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What Is Milankovitch Theory, What Is It Not, And What Can We Learn from It?
The interglacial periods are initiated by amplification and terminated by reduction of the insolation due to the eccentricity through the precession index.
The Sun-Climate Effect: The Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis (VI). Meridional transport is the main climate change driver
by Javier Vinós & Andy May “No philosopher has been able with his own strength to lift this veil stretched by nature over all the first principles of things. Men…
Keeping Things In Balance
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Let me start with the standard explanation of why the earth warms when greenhouse gases (“GHGs”, e.g. water vapor, CO2, methane, etc.) increase. This is…
The 1.5°C Hysteria
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Lots of folks are up in arms about some rumored “CLIMATE CRISIS!!!” or “CLIMATE EMERGENCY!!!” These terms refer to all the terrible things that are…
Millennial CO2 And Temperature
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My mind runs to curious corners of the climate question. I got to thinking about how little the atmospheric CO2 level has changed over most…
Tying celestial mechanics to Earth’s ice ages
From Physics Today Gradual falls and sharp rises in temperature for millions of years have profoundly affected living conditions on the planet and, consequently, our own evolution. Mark Maslin is…
Failed Serial Doomcasting
People sometimes ask me why I don’t believe the endless climate/energy use predictions of impending doom and gloom for the year 2050 or 2100. The reason is, neither the climate…
Forbes: Climate Change Caused by Anthropogenic CO2
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to climatologist Brian Brettschneider only anthropogenic CO2 can possibly be the cause of recent global warming. Global Warming Is Not Cosmic Brian Brettschneider ContributorScience…
Shocker: study shows past forest fires occurred mainly in humid, warm periods
Researchers at the University of Bonn used drill cores to trace back the fires of the past 600,000 years – favorable climate induced growth promoting larger fuel loads was the biggest factor. Highlights: Fire intensity and temperature…
A must read: A Veneer of Certainty Stoking Climate Alarm
In Private, Climate Scientists Are Much Less Certain than They Tell the Public By Rupert Darwall* Foreword by Judith Curry, President of the Climate Forecast Applications Network and former Professor…
"Smoking gun" on ice ages revisited
Paleoclimatologists Rock -Two million years of radical climate change is significant. David C. Greene writes: “The smoking gun of the ice ages” is the title of an article in the…
The timing of interglacials
By Andy May P. C. Tzedakis and co-authors have just published a new paper in the February 23, 2017 issue of Nature entitled “A simple rule to determine which insolation cycles lead…
Collapse of the CAGW Delusion: Untenable Past 2020
Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) Guest essay by Dr. Norman Page 1.The Problems with the IPCC – GCM Climate Forecasting methods. Harrison and Stainforth say in: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/eost2009EO13/pdf “Reductionism argues that deterministic approaches…
Climate and Human Civilization over the last 18,000 years
Guest essay by Andy May This is an updated timeline of climatic events and human history for the last 18,000 years. The original timeline was posted in 2013. The updated…
How reliable are the climate models?
Guest essay by Mike Jonas There are dozens of climate models. They have been run many times. The great majority of model runs, from the high-profile UK Met Office’s Barbecue…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #180
The Week That Was: 2015-05-16 (May 16, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental…
Study: Climate change is nothing new, in fact it was happening the same way 1.4 billion years ago
From the University of Southern Denmark and the department of natural variation comes this study saying what we’ve all known for years. Same forces as today caused climate changes 1.4…
The Icebox Heats Up
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, either it’s a genetic defect or I’m just a glutton for punishment, but I’m going to delve some more into the ice ages. This…
The latest hand-wringing “myth-buster” video roundly debunked
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The usual suspects have issued yet another “myth-busting” video in their continuing attempt to flog the dead horse of catastrophic Caucasian-caused climate change (CCCCC). This…
Hansen falsified: His extreme sea level rise projections are drowning in hubris
After yesterday’s tongue-in-cheek mention of Obama’s healing the planet (and sea level rise with it) here’s the real lowdown on the current knowledge. It seems that all the science that…
A Comparison Of The Earth's Climate Sensitivity To Changes In The Nature Of The Initial Forcing
Guest post by Bob Irvine ABSTRACT The Earth’s feedback response to warming is independent of the nature of the forcing that caused that warming. The question I intend to examine…
The PR is in: the 'may haves' have it at NSF
From the National Science Foundation, another bit of Speculative Science™ note the caveat in bold, which is all they need for a headline that screams certainty: This sudden release of…
Crowdsourcing the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page
Image Credit: Jo Nova – David Lappi – GISP2 Your help is needed in building the new WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page. Below I’ve posted all of the credible 3rd party…
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