Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A new paper in Science magazine entitled “Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet” (paywalled here) claims that we are all potential “transgressors”…
Category: Bad science
Monday Mirthiness – More 'skeptical science' kids scienz
Josh writes: Nic Lewis has a very amusing comment over at Lucia’s about a paper written by Gavin Cawley, Kevin Cowtan, Robert Way, Peter Jacobs and Ari Jokimäki – all part of…
32,757 year old survey participant skews Lewandowsky paper – Defective data, demonstrably defective conclusion
Guest essay by Eric Worrall. JoNova reports on a hilarious error in Lewandowsky’s paper “The Role of Conspiracist Ideation and Worldviews in Predicting Rejection of Science” . The calculated age…
Volcanoes Once Again, Again
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [also, see update at the end of the post] Anthony recently highlighted a couple of new papers claiming to explain the current plateau in global warming.…
The Best Test of Downscaling
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In a recent issue of Science magazine there was a “Perspective” article entitled “Projecting regional change” (paywalled here) This is the opening: Techniques to downscale…
Scary climate stories for Halloween from the AGU
Guest essay by Joel O’Bryan A read through of the presenter’s abstracts for the upcoming 2014 AGU Convention in San Francisco, December 15-19, I found these two presentation abstracts which…
The Federalist: Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Science of Smug Condescension
Excerpt: So what harm does it do if Tyson makes up stories to fit his rhetorical needs? As an elite celebrity scientist who gets plum appointments, attracts a cult of…
NCSE: Texas schoolbooks should stick to the climate dogma
Story submitted by Eric Worrall | The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) has published a critique which expresses deep concerns about the latest McGraw Hill Education, World Cultures &…
Pointless Ohio State study predicts the obvious with models – fish will die as streams dry out
Even more troubling, why does a waste of time study like this get funded by the Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program? I don’t want defense money…
How the media mis-represents everyday science
Joel O’Bryan writes in WUWT Tips and Notes The LA Times has the follwing lead story on it webpage: “Climate change reflected in altered Missouri River flow, report says” http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-missouri-river-20140817-story.html…
Bill Nye @TheScienceGuy and Al Gore, 'not even wrong' on CO2 'Climate 101' experiment according to paper published in AIP Journal
From the department of “I told you so and I have an experiment that precedes this to prove it” comes a paper that proves Bill Nye’s faked ‘greenhouse effect’ experiment…
New paper from Nic Lewis on climate sensitivity corrects 'prior' errors in an IPCC AR4 reference
Nic Lewis has a new post at Climate Audit that deals with some assumptions that went into IPCC AR4’s use of a uniform prior for estimating climate sensitivity. He has…
The Beer Identity
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s morning here in Reno, and I thought I’d write a bit more about the Kaya Identity and the Beer Identity. My last post about…
Claim: Climate change may bring more kidney stones – but the Tasian et al. paper lacks proper controls
From the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Something that I consider to be more than a stretch, and possibly conflated junk science, especially since I’ve suffered kidney stones myself and live…
Diving into the Deeps of Decarbonization
[UPDATE: Comment from Anthony: There has been a tremendous amount of discussion and dissent on this topic, far more than I ever would have imagined. On one hand some people…
Blinded by Beliefs: The Straight Poop on Emperor Penguins
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Two recent press…
A wall to wall crazy idea – build a 'great wall' in the USA to prevent tornadoes
From World Scientific Publishing Co. and the International Journal of Modern Physics comes this insane idea; build 300 meter (984 feet) high “great walls” in the midwest to break up…
No joke: 'Climate change may prevent contact with alien civilisations'
From the you’ve got to be effing kidding me department come this dead serious essay from “The Conversation”, that hotbed of climate alarmism in Australia which somehow got past bullshit…
BUSTED: Tol takes on Cook's '97% consensus' claim with a re-analysis, showing the claim is 'unfounded'
A new paper by Dr. Richard Tol published today in ScienceDirect, journal of Energy Policy, shows that the Cook et al. paper claiming that there is a 97% consensus among…
I've been waiting for this statement, and the National Climate Assessment has helpfully provided it
The National Climate Assessment report denies that siting and adjustments to the national temperature record has anything to do with increasing temperature trends. Note the newest hockey stick below.
Top Ten Skeptical Arguments that Don’t Hold Water
(Note: this originally published on Dr. Spencer’s blog on April 25th, and I asked if I could reproduce it here. While I know some readers might argue the finer points…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Oh noes! Moths affected by 'hidden' factors of climate change
From the University of Michigan and the department of Mothra studies, comes this big let down. Even though moths are supposedly affected by climate change, “90 percent of them were…
Another 'fish story' about ocean acidification where researchers fool themselves into thinking they are actually doing science
Readers may recall this previous fish story: CO2 increases to make drunken clownfish Well, Danielle Dixon and Philip Munday are at it again. This PR claim from the Georgia Institute of…
Earth to Lovejoy: 0.9 C° in a century is not 'huge'
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Pseudo-science by press release has become the norm among the Forces of Darkness. With as much fanfare as McGill University could muster, the recent paper…
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