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…
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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…
12 Reasons Why The Met Office Is Alarmed
From the GWPF: Met Office To Hold Crisis Summit On Epic Forecast Failures The Met Office’s temperature forecasts issued in 12 out of the last 13 years have been too…
The warming 'plateau' may extend back even further
Despite recent claims by Justin Gillis in this NYT piece that the plateau in surface temperatures is misunderstood by scientists… …given how much is riding on the scientific forecast, the…
Newsbytes: Polar Bear Population Growing Despite Declining Sea Ice
Great News! But Where Is The News Coverage? From The GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser Exciting news about polar bears in eastern Canada: a new the peer-reviewed paper concludes that…
"Sorry, a TIME Magazine Cover Did Not Predict a Coming Ice Age"… It was just a TIME article.
Guest Post by David Middleton You can always count in TIME magazine’s Bryan Walsh for a good laugh… Well, I suppose that Mr. Walsh is correct that a 1977 TIME…
The Ultimate 'Skeptical Science' cherry pick
First some background graphics before we demonstrate the cherry pick. We’ll start with the IPCC graphic from the AR5 draft. Then we’ll look at Christy and Spencer’s recent graph.
Does the Pacific Decadal Oscillation have predictive skill for global temperature?
Reader Eric Worrall writes: I was playing with Wood For Trees, looking at the relationship between Pacific Decadal Oscillation vs global temperature (Hadcrut 4), when the following graph appeared. The…
An Open Letter To Ed Davey
By Paul Homewood Ed Davey, the UK Secretary of State for Energy, has made a speech attacking the press for reporting the views of climate sceptics, saying “But some sections…
Gosh, 'hidden' climate change may threaten eelgrass meadows
From the University of Gothenburg , the stuff that keeps some people awake at night. A question; why should we care? And, why should we take any of this seriously…
Testimony of Climate Depot’s Marc Morano at Congressional Hearing on Climate Change
Love him or hate him, he’s making an impact. I thought it worthwhile to make his testimony available to read.
Australian scientists take 6 degrees of global warming off the table, say it is closer to 2 degrees
From the University of Melbourne Scientists narrow global warming range Australian scientists have narrowed the predicted range of global warming through groundbreaking new research. Scientists from the University of Melbourne and Victoria…
Claim: How the IPCC arrived at climate sensitivity of about 3 deg C instead of 1.2 deg C.
UPDATE from Girma: “My title should have been ‘How to arrive at IPCC’s climate sensitivity estimate’ instead of the original” Guest essay by Girma Orssengo, PhD 1) IPCC’s 0.2 deg…
Climate models getting worse than we thought
New paper finds climate models are getting worse rather than better Via the Hockey Schtick: A paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters finds that the latest climate models are…
A case of the vapors – another global cooling mechanism found
From the University of Manchester Organic vapors affect clouds leading to previously unidentified climate cooling University of Manchester scientists, writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, have shown that natural emissions…
Temperature change in perspective
Guest post by Ed Hoskins The UK Met Office long term Central England Temperature record[1] has kept a continuous and consistent data set since the 1660s. It appears to be…
Crowdsourcing the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page – Disputed Graphs – Alley (2000)
Image Credit: Photobucket.com – GISP2 – Alley, 2000 By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” In building WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page during these crowdsourcing threads (1, 2) there have been a…
Michael Mann says climate models cannot explain the Medieval Warming Period – I say they can't even explain the present
Ice core data shows CO2 levels changed less than 10 parts per million from 1600-1800 during the MWP. From the Hockey Schtick: A new paper from Schurer et al (with Mann…
Crowdsourcing the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page – Continued
Image Credit: Photobucket.com – GISP2 – Moberg – Keigwin – HadCRUT3 By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” During the first crowdsourcing thread for the under construction WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page,…
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