Energy From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 11:19 AM 08/03/2017 A new study using an expensive climate supercomputer to predict the risk of record-breaking rainfall in southeast England is…
Tag: Met Office
Sunday sketch – BBC splits from the Met Office
Josh writes: In the news today (The Sunday Times “BBC pulls plug on Met Office”) we learn that the BBC is not going to renew the Met Office’s contract to…
Guest post: “Climate variability research: did the sceptics make us do it?” – Professor Richard Betts
This is a guest post by Prof. Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts at the Met Office, (IPCC AR4 and AR5 lead author) about Lewandowsky, Oreskes et al’s forthcoming paper, which…
Met Office Confirms St Jude’s Day Storm Was Not Unusual
By Paul Homewood The Met Office have now issued their comprehensive report on the St Jude’s Day storm, that hit southern England in October. Readers will recall idiotic headlines at…
New paper: climate models short on 'physics required for realistic simulation of the Earth system'
I’m pleased to have had a chance to to review this new paper just published in the Journal of Climate: An Evaluation of Decadal Probability Forecasts from State-of-the-Art Climate Models…
The 4hiroshimas app – propaganda of the worst kind
The kidz at Skeptical Science (SkS) have made fools of themselves again, creating an app that is not only morally wrong, but the clearest case of science propaganda disguised as…
Ooops – Met Office decadal model forecast for 2004-2014 falls flat
‘The Pause’ claims another victim. Source: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2004/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2004/trend:2004 Paul Matthews writes: The skillful predictions of climate science Smith et al (2007): 0.3°C in 10 years In 2007, a team of climate scientists from…
Cowtan and Way – The Magician's 'Red Scarf Trick' with Linear Trend Lines
Guest Post by Kip Hansen There are a lot of good, in-depth technical discussions of Cowtan and Way 2013, Coverage bias in the HadCRUT4 temperature series and its impact on…
An impartial look at global warming…
Guest essay by M.S.Hodgart (Visiting Reader Surrey Space Centre University of Surrey) The figure presented here is a new graph of the story of global warming – and cooling. The…
The state of climate science: 'fluxed up'
Science not settled, still in a state of flux – IPCC AR5 in disarray. It is looking like my single word quote in Rolling Stone “stillborn”, will be accurate. The…
Britain’s Warm, But Unremarkable Summer
Guest essay by Paul Homewood For those of us living in the UK, the glorious summer has been much in the news. We seem to have spent half of it…
RSS Flat For 200 Months (Now Includes July Data)
[NOTE: RSS is a satellite temperature data set much like the UAH dataset from Dr. Roy Spencer and John Christy – Anthony] Image Credit: WoodForTrees.org Guest Post By Werner Brozek,…
The Met Office hides the decline, starring 'Doctor No'
I’ve come to think of Richard Betts as “Dr. No” mainly because he seems to say no to any possibility that the Met Office might not be giving out accurate…
Global Warming = Climate Change
Guest Essay by Ed Hoskins This short essay questions the actions to combat Global Warming / Climate Change from three points of view: The Temperature Context Man-made CO2 emissions 1965…
How Good Are Met Office Predictions? (Now Includes at Least May Data)
Image Credit: WoodForTrees.org Guest Post By Werner Brozek, Edited By Just The Facts “We are now using the system to predict changes out to 2014. By the end of this…
Newsbytes: Science Is About Evidence, Not Consensus
From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser Met Office Gets A Roasting Over ‘Wet Summers’ Forecast Science does not respect consensus. There was once widespread agreement about phlogiston (a nonexistent…
UK press commission rules on “The Great Green Con”
It seems reporter David Rose has been cleared of any press ethics issues related to his publication of “The Great Green Con” in the UK Mail on Sunday. It seems…
A data review to supplement the UK Met Office 'Disappointing Weather Meeting'
A graphical review of 14.5 years disappointing UK weather Guest essay by Neil Catto A meeting today (18th March 2013) took place at the UK Met Office HQ in Exeter.…
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…
Coldest Spring In England Since 1891
By Paul Homewood Originally, it was thought to be the coldest spring since 1962. Winter? Teesdale in County Durham blanketed in snow on May 23 in what is likely to…
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