Guest Post by Wim Röst Abstract Glacial cycles show a gradual diminishing temperature during the slide into the glacial period, but a steep increase of temperature at the start of…
Author: Andy May
My excellent adventure into the March for Science
By Andy May I love visiting WUWT and Climate, Etc., but most of the visitors to these sites, like me, are skeptical that the current global warming is dangerous. I’ve…
Global versus Greenland Holocene Temperatures
By Andy May Last week, I posted a global temperature reconstruction based mostly on Marcott, et al. 2013 proxies. The post can be found here. In the comments on the…
A Holocene Temperature Reconstruction Part 4: The global reconstruction
By Andy May In previous posts (here, here and here), we have shown reconstructions for the Antarctic, Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, the tropics, the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, and the Arctic. Here…
A Holocene Temperature Reconstruction Part 3: The NH and Arctic
By Andy May In the last post (see here) we reexamined the Marcott, et al. (2013) proxies for the Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes and the tropics. In this post, we will…
A Holocene Temperature Reconstruction Part 2: More reconstructions
By Andy May In the last post (see here) we introduced a new Holocene temperature reconstruction for Antarctica using some of the Marcott, et al. (2013) proxies. In this post,…
A Holocene Temperature Reconstruction Part 1: the Antarctic
By Andy May The only recent attempt at a global Holocene temperature reconstruction available today is the one by Marcott, et al. (2013), the paper abstract can be viewed here.…
Lindzen, Soon and Spencer debunked?
By Andy May On Bret Stephens facebook page, I complimented Mr. Stephens on what I thought was a very good column. I also noted that the eminent climate scientist Dr.…
Take-aways from the Washington, D.C. Heartland Climate Change Conference
By Andy May This was my first climate change conference and I had a great time. So, here is a quick note sharing my most memorable take-aways from the conference.…
Exergy and Power Plants
By Andy May Key question: Can renewables ever replace fossil fuels and nuclear? Understanding the value of renewables, vis-à-vis fossil fuels and nuclear power, requires that we consider that all…
Renewable Energy, what is the cost?
By Andy May A key question to think about, do renewable fuels decrease fossil fuel use, or do they increase it? What are the costs of using renewable energy? 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…
Risk and Nuclear Power Plants
By Andy May The financial risk is too great. Updated post (2/21/2017) In any discussion of the future of energy, nuclear power generation is brought up. Once a nuclear power…
Oil – Will we run out?
By Andy May “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future” (old Danish proverb, sometimes attributed to Niels Bohr or Yogi Berra) In November, 2016 the USGS (United States Geological…
Energy and Society from now until 2040
By Andy May ExxonMobil released its 2017 Outlook for Energy, A View to 2040 in mid-December. David Middleton has written that the report reveals wind and solar will supply a…
At the length truth will out
By Andy May Some will recognize the title as part of a line by Launcelot Gobbo in Act II, scene 2 of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. In plainer and…
Global Cooling and Wikipedia Fake News
By Andy May There is an excellent new post up at notrickszone.com on the global cooling scare of the 1970’s and the efforts to erase it from the record by…
Detection and Attribution of Man-made Climate Change
By Andy May Chapter 10 of the 2013 IPCC Working Group 1 Assessment Report (WG1 AR5) report on climate change deals with how man-made climate change is detected and how…
A Summary of Meehl, et al., 2016 and the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
By Andy May In a comment to my earlier post on ocean cycles, Nick Stokes challenged my interpretation of a quote from the new Nature Climate Change paper by Meehl,…
Ocean cycles, The Pause and Global Warming
By Andy May h/t Joachim Seifert There is a new post by Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Professor Fritz Vahrenholt, translated by Pierre Gosselin, on the effect of ocean cycles on…
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