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…
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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…
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.
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