From the Carnegie Institution and the mind of Ken Caldeira, comes this “back to the future” style impossible to verify prediction (at least impossible now). Of course, in model-world and…
Tag: Environmental Research Letters
Join my crowd-sourced complaint about the '97% consensus'
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Three-quarters (rounded up to 97.1%) of all commenters expressing an opinion on my recent post about Dana Nuccitelli’s attempt at ex-post-facto justification of the false…
Lomborg: Let's get our priorities right
By Bjørn Lomborg (via his Facebook page) About a quarter of all deaths in the developing world comes from mostly easily curable, infectious diseases. The biggest environment problem, by far measured…
Grade school science howler from Ken Caldeira: 'CO2…forms carbonic acid (the same thing that makes soda fizz)'
From the Carnegie Institution , where soda pop science is like a carbonic acid trip, they say (thanks to modeling) we have to make big changes: “To save coral reefs,…
ERL rejects Richard Tol's comment on Cook et al 2013, but won't say who rejected it
Also, it appears the opinion of ONE board member is all it takes, so much for consensus. Richard Toll provides this communication:
Self admitted cyber thief Peter Gleick is still on the IOP board that approved the Cook 97% consensus paper
Tonight, I’m surprised to find that Gleick, who stole documents under a false identity, and then likely forged a fake memo sent to MSM outlets is apparently still on the…
Quote of the Week – marketing the consensus before it's '97% Cooked'
In the SkS forum discussion about how to create this 97% consensus paper, there was a lot of discussion about how to market it. As far as methodology, quality control,…
The Collapsing 'Consensus'
Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Environmental Research Letters ought to have known better than to publish the latest anti-scientific propaganda paper by John Cook of the dubiously-named Skeptical…
Are regional models ready for prime time?
Guest post by Marcel Crok A few months ago we made the launch of the international discussion platform . This week we start the third dialogue about the (added) value…
Fuzzy math: In a new soon to be published paper, John Cook claims 'consensus' on 32.6% of scientific papers that endorse AGW
You have to wonder how somebody can write (let alone read) the claims made here in the press release by Cook with a straight face. It gives a window into…
Rethinking wind power – Harvard study shows it to be overestimated
Harvard research suggests real-world generating capacity of wind farms at large scales has been overestimated Cambridge, Mass. – February 25, 2013 – “People have often thought there’s no upper bound…
Another geoengineering idea – gaming coalition modeled
From the Carnegie Institution comes a nutty consensus type idea, modeled in game-theory, implemented by an equally nutty future coalition. Law of unintended consequences anyone? Geoengineering by coalition Washington, D.C.—Solar…
Another nutty geoengineering idea – Olivine dust
From the Institute of Physics Researchers analyse ‘rock dissolving’ method of geoengineering The benefits and side effects of dissolving particles in our ocean’s surfaces to increase the marine uptake of…
Climate skeptics gaining ground in media
From the Institute of Physics , a surprising study being published by them, which not only measures the increase, but now has provided labels for type1 through type 3 skeptics.…
City UHI makes spring bloom earlier
From the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, somebody finally gets it. We’ve changed our local climates significantly, and the plants have figured this out long ago. Mid-Atlantic suburbs…
The warm-cold oscillation
From the Institute of Physics Cold winters caused by warmer summers, research suggests Scientists have offered up a convincing explanation for the harsh winters recently experienced in the Northern Hemisphere;…
Water evaporated from trees cools global climate
From the Carnegie Institution – maybe we should build more cooling towers. Washington, DC. — Scientists have long debated about the impact on global climate of water evaporated from vegetation.…
Study: solar activity lull increases chances of cold UK winters
From the Institute of Physics More than 1 in 10 chance of colder UK winters As the Sun enters a period of low solar activity over the next 50 years,…
Wining and Climate Change in California
Oh dear, another alarming press release from Stanford’s Noah Diffenbaugh. Apparently according to his super duper climate model, climate change is going to affect only premium wine grapes. So it…
Now it's Wolverines threatened by global warming
Wolverines make their home mainly in the boreal forests and tundra regions of North America, Europe, and Asia. (Photo by Vince Maidens, Creative Commons License.) No mention though of…