Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) set climate research back thirty years, mostly by focusing world attention on CO2 and higher temperature. It…
Tag: Climatic Research Unit
The Effects Of Environmentalist and Climate Alarmist Crying Wolf Begin To Appear
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball The cover story of the November 25, 2013 Canadian weekly magazine Macleans pictures self-appointed Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki. The caption reads, “Environmentalism Has Failed”“David…
The Important Difference between Climatology and Climate Science
Why did the Royal Society need secret meetings? Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Recent events underscore problems with understanding climate and how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…
Public Relations (Spin Doctors) Deliberately Deceived Public About Global Warming and Climate Change
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball “Half the work done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.” E.R. Beadle. In a 2003 speech Michael Crichton,…
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…
HadCRUt4: revision or revisionism?
Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley As Bob Tisdale has recently pointed out, the monthly temperature anomaly series published by the Hadley Centre and the Climatic Research Unit at…
Briffa, Yamal, reputational damage, and all that
Keith Briffa has just published a new paper using the Yamal-Urals regional chronology data, something long sought after via FOIA requests. That data was withheld, citing it wasn’t cooked done…
AGW Proponents Fight Rearguard Action As Political Climate Science Fails
Guest post by Dr. Tim Ball Proponents of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis are cornered. They made a political choice to prove rather than disprove the hypothesis, as the…
It's Time For The Person Who Leaked the CRU Emails To Step Forward
Guest post by Dr. Tim Ball It is important for the person who leaked the emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in November 2009 and 2010 to reveal themselves…
The Dr. David Viner moment we've all been waiting for…a new snow record
WUWT readers surely recall this most often quoted prediction about snow. From the Independent’s most cited article: Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past by Charles Onians: However,…
Labeling People ‘Climate Change Deniers’ Merely Reveals the Attacker’s Ignorance
Guest post by Dr. Tim Ball A common fallback position when losing an argument is to assault your adversary personally. Known as ad hominem, it involves “attacking an opponent’s motives…
Michael Mann – never fully investigated, thus never exonerated
Guest post by Christopher Horner Michael Mann has made what will, I expect, prove to be his greatest misjudgment yet. He has filed suit against the Competitive Enterprise Institute (with…
Update and confirmation of 'Global warming stopped 16 years ago' aka 'the pause'
This time Dr. Judith Curry weighs in. In an email to me earlier this week she revealed that she has been quite busy with this rebuttal (to warmists) and assisting…
The Unknown Skeptic – Journalism, awaiting to be freed
Guest post by Maurizio Morabito 1-Introduction What is the topic where a team of experienced journalists can write a report containing great insights and surprisingly clear expositions alongside stunning simplifications,…
Report: Global warming stopped 16 years ago
UPDATE: There’s a response from the Met Office here A report in the UK Daily Mail reveals a Met Office report quietly released… and here is the chart to prove…
Questions on the CRU email backup server.
Over at Climate Audit, Steve reports on the Update for the FOI for the Wahl Attachments He’s wondering about the use of that mailserver and why there are inconsistencies, for example:…
Poetic license – UEA's Creative Climate Writing Prize
People send me stuff. Here’s one about UEA offering a prize contest for “creative climate writing”. – Anthony To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: UEA Magazine – Climate Writing Clanger… An article on…
The secret letter UEA and CRU doesn't want us (or anybody else) to read
Uh oh. Steve McIntyre has written an eviscerating essay about a secret letter circulated by the IPCC to UEA/CRU, which they are refusing to divulge, because: there would be an…
Media Questions and Answers from the Norfolk Police regarding the closing of Climategate
Operation Cabin Q&As (from the Norfolk Police here PDF) The following questions and answers are an abridged version of Norfolk Constabulary’s Operation Cabin media briefing held on Thursday 19 July…
More info on the UEA/CRU Climategate investigation by Norfolk Police – police give reasons for closure and say 'no death threats' recorded
Andrew Montford has posted briefing materials handed out to the press when Norfolk Police released the decision to close the investigation yesterday. Like everything else with this investigation, the people…
Climategate investigation closed – statute limit looms, cops impotent
Bishop Hill has the press release from from Norfolk Constabulary (H/T Leo H) Norfolk Constabulary has made the decision to formally close its investigation into the hacking of online data…
FOI reveals nasty hateful emails sent to Phil Jones right after Climategate
Bishop Hill is reporting that some ugly emails have been published due to FOI requests. He writes: In the wake of the death threats that weren’t at ANU, several people…
Phil Jones gives a talk at KNMI in De Bilt – meanwhile temperature and paleo researchers are still blowing off data requests
From Marcel Crok at De staat van het klimaat: Phil Jones: ‘Contact NMS’s for raw data’ Over at Climate Audit there is renewed interest in data availability with McIntyre asking…
Yamal that hurts! CRU gets touchy, responds to McIntyre and Montford without naming them
From the “he who must not be named” department, comes this sure to be future McI-fodder. UEA/CRU responds in a press release, authored by Tim Osborn, an excerpt: =========================================================== Tim…