From Penn State (via Eurekalert) and the ‘bad science keeps coming back from the dead’ department, comes this laughable PR hack which is disguised as a plug for Dr. Mann’s…
Month: February 2015
Solar Cycle 24 Update for February 2015
Solar cycle 24 contines to be lower than the vast majority of predictions that came out during the waning years of solar cycle 23. David Archibald gives an update on…
Advances in research of electric car batteries presented at #AAAS
A number of interesting things have occurred at the AAAS meeting in San Jose the last few days, here is one that caught my eye. As many readers know, I…
A new book in which I have a chapter: Climate Change: The Facts
From Steynonline: … Climate Change: The Facts has been put together by our friends at the Institute of Public Affairs in Australia, edited by Alan Moran, and features 22 essays…
A new study shows climate skeptics have more knowledge on climate science than alarmists
Fox News reports: Study: Global warming skeptics know more about climate science Are global warming skeptics simply ignorant about climate science? Not so, says a forthcoming paper in the journal…
North and South Poles: Important Climate Differences
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball A favorite exam question in my first-year climate class was, “Why is the North Pole warmer than the South Pole? I changed it each year,…
Friday funnies! Cartoon notes from Josh
Josh writes: Here are the cartoon notes of a riveting talk given by Dr Christopher Essex last Wednesday,11th Feb, in the House of Lords, UK Parliament. Chris is Chairman, Permanent Monitoring…
Actual PR headline: 'Middle-aged men at highest risk of suicide after breathing poor air'
From University of Utah Health Sciences viua Eurekalert; I suppose it’s only a matter of time where somebody will publish a study saying that a 50ppm increase in CO2 causes…
New Paper: Unprecedented 21st-century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains
GUEST POST by Bob Tisdale That’s the title of a new paper by Cook et al. that’s been making the rounds in the mainstream media. The paper is available from…
UN Climate Agreement balloons into a carbon sequestration document
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The proposed draft UN climate agreement is reported to have ballooned to 100 pages, from the 38 page draft discussed at the Lima holiday conference.…
Claim: East coast 'Monster hurricanes' linked to previous warm periods, current data suggests otherwise
A new press release from AGU, suggests past data shows this to be true, but Dr. Philip Klotzbach suggests this graph of current data and notes: “Florida Peninsula and East…
Vilifying realist science – and scientists
Ultra-rich Green groups attack climate scientists who question “manmade climate chaos” claims Guest essay by Paul Driessen Things are not going well for Climate Chaos, Inc. The Environmental Protection Agency…
National Academy of Science demands equal access to the climate trough for geoengineering
“…the time has come to look at options for a planetary-scale intervention…” Guest essay by Eric Worrall The National Academy of Science has demanded that scientists from disciplines other than…
Nutty claim: Advent of geoengineering may help lower temperature of debate over climate change
From Yale University and the “we had to burn the village to save it” department: Geoengineering, an emerging technology aimed at counteracting the effects of human-caused climate change, also has…
Recent Paper Ends Abstract with “…Model Might Be Too Sensitive to the Prescribed Radiative Forcings”
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The paper is Douville et al. (2015) The recent global warming hiatus: What is the role of Pacific variability? [paywalled]. The abstract reads (my…
Early Sunspots and Volcanoes
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, as often happens I started out in one direction and then I got sidetractored … I wanted to respond to Michele Casati’s claim in…
Another 'settled science' topic is not so settled after all – Big Bang theory questioned
We’ve all heard of the claim of “settled science” when it comes to global warming/climate change, and we’ve all heard of the “Big Bang Theory”, and I’m not just talking…
Environmental policy: not so much enviro as mental
Guest opinion by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The Environmentalist Committee of the House of Commons, chaired by the ghastly “Tim” Yeo, who has profited to the tune of approaching $1…
The transformation of the science of climatology, in like a Lamb, out like a Lion
Hubert Lamb And The Transformation Of Climate Science London, 10 February: A new paper by Bernie Lewin and published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation re-examines the legacy of…
Claim: Researchers find new evidence of warming
New study reveals remote lakes in Ecuador are not immune to climate change From Queen’s University A study of three remote lakes in Ecuador led by Queen’s University researchers has…
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