Guest Post by Bob Tisdale As you are well aware, there is a very basic difference between the updates to the NOAA and UAH global temperature datasets: the NOAA update…
Month: July 2015
Kiribati "Climate Refugee" loses appeal
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Kiribati man Ioane Teitiota has just lost his appeal to the New Zealand Supreme Court, to be recognised as the world’s first climate refugee. According…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #188
The Week That Was: 2015-07-18 (July 18, 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…
Questions raised about Met Office claims of a new high temperature record
The Heathrow Temperature Data That The Met Office Tried To Withhold By Paul Homewood http://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2015/07/07/on-the-record-observing-a-heatwave/ Readers will recall that when I asked for the temperature data at Heathrow for 1st…
Another "end of snow" prediction
15 years after Dr Viner embarrassed the British Climate Research Unit, Griffith University in Australia has just joined the slowly growing list of academic institutions which have predicted the “end…
A carbon accounting conundrum
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Is Australian coal still “naughty”, if the coal is burned in China? Aussie PM Tony Abbott has infuriated greens in the last few days, by…
Heathrow Hijinks
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Once again the Week In Review-Science Edition over at Dr. Judith Curry’s website brings up interesting news. It appears that the first of July was…
Climate Change, Baltic Herring And The Reformation?
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball – Baltic Herring – The Pope claims climate change is threatening the world and urges action to stop global warming. Many debate his motive, because…
Science trumps politics and patronage: Al Gore is 'losing the bet' against scientific forecasting
Guest essay by Kesten C. Green Global warming is a forecasting problem. The claim of the IPCC and sympathetic alarmists is that if we don’t stop emitting carbon dioxide, the…
Where Pope Francis Got His Advice on Global Warming
Guest essay by Martin Fricke. Ph.D. (nuclear physics) On behalf of legitimate scientists everywhere, I apologize for the bad advice Pope Francis has received about global warming and CO2. I…
500 sign petition to Smithsonian in defense of Dr. Willie Soon – Guess Smithsonian's answer
Guest essay by H. Sterling BurnettMore than 500 scientists, colleagues, and friends of Willie Soon, Ph.D. signed a letter sent, along with accompanying supporting documents, to the Smithsonian Institution’s Board…
Friday Funny – backspin, balls, gravity, and the atmosphere
This is some cool science in a video that explains how you can take advantage of something known as “The Magnus Effect” with the application of just a bit of…
Al Gore criticises Obama climate policy
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Former Vice President Al Gore has strongly criticised President Obama, for allowing oil drilling in the Arctic. According to Al Gore; “I think Arctic drilling…
One more thing for Greece to worry about – undersea pools of carbon dioxide
From Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – Carbon dioxide pools discovered in Aegean Sea The location of the second largest volcanic eruption in human history, the waters off Greece’s Santorini are…
Despite the 'urgency' of Paris climate talks, a U.N. sponsored global poll rates climate change dead last
From the United Nations “MY World” initiative, which has recorded the opinions for All Countries & Country Groups with votes of 7,679,273 at the time of this writing. They describe…
The Three Faces of the GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index (LOTI)
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This is the first of a series of posts about the impacts of NOAA’s new pause-buster sea surface temperature data on the global temperature products…
Throwback Thursday #1 – Joe Romm's "permanent drought"
Today I begin a new feature, “Throwback Thursday” with the purpose of highlighting past claims of climate doom made by scientists, pundits, and alarmist activists…that have not come true. It’s…
Oceans slowed global temperature rise, scientists report
Heat trapped below the surface will begin moving up kicking off a warming cycle (Note: this is the press release that hit Eurekalert today for Nieves et al., which we…
Claim: low solar activity will melt Greenland's ice faster
From the AGU: Sun’s activity controls Greenland temperatures WASHINGTON, D.C. – The sun’s activity could be affecting a key ocean circulation mechanism that plays an important role in regulating Greenland’s…
What NOAA NCEI isn't telling you in their 2014 State of the Climate Report released today
Yesterday I made mention of the fact that there would be a report today from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, now NCEI. Today, they have released their 2014 report, and…
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