Guest essay by Ross McKitrick University of Guelph June 4, 2015 UPDATED June 8 2015: Some changes and corrections noted in red. Also added MAT records and Kent figure 18…
Month: June 2015
Another 'hiatus in global warming' discovered
While Karl et al. 2015 blathers on about eliminating the “hiatus” in global warming through creative adjustments and cherry picking of periods to achieve a desired outcome, Rasmussen Reports made…
@NOAA 's desperate new paper: Is there no global warming 'hiatus' after all?
Patrick J. Michaels Richard S. Lindzen Paul C. Knappenberger A new paper published today by Science, from Thomas Karl and several co-authors[1], that removes the “hiatus” in global warming prompts…
NOAA/NCDC's new 'pause-buster' paper: a laughable attempt to create warming by adjusting past data
Did SNL’s Tommy Flanagan Oversee the New Surface Temperature Data? By Bob Tisdale and Anthony Watts, commentary from Dr. Judith Curry follows There is a new paper published the journal Science…
BREAKING – EPA: Fracking poses no 'widespread, systemic' harm to drinking water
Ouch, that’s going to leave a mark. Via Politico – A much-anticipated EPA report on hydraulic fracturing hands a victory to the oil and gas industry by concluding that the…
Kofi Annan: Australia has forfeited world leadership on climate policy
Kofi “let them eat insects” Annan thinks Australia is not imposing sufficiently draconian climate policies on her citizens, to qualify as a leading green power. According to Annan; “Despite the…
Senator Whitehouse: Use the RICO law against climate "Deniers"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Senator Whitehouse has a conspiracy theory, about why people aren’t embracing skyrocketing energy prices and a substantially degraded quality of life. According to Whitehouse; Fossil…
An Inherently Stable System
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach At the end of my last post , I said that the climate seems to be an inherently stable system. The graphic below shows ~2,000…
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center is 'sharpening their knives' to cut 'the pause' from the global temperature record
People send me stuff. What I received reminded me of this famous quote from NCDC’s Dr. Tom Peterson back in 2011 In this case multiple sources have sent me a…
El Niño strengthens: the Pause lengthens
Global temperature update: no warming for 18 years 6 months By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley For 222 months, since December 1996, there has been no global warming at all (Fig.…
Yet More Sting on Scientific Publishing
A look at the original sting operation John Bohannon did on open access scientific journal review processing. Guest essay by Howard Booth In reading some of the responses to Chocolate…
Albedic Meanderings
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been considering the nature of the relationship between the albedo and temperature. I have hypothesized elsewhere that variations in tropical cloud albedo are one…
Damn you Microsoft! How to remove the Windows 10 'free upgrade' icon
From the don’t force shit on me I don’t want and prevent me from saying NO department. Forgive my off-topic rant, but this will be useful for others having this…
Eye roller study: 'Climate-change skeptics are more ambivalent than we thought'
I have three thoughts on this. 1. Like Lewandowsky, they didn’t bother to get opinions from the most central collection of climate skeptics in the world, WUWT. But reading the…
Claim: Greenhouse gas-caused warming felt in just months
Caldeira It seems in the desperation to erase “the pause” in time for Paris, Ken Caldeira has jumped the shark with this claim. Basically he’s claiming that the heat from fossil…
Tuesday titter – Josh on the Stench of Green Subsidies
Josh writes: H/t Paul Homewood on an interesting story in the LA Times about the subsidies Elon Musk receives from the US Government. Well worth a read – if you don’t mind the smell. Cartoons…
New climate stress index model challenges doomsday forecasts for world's coral reefs
Believe it or not, that’s the actual headline from the Wildlife Conservation Society press release. This model they tout incorporates field data. – Anthony Complex model performs better than common…
Solar plane flight aborted due to bad weather
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Solar Impulse 2, an attempt to raise awareness of the environmental issues, by flying around the world the world using solar energy, has been…
The Tomorrowland Climate Doom Movie: I watched it so you don't have to
Guest review by John A. Spoiler alert: This review will talk about the plot, so if you want to go and see the movie, please don’t read on. Still here?…
Duelling Doctors – Contradictory Climate reports from Medics
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Two contradictory medical press releases have been issued within days of each other, concerning the impact of climate change on health. According to The Australian,…
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