The Mysterious AR6 ECS, Part 3, What is Climate Sensitivity?

By Andy May Christian Freuer has translated this post to German here. In part one we discussed various estimates of climate sensitivity (ECS, TCR, and observation-based values) and what they…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #546

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda

New research supports the Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis

Guest Post By Javier Vinós 1. Introduction The Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis, proposed by this author in his book “Climate of the Past, Present and Future” (Vinós 2022), is based on…

The Winter Gatekeeper hypothesis (VII). A summary and some questions

by Javier Vinós & Andy May “On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands climate change.” J. Vinós, paraphrasing Richard Feynman’s words about quantum mechanics.…

Thoughts About Clouds And Water (Vapor)

Climate models are NOT capable of modeling clouds. Their resolution is too low and clouds are too complex.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #508

“Social Engineering – The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.” – Thomas Sowell

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #504

Quote of the Week: “It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can’t go on without the facts.” – Richard Feynman

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #498

“Where the scare goes the money goes” – Larry Bell [H/t Jay Lehr]

Atmospheric Fingerprint

By Andy May The IPCC believes that the change in solar radiation over the past 60 years nets to zero and has no trend beyond the normal ~11-year solar cycle.…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #492

“In God we trust, all others bring data.” – Motto of The Right Climate Stuff Team.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #491

“To defeat relativity one did not need the word of 100 scientists, just one fact.” – attributed to Einstein

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #481

Quote of the Week: “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” – Albert Einstein

Solar Variations Controversy

The impact of solar variations on the climate is uncertain and subject to substantial debate. However, you would not infer from the IPCC assessment reports that there is debate or…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #478

“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!” –…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #476

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. …” – Richard Feynman

Why Models Can’t Predict Temperature: A History Of Failure

The bottom line is that climatology is simply wrong about the magnitude of future global warming. No government should pay the slightest attention to anything it says.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #452

“We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements . . . profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands…

A 2021 Index to Willis’s Posts

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s February 3rd, 2021. I hadn’t updated my index since 2018, so I decided to do so. Not an easy task, but I beat it…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #434

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no…

Weekly Energy and Climate News Roundup #426

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”— Richard Feynman, Theoretical physicist, co-recipient Nobel Prize in Physics.

Nearby supernova may have helped to initiate ice ages?

Discovery of a nearby supernova 2.5 million years ago boosting cosmic rays may lend credence to Svensmark’s cosmic rays modulate clouds on Earth theory. From the TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #417

Unfortunately, scientists in a number of organizations, such as the Union of Concerned Scientists, confuse hypothesis testing with cherry picking – the selection of data that supports the hypothesis, ignoring…

Cloud Feedback, if there is any, is Negative

Guest post by Mike Jonas, Maybe, after all the attention being paid to the Wuhan virus, it’s time to do a bit of climate science again. I have submitted a…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #409

Quote of the Week: “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers,…