediction?
Over the past few years the Arctic expert, Professor Peter Wadhams, has strongly predicted an ‘ice-free’ Arctic no later than 2016. Late this year he changed it to 2020 without…
The Josh-WUWT 2015 Climate Skeptics Calendar is now available
Here is your chance again to join “Josh of the Month Club”. Samples follow. After the great response we had the last two years, Josh has sent his artwork across…
Friday Funny – Best Grauniad typo ever
People send me stuff. The name “Grauniad” as defined by Urban Dictionary says: The Grauniad is a nickname for the UK national newspaper, the Guardian, because of a now ill-founded…
Meteorological Annual Mean (Dec-Nov) Global Sea Surface Temperatures Set a Record High in 2014 By a Whopping…
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Monthly sea surface temperature data from NOAA (ERSST.v3b) are available online well before the global land air+sea surface temperature suppliers (NASA GISS and NOAA NCDC)…
Quote of the Week, an oldie but goodie
This QOTW comes courtesy of Willis Eschenbach, who spotted this gem in an essay from P. J. O’Rourke in The Weekly Standard, October 10, 2005 titled: P.J. O’Rourke: Two, Three, Many Katrinas…
The eyeroller you knew was going to happen – California winter storm caused by "changing climate"
People send me stuff. This “never let a good crisis go to waste” dreck was sent to me today from a Madison Avenue PR outfit called “Climate Nexus” who doesn’t…
Almost Friday Funny – Sheep Mountain in outline
Josh writes: There’s an excellent post over at Climate Audit on Sheep Mountain which seemed too good not to cartoon. Regular readers will recognise the familiar outline of the landscape (a graph that was in…
US Spending Bill Blocks Obama’s UN Climate Fund $Billions
‘Poor Nations Will Need Up To $1.5 Trillion Climate Funding Per Year By 2050’ An “omnibus” spending bill to fund the federal government through October 2015 throws up roadblocks for…
Comparing sea ice today to Shackleton’s Ill Fated Voyage – 100 years ago this month
By Paul Homewood 100 years ago last week, Ernest Shackleton was preparing to depart from South Georgia with the Endurance on the Trans-Antarctic Expedition. As is well known, he ended…
Mixed Signals from the NOAA ENSO Blog about Climate Models
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale There’s a new post at the NOAA ENSO blog titled Climate Change and ENSO: Take 2. It’s a guest post by Matt Collins of the…
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