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.

Beyond Parody: Misogyny, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change

There’s nothing I can add to the self-parody that is this paper.

Why Won’t those Troglodytes Trust Us and How, How, How! Can We Finally Get Through to THEM?!!! Number Eleventy Zillion

More rending of garments.

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…

How to Publish a High-Profile Climate Change Research Paper

Unfortunately, the formula is more about shaping your research in specific ways to support pre-approved narratives than it is about generating useful knowledge for society.

I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published

To put it another way, I sacrificed contributing the most valuable knowledge for society in order for the research to be compatible with the confirmation bias of the editors and…

“10k dead penguin chicks” more animal tragedy porn used to advance global warming agenda

Activist scientists and the media are shamefully using emotional language to describe an almost inconsequential mortality event in order to manipulate public sentiment and force influential conservation organizations to accept…

Monday Mirthiness – Mike Mann’s Hockey Team ‘will keep those papers out somehow’

Another story about ‘scientists’ trying to bury papers and evidence they don’t like. It’s Climategate deja vu.