Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the leaked version of the upcoming United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) Chapter 1, we find the…
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'Quantifying the consensus on global warming in the literature': a comment
Upon inspection of their data file, the latest paper apparently showing 97% endorsement of a climate consensus really shows only 0.3% endorsement of that consensus. Guest essay by Christopher Monckton…
Volcanic Corroboration
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Back in 2010, I wrote a post called “Prediction is hard, especially of the future“. It turned out to be the first of a series…
Lord Leach of Fairford weighs in on Nature's 'denier' gaffe
I’ve still not received any reply from Nature Climate Change editor Rory Howlett to my query about why he allowed the term “deniers” in scientific literature (Bain et al), and…
Shocker: The Hansen/GISS team paper that says: "we argue that rapid warming in recent decades has been driven mainly by non-CO2 greenhouse gases"
Note: This will be a top post for a day or two, new stories will appear below this one – please scroll down. ============================================================ No, this isn’t a joke, it…
A Blast From The Past: James Hansen on 'The Global Warming Debate' from 13 years ago
Guest post by Floyd Doughty Some years ago when I was investigating the climate change issue in my spare time, I ran across a short article by James Hansen on…
The Gleick Tragedy
The original Gleick Confesses thread was getting unwieldy with almost 1000 comments, so this one will serve in its place and will continue to be updated. New content on other…
BREAKING: Gleick Confesses
Since I have started updates here, I’ll keep this post as a “sticky” – new content will follow below it and linked within updates. – Anthony UPDATE 71: 3:27PM In…
Sense and Sensitivity II – the sequel
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Joel Shore, who has been questioning my climate-sensitivity calculations, just as a good skeptic should, has kindly provided at my request a reference to a…
Unified Theory of Climate
Note: This was a poster, and adopted into a blog post by the author, Ned Nikolov, specifically for WUWT. My thanks to him for the extra effort in converting the…
Monckton on "pulling Planck out of a hat"
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley My commentary written for Remote Sensing on the empirical determination of climate sensitivity, published by the splendid Anthony Watts some days ago, has aroused a…
Monckton's letter to the journal Remote Sensing
Christopher Monckton writes in email: I sent the attached commentary to the journal a week back and have not had so much as an acknowledgement. So do feel free to…
The Cold Equations
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve tried writing this piece several times already. I’ll give it another shot, I haven’t been happy with my previous efforts. It is an important…
Prediction is hard, especially of the future.
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [UPDATE]: I have added a discussion of the size of the model error at the end of this post. Over at Judith Curry’s climate blog,…
Knobs
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Andrew Lacis and the good folks at GISS have a new paper, Atmospheric CO2: Principal Control Knob Governing Earth’s Temperature, Andrew A. Lacis, Gavin A.…
Comparing CO2 in warm and cold periods in geologic history
I recall a conversation I had with Dr. Bob Carter at a restaurant in Townsville, QLD after our public presentations there in June 2010 where he lamented the fact that…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) On Monday President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic gave the inaugural lecture of the Global Warming Policy…
NASA GISS in Science Express: CO2, Climate's Main "Control Knob"
From the press package: The findings confirm that carbon dioxide is the most potent greenhouse “control knob” This seems like a last ditch effort (in the face of falling public…
Nature suggests IPCC get an overhaul
Meanwhile NASA GISS scientist Lacis, who was highly critical of the chapter 9 executive summary draft says that: I am actually encouraged by the all criticisms that the IPCC AR4…
Hansen colleague rejected IPCC AR4 ES as having "no scientific merit", but what does IPCC do?
The ever sharp Bishop Hill blog writes: While perusing some of the review comments to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, I came across the contributions of Andrew Lacis, a colleague…
Hansen on the surface temperature record, Climategate, solar, and El Nino
The Temperature of Science (PDF available here) James Hansen My experience with global temperature data over 30 years provides insight about how the science and its public perception have changed.…
Spencer on his AGU presentation yesterday
Little Feedback on Climate Feedbacks in the City by the Bay by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) here in San Francisco…
The Global Warming Hypothesis and Ocean Heat
Guest Post By William DiPuccio Albert Einstein once said, “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” Einstein’s words express a foundational…
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