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Category: Bad science
Living Outside The Niche
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I stumbled across a paper called “Future of the human climate niche“, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The abstract says…
Arctic Sea Icecapades
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that the usual gloomy hype about arctic sea ice continues unabated. This has been going on for a while. Here’s the dean of…
Patrick Brown: When Science Journals become Activists
Spinning climate data to fit a policy agenda undermines public faith in science.
SCIENCE!!!!! Uncovers the Mystery that People May Have Mixed Feelings About their Dietary Choices
Clearly revealing the authors’ clear view that positive beliefs about meat eating are inherently false.
Friday Funny: A Retraction So Hilarious that I Can’t Put the Title in the Title
A leading scientific journal faces humiliation after it published a completely fake paper, purportedly written by Chinese researchers, which contained AI generated images of a rat with a penis bigger…
When polar bears die, they die of starvation: new Nature paper is propaganda, not news
Starvation is a natural cause of death for polar bears and is virtually never caused by lack of sea ice.
Tipping Is Optional
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was greeted this morning by a CNN headline saying “Critical Atlantic Ocean current system is showing early signs of collapse, prompting warning from scientists“.…
More About Artificial Ignorance
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My previous post, Artificial Alarmism, has gotten some comments from folks who think I’m wrong, and that Large-Language Models can indeed automate the fact-checking of…
Artificial Alarmism
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I was notified by my long-standing “Google Alert” that my name had appeared in a paper on the web. It was in a study…
Maine Sea Level Panic
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach So I open my electronic window onto the world this morning, and I find lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth about a projected sea…
Big Claims About Tiny Numbers
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [UPDATE: An alert commenter, Izaak Walton, notes below that I’d used 10e21 instead of 1e21. This means all my results were too large by a…
E pur si muove
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A few years back, some scientists got together and invented something they call the Living Planet Index, or LPI. It’s supposed to measure how well…
The Absurdity of Measuring Breath for Climate Change
It represents a worrying trend in the climate debate, where even the most basic human functions are scrutinized for their environmental impact.
Wrong, Phys.Org, Boreal Forests Are Doing Well Amid Modest Warming
So, amid climate change, tree growth and range expansion across the Earth’s boreal forests exceed tree decline, no ifs, ands, or buts.
Dr. Jim Advises Panic
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that my favorite serially failed climate doomcaster, Dr. James Hansen, is at it again. Accompanied by his usual Greek chorus of co-sycophants, he’s…
Mark Lynas ‘99% Consensus’ on Climate Change – Busted in Peer Review.
“The conclusion does not follow from the data”: Israeli study trashes extreme global warming consensus claim.
Modeling Gone Wild
Every once in awhile I read a news release and do a facepalm. I note that “simulations” are not “evidence” and chaos (and uncertainty) works backward in time too. –…
NYT Claims Record September Temperature Indicates Accelerated Climate Change – It Doesn’t
The small difference in average temperature also comes with wide variation, which makes climate change considerably more nuanced than usually reported by the mainstream media.
The Bitter Taste of Climate Alarmism in Your Beer
This latest research, published in Nature Communications, is a classic example of the narrow lens through which many studies view the world of climate aka climate catastrophizing.
Extremely Common Rarities
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach. With all the recent interest in rare or extreme weather events, I got to wondering … what makes a weather event rare or extreme? With…
Friday Funny – JournalGate
Earlier this week you may have read this: How to Publish a High-Profile Climate Change Research Paper.It’s worse than we thought. Josh has a take on it below: Like his…
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