Soon/Connollys: Challenges of the detection and attribution of global warming | Tom Nelson Pod #153

Dr. Willie Soon, an astrophysicist and geoscientist, is a leading authority on the relationship between solar phenomena and global climate.

With a cooling La Niña gone, media will go into “Global Warming Overdrive” as El Niño hits.

March 2023 ENSO update: no more La Niña! BY EMILY BECKER – originally published on NOAA’s Climate.gov La Niña—the cool phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate pattern—has left the building!…

Baby Names to Change because of …. Climate Change

“It’s interesting to speculate our great-grandchildren may have names like January and February as global warming races along…”

The Yin and Yang of Holocene Polar Regions

Guest post by Renee Hannon Introduction The Arctic and Antarctic regions are different and yet similar in many ways. The Arctic has ocean surrounded by land and the Antarctic is…

July 2019 – Hottest July Ever?

News Brief by Kip Hansen   The press is again awash with the latest hysterical news that July 2019 was the hottest July ever!  NOAA Data Confirms July Was Hottest…

The planet is no longer warming

Guest Post By Javier         We define “warming” as a positive rate of temperature change over time. According to the main hypothesis, warming since 1951 has been…

Global Warming Brings Deadly Snowfall to Germany and Austria

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Because climate scientists predicted all along that global warming = more snow. Austria Avalanche: How much more snow will fall? HUGE snowstorm hits Austria and…

Modern Climate Wavelet Patterns

Guest Post by Renee Hannon Wavelet analyses of modern global temperature anomalies provides an excellent visualization tool of temperature signal characteristics and patterns over the past 150 years. Scafetta recognized…

What Was Earth’s Preindustrial Global Mean Surface Temperature, In Absolute Terms Not Anomalies, Supposed to Be?

And What Have the Average Temperatures of Earth’s Surfaces Been Recently in Absolute Terms, Not Anomalies? The answers may surprise you. THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED. The update is near the end…

Scientific Apophenia

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Science, as a whole, advances or fails to advance in large part in a direct relationship to the presence or absence of bias in…

Claim: Global Warming and Snow is Killing Soldiers in the Kashmir Standoff

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Indian military commanders have claimed Global Warming is killing soldiers on the roof of the world, the Himalayan Siachen Glacier, probably the world’s most alpine…

Quiz: Which 30-Year Warming Period Is Recent?

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale THREE MAPS ILLUSTRATING SIMILAR GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES OVER DIFFERENT 30-YEAR PERIODS The GISS map-making webpage allows users to create global maps of surface temperature…

More Alarmist Nonsense with the Release of the Redundant* NOAA Global Temperature Data for February 2016

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale *Or Maybe the GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index is Redundant. In the post Alarmism Cranked Up to Absurd Level, we discussed the misleading media reports about…

Climate Models are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 4

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Alternate Title: Climate Models Undermine the Hypothesis of Human-Induced Global Warming According to the hypothesis of human-induced global warming, manmade greenhouse gases create an energy…

A new "End of Snow" Prediction

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new study has emerged predicting the end of snow, along with melting glaciers and water shortages – though this study is cautious enough to…

Back to Basics Part 1 – What is Global Warming?

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This is the first part of a two-part series of posts that present chapters from my recently published ebook On Global Warming and the Illusion…

Hilarious claim: "we know when global (cough, cough) warming first appeared in the temperature record, er, models"

From the UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES (via Eurekalert) and the “Where’s Waldo?” department comes this hilarious claim. Why hilarious? Because the headline says “global warming”, yet the research says that warming…

Halfway to Hell? – Alarmists are Growing Desperate in Their Efforts to Influence Public Opinion

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale INTRODUCTION Apparently, based initially on a 1975 “first intuition” by an economist (not a climate scientist), politicians have sought to limit global surface warming to…

Anthropogenic Global Warming and Its Causes

Guest essay by Clyde Spencer Unless you have been in cryogenic suspended animation for several decades, you are aware of the extreme polarization about the role that CO2, particularly from…

Climate Propaganda from the Australian Academy of Science

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The Australia Academy of Science has recently published a Q&A about human-induced global warming titled The science of climate change.  Their press release is here. …

Many Mixed Signals in the UKMO’s Latest 5-Year Global Surface Temperature Forecast

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The UKMO issued their most recent 5-year global temperature forecast about a week ago. See their Decadal forecast press release for 2015.  It has been…

Explain again why we should panic? Study: 'No quick fix for global warming'

From ETH Zurich No quick fix for global warming When fossil fuels are burned, other climate-forcing gases are produced in addition to long-lasting carbon dioxide. Diesel combustion in vehicles or…

If you want to play the all-weather-is-influenced-by-global-warming game, you are going to lose

Chip Knappenberger writes: Should We Credit Global Warming When Disasters Don’t Happen? Every time there is some sort of weather disaster somewhere, someone blames it on human-caused global warming. Maybe…

SNAP: 'Data says global cooling, physical model says it has to be warming'

A global temperature conundrum: Cooling or warming climate? From the University of Wisconsin-Madison MADISON, Wis. — When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently requested a figure for its annual…