Guest Post by Bob Tisdale [Update: Corrected a few typos in the paragraph before Figure 4. My thanks to rogerknights.] I hadn’t read the NOAA State of the Climate (SOTC)…
Year: 2015
A Taxonomy of Science Blogs
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at Lucia Liljegren’s most interesting site, “Rank Exploits”, she has another fascinating post, as is often the case. I busted out laughing at the…
Calamities Oversold
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The overselling of calamities in environmental sciences has reached unseemly proportions…so much so in one field that in 2014 a team of marine researchers exposed…
Breaking science news: Yak dung burning pollutes indoor air of Tibetan households
From Emory Health Sciences, and the Department of Obvious Science, comes this press release that speaks for itself. Tibet, the highest region on Earth and one of the most remote,…
Does the Uptick in Global Surface Temperatures in 2014 Help the Growing Difference between Climate Models and Reality?
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post includes calendar year 2014 global surface temperature data from GISS and NCDC. I thought it would be interesting to begin the introduction as…
Peer-reviewed pocket-calculator climate model exposes serious errors in complex computer models and reveals that Man’s influence on the climate is negligible
What went wrong? A major peer-reviewed climate physics paper in the first issue (January 2015: vol. 60 no. 1) of the prestigious Science Bulletin (formerly Chinese Science Bulletin), the journal…
Aussie Green plans to kayak to Paris, to 'deliver a message' – could it be "greens go by air"?
Kayak trip for climate action includes a few long haul flights Guest essay by Eric Worrall An Australian grandfather has announced plans to Kayak from Canberra, Australia’s landlocked capital city,…
Forgive Us Our Transgressions
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A new paper in Science magazine entitled “Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet” (paywalled here) claims that we are all potential “transgressors”…
On Migrating Moose and Migrating Temperature Trends
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism The biggest threat…
Faux polar bear figures
Susan Crockford, Special to Financial Post (republished at WUWT with permission from the author) Polar bears are a conservation success story. However, you’d never know that from the output of…
Status and last chance for Josh 2015 Climate Skeptic Calendars
This is an update and last call for Josh 2015 Climate Skeptic Calendars which went on sale in December. Some of you have already received them, and some are still…
Climate Risk Map – Mainly Countries Hostile to the USA
Guest essay by Eric Worrall UK Climate experts have prepared a map of countries they think are most at risk of climate change. However their map could easily be mistaken…
Cool high speed video: Rainfall can release aerosols, study finds
High-speed imaging captures raindrops releasing clouds of aerosols on impact, showing once again that we just don’t know all the sources for aerosols and other climate forcings. From the Massachusetts…
Claim: Acceleration in sea level rise 'worse than we thought'
However, other analyses show the opposite… Correcting estimates of sea level rise Acceleration in sea level rise far larger than initially thought From Harvard University, where you can’t tell them…
1 million tons of pressurised CO2 stored beneath Decatur, Illinois
It was a tenth of that, 100,000 tons, that caused the Lake Nyos disaster Guest essay by Eric Worrall 7000 ft below the city of Decatur, Illinois, population 74,710 people,…
Anticipation
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The CO2 obsessed are patiently awaiting the GISS and NCDC global surface temperature data for December 2014 and for the calendar year. GISS normally publishes…
Al Gore, wrong again – Polar ice continues to thrive
Guest essay by Rolf E. Westgard In his 2007 Noble Prize acceptance speech, former Vice President Al Gore warned that the “Arctic ice could be gone in as little as…
Claim: Social cost of climate change too low, Stanford scientists say
The ‘social cost’ of carbon dioxide emissions may not be $37, as previously estimated by a recent US government study, but $220. From the Stanford School of Engineering The economic…
Cold kills: Summer no sweat for Aussies but winter freeze fatal
Australians are more likely to die during unseasonably cold winters than hotter than average summers, QUT research has found. From the Queensland University of Technology Across the country severe winters…
Another bias in temperature measurements discovered
From the “temperature bias only goes one way department” and the University of Montana: Mountain system artificially inflates temperature increases at higher elevations MISSOULA – In a recent study, University of…
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