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…

What Does Gavin Schmidt's 'Warmest' Year Tell Us About Climate Sensitivity to CO2?

Guest post by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism A friend of…

On Migrating Moose and Migrating Temperature Trends

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism The biggest threat…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #163

The Week That Was: 2015-01-10 (January 10, 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…

New book: About Face! Why the World Needs More Carbon Dioxide

Below is a description and some of the early reviews posted on Amazon. (h/t to Poptech) About Face! Why the World Needs More Carbon Dioxide is easy reading from two…

A way of calculating local climate trends without the need for a government supercomputer

This method may or may not have merit – readers are invited to test the merit of it themselves, the method is provided – Anthony Guest essay by Ron Clutz…

Nature abhors a positive feedback

Negative Feedback Prevents Harmful Temperatures from Carbon Dioxide Guest essay by Bryce Johnson The purpose of the article is to contribute to refuting the false alarm that has been generated…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was: 2013-09-14 (September 14, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “What is wanted is not…

Is it a failure to communicate, or faulty climate science?

Guest essay by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times. Earlier this month, a New York Times article by Andy Revkin voiced concern over a gap between “the consensus”…

Quote of the week – 'bad eggs' in the Marcott et al non-stick omelete recipe

This is a scathing and revealing comment from another scientist regarding the Marcott et al affair. The context of it all has an odor of hydrogen sulfide about it.

Newsbytes – New Met Office Botch

From Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF Climate Scientists Get The Stratosphere Wrong How did the Met Office get their data so wrong? Well there’s the rub. You see, the…

How GISS creates long term Antarctic warming

From Tallblokes Talkshop, note what happens before 1958. HOW GISS MANUFACTURES WARMING (LOTS OF IT) IN THE ANTARCTIC by Roger Andrews The close match between GISS and me after 1955…

A fascinating new interview with Prof Richard Muller, quote: On Climategate – "What they did was, I think, shameful. And it was scientific malpractice"

Guest Post by Barry Woods The Progressive Radio Network website had a fascinating interview with Prof Richard Muller last week following his ‘man of the moment’ opinion piece – “The Conversion…

My response to NCDC's op-ed in the New York Times

Andrew Revkin asked me to provide comments on this article of his where the National Climatic Data Center was asked to respond to Watts et al 2012: A Closer Look…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “In their statement Sunday, Science editors said, “The scientific process is a naturally…

Technical paper training for "Hansen's Bulldog"

Bob Tisdale responds to Grant Foster aka “Tamino”, self proclaimed “Hansen’s Bulldog” (now oddly deleted but available at the Wayback machine via this link). The difference between Mr. Tisdale and…

Errors in global precipitation measurement

Mother Jones news has an “alarming” article called “Our Coming Mega-Drought” in which they say “…virtually all of the world except for China and Russia will experience increased drought by…

UEA/CRU responds to Climategate "inquiries"

h/t to Bishop Hill who writes: UEA has issued a response to the various inquiries. The timing is odd, to say the least. Perhaps they’ve all been on holiday. See…

Al Gore says "Denialists in Denial"

From Al Gore’s Journal: Denialists in Denial April 27, 2010 : 4:52 PM Last week The Wall Street Journal published a ridiculous op-ed titled “Climate Science in Denial” claiming that…

Singer on Climategate Parliamentary Inquiry

Editorial by S. Fred Singer, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project ClimateGate Whitewash There is now a desperate effort afoot by assorted climate alarmists to explain away the revelations of…

John Coleman's next TV special airs tonight

Press release: NEW KUSI-TV SPECIAL REPORT DOCUMENTS THE GLOBAL WARMING MELTDOWN In a follow-up to the hit KUSI show “Global Warming: The Other Side”, iconic weatherman John Coleman documents the…

The Guardian hounds CRU with new reports

A series of events appears to be unfolding in the UK that provide for a serial story. As they say in the news biz “it has legs”. Two more stories…

Global warming on blogs outshines MSM in interest

From the Pew Research Center No Denying the Heat of Global Warming Debate in the Blogosphere Global warming has of late been a very hot topic in social media, and…

Obama trying to save Copenhagen Summit – what comes afterwards?

And here’s the stagecraft coming. Here’s how the rest of it might go down. By William M. Briggs Source: courtesy of Pajamas Media First, some good news. A lefty organization…