Weekly climate and energy news roundup #169

The Week That Was: 2015-02-21 (February 21, 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…

Improving Climate Literacy: 'Temperature Homogenization Activity'

Guest essay by Jim Steele In 2012 the National Academies of Science published A Framework For K-12 Science Education Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. Although the framework often characterizes…

Monday Mirthiness – More 'skeptical science' kids scienz

Josh writes: Nic Lewis has a very amusing comment over at Lucia’s about a paper written by Gavin Cawley, Kevin Cowtan, Robert Way, Peter Jacobs and Ari Jokimäki – all part of…

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…

Record Global Temperature—Conflicting Reports, Contrasting Implications

Guest essay By Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels Despite what you may think if you reside in the eastern United States, the world as a whole in…

Changepoint analysis as applied to the surface temperature record

Guest essay by Jeff Patterson In a recent post on RealClimate, the author examines the statistical significance of the “The Pause” using a technique recently in vogue called changepoint analysis…

On The Blog Post “Hiatuses in the rise of temperature” at ClimateLabBook

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: It has come to my attention that some persons believe I ridiculed Dr. Geert Jan van Oldenborgh and Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. in this…

List of excuses for 'the pause' in global warming is now up to 52

Updated list of 52 excuses for the 18-26 year ‘pause’ in global warming (compiled by WUWT and The HockeySchtick) An updated list of at least 29 32 36 38 39…

List of excuses for 'The Pause' in global warming

The Official list of excuses for the 18-26 year ‘pause’ in global warming (compiled by WUWT and The HockeySchtick) The current count: 52 excuses An updated list of at excuses…

More on the Lewandowsky and Oreskes Co-Authored Paper Risbey et al. (2014)

In this post, we’ll discuss more inconsistencies in the recently published paper Risbey et al. (2014). These are major flaws in the paper…above and beyond the faults and curiosities discussed…

List of excuses for 'the pause' now up to 29

The last time I wrote about this, it was ten: Updated list of 29 excuses for the 18 year ‘pause’ in global warming (thanks to The Hockey Schtick).  

Lewandowsky and Oreskes Are Co-Authors of a Paper about ENSO, Climate Models and Sea Surface Temperature Trends (Go Figure!)

UPDATE 2: Animation 1 from this post is happily displaying the differences between the “Best” models and observations in the first comment at a well-known alarmist blog. Please see update…

Environmental Research Letters strikes back at: 'Scientists in cover-up of ‘damaging’ climate view'

Environmental Research Letters has published a statement on the growing Bengtsson Climate McCarthyism scandal, now a front page issue in The Times, claiming their innocence over the accusation that it…

The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 6 – What’s All The Hubbub About?…

…or Introductions to the Impacts of El Niños on Global Weather Patterns and to the Long-Term Effects of Strong El Niño Events on Global Surface Temperatures Since the first of…

'Warming Interrruptus' – Causes for The Pause

By Dr. David Whitehouse The GWPF (video follows) Warming Interruptus What is the reason for the lack of warming observed at the surface of the Earth since about 1997? Many…

An Odd Mix of Reality and Misinformation from the Climate Science Community on England et al. (2014)

In this post, we’ll discuss a recent article and blog post about the recently published England et al. (2014). This post includes portions of past posts and a number of…

The Top Ten Reasons global temperature hasn't warmed for the last 15 years

Explanation #10 for the pause …”coincidence” has just completed the top 10 list, thanks Gavin! Party on! Excellent! There is a new paper by Gavin Schmidt et al that comes…

The reason for 'the pause' in global warming, excuse #37 in a series: 'trade winds'

Recent intensification of hand waving driving heat into hiding. Well not exactly #37, but it sure seems like it with all the handwaving we’ve seen lately. So far, we’ve heard…

Questions Policymakers Should Be Asking Climate Scientists Who Receive Government Funding

Even before the study of human-induced global warming became fashionable, tax dollars had funded a major portion of that research. Government organizations continue to supply the vast majority of the…

Peer Review; Last Refuge of the (Uninformed) Troll

Current peer review science, by attempting to explain away model failure, in fact confirms that the science is wrong Guest essay by David M. Hoffer It has become a favorite…

HadCRUT4 is From Venus, GISS is From Mars (Now Includes November Data)

Image Credit: WoodForTrees.org Guest Post By Werner Brozek, Edited By Just The Facts With apologies to John Gray, it can be seen from the above graph that the two data…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was: 2013-11-23 (November 23, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: Our freedom to doubt was…

Why The Global Warming ‘Pause’ Hasn’t Gone Away

From the GWPF By Dr David Whitehouse This new paper does not affect the fact that the temperature databases, with their own allowances for data-free regions, show no warming for…

New paper: Arctic temperatures peaked before 1950, declining since

New paper using Oxygen 18 isotope tracking finds the Arctic temperatures peaked before 1950, and have been stable to declining since. Natural variability is cited as the cause. A new…