Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism The biggest threat…
Month: January 2015
Faux polar bear figures
Susan Crockford, Special to Financial Post (republished at WUWT with permission from the author) Polar bears are a conservation success story. However, you’d never know that from the output of…
Status and last chance for Josh 2015 Climate Skeptic Calendars
This is an update and last call for Josh 2015 Climate Skeptic Calendars which went on sale in December. Some of you have already received them, and some are still…
Climate Risk Map – Mainly Countries Hostile to the USA
Guest essay by Eric Worrall UK Climate experts have prepared a map of countries they think are most at risk of climate change. However their map could easily be mistaken…
Cool high speed video: Rainfall can release aerosols, study finds
High-speed imaging captures raindrops releasing clouds of aerosols on impact, showing once again that we just don’t know all the sources for aerosols and other climate forcings. From the Massachusetts…
Claim: Acceleration in sea level rise 'worse than we thought'
However, other analyses show the opposite… Correcting estimates of sea level rise Acceleration in sea level rise far larger than initially thought From Harvard University, where you can’t tell them…
1 million tons of pressurised CO2 stored beneath Decatur, Illinois
It was a tenth of that, 100,000 tons, that caused the Lake Nyos disaster Guest essay by Eric Worrall 7000 ft below the city of Decatur, Illinois, population 74,710 people,…
Anticipation
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The CO2 obsessed are patiently awaiting the GISS and NCDC global surface temperature data for December 2014 and for the calendar year. GISS normally publishes…
Al Gore, wrong again – Polar ice continues to thrive
Guest essay by Rolf E. Westgard In his 2007 Noble Prize acceptance speech, former Vice President Al Gore warned that the “Arctic ice could be gone in as little as…
Claim: Social cost of climate change too low, Stanford scientists say
The ‘social cost’ of carbon dioxide emissions may not be $37, as previously estimated by a recent US government study, but $220. From the Stanford School of Engineering The economic…
Cold kills: Summer no sweat for Aussies but winter freeze fatal
Australians are more likely to die during unseasonably cold winters than hotter than average summers, QUT research has found. From the Queensland University of Technology Across the country severe winters…
Another bias in temperature measurements discovered
From the “temperature bias only goes one way department” and the University of Montana: Mountain system artificially inflates temperature increases at higher elevations MISSOULA – In a recent study, University of…
Monday Mirthiness – More 'skeptical science' kids scienz
Josh writes: Nic Lewis has a very amusing comment over at Lucia’s about a paper written by Gavin Cawley, Kevin Cowtan, Robert Way, Peter Jacobs and Ari Jokimäki – all part of…
Charlie Hebdo, Climate Skepticism & Free Speech
Climate Extremism & The Chilling Effect On Free Speech From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser At the end of that process, some Global Warming deniers would never admit their…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #163
The Week That Was: 2015-01-10 (January 10, 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…
32,757 year old survey participant skews Lewandowsky paper – Defective data, demonstrably defective conclusion
Guest essay by Eric Worrall. JoNova reports on a hilarious error in Lewandowsky’s paper “The Role of Conspiracist Ideation and Worldviews in Predicting Rejection of Science” . The calculated age…
Alarmists Bizarrely Claim “Just what AGW predicts” about the Record High Global Sea Surface Temperatures in 2014
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE (Jan 13, 2015): See the end of the post for a copy in pdf format. # # # This post is the annual model-data…
Portents in Paris
Josh writes…A dark cartoon for the the start of the year following the shocking events in Paris and stories about the blocking of ideas and closed minds. I wonder what will happen when…
Volcanoes Once Again, Again
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [also, see update at the end of the post] Anthony recently highlighted a couple of new papers claiming to explain the current plateau in global warming.…
Ben Santer tries to explain 'the pause' in global warming
Add it to the list of over 50 excuses for the pause from climate science now on record…this time its small volcanoes. Small volcanic eruptions partly explain ‘warming hiatus’ From…
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