Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball We were told in October, before 2014 was over, that it was heading toward being the warmest year on record (Figure 1). The visual link…
Month: January 2015
Climate change falling so far off the public radar, a major polling house didn't even bother asking about it this year
Guest essay by Eric Worrall – Climate Change is so low on the list of corporate priorities, that in Price Waterhouse Cooper’s latest survey of chief executive officers, climate concerns…
Stemming ice loss, giant atmospheric rivers add mass to Antarctica's ice sheet
Extreme weather phenomena called atmospheric rivers were behind intense snowstorms recorded in 2009 and 2011 in East Antarctica. The resulting snow accumulation partly offset recent ice loss from the Antarctic…
2014: The Most Dishonest Year on Record
‘Warmest Year On Record’ Claims Falling Apart Under Scrutiny The Nasa climate scientists who claimed 2014 set a new record for global warmth last night admitted they were only 38…
Claim: Melting glaciers have big carbon impact
From Florida State University: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As the Earth warms and glaciers all over the world begin to melt, researchers and public policy experts have focused largely on how…
Bigger problems than global warming – NASA discovers 8 new dangerous near Earth asteroids
Guest essay by Eric Worrall- In 2013, NASA decided to take time out from creating spectacularly useless climate models, and reactivated their Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer programme. The result…
GISS & NCDC Need to Be More Open with the Public when Making Proclamations about Global Warming Records
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale We discussed the 2014 global surface temperature announcements by NASA GISS and NOAA NCDC in the posts On the Biases Caused by Omissions in the…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #164
The Week That Was: 2015-01-17 (January 17, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…
Four Stories, Two Worlds
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach To start the four tales of the title, I noticed a couple of stories in the news lately about how critical inexpensive energy is for…
The Merchants of Smear
Obama, Gore other climate alarmists refuse to debate, but love to vilify – and love their money Guest essay by Paul Driessen Manmade climate disaster proponents know the Saul Alinksy…
December 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS and NCDC through December 2014 and…
Saturday silliness – it's the Warmist Year Evah!
Josh writes: By the slimmest of margins, 2014 has been declared the “hottest year ever”. It’s everywhere you look – there’s dodgy numbers, vague impressions and tweets galore – yes, it’s the warmist year evah!…
On the Biases Caused by Omissions in the 2014 NOAA State of the Climate Report
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale [Update: Corrected a few typos in the paragraph before Figure 4. My thanks to rogerknights.] I hadn’t read the NOAA State of the Climate (SOTC)…
A Taxonomy of Science Blogs
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at Lucia Liljegren’s most interesting site, “Rank Exploits”, she has another fascinating post, as is often the case. I busted out laughing at the…
Calamities Oversold
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The overselling of calamities in environmental sciences has reached unseemly proportions…so much so in one field that in 2014 a team of marine researchers exposed…
Breaking science news: Yak dung burning pollutes indoor air of Tibetan households
From Emory Health Sciences, and the Department of Obvious Science, comes this press release that speaks for itself. Tibet, the highest region on Earth and one of the most remote,…
Does the Uptick in Global Surface Temperatures in 2014 Help the Growing Difference between Climate Models and Reality?
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post includes calendar year 2014 global surface temperature data from GISS and NCDC. I thought it would be interesting to begin the introduction as…
Peer-reviewed pocket-calculator climate model exposes serious errors in complex computer models and reveals that Man’s influence on the climate is negligible
What went wrong? A major peer-reviewed climate physics paper in the first issue (January 2015: vol. 60 no. 1) of the prestigious Science Bulletin (formerly Chinese Science Bulletin), the journal…
Aussie Green plans to kayak to Paris, to 'deliver a message' – could it be "greens go by air"?
Kayak trip for climate action includes a few long haul flights Guest essay by Eric Worrall An Australian grandfather has announced plans to Kayak from Canberra, Australia’s landlocked capital city,…
Forgive Us Our Transgressions
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A new paper in Science magazine entitled “Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet” (paywalled here) claims that we are all potential “transgressors”…
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