Catastrophic Anthropogenic Vulcanology
Josh writes: Following the hilarious post on how Climate Change now causes volcanoes to erupt “everywhere”, Josh opines, “What next, anthropogenic sunshine?” Cartoons by Josh Advertisements
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Greg Laden, and his 'cowardly unethical asinine foolhardy pig-ignorant act'
This is a guest post about the execrable Greg Laden, and his calls for firing Dr. Willie Soon without having one iota of proof of his assertions. I’ve had run ins with this fool before, where I point out he’s lied about me, and even considered taking him to court for libel. In this episode,…
Saturday silliness – the BEST adjustments of temperature
Josh writes: There has been much discussion recently about the adjustments made to past temperatures: see Paul Homewood’s excellent posts on Paraguay, Bolivia and around the world; also from Shub; Brandon at WUWT and on his own blog; and a very readable summary by James Delingpole. All very interesting. Cartoons by Josh
Time Magazine's Jeffrey Kluger writes what might possibly be the stupidest article about climate ever – climate change causes volcanoes
The stupid, it burns like a magnesium flare. Excerpt from the article: Now, you can add yet another problem to the climate change hit list: volcanoes. That’s the word from a new study conducted in Iceland and accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters. The finding is bad news not just for one comparatively remote…
Friday Funny – for whom the bell Tols
Josh writes of this latest hilarious drawing: Richard Tol says that Bob Ward is ‘engaged in a smear campaign’ against him. Reading quite a bit of what Bob has written over the past few years, and not just about Richard but about many others, it is difficult not to agree. H/t to Anthony Watts who…
What are Your Fears about Global Warming and Climate Change?
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The title question is rarely, if ever, asked of people who are skeptical of human-induced global warming and climate change…for obvious reasons. If persons are skeptical of a future filled with climate catastrophes, regardless of whether they are caused by nature or by emissions of manmade greenhouse gases, then there…
87 Is The New 97
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a new survey out by the Pew Research Center folks that’s getting lots of press. Much of the coverage mentions the following claim that the claimed 97% consensus is real but it’s only 87%. The survey reports a: • 37-percentage point gap over whether climate change is mostly caused by human…
A Sin Of Commission
Guest essay by David Archibald One Senate inquiry is addressing Australia’s drift towards a fuel crisis, a sin of omission on the part of the Rudd/Gillard government and the current Liberal one. Another Senate inquiry is investigating a sin of commission that started under Howard’s watch and continues to this day, namely the proliferation of…
Claim: 'global warming has been amplified in cities', ignores infrastructure increase
Heat waves becoming more prominent in urban areas, research reveals For past four decades, global warming has been amplified in cities, warns UCLA geographer From the University of California – Los Angeles The frequency of heat waves has increased dramatically over the past 40 years, and the trend appears to be growing faster in urban…
BEST practices step uncertainty levels in their climate data
Brandon Shollenberger writes in with this little gem: I thought you might be interested in a couple posts I wrote discussing some odd problems with the BEST temperature record. You can find them here: http://www.hi-izuru.org/wp_blog/2015/01/how-best-overestimates-its-certainty-part-2/ http://www.hi-izuru.org/wp_blog/2015/01/how-best-overestimates-its-certainty-part-1/ But I’ll give an overview. BEST calculated its uncertainty levels by removing 1/8th of its data and rerunning its…