Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This is the June 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update, but in it we’re presenting the new GISS…
Month: July 2015
Finding: Buckminsterfullerenes are absorbing starlight
Old astronomic riddle on the way to be solved From the University of Basel Scientists at the University of Basel were able to identify for the first time a molecule…
Claim: Lake Erie yellow perch threatened by 'climate change', but predation may be the bigger cause
Before you read this story blaming the universal bogeyman ‘climate change’ for the decline in yellow perch, it might be a good idea to listen to what the fishermen and…
Are fuel cells environmentally friendly? Not always!
Fuel crucial for life cycle assessment From the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) Fuel cells are regarded as the technology of the future for both cars…
Thanks partly to NOAA's new adjusted dataset, tommorrow they'll claim to reporters that May (and possibly June) was the 'hottest ever'
However, satellite data don’t agree with that finding People send me stuff. Today I got an email with an advance link to the NOAA/NCDC “state of the climate” briefing- that…
Wait, What? I thought it was CO2 that was going to 'destroy civilization', not lack of plant life
From the the “Children won’t know what weeds are (h/t to Dr. David Viner) and the we must make more CO2 to save the plants” department, comes this out of…
More depressed scientists
From the “weepy Bill McKibben” department. Climate alarmists were out rattling their doomsday sandwich boards again, repeating their absurd claim that a few degrees of warming, even if it occurs,…
July 2015 ENSO Update – Tropical Pacific at the Threshold of a Strong El Niño
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of many of the ENSO-related variables we presented as part of last year’s 2014-15 El Niño Series. The reference years…
Claim: Ocean warming leads to stronger precipitation extremes
Recent event underlines importance of study by German and Russian scientists Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) That the temperatures on our planet are rising is clear. In particular,…
Monday mirthness – Debunk alarm from Josh
Josh writes: There’s been a minor kerfuffle of bruised feathers on Twitter today about the speedy way BishopHill debunked the latest paper from the LSE. It does seem that blogs are increasingly agile in spotting…
Wild claim: air travel emitted CO2 affects climate, El Niño
Oy! If there was ever a poster child for “correlation does not equal causation” this is it. I have no doubt that when we have ENSO events, there are increased…
A Return to the Question "Was 2014 the warmest year?"
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: The author of the post has now been listed at the end of the Initial Notes. # # # This is a repost of…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #187
The Week That Was: 2015-07-11 (July 11, 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…
Australian PM Cancels Subsidies for New Windfarm Projects
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose recently appointed a commissioner to handle complaints about wind farms, has just instructed the government Clean…
Environmental And Climatic Alarmism Demand Accountability
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball In Aesop’s story of the boy who cried wolf the consequences included him losing his sheep and his credibility, even if he later told the…
'Robust' analysis isn't what it is cracked up to be: Top 10 ways to save science from its statistical self
In the wake of what Willis recently pointed out from Nassim Taleb, about how “In fact errors are so convex that the contribution of a single additional variable could increase…
Nassim Taleb Strikes Again
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Following up on his brilliant earlier work “The Black Swan”, Taleb has written a paper called Error, Dimensionality, and Predictability (draft version). I could not even…
Saturday satire – Hot spot or not?
Josh writes: It is good to see Christopher Booker writing about the UK’s ‘hottest day of the year’ in the Telegraph again. Paul Homewood’s excellent posts, on which his article is based, are well worth…
Californian Recycling Fraud Case
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A Californian truck driver has been charged with smuggling tons of used beverage containers from out of state into California, to defraud the California Redemption…
The Kavachi Sharcano
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The Solomon Islands, where I lived for eight years, is just north of Australia and just south of the Equator. It is part of the…
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