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…
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Cowtan and Way's 'pausebuster', still flat compared to models
Steve McIntyre writes: In the context of IPCC SOD FIgure 1.5 (or similar comparison of models and observations), CW13 is slightly warmer than HadCRUT4 but the difference is small relative…
Gatekeeping at Geophysical Research Letters
Dr. Judith Curry writes: As the IPCC struggles with its inconvenient truth – the pause and the growing discrepancy between models and observations – the obvious question is: why is…
National Academy of Sciences: climate models still 'decades away' from being useful
From the National Academy of Sciences report A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling: Computer models that simulate the climate are an integral part of providing climate information, in particular…
IPCC AR5 Renews Demands For Governments Buy Their Climate Change Pig In A Poke
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Buying “a pig in a poke” refers to buying an unseen piglet in a sack. The piglet was actually a cat, so when you…
Syun Akasofu's work provokes journal resignation
Editorial board member pissed off over a paper on “the pause” Story submitted by WUWT reader Duane Oldsen WUWT readers may remember Dr. Syun Akasofu as the source of a…
The “Hottest” Temperature Game
Climate Deception: How The “Hottest” Temperature Game Is Played To Offset Prediction Failures Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Global temperature is not doing what the “official” Intergovernmental Panel on…
Historic variations in temperature number Four-The Hockey stick
Guest essay by Tony Brown Section 1 Summary of a previous article; A short while ago I published an article on ‘Noticeable climate change’ during the past 500 years, based…
Current Crop of Computer Models “Close to Useless”
From the Institute for Energy Research: … It is this second class of models, the economic/climate hybrids called Integrated Assessment Models, that Pindyck discusses. Pindyck’s paper is titled, “Climate Change…
Quote of the week – Nature on the failure of climate models
From the world of Claimatology™, comes this smackdown from Nature.
UAH global temperature, up somewhat
UAH v5.6 Global Temperature Update for June, 2013: +0.30 deg. C by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. After 10 days in Michigan’s U.P. for my 40th high school reunion, here’s…
Call for essays: The 2013 Matt Ridley Prize
The Matt Ridley prize for exposing environmental pseudoscience was inspired by Matt’s discovery that a Ridley family trust was making money from a wind farm company. All too often, hysterical groupthink, based…
An Evidence-Based Approach To Pricing CO2 Emissions
PRESS RELEASE New Paper Proposes Cost-Effective Climate Policy That Gets Around Key Scientific Uncertainties London: A new paper, published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, proposes a radical new…
Policy Implications of Climate Models on the Verge of Failure
At the request of the authors, this was converted from a poster displayed at the AGU Science Policy Conference, Washington, June 24-26. – Anthony By Paul C. Knappenberger and Patrick…
Comparing Climate Models – Part Two
Guest Essay by Geoffrey H Sherrington See Part One of June 20th at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/20/comparing-climate-models-part-one/ In Part One, there was a challenge to find missing values for a graph that vaguely…
NCDC's irreconcilable temperatures in the May 2013 State of the Climate Report
NOAA/NCDC just published their State of the Climate Report for May 2013, and in it, are some claims about global temperature that look just plain wrong when compared to other…
'Lewd' behavior: The pathologising of climate scepticism
ESSAY: The shoddy science of sceptic-bashing LOG12 paper by Lewandowsky attempts to turn rational criticism into a psychological illness. “As the influence of environmental thinking has increased its hold over…
New paper by Ross McKitrick – 'temperature data strongly affected by local population growth'
Ross McKitrick writes: I give a demonstration of why the Parker and BEST analyses don’t disprove the evidence of contamination of temperature data, and outline what it would likely take…
It appears that by UN sponsored vote, the world just doesn't care much about climate change
Hilary Ostrov writes about another Internet poll gone horribly wrong: ============================================================== Back in March of this year, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced an “innovative initiative” in which participants…
Global cooling as significant as global warming
From Newcastle University Global cooling as significant as global warming A “cold snap” 116 million years ago triggered a similar marine ecosystem crisis to those witnessed in the past as…
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