Tim Flannery: Firing Climate Scientists Breaches the Paris Agreement

Tim Flannery, whose spectacularly wrong advice once helped panic Aussie politicians into wasting billions of dollars on useless desalination plants, now thinks firing CSIRO climate scientists will cause Australia to…

Finally, a study that shows unreliable models are the root of overwrought 'extreme weather' events

Dr. Judith Curry tips me to this new study in GRL: Unreliable climate simulations overestimate attributable risk of extreme weather and climate events Omar Bellprat, Francisco Doblas-Reyes Abstract Event attribution aims…

Monday Mirthiness – Eureka! I'm biased!

Comic book to print (b&w): Comic book Comic book to print (blue): Comic book Poster-size comic: Poster 18×24 Want to learn more? Read Regina Nuzzo’s Nature News feature: How scientists fool themselves —…

A stunning 'hockey stick' – How access to energy brought humanity forward

People send me stuff. I got an email today that contained a blog post about another subject unrelated to climate or energy, but it had this graph in it that…

AGU decides to ignore calls for severing ties with ExxonMobil

From the “strange bedfellows” and the “AGU 2016 Fall meeting is in oil-rich Louisiana” department  comes this statement from the American Geophysical Union about calls to sever ties. There is…

DMI disappears an inconvenient sea ice graph

UPDATE: 2/25/16 DMI offers an explanation and an apology here One of the graphs we have had on the WUWT sea ice page has been the DMI graph showing 30%…

Comments on Riser et al (2016) – An Infomercial about the ARGO Program

UPDATE: I’ve crossed out the entire discussion of the top of the atmosphere energy imbalance and removed the illustration. See the note at the beginning of that heading. # #…