Guest essay by Eric Worrall Warren Buffett doesn’t understand the insurance industry; Or so suggests the Huffington Post, in a rather hysterical critique of Buffett’s lukewarm acceptance of climate dogma.…
Month: February 2016
Milton Friedman’s advice about climate models, & how to win the policy debate
By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: The vital public policy debate over climate change is deadlocked. This is the sixth in a series about ways to restart…
Another negative climate feedback found, this time in grasslands
In grasslands, longer spring growing season offsets higher summer temperatures North American grasslands face mixed bag of climate change effects From the NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Grasslands across North America will…
The Kevin Trenberth Effect: Pulling Science Back to the Dark Ages. Part two – The Big Snow Job
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 Trenberth’s 1999 paper…
Uh, oh. U.S. Lawmakers Expand Probe Of Hiatus-Denying NOAA Study
Back in the summer of 2015, I sent Dr. Tom Peterson of NOAA/NCEI a private email saying that I’d lost my trust in him as an unbiased scientist and that…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #216
The Week That Was: 2016-02-27 (February 27, 2016) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…
Climate Models are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 3
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: See the update below Figure 1.24-8 for the IPCC’s correction of their Figure 9.17 from the 5th Assessment Report. Thanks, Nic. # # #…
Warren Buffet, Climate Change and Pascal's Wager
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Legendary businessman Warren Buffet has waded into the climate issue, with his latest letter to Berkshire Hathaway investors. Buffet seems to believe climate change is…
The Complicity of Journals and Magazines in Pushing Flawed IPCC Climate Science
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The public face of climate science practiced by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and their offspring the Intergovernmental Panel…
Another thing not in climate models 'Synchronized leaf aging' in the tropics
From the DOE/BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY Synchronized leaf aging in the Amazon responsible for seasonal increases in photosynthesis High-tech photography in the Amazon reveals that young leaves grow in at the…
Ghent Cathedral bells ring out Bob Carter's Peal
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Bob Carter’s Peal, a clock tune composed in memory of the late Professor Bob Carter, seems to have gone viral. In no time at all,…
Exxon Stands Up to the Green Bullies
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Exxon Mobile has courageously rejected suggestions that it should include the impact of the Paris Accord on its business model, in its financial disclosures to…
Claim: Psychology Will Save Us from Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Can psychology help manipulate people into accepting climate alarmism, and adjusting their personal lifestyles? According to The Conversation, the answer might be yes – but…
Claim: Consumers care about carbon footprint
This study reminded me of one of the most ridiculous green marketing campaigns ever, “carbon free” Domino sugar. My view is that the only consumers that care about a carbon…
Analysis of the Relationship Between Land Air Temperatures and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentrations
Guest essay by Clyde H. Spencer Before getting into the details of the analysis, it must be stated that there are a number of issues with the available temperature data…
The Warmer The Icier
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A WUWT commenter emailed me with a curious claim. I have described various emergent phenomena that regulate the surface temperature. These operate on time scales…
Ten dire polar bear predictions that have failed as global population hits 20-31k
Guest essay by Dr. Susan Crockford Grim predictions of the imminent demise of polar bears – their “harsh prophetic reality” as it’s been called – have been touted since at…
DMI apologizes for their disappeared sea-ice graph debacle
Earlier this week, I published a post titled: DMI disappears an inconvenient sea ice graph . Some of the usual folks who police any sea ice discussion went ballistic over the post,…
Very strong graphical evidence for the Pause. (Part 2)
Guest essay by Sheldon Walker A quick recap for anybody who missed my first article. My first article can be found here. I have developed a new technique for analysing global…
Science debunks the eco-fable of Easter Island
By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: The Polynesian expansion across the Pacific from Samoa to South America is one of history’s greatest achievements of exploration. Conducted with…
Ridiculous $1.4M Yale study creates 'fictitious fishing communities' to model future fish stock & economic changes
From the department of wasted grant money and YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, comes this models gone wild fish story moment, bold mine: Global warming will drive vast, unpredictable…
Green British Airport Trespassers Avoid Jail
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Heathrow 13, a group of green anti-flight activists who were convicted of cutting the perimeter fence and disrupting flight operations, at one of the…
New Paper Shows Global Warming Hiatus Real After All
Climate researchers have published a new paper this week in the journal Nature Climate Change that acknowledges there has been a global warming slowdown from 2000-2014. Their research shows a…
New study seeks global carbon budget to meet 2°C limit, may also find unicorns along the way
From the INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS and the department of “burning budgets”, comes this glassy eyed missive that has about as much chance of being applied globally as…
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