From the European Geosciences Union comes some unprecedented chutzpah with this statement from one of the authors at the end of the press release: “This study has been conducted with…
Tag: Little Ice Age
It’s snowing, and it really feels like the start of a mini ice age – London Mayor Boris Johnson
Image Credit: Climate4You.com From The Telegraph – By London Mayor Boris Johnson “The Sun is god!” cried JMW Turner as he died, and plenty of other people have thought there…
New paper demonstrates that climate responds to short and long-term changes in solar activity
(Via the Hockey Schtick) A new peer reviewed paper published in The Holocene finds a significant link between solar activity and climate over the past 1000 years. According to the…
The age old battle of the thermostat – the 'Goredian' Knot of global temperature
People send me stuff. Reader Kurt writes: I just found your excellent website and have book marked it and will visit it often for updates. One simple question the global…
Haigh Anxiety: a psycho-comedy of errors
Guest post by Alec Rawls In an interview with NewScientist magazine, Imperial College professor of atmospheric physics Joanna Haigh scoffs at the idea that late 20th century warming could have…
More on Mark Hertsgaard's ridiculous claims – The Goldilocks Crop and the Impending Extinction of Pasta
Guest Post by David Middleton Yesterday, WUWT covered the issue from one angle, and blew Hertsgaard’s riduculous claims out of the water. Today, here’s another independently arrived at conclusion that…
On certainty: Truth is the Daughter of Time
This comment from Dr. Robert Brown at Duke University is elevated from a comment to a full post for further discussion. Since we have a new paper (Shepherd et al)…
The Atlantic Magazine's '5 Charts About Climate Change That Should Have You Very, Very Worried'… Worried about scientific illiteracy.
Guest post by David Middleton I ran into this gem on Real Clear Energy this morning… The article cites terrifying new reports commissioned by the World Bank and the CIA…
Speak loudly and carry a busted hockey stick
by Walter Starck (in Quadrant Online) The average temperature for the Earth, or any region or even any specific place is very difficult to determine with any accuracy. At any…
Myths and Facts about Global Warming
From Friends of Science. Be sure to visit their page and bookmark it. COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING MYTH 1: Global temperatures are rising at a rapid, unprecedented rate. FACT: …
A Reply to Hurricane Sandy Alarmists
A suggestion the Great Gale of 1821 was worse than Hurricane Sandy, and Alarmists are wrong to suggest otherwise. Guest post by Caleb Shaw While I am often humbled, when…
Yet another paper demonstrates warmer temperatures 1000 years ago and even 2000 years ago.
Yesterday I highlighted the paper The extra-tropical Northern Hemisphere temperature in the last two millennia: reconstructions of low-frequency variability, by B Christiansen of the Danish Meteorological Institute and F C…
New paper confirms the climate was warmer 1000 years ago
Mike Mann will have a twitfest on Twitter trying to knock this one down. Data from 91 Northern Hemisphere proxies was used to reconstruct temperature. See reconstruction graph (figure 5)…
Paper demonstrates solar activity was at a grand maximum in the late 20th century
Solar activity measured by isotope proxies revealed the end of 20th century was the highest activity in 1200 years A 2010 paper (that I somehow missed) was recently highlighted by…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing.…
Linking the ENSO and PDO induced rainfall of the Pacific Northwest to proxy data in tree rings and lake sediments
From Penn State , another Mann paper with proxy sets, and a divergence problem. At least they are talking about the MWP, or as they call it, the Medieval Climate…
HH Lamb–“Climate: Present, Past & Future–Vol 2”–In Review–Part I
Guest post by Paul Homewood (reposted from his blog Not a lot of people know that please visit and bookmark) Part 1 of a three part series. Hubert Lamb was…
Mann's 'hockey stick' claims of the MWP and LIA being local were refuted years before it was published
Pierre Gosselin at NoTricksZone reports: Geologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt found a Japanese tree-ring temperature reconstruction from 1995, one that should have been heeded by the IPCC and Michael…
Megafire study suggests today’s megafires, at least in the southwestern U.S., are atypical
From SMU (Southern Methodist University) comes this press release which really isn’t surprising. North America didn’t have a forest fire suppression program for the last 1400 years, so there wasn’t…
From Schmidt 2005 to Miller 2012: the "not needed" excuse for omitted variable fraud
Guest post by Alec Rawls Miller et al. 2012 recently provided some pretty strong evidence for a solar driver of climate. “This is the first time anyone has clearly identified…
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