Older records may be fragile but was diligence any better in recent decades? Guest essay by Bob Fernley Jones Background: Out of over 20,000 Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) weather stations…
Month: November 2015
Follow up: How a liberal vegan environmentalist made the switch from climate proponent to climate skeptic
Guest essay by David Seigel On October 16, I launched a 9,000 word essay on my conversion from a climate-change believer to skeptic. Anthony liked it and decided to run a short summary on…
Claim: Arctic sea ice plays a pivotal role in the Arctic methane cycle
Nature study on greenhouse gas feedback mechanisms between the atmosphere, sea ice and ocean From the ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE, HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH The ice-covered Arctic Ocean…
Heartland Institute Leads Contingent of Climate Realists to Paris for UN’s COP 21 Conference
Via Press release: December 7 events with CFACT and CEI include ‘Day of Examining the Data,’World Premiere of ‘Climate Hustle’ Documentary The Heartland Institute – known globally as the leading…
BREAKING News – Major Terrorist Atrocity in Paris, Just Weeks until COP21
See Update 6 – a poll has been added about whether the COP21 climate conference in Paris should continue as planned. Guest essay by Eric Worrall BREAKING NEWS – a…
Halfway to 2°C Warming – and All is Well
Guest essay by Eric Worrall There’s been a lot of fuss in green leaning news outlets, that we have breached the 1C threshold, and we are halfway to the precipice…
Friday Funny – Paul Ehrlich's review of Steyn's book on Michael Mann's work
Paul Ehrlich (yes THAT Paul Ehrlich) recently posted a review about Mark Steyn’s book A Disgrace to the Profession on Amazon, and after reading Ehrlich’s review, my irony meter pegged,…
Censorship Used To 'Promote' Anthropogenic Global Warming
In light of what happened yesterday with The Independent apparently disappearing a famous climate prediction blunder article while leaving an article critical of its use intact, this opinion piece by…
Congress Passes Space Mining Act: There are No Limits to Growth
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Benny Peiser – Congress has just voted to legalise the mining of Asteroids. In doing so, they have opened the way to the next…
One of the longest running climate prediction blunders has disappeared from the Internet
Readers of WUWT and millions of climate skeptics have read this article before, and in fact it is likely one of the most cited articles ever that illustrates the chutzpah…
A Tale Of Two Convergences
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the course of doing the research for my previous post on thunderstorm evaporation, I came across something I’d read about but never had seen.…
Climate Science 'jumps the shark' – Sharks hunting ability 'destroyed' due to higher CO2
From the ‘Carbon Dioxide, is there anything it can’t destroy?’ department and the University of Adelaide’s department of science fiction, comes this laughable press release. Let’s see, sharks have been…
'The IPCC does not make recommendations' (©IPCC)
Guest essay by Drieu Godefridi In a message to “Friends of Science” (October-28-15 5:50 am, quoted here. Jonathan Lynn, “Head, Communications and Media Relations” of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
Micro-critters Rule!
A layman’s musings about ecology, and the possibility that, while man may rule the fate of whooping cranes, far smaller creatures may rule the fate of sea-ice. Guest essay by…
Climate Activists Bracing for Failure at Paris
Guest essay by Eric Worrall As the upcoming Paris COP21 climate conference hurtles towards an inevitable train wreck of green disappointments, climate activists are already starting to prepare the faithful,…
Tropical Evaporative Cooling
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been looking again into the satellite rainfall measurements from the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM). I discussed my first look at this rainfall data…
Breaking news! Fire melts permafrost.
From the department of Obvious Science, the “Surface Albedo Collective” and the University of Alaska comes this stunner of a press release. Research links tundra fires, thawing permafrost UNIVERSITY OF…
Southern Methodist University prefers denigration in their science press releases
Yesterday, I happened upon the press release below posted at Eurekalert, bemoaning the lack of 100% certainty about climate change in California textbooks. While that was amusing enough, what really…
Claim: Global warming has been good for Champagne
Guest essay by Eric Worrall WUWT recently reported that wine makers are not concerned about climate change. Now Champagne makers have gone a step further, claiming that global warming has…
Rapture Of The Deeps
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach One of the reasons I lived so much of my life in the tropical South Pacific is because of the diving. Coral reefs are one…
The Height Of Temperature Folly
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In her always interesting blog, Dr. Judith Curry [and Anthony at WUWT] points to a very well-researched article by Bjorn Lomborg, peer-reviewed, entitled “Impact of Current…
350.org's fossil fuel "divestment" exposed as pointless political puppetry by National Association of Scholars
From the National Association of Scholars When Colleges Divest, Who Wins? NEW YORK, November 10, 2015 | The National Association of Scholars (NAS) released today the first comprehensive account of…
Lomborg: Paris climate pact will reduce temperature increase by the end of the century by a whopping 0.05°C
Current climate policy promises will do little to stabilize the climate and their impact will be undetectable for many decades. Paris COP21 commitments [by the EU] will reduce temperatures by…
Missing factors in climate models suggest Antarctic melt may not be so bad after all
From MCGILL UNIVERSITY Geophysics could slow Antarctic ice retreat Gravitational effects, variations in Earth structure could damp rise in global sea levels The anticipated melting of the massive West Antarctic Ice…
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