Spiegel does 8 part series on current state of climate research

The intro reads: Plagued by reports of sloppy work, falsifications and exaggerations, climate research is facing a crisis of confidence. How reliable are the predictions about global warming and its…

Modeling the big melt

Via Eurekalert, a press release about projections of “Melting Marches” from the Heidi Cullen frozone team who says loss of freezing zones is “worse than we thought”. Minnesotans for Global…

UK ads banned for overstating climate change

From The Times Ed Miliband’s adverts banned for overstating climate change by Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor TWO government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of…

Gallup: Americans' Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop

Multiple indicators show less concern, more feelings that global warming is exaggerated by Frank Newport, Gallup News PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup’s annual update on Americans’ attitudes toward the environment shows…

Another WWF assisted IPCC claim debunked: Amazon more drought resistant than claimed

Via Eurekalert – New study debunks myths about Amazon rain forests – They may be more tolerant of droughts than previously thought (Boston) — A new NASA-funded study has concluded…

Wrong way econometricians

People send me stuff. This one reminds me of a famous wrong way: Hi Anthony Today we had some rumour in the Dutch media due to a paper by a…

Grasping at Straws

If you try really really hard to ask questions a certain way, then you’ll get the answers you want. ~ charles the moderator Scientists misread data on global warming controversy…

Yowzer! "sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago"

From Harvard University Science: Scientists find signs of ‘snowball Earth’ Research suggests global glaciation 716.5 million years ago Steve Bradt Harvard Staff Writer Geologists have found evidence that sea ice…

Willis makes the NYT, Gavin to stop "persuading the public"

The WUWT rebuttal piece “Judith I love ya but you’re way wrong” written by Willis Eschenbach has made it all the way to the NYT. There’s also an interesting quote…

Sea change in climate journalism: The Guardian and the D-word

As we all know, the debate over global warming is contentious, often vitrolic. Labels are often applied by both sides. One the most distasteful labels is “denier”. I’m pleased to…

Spring, sprang, sprung

Over on the EU Referendum, Richard North points out the absurdity of media coverage on the arrival of  spring. We’ve seen this before, for example at the Union of Concerned…

Flashback: U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail To Show Warming Trend

Here’s a blast from the past. Dr. James Hansen’s view in 1989 seemed a lot more temperate than it does today. Back then, he’s ready to accede to a study…

Un-bearable news

Excerpts: from the Sunday Times: Polar bear is a ‘new’ species by Jonathan Leake Polar bears may have come into existence only 150,000 years ago, when trapped brown bears had…

Must see: John Coleman's Global Warming Special #2 – now online at YouTube

I’m proud to be a part of this second one hour long special report done by KUSI-TV and veteran TV meteorologist John Coleman. John is, in my opinion, the “Walter…

Former KNMI director and skeptic Henk Tennekes gets vindication from Netherlands De Telegraaf

Here’s a bit of interesting news from a Dutch newspaper. WUWT readers may recall this story: Scientist quits: ‘I don’t want to remain a member of an organization that …screws…

Christy and McKittrick in the UK Times: doubts on station data

A new story by Jonathan Leake in the Sunday Times puts the spotlight on surface temperature data. Above: Rome’s airport weather station. Here is the interactive view “The temperature records…

Scientist quits: 'I don’t want to remain a member of an organization that …screws up science that badly.'

From the Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. blog: Henk Tennekes Resigns from Dutch Academy Henk Tennekes is well known to the visitors of our website. A few days ago, he told me…

The Olympic Global Warming Onslaught is Starting

While the squabbling continues on MSNBC (see Bill Nye here and Morano with the American Progress guy here, and by all means don’t miss this Olberman rant ) over whether…

Climate "Twilight of the Gods"

From National Review online, the story a modern opera, though not by Wagner. Climate Götterdämmerung Image from Wikimedia Exaggeration and alarmism have been a chronic weakness of environmentalism since it…

Pielke responds to Romm and Time

From the “weather is not climate unless it supports global warming department”, Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. responds to the claim elevated by Joe Romm (and now picked up by Time…