Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I read a curious statement on the web yesterday, and I don’t remember where. If the author wishes to claim priority, here’s your chance. The…
Tag: Extreme weather
Holdren Is Wrong – Cold Winters Are Not Getting More Common
By Paul Homewood As WUWT points out, John Holdren is one of many who have tried to link the cold winter in the USA this year to global warming. In…
Pathetic press release from House Democrats disappears the testimony of Christy and Pielke
Ah, politics, the stench of spin is strong here. Note the picture below. Left to right are Dr. John Christy, Dr. David Titley, and Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.. In the…
HARRIS and KHANDEKAR: Blaming the developed world for the forces of nature
By Tom Harris and Madhav Khandekar Originally published in The Washington Times Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Bad science puts rich nations on the hook for trillions in climate liabilities Delegates…
NOAA goes full alarmist with new publication, seeing AGW in extreme weather events
This NOAA report was released today, and it claims to see an AGW link in half of the severe weather events of 2012 they studied. I’ll comment in detail later,…
The 'Diffenbaugh Delusion' – refuted with a single graph of temperature
From Stanford University, a claim easily refuted with a single graph of Tmax. See below. Global warming has increased risk of record heat, say Stanford scientists Drought shriveled crops in…
Fabricating Climate Doom – Part 3: Extreme Weather Extinctions Enron Style
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University An Illusion of Extreme Climate Disruption “While clearing larvae were starving in response to destruction…
Al Gore makes a Category 6 level blunder
UPDATE: 8/23/13 1:00PM PDT Its seems there’s blunders to go around. The Washington Post now says they “misquoted” Gore. Given his penchant for saying and doing dumb things in the…
A new paper pushes back on the 'Arctic amplification is making extreme weather' idea
There has been much worry that extreme weather is the result of changes in the Arctic. For example: Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University, 25 January 2012. The “Arctic Paradox” was coined…
Vicious Carbon Cycles
From the Helmholtz Association Extreme weather, climate and the carbon cycle Extreme weather and climate events like storms, heavy precipitation and droughts and heat waves prevent the uptake of 3…
Long Term Tornado Trends
By Paul Homewood It seems that tornadoes, or the lack of them, are back in the news at the moment. American Meteorological Society President, Dr Marshall Shepherd, seems to think…
Don't let Cook and Lewandowsky see this…
…because you might be accused of participating in conspiracy ideation. Here’s the premise from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: The occasion for their update is a recent report by the Australian…
Blockheaded thinking on well known weather patterns and 'extreme weather'
I had to laugh at this statement from the press release below: “What we found is that during several recent extreme weather events these planetary waves almost freeze in their…
Another climate billboard
Of course we all know about that other ill-fated unabomber billboard last year that went over like a lead radiosonde balloon, but I like this one by CFACT (minus the…
New Climate Central writer tries to connect climate and extreme weather with love of bigger destructive storms
From the weather is not climate unless we say it is department comes this disturbing admission. From Tom Nelson, an illustration of the sort of defective thinking we see in…
Wuebbles gone wild – hilarious claims of 'wall to wall' severe weather on cable news is not science
A couple of days ago there was this PR from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I decided it was just too ridiculous to get any traction. I was wrong,…
2012 ranks as 54th in 'extreme weather' events
Paul Homewood ranks the data from NOAA/NCDC in a pragmatic way, and comes up with this graph. Figure 8
NYT pushes crazy claims about "extreme weather" but public interest wanes
From Tom Neslon who writes: Barking madness in the New York Times: Global warming blamed for coldest winter in China in 30 years and many other extreme cold events; story…
Over-insuring the gullible: The Hartford offers 'extreme weather insurance'
UPDATE: graph of damage losses including 2012 posted below. It says all that needs to be said. This ad is running in rotation at the NYT today, and it needs…
Introducing The New WUWT "Extreme Weather" Reference Page
(Photo credits: NOAA) By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” We are pleased to introduce WUWT’s newest addition, the WUWT “Extreme Weather” Reference Page. Realizing the difficulty in selling “Global Warming”…
An open letter to the U.N from climate skeptics
Published in the Financial Post today: OPEN CLIMATE LETTER TO UN SECRETARY GENERAL: Current scientific knowledge does not substantiate Ban Ki-Moon assertions on weather and climate, say 125 scientists. Open Letter…
Another WUWT.TV video, Mike Smith, severe weather expert
Certified Consulting Meteorologist Mike Smith of WeatherData Inc. in Wichita, KS, a world renowned expert on severe weather, talks about the issues of trying to connect weather and climate and…
More WUWT.TV video segments – Joe D'Aleo on Hurricane Sandy and extreme weather
I continue with uploading videos from the 24 hour WUWT.TV Gore-a-thon on November 14-15th seen live here on WUWT. This post contains two segments, one that was seen during the…
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