While Dr. Richard Feynman famously said: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. Josh notes that climatologists do it with crystal balls…
Dronning Maud Meets the Little Ice Age
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I have to learn to keep my blood pressure down … this new paper, “Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained…
How airports like BWI help set outlier high temperature records
Mark Johnson, Chief Meteorologist of WEWS in Cleveland writes: A friend of mine, Justin Berk, a local TV Met in Baltimore, MD had this story to tell today: “There’s something…
Envisat's satellite failure launches mysteries
I’ve been watching with interest and concern some of Steve Goddard’s postings on Envisat on the abrupt changes in their recent sea level data. To me, something didn’t seem quite…
NASA chief scientist Waleed Abdalati is clueless about what James Hansen is doing with his position at GISS
UPDATE: 11:30AM 4/12/12 Predictably, Andrew Revkin from the New York Times joins in with the poo-pooing consensus saying it is “utterly unremarkable ” (yet he writes a article about it…
Titanic Anniversary: Unusual Climate + Extreme Ice Conditions = Tragic Accident
Guest Post by Dr. Tim Ball April 14th is the anniversary of Titanic‘s collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic. The event occurred at 41° 46′ N and 50°…
Trigger for Little Ice Age – a half century of volcanism?
Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. writes on his blog today: Every once in a while. a nugget of new research insight appears that adds to our understanding of the climate system,…
Pat Michaels – on the death of credibility in the journal Nature
Atmospheric Aerosols and the Death of Nature Guest post by Dr. Patrick Michaels Big news last week was that new findings published in Nature magazine showed that human emissions of…
Hump day hilarity – astronauts rule
Josh notes that NASA’s Dr. James Hansen gets a medal in Edinburgh this week, and was flying sky-high, but was brought back down to earth by NASA astronauts that performed…
Nanocopper CO2 catalyst – a possible solution to EPA's draconian coal power plant killer laws?
From MIT, a possible solution to allow coal fired power plants to meet the new draconian CO2 emission requirements imposed by the EPA. Hybrid copper-gold nanoparticles convert carbon dioxide to…
Heartland Institute Calls on Oxford to Cancel Speech by Admitted Thief Peter Gleick
‘All Honest Scientists Should Be Outraged’ The Heartland Institute today called on Oxford University to cancel the April 24 “Oxford Amnesty Lectures” event featuring disgraced climate scientist Dr. Peter…
Shakun The Last, I Hope
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In three previous posts here, here, and here, I discussed problems with the paper by Shakun et al., “Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide…
Does CO2 correlate with temperature history? – A look at multiple timescales in the context of the Shakun et al. paper
Guest post by Michael Pacnik Especially in the context of recent discussion of the Shakun et al. paper, a look at other sources for temperature history versus CO2 can be…
The Right Stuff: what the NASA astronauts say about global warming
Given the high profile story today about the 49 NASA astronauts, engineers, and scientists who wrote a scathing letter to NASA director Charles Bolden, Jr. saying Jim Hansen and NASA…
Hansen and Schmidt of NASA GISS under fire for climate stance: Engineers, scientists, astronauts ask NASA administration to look at empirical evidence rather than climate models
Looks like another GISS miss, more than a few people are getting fed up with Jim Hansen and Gavin Schmidt and their climate shenanigans. Some very prominent NASA voices speak…
Proof that "climate disruption" is found all the way back to pre-industrial times
A new paper in Quaternary Science Reviews titled: Combined dendro-documentary evidence of Central European hydroclimatic springtime extremes over the last millennium …demonstrates that there is evidence for extreme weather during…
1°C – the silent killer
From the Harvard School of Public Health , news that an extra 1°C temperature swing in summer will kill the elderly. Summer temperature variability may increase mortality risk for elderly…
Hansen on skeptics – we are winning
Though, he still thinks we are all funded by some sort of “machine”. It never occurs to him that he’s fighting a guerrilla war and that most skeptics are self…
March 2012 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update – A New Look
Guest post by Bob Tisdale THE ADDITION OF CMIP3 (IPCC AR4) HINDCASTS/PROJECTIONS TO GRAPHS I’ve added a new feature to the graphs of the monthly sea surface temperature updates on…
Shakun, Not Stirred, and Definitely Not Area-Weighted
I’d like to highlight one oddity in the Shakun et al. paper, “Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation” (Shakun2012), which I’ve discussed here and here.…
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