From the University of York news that warming increases biodiversity. Since that’s a buzzword in the biology protectors circle, you’d think they’d be happy about this. Nope. Research reveals contrasting…
Tag: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Hansen’s Temperature Analysis: Today’s Normal is Yesterday’s Extreme–and Nobody Cares
From Master Resource, by Chip Knappenberger Yesteryear’s climate extremes are today’s climate normals. Yet we are largely oblivious and better off. A hundred years from now the same will be…
Texas A&M says freshwater hurricanes grow stronger
From Texas A&M University , a claim that fresh water intensifies hurricanes. At first blush, the concept seems wonky to me, as I don’t think there’s much difference between the…
Cliff Mass pans Hansen's PNAS paper
Cliff writes to me to tell me about this essay: Climate Distortion. I’m happy to draw attention to it. He writes: This week, with great fanfare, NASA scientist James Hansen…
Editorial: 'Hansen is simply wrong' and 'his hypothesis is a complete and abject failure'
UPDATE: 9:55 AM PDT 8/8/12 A graph of Palmer Drought Severity Index -vs- GISTEMP data has been added from Dr. Michaels. Looks like another “GISS miss”. There’s a lot of…
NASA's James Hansen's big cherry pick
From NASA: Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming A new statistical analysis by NASA scientists has found that Earth’s land areas have become much more likely to…
Wild Speculation on Climate and Polar Bears
By Dr. Pat Michaels at World Climate Report, reposted with permission. Here is another big one from PNAS. For those who don’t know, PNAS stands for the Proceedings of the…
Another Michael Oppenheimer FAIL – 2010 claim on Mexican 'climate refugees' evaporates once his paper is corrected.
WUWT readers may recall a recent essay titled ‘What global warming really looks like’ – Michael Oppenheimer FAIL where I pointed out the desperate and ridiculous claims by Michael Oppenheimer…
Using Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis for climate understanding and prediction – after Lovelock threw climate under the bus
As you may recall, James Lovelock recently threw global warming/climate change under the bus. I guess these guys need to get out more. I post this press release solely for…
1°C – the silent killer
From the Harvard School of Public Health , news that an extra 1°C temperature swing in summer will kill the elderly. Summer temperature variability may increase mortality risk for elderly…
New evidence supporting extraterrestrial impact at the start of the Younger Dryas
There’s a new paper in PNAS worth having a look at. It seems the authors found some very strong evidence for a comet or asteroid impact during the period known…
Climate change a 'fundamental' health risk, expert warns – "[act now] if we are going to maintain this planet as a liveable habitat for humans."
Climate Change Scare continues down-under. Story submitted by Tarun Singh I thought it might be worthwhile to highlight another alarmist propaganda being peddled for science. The below excerpts are from…
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