Craven Attention: The Sequel

by Steven Mosher In the last episode of  “Craven Attention” I recounted some of the things Greg Craven said during a panel discussion after Oppenheimer’s lecture of the role of…

Craven Attention

Steve Mosher reports that things got a bit bizarre at the 2010 American Geophysical Union convention in San Francisco Guest post by Steven Mosher At AGU today I was witness…

By the Book

One year after climategate, a journalist has finally come close to asking the question that Tom Fuller and I wanted them to ask: “Why did Jones ask people to delete…

A Lazy Rainy Metadata Sunday

Guest post by Steven Mosher I’m feeling lazy today, after a few months of writing code around the metadata question, I have a post to write up about 230 land…

Friday Funnies: Global Rounding

Since we all enjoy some some humor at Al Gore’s expanse, I bring you the comedy of my weird and wacky  libertarian friend, Will Franken. No he’s not related to…

On Bradley: Blackmail or Let’s Make a Deal.

Guest Post by Steven Mosher Not the funniest Monty Python sketch, but for me it illustrates what the climate wars have finally come down to: blackmail. The examples range from…

The Big Valley: Altitude Bias in GHCN

Foreword: The focus of this essay is strictly altitude placement/change of GHCN stations. While challenge and debate of the topic is encouraged, please don’t let the discussion drift into other…

Calculating global temperature

I’m happy to present this essay created from both sides of the aisle, courtesy of the two gentlemen below. Be sure to see the conclusion. I present their essay below…

Green Subsidies Wreak Havoc On German Economy

From Canada Free Press Germany’s support for renewable energy is “breaking” the nation’s ability to pay for power and threatens the competitiveness of electricity producers, Handelsblatt cited a former [green] industry…

New research sheds light on Antarctica's melting Pine Island Glacier

From Physorg.com New results from an investigation into Antarctica’s potential contribution to sea level rise are reported this week (Sunday 20 June) by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS),…

Heartland Conference Establishes Post-Climategate Consensus

From the American Thinker “New scientific discoveries are casting doubt on how much of the warming of the twentieth century was natural and how much was man-made, and governments around…

Cuccinelli tells court former U-Va. professor's academic freedom not threatened

From the Washington Post Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has told a judge that his request for documents related to the work of former University of Virginia climate scientist Michael…

Hot Times in Antarctica

From the “I told you Angry Penguins were the new icon” department From Time The world’s polar regions are warming up faster than the global average, but the western edge…

Americans Not Inclined To Pay More To Fight Global Warming

From Canada Free Press Democratic Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman declared yesterday that a new EPA study shows their new global warming legislation won’t cost Americans much after all. But so…

How to improve the IPCC

From Nature news “When the error was found it was handled in a totally and utterly atrocious manner.” A former head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says…

Nasa warns solar flares from ‘huge space storm’ will cause devastation

From the Telegraph Video link here National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the Sun…

Whale poop fights global warming

Click here to watch the video..NOT From the Sydney Herald Southern Ocean sperm whales are an unexpected ally in the fight against global warming, removing the equivalent carbon emissions from…

Scan of Arctic ice dispels melting gloom: Researcher

From The Vancouver Sun An electromagnetic “bird” dispatched to the Arctic for the most detailed look yet at the thickness of the ice has turned up a reassuring picture. The…

Scientists study shifting attitude to climate change

by Moshpit The hubris apparent in the notion that the climate is something we can control has found its match in the thought that climate scientists can now understand how…

Arctic Ocean ice retreating at 30-year record pace

File this under short term trends matter when we say they matter. From The Montreal Gazette BY RANDY BOSWELL, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE Arctic Ocean ice cover retreated faster last month…

The IPCC consensus on climate change was phoney, says IPCC insider

From the National Post The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according…

New Dogs; IPCC tricks

Looks like they took lessons from Briffa. From Fox News The seven experts who advised President Obama on how to deal with offshore drilling safety after the Deepwater Horizon explosion are…

Was Margaret Thatcher the first climate sceptic?

From the Telegraph Margaret Thatcher was the first leader to warn of global warming – but also the first to see the flaws in the climate change orthodoxy. A persistent…

New Dogs; Old Tricks:

Over at Climate Audit Steve McIntyre has started a  new series on the “the trick.”  To this day the trick is still largely misunderstood by nearly everyone discussing it, except…