Guest Post by Ira Glickstein “Trump’s Meeting With Al Gore Gives Environmental Activists Hope” according to the New York Times, reporting on the Global Warming activist and former VP’s visit to Trump Tower last week. Gore is quoted by the Washington Post as saying: I had a lengthy and very productive session with the president-elect.…
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 state. For example, Texas had over four times as many billion-dollar weather events as neighboring New Mexico. They fail to mention the fact that Texas…
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein “A glass of ice water in a hot place is certainly warming,” said the confident questioner, “despite the thermometer ‘pausing’ at freeing until most of the ice has melted. Don’t look at the thermometer to detect the warming, watch the ice cubes melt!” “Seriously,” he continued, “we should watch the…
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein How should responsible Global Warming Skeptics respond to opinions from intelligent members of the general public who have been perplexed by the Warmists and Alarmists? We should reply in a strictly fact-based way, using official sources — being careful not to speculate or over-complicate the matter. Here is my shot…
Guest Posting by Ira Glickstein John Coleman (Co-Founder of The Weather Channel) made a comment on my: earlier WUWT posting “Ira, please make a video that presents the counter argument so I can put the two videos together for a You Tube “gotcha”. This guy is getting lots of hits and needs to be answered…
Guest Posting by Ira Glickstein My granddaughter just sent me a link to a video that claims: “One Guy With A Marker Just Made The Global Warming Debate Completely Obsolete.” I watched the video with interest. He starts off saying he has: “… An argument that leads to a conclusion even the most ardent skeptic and…
From the “correlation is not causation” department. Guest Posting by Ira Glickstein Since the Death Penalty was restored in the US in 1975, the Number of Executions per Year correlates with UAH Global Temperature Anomaly better than CO2 levels! So, if we want to reduce warming, cut the rate of capital crimes! (See graphic below.)
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein Some of the net Global Warming since 1880 is undoubtedly due to human actions, but how much? [Update 10 April. My PowerPoint Show that includes the following graphic is available for download here: https://sites.google.com/site/iraclass/my-forms/2014%20Global%20Warming%20Civil%20Discourse.ppsx?attredirects=0&d=1 ] The height of the bars on the graphic indicates the relative magnitude of Natural Processes…
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. Oceanographer Gregory Johnson, Lead Author of the IPCC AR5 chapter on marine measurements, has summarized the entire 2,200 pages in 19 nicely illustrated haiku. Haiku is an artful Japanese writing form with a 5-7-5 cadence. Here is one example that stood out for me. But IPCC Climate Models seem to get…
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein I just updated my December 2012 IPCC “Arrows” animation based on the latest available IPCC AR5 (2013) Global Warming prediction for 2035. One good result is that the midpoint of the AR5 prediction range for 2035 is LOWER than the corresponding predictions for three out of the four previous Assessment…