There are two notions of ECS. The first is without feedbacks (mainly water vapor and clouds). It estimates a simple non-condensing gas CO2 doubling. AR4 implicitly had that at a…
Tag: Richard Lindzen
The Imaginary Climate Crisis: How can we Change the Message? A talk by Richard Lindzen
Reposted from Clintel The Irish Climate Science Forum (ICSF) in cooperation with CLINTEL hosted a lecture by the world-renowned climate scientist Richard Lindzen. The online lecture was attended by around 200 people…
CO2 Coalition: “The Global Mean Temperature Anomaly Record How it works and why it is misleading”
Guest “putting it in context” by David Middleton Our friends at the CO2 Coalition have published another excellent report. This white paper by Richard Lindzen and John Christy explores the…
Lindzen: Understanding The IPCC AR5 Climate Assessment
Guest essay by Dr. Richard Lindzen Each IPCC report seems to be required to conclude that the case for an international agreement to curb carbon dioxide has grown stronger. That…
Dodgy statistics and IPCC Assessment Reports
Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley In the 19th century, British Prime Ministers used to say there were “lies, damned lies, and statistics”. In the 21st century, we may…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2013-08-31 (August 31, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: Doubt is not a pleasant…
Climate Science Exploited for Political Agenda, According to Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 28, 2013 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Climatism or global warming alarmism is the most prominent recent example of science being coopted to serve a political agenda, writes Richard Lindzen…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for Tuesday August 27th, 2013
Bloomberg news: People Don’t Fear Climate Change Enough With respect to the science of climate change, many experts regard the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the world’s authoritative…
Dr. Willie Soon Guest Comment: 'Is What I Say Beyond the Boundaries of Reasonable Discussion?'
Guest essay by Russell Cook Although I am no more than an ordinary citizen, my email address book reads like a “Who’s Who” list of skeptic scientists and speakers. Among…
The Baker Institute Climate Embarrassment
Guest essay by Rob Bradley Rice’s Baker Institute Climate Embarrassment (Sass’s ad hominem response to Rep. Smith) “The Baker Institute has some truing up to do in the multi-disciplinary field…
Bish on the Lindzen debate at the Oxford Union – plus cartoon by Josh
I was invited to attend this debate and to participate by Noha El-Sayed of Al Jazeeera, but the notice was too short, and arranging travel from California to England was…
Warmist Bob Ward argues that former IPCC lead author Richard Lindzen isn't qualified to talk about climate science
Bishop Hill reports: …there was a debate at the Fisher House / Von Hugel Institute seminar “Global Warming & Equitable Development: the Ethical and Political Priorities” last night, and MIT’s Dr.…
Labeling People ‘Climate Change Deniers’ Merely Reveals the Attacker’s Ignorance
Guest post by Dr. Tim Ball A common fallback position when losing an argument is to assault your adversary personally. Known as ad hominem, it involves “attacking an opponent’s motives…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: If we take into our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics,…
Reply to Warren Warren
(Note: The is a reply to Warren S. Warren’s guest post here – Anthony) By Roger Cohen First I would like to say that I respect Warren greatly. He has…
PBS Frontline climate change special cites bogus ‘consensus’
Guest post by Tom Harris Besides the obvious bias we have come to expect from most main stream media coverage of climate change, “Climate of Doubt“, aired Tuesday night on…
NOAA's '15 year statement' from 2008 puts a kibosh on the current Met Office 'insignificance' claims that global warming flatlined for 16 years
While the Met Office and others try to spin their way out of their current 16 year flatlining of warming, it is important to remember a few points made in the…
Report: Global warming stopped 16 years ago
UPDATE: There’s a response from the Met Office here A report in the UK Daily Mail reveals a Met Office report quietly released… and here is the chart to prove…
Lindzen at Sandia National Labs: 'climate models are flawed'
This press release was provided by Sandia National Labs: In an effort to shed light on the wide spectrum of thought regarding the causes and extent of changes in Earth’s…
The collusion of the climate crowd
By Christopher C. Horner First published in the Washington Examiner, reposted here with permission Not long ago, the American Tradition Institute initiated a transparency campaign using federal and state freedom…
Forcing or Feedback?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I read a Reviewer’s Comment on one of Richard Lindzen’s papers today, a paper about the tropics from 20°N to 20°S, and I came across…
Quote of the week – I get an endorsment by Bill McKibben, plus a certificate in "certified planet wrecking"
James Hansen’s understudy, eco activist and founder of 350.org Bill McKibben just gave me an endorsement, which I’m surprised about. The article, syndicated in a number of outlets is titled…
A first hand report on Dr. Michael Mann's embarrassing Disneyland episode
Elevated from a comment. Roger Sowell describes first hand what led up to Mann denying a TV interview about his work. Apparently, for Dr. Mann, Disneyland is not “the happiest…
Revkin's NYT article disputes the 'severe weather is climate' meme, but balance problems remain
I criticized Andrew Revkin yesterday for lack of an irony detector. Today I’ll point out that he’s got a well balanced article on the new meme being pushed in the…
