So we only have data since 2004, and the year to year variations are large. To pretend that such a short series is in any way significant is not only…
Category: Bad science
No, The Carbon Sinks Aren’t Sinking
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on eX-Twitter) The usual font of misinformation, the Guardian, has an article claiming the following: In 2023, the hottest year ever recorded, preliminary findings by an…
The Lunacy of Uprooting Latin Taxonomy for Woke Politics
We’re now in an age where a centuries-old system, grounded in practicality and proven effectiveness, is being labeled as problematic because it doesn’t fit into today’s ever-shifting, ever-demanding social justice…
Breaking News: Sunburn and Asphalt Don’t Mix – Another Study States the Obvious
What makes this situation truly absurd isn’t just the waste of time and money on such a blindingly obvious conclusion. No, it’s the fact that these “findings” will inevitably be…
Tactical Science
“The use and abuse of the peer reviewed literature to produce tactical science which I define as: “Publications — often targeted for the peer reviewed literature — designed and constructed…
Shockingly Bad Science
These findings are in line with research showing that rises in ambient temperature (including heatwaves) and climate change are associated with increased stroke morbidity and mortality. Because ambient air pollution…
Academic Echo Chambers and the Myth of Behavioral Spillover in Climate Action
In sum, the real driver here is political and ideological alignment, not individual behaviors influencing policy support. The authors, caught in their academic bubble, overlook the obvious: people who buy…
Unconventional Sign Conventions
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I do a lot of work with the CERES satellite dataset. An image of their data collection system is above. From their website: The CERES…
Scarcely a Day Passes Without the Met Office Announcing Another ‘Record’ Temperature. But How Many of its Weather Stations are Next to Airports and Solar Farms?
The elephant in the Met Office Room is that, needless to say, almost all of these heat readings occur at stations classed 4 and 5 that come with very large…
L A Times Editorial Hypes Massive “Climate Recovery Act” Penalties on Fossil Fuel Energy Suppliers that Account for 70% of California’s Annual GDP
A ridiculous L A Times editorial hypes imposing massive “Climate Recovery Act” cost penalties on fossil fuel suppliers that account for 70% of the energy that the state consumes to…
Oy, Now Climate Change Triggers Migraines
…we might as well blame climate change for our dog’s bad breath and the fact that the toast always lands butter-side down.
Ryan Maue on “Global Temperature Shocks”
At this point of the analysis, the authors should have quit, yet they plowed ahead undaunted.
Climate Cooking: from Roger Pielke Jr.
“Steyer was focused on the question: ‘How do you make climate change feel real and immediate for people?’”
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“.…
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