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New Solar Cycle Not Packing Much Punch
I found a reference to this article while looking at Leif Svalgaard’s website, and since I missed it the first time around, and because the message is still valid, I thought…
Gore demonstrates he doesn't understand basic meteorology, much less climate
Gore links Iowa floods and tornadoes to climate change, but makes a basic error on global temperature to evaporation linkage, plus he misses the real reason behind imagined tornado increases. [Excerpt:…
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…
More on the Santa Ana Rooftop Weather Station: comparison stations also problematic
You may recall a couple of weeks ago I did an investigation of a COOP weather station in Santa Ana, CA prompted by front page article in the Orange County…
"Even doubling or tripling the amount of CO2' will have 'little impact' on temps"
From New Zealand Climate Science Professor Geoffrey G Duffy DEng, PhD, BSc, ASTC Dip., FRS NZ, FIChemE, CEng Dr. Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and…
2014-2015 – These years are a repeating theme in solar forecasts
Sun today – still blank. We are approaching a spotless month of August, 2 days to go. Here at WUWT, I’ve touched on almost every point in this article below,…
The tale of the hockey stick
Or as an alternate title: “Why we find it difficult to trust certain climate scientists.” This posting by Bishop Hill, telling the tale of the nefarious temperature reconstruction known as…
Roy Spencer's testimony before congress backs up Monckton's assertions on climate sensitivity
Dr. Roy Spencer went to Washington to give testimony today to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Here is his presentation. While not as technical as Lord Moncktons paper…
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…
American Physical Society and Monckton at odds over paper
Two days ago I posted on this story in this blog related to APS opening up debate on climate change. It appears Lord Monckton did in fact have his paper,…
Cedarville Sausage
A guest post by John Goetz [Update: I cross-posted this on CA and in the process added the brief discussion of night lights as well as made some minor text…
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…
CBS News sinks to new low; publishes crackpot global warming story, attributes it to Associated Press, kills it with no retraction
Yesterday I posted a story from CBS News: Quake n’ Bake: Global Warming Causes More Energetic Earthquakes? The main headline was this: Seismic Activity 5 Times More Energetic Than 20 Years…
Sunspot cycle more dud than radiation flood
Interesting article at the Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, home to Kitt Peak and other observatories). (h/t to Ric Werme) Picture for illustration only – not from article Sunspot cycle more…
Climate Models Fail at Antarctic Warming Predictions
Note: this is a NASA illustration for the purpose of this story, it is not from the peer reviewed paper. There is a a peer-reviewed study in the April 5th issue…
Californians' power bills to bankroll climate institute
From this article in the Bay Area Insider “The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday unanimously approved the $600 million California Institute for Climate Solutions, which will be paid for…
The Sloppy Science of Global Warming
A guest post by Roy. W. Spencer While a politician might be faulted for pushing a particular agenda that serves his own purposes, who can fault the impartial scientist who…
Cold and Warm Bias in a Weather Station
Early on in my www.surfacestations.org project I got complaints like “why don’t you ever show a cooling bias?”. Problem was, there weren’t a lot of cold bias stations to show. Other…
How not to measure temperature, part 48. NOAA cites errors with Baltimore's Rooftop USHCN Station
I happened across a NOAA internal training manual a couple of weeks ago that contained a photo of a USHCN official climate station that I thought I’d never get a photo…
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…
Maybe they need a statistical analysis class
From Slashdot.org The Wall Street Journal has a sobering piece describing the research of medical scholar John Ioannidis, who showed that in many peer-reviewed research papers ‘most published research findings…
The 10 Climate Monitoring Principles
The National Research Council (NRC 1999) recommended that the following ten climate monitoring principles, proposed by Thomas Karl et al. (NCDC, 1995), should be applied to climate monitoring systems: Management…
Guest weblog – A Report from the Global Warming Battlefield
by Roy Spencer | 15 Aug 2007 In case you hadn’t noticed, the global warming debate has now escalated from a minor skirmish to an all-out war. Although we who…
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