In my news feed today comes this pathetic excuse for a press release that tries to tell us that weather events, which span hours to days to sometimes weeks in…
Month: July 2016
Quote of the Week – former warmist James Lovelock tells it like it is
JAMES LOVELOCK: NOBODY REALLY KNOWS THE FUTURE OF CLIMATE CHANGE Date: 26/07/16 Catherine Bolado, The Bournemouth Echo IT’S not every day you get to meet a scientific hero – an earth…
Study finds: Middle atmosphere temperature in sync with the ocean PDO
Relationship between decadal variations in temperatures in the Pacific and the tropopause identified From the HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL (GEOMAR) Water plays a major role for our planet not…
A "Free" Book Giveaway!
Guest essay by Jim Steele Anthony’s blog has been a tremendous resource that has given skeptics from around the globe a voice in a politicized world that has tried to…
Ugly: "Why climate denial should be a criminal offence"
Christopher Smith writes in WUWT Tips and Notes: Dr Jarrod Gilbert: Why climate denial should be a criminal offence 5:00 AM Tuesday Jul 26, 2016 New Zealand Social Scientist Dr…
Large Populous States Have More Billion-Dollar Extreme Weather Events
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein From the US Department of Silly Statistics (ncdc.noaa.gov) comes this news flash: Since 1980, Texas has had more billion-dollar weather events than any other US…
My emergence from the end of a long, dark, tunnel
This is a personal note to readers that I’ve been meaning to write for a couple of weeks, and I feel today is the right day. Don’t ask me why-…
Guardian Hails Chinese Economic Problems as "Peak Coal"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian is celebrating that according to official figures, Chinese coal consumption fell in 2014. But is this fall in consumption structural, or is it…
Precipitable Water
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach One of my great pleasures is to come across a new dataset. Turn me loose on new observations of this magical world, and there’s no…
Nothing Unusual about the Sea Surface Temperatures and Anomalies for the Hurricane Main Development Region at the 2016 Season’s Start
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale During the hurricane season, I’ll be adding the sea surface temperatures and anomalies of the Main Development Region of hurricane development in the North Atlantic…
The Unsinkable "Sinking Atolls" Meme
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve written before about the study of Arthur Webb and Paul Kench regarding the fact that coral atolls are not being swallowed by rising seas. Their…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #233
The Week That Was: 2016-07-23 (July23, 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 Project…
Credibility Loss in Climate Science is Part of a Wider Malaise in Science
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The corruption of climate science by some misguided individuals in the quest to “save the planet” is the most egregious example of the larger problems…
Science and Politics: An Abusive Relationship
Science should inform politics, not the reverse. Guest opinion by Edward Ferrara Decades before Luis Pasteur fostered scientific consensus on germ theory, Ignaz Semmelweis was imploring obstetricians to wash their…
NASA: Global Warming Observations Need a Further 19% UPWARD Adjustment
Guest essay by Eric Worrall NASA researcher Mark Richardson has completed a study which compares historical observations with climate model output, and has concluded that historical observations have to be…
John Kerry: Air Conditioners as Big a Threat as ISIS
Guest essay by Eric Worrall US Secretary of State John Kerry has set his sights on the nation’s air conditioners, claiming that the climate impact of air conditioners are as…
A Response to ABC’s Media Watch’s “Shoot the Coral Messenger” Flimflam!
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 Great Barrier Reef…
Why do consumers participate in 'green' programs?
From MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY From recycling to reusing hotel towels, consumers who participate in a company’s “green” program are more satisfied with its service, finds a new study co-led by…
Is the Reuters “news” agency committing fraud?
Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Yet another screaming Reuters headline, this time Earth on track for hottest year ever as warming speeds up, precedes yet another screaming, inaccurate,…
Professor Peter Wadhams will not bet on his own sea-ice predictions
Remember back in September 2012 Professor Peter Wadhams famously said that Arctic sea ice would disappear within four years? He also had another prediction in 2013, saying that due to…
S. Fred Singer responds to NYT Op-Ed
Letter to NYT July 13, 2016 In the New York Times July 12 op-ed, “Another Inconvenient Truth: It’s Hard to Agree How to Fight Climate Change” John Schwartz does a…
Claim: Global Warming and Snow is Killing Soldiers in the Kashmir Standoff
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Indian military commanders have claimed Global Warming is killing soldiers on the roof of the world, the Himalayan Siachen Glacier, probably the world’s most alpine…
Climate science or climate advocacy?
Students are learning energy and climate change advocacy, not climate science Guest opinion by David R. Legates For almost thirty years, I have taught climate science at three different universities.…
Sea Level Rise, Acceleration, and Closure
Guest essay by Rud Istvan Background There is no doubt that interglacials change sea level (SL). And that sea level rise (SLR) can be dramatic on millennial interglacial time scales.…
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