Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #204

The Week That Was: 2015-11-07 (November 7, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #202

The Week That Was: 2015-10-24 (October 24, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…

The Great Pause lengthens again

Global temperature update: the Pause is now 18 years 3 months By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Since October 1996 there has been no global warming at all (Fig. 1). This…

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The Week That Was: 2014-08-02 (August 2, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than…

Claim: natural variation 'masked' global warming, creating 'the pause'

Statistical analysis shows pattern consistent with pre-industrial temperature swings, study concludes From McGill University’s Shaun Lovejoy Statistical analysis of average global temperatures between 1998 and 2013 shows that the slowdown in…

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The Week That Was: 2014-06-28 (June 28, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “I mean, I’m not a scientist…

Another excuse for 'the pause' – it's 'not so unusual'

New Lovejoy paper says the ‘pause’ is ‘not so unusual’ & ‘no more than natural variability’ Shaun Lovejoy has published a new paper which cites his prior claim of 99.9%…

In House testimony, Botkin dismantles the IPCC 2014 report

Policycritic writes: You need to read this, Anthony. He dismantles the IPCC 2014 report for Congress. Botkin’s bio: “Daniel B. Botkin, a world-renowned ecologist, is Professor (Emeritus), Department of Ecology,…

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The Week That Was: 2014-04-26 (April 26, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: Science is not concerned only…

The Empire of the Viscount Strikes Back!

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Professor Shaun Lovejoy, as he continues the active marketing of his latest paper purporting to prove that “the world desperately needs to drop the skepticism…

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The Week That Was: 2014-04-19 (April 19, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: Pray don’t talk to me about…

Can we deduce climate sensitivity from temperature?

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Central to Professor Lovejoy’s paper attempting to determine climate sensitivity from recent temperature trends is the notion that in any 125-year period uninfluenced by anthropogenic…

Claim: Odds that global warming is due to natural factors: Slim to none

UPDATE: a response to this paper has been posted, see below. From McGill University , who blows the credibility of their science by putting the word “deniers” in it. Statistical…

The big list of failed climate predictions

Reader “Sasha” responding to Jeff Alberts in comments provided a large list that I thought was worth sharing. Submitted on 2014/04/02 at 8:37 am The question wasn’t “what do people…

New hockey team paper: models tuned to tree rings and other palaeo-climate reconstructions

A new paper is out in a special issue of Climate of the Past called Progress in paleoclimate modelling It is from the ‘hockey team’ and titled “Using palaeo-climate comparisons…

New paper: Clouds blown by the solar wind

This paper suggests a terrestrial impact on cloud cover from the interplanetary electric field (IEF) via the global electric circuit. A primer video on the GEC is below. Clouds blown…

The WUWT Hot Sheet for Tuesday Oct 29th 2013

Bill McKibben’s crazy logic: He says wind is cheap as coal. Jo Nova says “so who needs a carbon tax then?” To which I say, fantastic. If wind power is…

Three years of the Sun in three minutes

Spectacular three year time lapse video from the Solar Dynamics Observatory In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar…

'Climate is not what you expect, the weather is what you get'

Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. reports that there’s a new paper out with a fun title, based on that famous for Robert A. Heinlein quote : Climate is what you expect,…

Carbon offsets lose 20% of their value in the last week at CCX

It appears that the carbon offset market is dying in the USA. You may recall the WUWT story from 9/9/09 on the Chicago Climate Exchange trading price dropping to 25…