Every once in a while a new reporter arrives onto the climate scene that immediately thinks they know everything there is to know about climate, and therefore doesn’t need to…
Month: June 2015
Renewables industry fury at new Wind commissioner appointment
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Australian Renewables industry has reacted with fury to a leaked suggestion that a new “wind commissioner” will be appointed, to handle complaints about turbine…
ClimateProgress’s Joe Romm Is Promoting a Skeptical View of Global Warming: El Niño-Caused Steps
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale I wasn’t too surprised to find Joe Romm’s June 16, 2015 blog post 2015 May Bring Long-Awaited Step Jump in Global Temperatures at the climate…
The Climate Wars’ Damage to Science
They are behaving like sixteenth-century priests who do not think the Bible should be translated into English. Guest essay by Matt Ridley (Note: due to the length of this essay,…
French Minister apologises for Nutella Climate Claim
Guest essay by Eric Worrall French Ecology Minister Segolene Royal has apologised for claiming the popular breakfast spread Nutella exacerbates climate change. According to the Sydney Morning Herald; “A thousand…
NOAA Releases New Pause-Buster Global Surface Temperature Data and Immediately Claims Record-High Temps for May 2015 – What a Surprise!
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale NOAA recently published their State of the Climate Report for May 2015. Under the heading of Global Summary Information, they note: Note: With this report…
Study: Global Warming won't reduce winter deaths
Note: the graph above is not part of the IOP press release, but provided for comparison. From the Institute of Physics: In a study that contradicts the received wisdom on…
Is The Catholic Church Burned By The Sun Again?
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Spanish-born American Philosopher George Santayana famously said, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” The recent Papal Encyclical announced the…
No surprise here: Jet contrails affect surface temperatures
From Penn State High in the sky where the cirrus ice crystal clouds form, jet contrails draw their crisscross patterns. Now researchers have found that these elevated ice cloud trails…
Thoughts on the papal encyclical on environment
Guest opinion by Joe Ronan Laudato Si – A cry for the poor Why is Pope Francis writing about climate change? Because he cares for the poor, and wants us…
The Pope puts the kibosh on carbon credit trading, calling it a 'ploy'
Maurizio Morabito originally observed that the Pope’s climate encyclical was a “damp squib”. For the most part it is harmless, but it does confront carbon credits and a “ploy”, albeit Pope…
Greenpeace India rocked by Sexual Misconduct Scandal
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Greenpeace India has admitted a failure to create a “gender sensitive environment”, in the wake of allegations of serious sexual misconduct, including the alleged rape…
Oh noes! 'Climate change may impact future tourism at some US national parks'
I plotted the visitor data from the hottest national park, doesn’t seem to slow anyone as it got hotter this last century. In fact, there seems to be a “pause”…
Trust the New York Times? Source says Skeptic Climate Scientists are Crooks (ignore NYT's burden-of-proof wipeout)
Guest Opinion By Russell Cook While attending the 10th International Conference on Climate Change in Washington D.C. late last week, Dr S. Fred Singer asked me to send him material…
Claim: NOAA says the Arctic Ocean is becoming "corrosive"
From NOAA’s department of acidic wordsmithing: New study shows Arctic Ocean rapidly becoming more corrosive to marine species Chukchi and Beaufort Seas could become less hospitable to shelled animals by…
Lamenting the Double ITCZ Bias in CMIP5 Climate Models
From CO2 Science, something that Willis Eschebach holds dear as a regulating mechanism: The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone In what must be a difficult acknowledgement to make, Oueslati and Bellon (2015)…
Study: Skeptics reject charity appeals which blame disasters on climate change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A study by Daniel A. Chapman and Brian Lickel, of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, claims that skeptics are…
Another climate researcher claims to have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
From the move over Mann department (on a tip from a WUWT reader) Richard A. Houghton, Ph.D. has made a blatantly false claim on his Woods Hole Research Center webpage…
TAO Buoys Go Hot And Cold
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about how I could gain more understanding of the daily air temperature cycles in the tropics. I decided to look at…
Surprising: Researchers correlate rheumatoid arthritis and giant cell arteritis with solar cycles
From the DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory What began as a chat between husband and wife has evolved into an intriguing scientific discovery. The results, published in May in BMJ (formerly…
Royal Society: It will take another 50 years without warming, before we admit we were wrong
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The new British Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd’s plan to win over prominent climate skeptics like Lord Lawson, by setting up a meeting…
Science Made To Order; AGW Proponents Modus Operandi?
NOTE: In this essay, commenters have noted that Dr. Tim Ball used a rhetorical device in this sentence: “The following is a possible email from John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar,…
Tuesday toon – Cartoona Enciclica
Josh writes: Papal thoughts on the environment have been posted all over the place – here at WUWT, over on Dot Earth, and an excellent Twitter dissection here by JunkScience’s Steve Milloy. You can also read the whole…
Claim: Climate change = more women
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Daily Mail reports that climate change will result in more female births, tilting the gender balance towards women. According to The Daily Mail; Experts…
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