‘Safe AGU’ plan adopted for #AGU17 meeting or The sad case of Dr. Sarah Myhre, part 2

This is interesting. Given the recent political climate of harassers being forced to step down, I wonder if AGU will retroactively remove any AGU members who have harassed in the past?…

The sad case of Dr. Sarah Myhre

Lately, we’ve watched a gang of 14 authors (including Mike Mann and Stephan Lewandowsky) gang up on a single scientist (Dr. Susan Crockford) over her published and peer-reviewed view on…

Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest was Driven by Climate Change

Pro: Climate change is expected to make this rare 1-in-1,000-year event more common From Scientific American “We’ve never seen anything like this before,” said Dustin Guy, a meteorologist with NWS’s office…

The Mysterious AR6 ECS, Part 3, What is Climate Sensitivity?

By Andy May Christian Freuer has translated this post to German here. In part one we discussed various estimates of climate sensitivity (ECS, TCR, and observation-based values) and what they…

The Misguided Crusade to Reduce Anthropogenic Methane Emissions

The role of anthropogenic methane (CH4) in global warming is exaggerated. 

Infrared Forcing by Greenhouse Gases

We review how the atmospheric temperatures and the concentrations of Earth’s five most important, naturally-occurring greenhouse gases, H₂O, CO₂, O₃, N₂O and CH₄ control the cloud-free, thermal radiative fluxes from…

Outside The Black Box

Models that need model-specific input to replicate the known past, violate the most basic criteria of science to earn the label “scientifically proven”, independent of the “proven physics” they are…

Where Is The Top Of The Atmosphere?

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my last post, entitled Advection, I was discussing the online MODTRAN Infrared Light In The Atmosphere model. A commenter pointed out that in the past I’d…

A pertinent climate question

How much of a change in cloudiness would it take to account for the 0.53 W/m2 increase in TOA radiative forcing since 2003?

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #391

The Week That Was: 2019-12-21 (December 21, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and…

Gregory et al 2019: Unsound claims about bias in climate feedback and climate sensitivity estimation

Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on October 18, 2019 by niclewis | By Nic Lewis The recently published open-access paper “How accurately can the climate sensitivity to…

Climate scientists’ pre-traumatic stress syndrome

Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on July 8, 2019 by curryja | by Judith Curry It’s getting worse. About 5 years ago, I wrote two blog posts…

Methane production and emissions in trees and forests

Lots and lots of implications for climate models and GHG budgets. From New Phytologist Kristofer R. Covey J. Patrick Megonigal First published: 06 December 2018   https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15624 Summary Forest ecosystem methane…

Cliff Mass: victim of academic political bullying

Reposted from Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. by Judith Curry There is a disturbing story coming out of the University of Washington surrounding Cliff Mass. In preparing this article, I have…

‘A Form Of Violence’?

Date: 23/11/18 Andrew Montford, GWPF Some climate scientists still struggle to cope with people who disagree So a few days back, Cliff Mass – a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at…

Has Climate Change Advocacy Run Its Course? It sure seems so.

Bart Tali writes in WUWT Tips and Notes: Great article in the WSJ. “Climate Change Has Run Its Course” Its descent into social-justice identity politics is the last gasp of…

CHALLENGING THE SCIENCE BASIS OF THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT

Guest essay by Antero Ollila This rather long story is based on the research study be name “Challenging the scientific basis of the Paris climate agreement” published in International Journal…

Curve fitting and the number of parameters

Guest essay by Antero Ollila I have written blogs here in WUWT and represented some models of mine, which describe certain physical relationships of climate change. Every time I have…

On the ‘IPCC climate model’

Guest essay by Dr. Antero Ollila WUWT previously published my essay on the Semi Empirical Climate Model’ on the 21st of November. In that essay I used the term “IPCC climate model”…

Malicious WUWT troll sees police show up at his door

Sometimes, you just have to fight back. This is a personal note that goes along with the recent news of the bullying of Dr. Susan Crockford and Dr. Judith Curry.…

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…

It’s worse than They thought: warming is slower than predicted

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley When The Times, a Murdoch paper previously slavish in kow-towing to the Party Line on climate, leads with a story picked up from the more…

Dilbert 1, Scientists 0.

By Ross McKitrick Click image for the full comic A communications group at Yale University has put out a video that seems to be a rebuttal to a Dilbert cartoon…

On the Reproducibility of the IPCC’s climate sensitivity

Guest essay by Dr. Antero Ollila The highest ranked scientific journal Nature published on the 28th of July 2016 an article based on the survey for 1,576 researchers. More than…