Josh writes: Nic Lewis has a very amusing comment over at Lucia’s about a paper written by Gavin Cawley, Kevin Cowtan, Robert Way, Peter Jacobs and Ari Jokimäki – all part of…
Year: 2015
Charlie Hebdo, Climate Skepticism & Free Speech
Climate Extremism & The Chilling Effect On Free Speech From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser At the end of that process, some Global Warming deniers would never admit their…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #163
The Week That Was: 2015-01-10 (January 10, 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…
32,757 year old survey participant skews Lewandowsky paper – Defective data, demonstrably defective conclusion
Guest essay by Eric Worrall. JoNova reports on a hilarious error in Lewandowsky’s paper “The Role of Conspiracist Ideation and Worldviews in Predicting Rejection of Science” . The calculated age…
Alarmists Bizarrely Claim “Just what AGW predicts” about the Record High Global Sea Surface Temperatures in 2014
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE (Jan 13, 2015): See the end of the post for a copy in pdf format. # # # This post is the annual model-data…
Portents in Paris
Josh writes…A dark cartoon for the the start of the year following the shocking events in Paris and stories about the blocking of ideas and closed minds. I wonder what will happen when…
Volcanoes Once Again, Again
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [also, see update at the end of the post] Anthony recently highlighted a couple of new papers claiming to explain the current plateau in global warming.…
Ben Santer tries to explain 'the pause' in global warming
Add it to the list of over 50 excuses for the pause from climate science now on record…this time its small volcanoes. Small volcanic eruptions partly explain ‘warming hiatus’ From…
Two new papers suggest solar activity is a 'climate pacemaker'
Here are some highlights of these two new papers published in Physics Letters A by David H. Douglass & Robert S.Knox: Central Pacific region temperature dataset SST3.4…
Anthropogenic Warming in the CET Record?
Guest essay by Neil Catto The CET record started in 1659 close to the minimum of the little ice age. As such, it is with no surprise that last year…
Epic survey finds regional patterns of soot and dirt on North American snow
From the University of Washington Snow is not as white as it looks. Mixed in with the reflective flakes are tiny, dark particles of pollution. University of Washington scientists recently…
Peter Miesler Helps Expose USHCN Homogenization Insanity and Antarctic Illusions.
Guest essay by Jim Steele I was recently notified, by a colleague familiar with my wildlife and restoration work in the Sierra Nevada, that a “whacko” was portraying my graph…
Climate skepticism: the 'show me' state
There’s a nickname for Missouri, the “Show Me State”. It is a label attributed to Representative Willard Van Diver. It connotes a certain self-deprecating stubbornness and devotion to simple common…
Study casts doubt on mammoth-killing cosmic impact
From UC-Davis: Rock soil droplets formed by heating most likely came from Stone Age house fires and not from a disastrous cosmic impact 12,900 years ago, according to new research…
On the futility of climate models: 'simplistic nonsense'
Guest essay by Leo Smith – elevated from a comment left on WUWT on January 6, 2015 at 2:11 am (h/t to dbs) As an engineer, my first experience of…
Final – The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 22 – January 2015 Update – You Make the Forecasts for the 2015/16 Season
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale WRAP-UP This is the final post in The 2014/15 El Niño series. It began back in April 2014 when many people were expecting a strong…
Curious: Electromagnetic waves linked to particle fallout in Earth's atmosphere, new study finds
HANOVER, N.H. – In a new study that sheds light on space weather’s impact on Earth, Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues show for the first time that plasma waves buffeting…
The Best Test of Downscaling
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In a recent issue of Science magazine there was a “Perspective” article entitled “Projecting regional change” (paywalled here) This is the opening: Techniques to downscale…
Hottest year ever? Giant clam reveals Middle Ages were warmer than today
While government science and media begin the ramp-up to claim 2014 as the “hottest year ever” China’s Sea’s biggest bivalve shows that the Middle Ages were warmer than today, when…
Polar Ice Caps More Stable Than Predicted, New Observations Show
Happy New Year! Polar Ice Caps More Stable Than Predicted, New Observations Show Daily Express, 25 December 2014 Levi Winchester THE North and South Poles are “not melting”, according to…
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