Much has been written about the Karl et al “pause buster” paper published this past summer, this essay suggests Karl et al actually shot themselves in the foot with the…
Month: February 2016
Another "blob" of warm ocean water discovered, this one ancient
While the Pacific “blob” seems to have died, this new research say they can find blobs lost in time. What is most interesting is that they say Greenland went through…
Mauna Loa Daily Meteorology
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As a confirmed data junkie, I’m fond of hourly data. The interesting processes in the climate system unfold on the scale of minutes and hours,…
Brexit: Left and Right Unite to Eject the Green EU from Britain
Guest essay by Eric Worrall An astonishing thing just happened in Britain. UKIP leader Nigel Farage, a strong supporter of US Tea Party Politics, invited the radical left wing politician…
The Guardian's Dana Nuccitelli uses pseudo-science to libel Dr. John Christy
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley One Dana Nuccitelli, a co-author of the 2013 paper that found 0.5% consensus to the effect that recent global warming was mostly manmade and reported…
The Kevin Trenberth Effect: Pulling Science Back to the Dark Ages – Part 1 Droughts and Heat waves
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 In my essay…
Claim: We should focus on Air Pollution, let Climate "take care of itself"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian has published a hilariously confused post, which seems to claim that climate change is important, vital, and big, but we should focus on…
How not to measure temperature (or climate) #97 – California's warming air temperatures are population and site bias related
A couple of days ago, I highlighted a worst of the worst NOAA climate monitoring station in Arizona with the help of a scientist from the University of Washington. My…
New NOAA forecast suggests current El Niño will fade fast, and be replaced by a strong cooling La Niña this year
Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. directs me to this new forecast product from NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL). If it holds, it suggests a big cooling event ahead. NOAA/ESRL PSD…
Greenpeace co-founder calls out Paris Climate Accord with $100,000 bet
Via PRWeb, Friday, Feb 19th: Dr. Patrick Moore Offers $100,000 Wager on Global CO2 Emissions Dr. Patrick Moore, PhD ecologist and President of Ecosense Environmental Inc. has offered a bet…
Colossal Antarctic ice-shelf collapse followed last ice age
From the “things Earth does without our help” department: Study: 100,000 square miles of Ross Ice Shelf disappeared in 1,500 years From RICE UNIVERSITY HOUSTON — (Feb. 18, 2016) —…
Satellites – "not good enough to tell us global temperature", but apparently good enough to tell us global climate sensitivity
Remember that video produced a few weeks ago from the usual suspects that says satellite data is no good for climate data? Others in science don’t seem to think so.…
A first! Hubble images a distant planet 160 light years away, sees clouds
Last week it was the discovery of gravity waves, this week it’s seeing clouds on a distant planet for the first time. What an exciting time in astronomy! In a…
Claim: Plastic pollution threat 'on par to global warming'
Frightened of plastic? Of course not; barring the occasional unsightly pile of junk, plastic is harmless. But the plastic pollution scare just might have what it takes, to serve as…
Forget global climate models, 'local climate models' to predict change are the next big thing
From the “climate is just global weather on a local scale” department: Dartmouth-Led Team Develops Method to Predict Local Climate Change HANOVER, N.H. – Feb. 18, 2016 – Global climate…
A Short History of Climatism in Google Ngrams
Guest essay by Leo Goldstein Google Books Ngrams tracks how frequently certain words and short phrases appeared in printed books from 1800 through 2008. Such data may serve as an…
Bee-pocaclypse called off, bees doing OK, global warming was never a cause
Back in 2007, Wired Magazine mused: It’s only slightly less ridiculous than the other bee killing theory that year – cell phones. I published a story about the loony idea…
How not to measure temperature (or climate change) #96
From the “global warming data looks better with heat-sinks and air conditioners” department. Dr. Mark Albright, of the University of Washington writes: Here is a great example of how NOT…
The detection of gravitational waves – a triumph of science enabled by fossil fuels
Last week, the science world was abuzz with the news that gravitational waves had been discovered thanks to the LIGO project and the team of international scientists that made it…
Wednesday wit – Exit Stage Left
Josh writes: BishopHill has this story – Republicans in the US House of Representatives are currently trying to get a grip on one small part of the Washington bureaucracy by trying to get the National…
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