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…

Closed Minds of the herd

Spot the free thinker in this photo (photo courtesy ZombieTime) Russell Steele over at NCWatch has an interesting post about “going against the herd”. He says “Bob Prechter, an expert…

Weather Channel Issues Ultimate Professional Insult

UPDATE: The national website www.junkscience.com has referenced this blog entry. From the waaaayyyy over the top department: The Weather Channel’s climatologist, Dr. Heidi Cullen who hosts the program “The Climate…

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