By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10564671/Stranded-the-island-in-the-middle-of-the-English-countryside.html There was an interesting report in last Sunday’s Telegraph about recent flooding in the Somerset Levels. I’ll not reprint the whole thing, but would certainly recommend…
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Is England’s Bad Weather A Sign Of Climate Change?
By Paul Homewood The December floods in England have been a big story recently, and, of course, still remain a problem. The term “extreme weather” has been bandied about, along…
Met Office Confirms St Jude’s Day Storm Was Not Unusual
By Paul Homewood The Met Office have now issued their comprehensive report on the St Jude’s Day storm, that hit southern England in October. Readers will recall idiotic headlines at…
China's "Emission Cuts" Not What They Seem
By Paul Homewood http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2013-11/21/content_17120968.htm “and make sure that the commitment of reducing CO2 emission per unit of GDP by 40-45% by 2020 from 2005 level is fulfilled” We often hear…
How Rare was the November Midwest Tornado Outbreak?
By Paul Homewood A bit of perspective from Accuweather, with the help of SPC’s Greg Carbin and Harold Brooks of NSSL. In the wake of the deadly Midwest tornado outbreak…
Deconstructing the hype on Super Typhoon Haiyan – Yolanda
Guest essay by Paul Homewood With special thanks to John Fuller and Agar012 (and Dr. Ryan Maue for review) Now we have had a few days to reflect on the…
The UK Saint Jude's Day Storm – just another fall storm in a long line of many
By Paul Homewood It has been variously described as “The Storm of the Century”, “Unprecedented”, “Superstorm” and “A repeat of 1987”. I refer, of course, to the St. Jude storm…
Walport’s UK Energy Fantasy Does Not Add Up
By Paul Homewood Bishop Hill had a post the other day, about a presentation on climate change given to the cabinet by Chief Scientist, Sir Mark Walport, seen at right.…
Hide The Decline
By Paul Homewood In an attempt to downplay the recent halt in global warming, the IPCC have claimed in their Summary for Policymakers that: As one example, the rate of…
Are Tornadoes Getting Stronger? Rebuttal to Elsner et al.
By Paul Homewood http://news.fsu.edu/More-FSU-News/Researchers-develop-model-to-correct-tornado-records [Note Update Below] Quantification of long term tornado trends has been hampered by the fact that many more tornadoes are reported today than was the…
Britain’s Warm, But Unremarkable Summer
Guest essay by Paul Homewood For those of us living in the UK, the glorious summer has been much in the news. We seem to have spent half of it…
NOAA's claim on El Reno tornado may not hold up
Tornado Widths– NOAA Makes Changes In Procedure By Paul Homewood NOAA have claimed that the El Reno tornado, in Oklahoma in May, was the widest tornado on record. As I…
What Is Cook’s Consensus?
By Paul Homewood John Cook’s little paper, “Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature” has attracted much attention in recent weeks. Yesterday an essay by Brandon…
Analysis Of UHI In South Korea
Guest essay by Paul Homewood Seoul I ran a post earlier about UHI in South Korea. A study by two Korean scientists found that over half of the warming reported…
WMO Repeats “Hottest Decade Ever” Mantra
By Paul Homewood I’m not sure why it has taken them two years, but the World Meteorological Organisation have just got round to telling us that 2001-10 was hotter than…
The UK Climate Change Act & Its Implications For Energy Supply
By Paul Homewood I have previously looked at the potential costs of the Climate Change Act, for instance here. But now I want to look at its potential impact on…
An Open Letter To Ed Davey
By Paul Homewood Ed Davey, the UK Secretary of State for Energy, has made a speech attacking the press for reporting the views of climate sceptics, saying “But some sections…
Coldest Spring In England Since 1891
By Paul Homewood Originally, it was thought to be the coldest spring since 1962. Winter? Teesdale in County Durham blanketed in snow on May 23 in what is likely to…
The 2013 Moore Oklahoma Tornado – a synopsis
By Paul Homewood I have deliberately held off running this post for a day or two, partly because I felt it inappropriate to do so earlier, and also because I…
Long Term Tornado Trends
By Paul Homewood It seems that tornadoes, or the lack of them, are back in the news at the moment. American Meteorological Society President, Dr Marshall Shepherd, seems to think…
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