Calls theories on the cause ‘contradictory’ By Bryan Bender Boston Globe / December 6, 2008 WASHINGTON – A new US military report has come under scrutiny for asserting that the…
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A Gathering of “Skeptics”
Posted by Dee Norris Mark your calendars. The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change returns to New York City on March 8th, 2009. The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change…
Tamino’s Folly – Temperatures did drop this past decade
Guest Post by Jeff Id: “Tamino” has made a couple of posts on how the last 10 year drop in temperature is not statistically significant, so it isn’t real. He…
Obama to Declare Carbon Dioxide Dangerous Pollutant
In my opinion, this is lunacy – Obama’s thinking is completely off the rails now. He cites a new energy plan in August, then cripples it from the start with…
Sneaky: Current credit bailout bill contains carbon tax provisions!
If you look at page 180 of the 451-page monster bailout bill that easily passed the Senate yesterday (PDF here), you will see that it includes at Section 116 language…
NSIDC' s Dr. Walt Meier Answers 10 Questions
Regular readers may recall some of the posts here, here, here, and here, where the sea ice data presented by NSIDC and by Cryosphere today were brought into question. We…
I am a Skeptic
Posted by Dee Norris skep·tic One who instinctively or habitually doubts, questions, or disagrees with assertions or generally accepted conclusions. from Greek Skeptikos, from skeptesthai, to examine. I have been…
McCains rumored VP pick says "don't spend time on [skeptics]"
I’ll point out that this is just a rumor. Last week many people were sure that Obama’s VP was going to be Evan Bayh based on bumper sticker printing rumors.…
CO2 – "well mixed" or mixed signals?
One of the few things that BOTH sides of the Carbon Dioxide and AGW debate seem to be able to agree on is the belief that CO2, as a trace…
American physicists warned not to debate global warming
Original article from the UK Register: By Andrew Orlowski (andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk) Published Monday 21st July 2008 16:04 GMT Bureaucrats at the American Physical Society (APS) have issued a curious warning to their…
APS Editor Reverses Position on Global Warming- cites "Considerable presence" of skeptics
Viscount Monckton gives a presentation during the 2007 Conference on Climate Change From Mike Asher at the DailyTech: The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed…
Regarding the Lieberman-Warner Debate, Rep. Rohrabacher: "Do you really think the world is filled with morons?"
From the Congressional Record, this speech was given on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. It is worth reading and posting elsewhere. Lieberman-Warner Debate: Congressman Rohrabacher’s Floor Speech…
Hansen pressures textbook publisher
Recently we saw how an environmental activist managed to convince a BBC writer that the story he wrote had to be changed to reflect what the activist perceived to be the “correct” view.…
Solar cycle minimum at the earliest in second half of 2008?
Current SOHO: The Sun is blank again The outlook for solar activity continues to be pushed further back as cycle 23 spots continue, such as the group of 3 seen…
Sun still blank, no sign of cycle 24
This is a quick post since I’m caught up in a lot of work this weekend. Moderation will be slow so don’t be worried if your posts don’t show for…
To Tell the Truth: Will the Real Global Average Temperature Trend Please Rise? Part 2
To Tell the Truth: Will the Real Global Average Temperature Trend Please Rise? Part II A guest post by Basil Copeland Before proceeding, I want to thank Anthony for allowing…
How to tell a good scientist from a bad scientist
Below is an article from TheStatsBlog that I found interesting. Here is what they say about the organization behind it. Since its founding in 1994, the non-profit, non-partisan Statistical Assessment Service (STATS)…
UPDATED: Roy Spencer on how Oceans are Driving CO2
NOTE: Earlier today I posted a paper from Joe D’Aleo on how he has found strong correlations between the oceans multidecadal oscillations, PDO and AMO, and surface temperature, followed by…
Top Ten Science Based Predictions that didn't come true.
There’s an article in the New York Times pushing a something called “the five stages of climate grief” done by a professor at the University of Montana. This got me…
Record cold events around the world in 2007
Below is an opinion from the Washington Times by Geophysicist David Denning, to which I’ve added photos and links to the events he’s written about. A caveat: I caution the reader that…
U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007
U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007 from this link: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport The variety and reach of this is quite large. This is a…
Detailed Comments on An Inconvenient Truth
Foreword by the blog moderator: One of the things that often happens once your blog and effort is well known is that people start sending you things to look at and/or…
The Junk Science Life Cycle
I found this very interesting, so I decided to repost it here. Below is the life cycle of junk science, from the web blog Daily Dollop It shows the history…
The Missing GW Link: New images shock scientists with view of sun's magnetic field power
Image above: Dubbed the “Swan” this X-ray image shows massive energy releases from the sun’s magnetic field, even while we are at the solar minimum in between sunspots cycles. Last…
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