An Expensive Urban Legend by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. About.com describes an “urban legend” as an apocryphal (of questionable authenticity), secondhand story, told as true and just plausible enough…
Category: Alarmism
350 day fails to impress
Or as my friend down under, Andrew Bolt, calls it: “Day of apathy” Sydney yesterday demonstrated the depth of international passion about global warming through several highly pictorial stunts: It…
Climate Craziness of the Week #1
I think single-handedly, artist, photographer, and intrepid dirt pile explorer Alex Hartley has launched a new WUWT feature. A fine addition to his list of accomplishments I think. His project:…
And then what happens? Another online poll that might go horribly wrong
UPDATE: At first I was concerned about this poll and the language involved. Now from comments I’m seeing a number of people whom aren’t worried and see an opportunity to…
Now playing at a museum near you, the "Day After Tomorrow Map"
Here’s the view of the future in a new science museum according to the Telegraph. No mention if NYC’s West Side Highway will be underwater or not. They call it…
A little known 20 40 year old climate change prediction by Dr. James Hansen – that failed will likely fail badly
UPDATE: Thanks to a tip from Willis Eschenbach, there’s some developing news in that story from Dr. James Hansen. The Salon interviewee and book author, Rob Reiss that I quoted,…
More debunking of the Yarrow Axford midge study: glaciers releasing pollutants into lakes years later.
From the American Chemical Society via Eurekalert yet another reason why we asked “did you check the lake for DDT?”. Also, a review of Miller et al 2005 suggests that…
Spencer: IPCC Crushes Scientific Objectivity
IPCC Crushes Scientific Objectivity, 91-0. By Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Unquestionably, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed to build the scientific case for humanity being…
The Top Ten Reasons why I think Catlin Arctic Ice Survey data can't be trusted
First, I loathe having to write another story about Pen Hadow and his Catlin Arctic Ice expedition, which I consider the scientific joke of 2009. But these opportunistic explorers are…
CO2 report – estimated to be "highest in 15 million years"
Another paper for the Copenhagen train. This is an estimate according to the abstract. Here’s the abstract and the supplemental information, of course the publicly funded paper is behind the…
The surprising real story about this year's Northeast passage transit: The media botched it
First, let’s get our bearings. Unlike the Northwest passage, which traverses the icy north above Canada, the Northeast passage is an entirely different route, shown on the map in red.…
United Nations Pulls Hockey Stick from Climate Report
WUWT readers may recall that Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit blog discovery of UNEP’s use of a Wikipedia “hockey Stick” graphic by “Hanno”, was the subject of last week’s blog postings.…
The Age of iStupid: Using the iPhone to terrify people about nuclear power
While looking at some of the organizations that our “amateur Wikipedia grapher cum UNEP cited as peer reviewed source” belongs to I came across the German webpage of “Friends of…
More on the Hanno Wikipedia graph in the UN Climate Report
Guest post by Harold Ambler, TalkingAboutTheWeather.com What started as a brouhaha in the blogosophere has turned into a minor embarrassment for the United Nations in the climate debates. As first…
United Nations Environment Programme uses unreviewed graph from an anonymous Wikipedia author for official report.
We’ve been lectured time and again about the importance of having climate science work come from peer reviewed papers, saying that the work of dedicated amateurs has no place in…
Wandering the climate desert in exile
My friend in Australia, Joanne Nova, has come up with an interesting essay on why it is so hard for many professional scientists to come out against climate consensus. In…
Antarctica – warming, ice melting – not yet
I thought it might be time for an update on this. Earlier this year we had the big news that even though everything else says otherwise, the statistical wizards of…
Climate Alarmists rush to judgment on dead walruses, ignore other possibilities
All over the web today, there’s the theme of: “dead walrus = caused by climate change”. On the Climate Progress blog they have this picture of the dead walruses (seen…
Carbon offset kiosk at SFO sells carbon credits at 60 times the market rate
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the SFO airport has now installed carbon offset purchase kiosks so that you can remove the guilt from your flight. Only one problem. The…
Man to walk 350 miles to highlight climate change – no mention of how he's getting there and back
This is a 350.org effort to highlight the perceived need to get below 350 ppm of atmospheric CO2. At left is the list of luminaries that make up the 350.org…
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