Here are some highlights of these two new papers published in Physics Letters A by David H. Douglass & Robert S.Knox: Central Pacific region temperature dataset SST3.4…
Month: January 2015
Anthropogenic Warming in the CET Record?
Guest essay by Neil Catto The CET record started in 1659 close to the minimum of the little ice age. As such, it is with no surprise that last year…
Epic survey finds regional patterns of soot and dirt on North American snow
From the University of Washington Snow is not as white as it looks. Mixed in with the reflective flakes are tiny, dark particles of pollution. University of Washington scientists recently…
Peter Miesler Helps Expose USHCN Homogenization Insanity and Antarctic Illusions.
Guest essay by Jim Steele I was recently notified, by a colleague familiar with my wildlife and restoration work in the Sierra Nevada, that a “whacko” was portraying my graph…
Climate skepticism: the 'show me' state
There’s a nickname for Missouri, the “Show Me State”. It is a label attributed to Representative Willard Van Diver. It connotes a certain self-deprecating stubbornness and devotion to simple common…
Study casts doubt on mammoth-killing cosmic impact
From UC-Davis: Rock soil droplets formed by heating most likely came from Stone Age house fires and not from a disastrous cosmic impact 12,900 years ago, according to new research…
On the futility of climate models: 'simplistic nonsense'
Guest essay by Leo Smith – elevated from a comment left on WUWT on January 6, 2015 at 2:11 am (h/t to dbs) As an engineer, my first experience of…
Final – The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 22 – January 2015 Update – You Make the Forecasts for the 2015/16 Season
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale WRAP-UP This is the final post in The 2014/15 El Niño series. It began back in April 2014 when many people were expecting a strong…
Curious: Electromagnetic waves linked to particle fallout in Earth's atmosphere, new study finds
HANOVER, N.H. – In a new study that sheds light on space weather’s impact on Earth, Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues show for the first time that plasma waves buffeting…
The Best Test of Downscaling
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In a recent issue of Science magazine there was a “Perspective” article entitled “Projecting regional change” (paywalled here) This is the opening: Techniques to downscale…
Hottest year ever? Giant clam reveals Middle Ages were warmer than today
While government science and media begin the ramp-up to claim 2014 as the “hottest year ever” China’s Sea’s biggest bivalve shows that the Middle Ages were warmer than today, when…
Polar Ice Caps More Stable Than Predicted, New Observations Show
Happy New Year! Polar Ice Caps More Stable Than Predicted, New Observations Show Daily Express, 25 December 2014 Levi Winchester THE North and South Poles are “not melting”, according to…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #162
The Week That Was: 2015-01-03 (January 3, 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…
The Pope’s Mistaken Moral Calculus On Global Warming
Guest essay by H. Sterling Burnett Pope Francis evidently has decided to make fighting global warming an important papal cause in 2015. He praised the United Nations’ climate treaty efforts…
New version of common antibiotic could eliminate risk of hearing loss
This is a note of personal interest, since my acute hearing loss was caused by antibiotics that damaged the nerve cells of my cochlea. This is truly a breakthrough that…
Baked Alaska? Propaganda film suggests children in Alaska have no snow
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Over at the Dot Earth blog at the New York Times, Andy Revkin highlighted a cute YouTube made by James Barthelman, an elementary school teacher…
The Great Pause lengthens again
Global temperature update: the Pause is now 18 years 3 months By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Since October 1996 there has been no global warming at all (Fig. 1). This…
Snow in Palermo, Sicily
[on Jan 1, 2015] “In Rome, arctic-inspired winds brought temperatures as low as minus eight degrees Celsius,” says this video by David DuByne. “Palermo woke up under a white blanket,”Dozens…
A Neutral View of Oceanic pH
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Following up on my previous investigations into the oceanic pH dataset, I’ve taken a deeper look at what the 2.5 million pH data points from…
Climate And Truth: A Tale Of Immorality?
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The most recent aberration of climate science is the apparent cherry picking of ocean temperature data by government scientists, Richard Feely and Christopher Sabine. The…
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