Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “I am always happy to be in the minority.  Concerning the climate models, I know enough of the details to be sure that they are unreliable.…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

February 29: Fred Singer will be speaking at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA on Wednesday, from 4:30 to 5:40 pm, Room 124, Science Technology I General title: “The Climate Debate:…

Omitted variable fraud: vast evidence for solar climate driver rates one oblique sentence in AR5

Guest post by Alec Rawls “Expert review” of the First Order Draft of AR5 closed on the 10th. Here is the first paragraph of my submitted critique: My training is…

Terrifying new book about climate change

Normally I don’t go for anonymous guest posters, but this one is from the famous “zombie” of zombietime.com whose identity remains hidden so that he/she may continue to record the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way…

Sceptical Berkeley Scientists Say, “Human Component Of Global Warming May Be Somewhat Overstated”

From Dr. Benny Peiser and the Global Warming Policy Foundation via email. The Observatory, 21 October 2011 David Whitehouse The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project has released its preliminary findings…

Donna Laframboise's new book causing reviews in absentia amongst some AGW advocates

I had to laugh after reading the reviews on Amazon.com for Donna Laframboise’s book: The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate ExpertThere’s some double fun here,…

Weekly Climate and Weather Roundup

Quote of the Week: “Why should we have anybody spend money on a program that nobody’s thought through?” – – – – – – – – – – – –…

Solar warming and ocean equilibrium, Part 3: Solanki and Schuessler respond

Guest post by Alec Rawls Solar physicist Sami Solanki and his colleagues at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research helped pioneer the use of cosmogenic isotopes from ice…

Leaked document shows how Australian government planned to "sell the idea of a carbon dioxide tax to the public"

Professor Bob Carter writes: A rather remarkable thing happened in Australia last week, which was the leaking of an internal government document issued to all Labor MPs (probably from the…

Better Living Through Electricity

Power for the people You cannot champion the poor, but support anti-energy policies that perpetuate poverty Guest post by Paul Driessen In a scene reminiscent of Colonial Williamsburg, for 16…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: The reason for so much bad science is not that talent is rare, not at all; what is rare is character.” –Sigmund Freud, H/T William Readdy…

Jim and Bill's excellent misadventure

This is a web formatted version of the PDF found here on Dr. James Hansen’s Columbia.edu web site. I don’t have much respect left for Dr. Hansen, particularly when he…

Physicist says fossil fuel burning is insignificant in the global carbon pool

Physicist Dr. Denis Rancourt, a former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa, has officially bailed out of the man-made global warming movement, calling it a ‘corrupt…

Aliens Cause Global Warming: A Caltech Lecture by Michael Crichton

The “exoneration” by Climategate investigations (like Muir Russell) that never bother to talk to skeptics, create an impossible conundrum of having essentially a trial with judge, jury, reporters, spectators, and…

NWF's winter weather wackiness

We’ve seen how the World Wildlife Fund reports were included in IPCC AR4 with disastrous results, now we have an example of a newspaper and TV Network hanging their entire…

Flashback – Bob Tisdale's November prediction on GISS exploiting the "warmest decade on record"

To help understand the context of the NASA GISS announcement, I’m reposting Bob Tisdales’s excellent analysis from 2009 which ran on WUWT on November 10th Global Temperatures This Decade Will…

Climategate: Here Comes Courage!

(Is climate catastrophism losing its ‘politically correct’ grip?) by Robert Bradley Jr. from masterresource.org January 4, 2010 The times are changing in the wake of Climategate. And more is to…

Willis: Reply to the Economist

This replaced the previous sticky, and I have this comment about the Economist. Bad form and unprofessional to use the word “denialists”. For WUWT  readers who wish to complain: letters@economist.com…

Countdown to an "unprecedented warm decade" – 2 months to go

Global Temperatures This Decade Will Be The Warmest On Record… …And It Will Be Exploited By Those Who Fail To Understand The Reasons For The Rise Guest post by Bob…

Despite popular opinion and calls to action, the Maldives are not being overrun by sea level rise

When somebody mentions “Maldives”, the image above of a tropical paradise often springs to mind. Andy Revkin wrote a story recently about the Maldives  on his NYT Dot Earth blog…

Hansen's Coal and Global Warming protest may get snowed out

Many WUWT readers have heard about this: UPDATE: Video report on the DC snow here h/t to Stefan P Here is my IntelliWeather Monday and hour by hour forecast for…