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…
Month: February 2016
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…
Fun video: fire in ultra slo-mo
From The American Chemical Society To fire up the grill or the gas stove, we often reach for a match. It turns out there’s a lot of chemistry going on…
Bill Gates: "We need a [energy] miracle"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Bill Gates thinks we need a miracle to solve the world’s energy needs, a safe, reliable, non polluting form of energy which could bring electricity…
WaPo's 'baked in goodness' of climatic hyper-adjectives
It has been obvious for years that there’s a “say anything” aspect to climate and weather reporting that has gotten out of hand. Today I saw a prime example of…
Northern Winter Nights
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See Addendum at the bottom.] [See Second Addendum at the bottom] I got to thinking about the distribution of the so-called “global” warming. I’d heard…
A new climate war brewing: forecasting vs. modeling
A new paper published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation explains how statistical forecasting methods can provide an important contrast to climate model-based predictions of future global warming. The…
Study: Urban backyards contribute almost as much CO2 as much as cars and buildings
From the “mulch your way to a warmer planet” department and Boston University: Urban soils release surprising amounts of carbon dioxide Tracking biological emissions will allow more accurate assessments of climate…
Model claims: Future heat waves to roast 60% of the planetary surface by 2075
From NCAR/UCAR: SEARING HEAT WAVES DETAILED IN STUDY OF FUTURE CLIMATE February 23, 2016 Sweltering heat waves that typically strike once every 20 years could become yearly events across 60…
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. # #…
Zika virus defense: Shooting Mosquitoes Down with Lasers
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Imagine a machine which can shoot mosquitoes out of the sky using a laser. From the Arctic to the tropics, mosquitoes are a major nuisance,…
Are Environmentalism and Global Warming Effectively Religious Socialism?
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball An interesting pattern developed early in the official involvement in global warming. If a person challenged the claim that humans were causing global warming (AGW),…
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