Richard Tol’s Excellent Summary of the Flaws in Cook et al. (2013) – The Infamous 97% Consensus Paper

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale It’s been almost 2 years since Cook et al. (2013) Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature was published. If you’re…

February 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS through February 2015 and HADCRUT4 and…

Bad News for Trenberth’s Missing Heat – New Study Finds the Deep Oceans Cooled from 1992 to 2011 and…

…that some of the warming nearer to the surface came from the deep ocean. Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The paper is Liang et al. (2015) Vertical Redistribution of Oceanic…

The 2014-15 El Niño – Part 23 – NOAA’s Forward-Looking El Niño Advisory Was Also Dictated by Conditions since Last September

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale After many months of borderline El Niño conditions in the tropical Pacific, yesterday NOAA finally declared an El Niño was occurring. See Anthony Watts’s post…

Another Couple of Notes about Michael Mann’s “Faux Pause” Post and Steinman et al. 2015

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale We discussed Steinman et al. (2015) and Michael Mann’s post about it at RealClimate in the article On Steinman et al. (2015) – Michael Mann…

Believe It or Not There Are Plans for a 6th Assessment Report from the IPCC

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The IPCC press release IPCC takes decisions on future work dated 17 February 2015 begins: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has taken a…

On Steinman et al. (2015) – Michael Mann and Company Redefine Multidecadal Variability And Wind Up Illustrating Climate Model Failings

Guest Post By Bob Tisdale For the past few years, we’ve been showing in numerous blog posts that the observed multidecadal variations in sea surface temperatures of the North Atlantic…

Roger Pielke, Jr. Being Investigated by Representative Grijalva for Presenting Inconvenient Data

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Roger Pielke, Jr. is not a skeptic of human-induced global warming, as we all know.  Pielke Jr. is being investigated, however, for the “crime” of…

New Paper Confirms the Hiatus Is Not Occurring at the Poles, Undermining the Efforts of Cowtan and Way

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Pierre Gosselin of NoTrickZone reports on a paper that confirms the slowdown in global surface warming has not been occurring at the poles. See Pierre’s…

Climate Propaganda from the Australian Academy of Science

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The Australia Academy of Science has recently published a Q&A about human-induced global warming titled The science of climate change.  Their press release is here. …

January 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS through January 2015 and HADCRUT4 and…

New Paper: Unprecedented 21st-century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains

GUEST POST by Bob Tisdale That’s the title of a new paper by Cook et al. that’s been making the rounds in the mainstream media. The paper is available from…

Recent Paper Ends Abstract with “…Model Might Be Too Sensitive to the Prescribed Radiative Forcings”

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The paper is Douville et al. (2015) The recent global warming hiatus: What is the role of Pacific variability? [paywalled].    The abstract reads (my…

Many Mixed Signals in the UKMO’s Latest 5-Year Global Surface Temperature Forecast

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The UKMO issued their most recent 5-year global temperature forecast about a week ago. See their Decadal forecast press release for 2015.  It has been…

About the Claims That Northeast U.S. Blizzards Have Been Amplified by Human-Induced Global Warming

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The media has been abuzz with claims that the January 2015 New England Blizzard was worsened by human-induced global warming. One of the outspoken activist…

What are Your Fears about Global Warming and Climate Change?

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The title question is rarely, if ever, asked of people who are skeptical of human-induced global warming and climate change…for obvious reasons.  If persons are…

New Paper Claims Extreme La Niñas to Become More Frequent under Global Warming

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The new 2015 paper by Cai et al Increased frequency of extreme La Niña events under greenhouse warming has been getting a lot of alarmist attention…

An Unexpected Admission from Dana Nuccitelli at SkepticalScience

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale In Dana Nuccitelli’s recent post at SkepticalScience Matt Ridley wants to gamble the Earth’s future because he won’t learn from the past, he has finally…

Ocean 'Global Warming' is not actually 'global' at all

UPDATE: I forgot to note that the data in Figure 1 have been zeroed at the year 2003. That was done to simplify the illustration. # # # The National…

GISS & NCDC Need to Be More Open with the Public when Making Proclamations about Global Warming Records

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale We discussed the 2014 global surface temperature announcements by NASA GISS and NOAA NCDC in the posts On the Biases Caused by Omissions in the…