An important process with regards to weather/climate change is the prevalence of naturally occurring multi-decadal periods of up-and-down swings in temperature, precipitation and other climate elements. The usual period of these variations is about 50 to 60 years or roughly 25 to 35 years between low to high or high to low periods. Continue reading
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A tipping point in climate change? 55 million-year-old lessons
By analysing a warming event 55 million years ago, geologists have an analogy to current climate change conditions, they claim. Continue reading
Mike Smith’s Post “Science by Press Release: The Story About Washington, DC’s Heat”
Mike Smith, author of the outstanding book When the Sirens Were Silent and writer of the weblog “Mike Smith Enterprises Blog” has an insightful summary of Jim Hansen’s climate predictions. Continue reading
Climate and Fire
According to model-based predictions, larger and more intense wildfires will increase as a result of CO2-induced global warming; Continue reading
New paper shows clouds act as a negative feedback
A recent paper published in the Journal of Climate examined satellite records over the West African Sahel to determine that clouds caused a yearly average decrease in shortwave radiation [solar radiation] at Earth’s surface of -83 W m-2 [due to blocking incoming solar radiation]. Continue reading
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New paper finds climate models grossly underestimate cooling from clouds
A recent paper published in the Journal of Climate finds that climate models grossly underestimate cooling of the Earth’s surface due to clouds. Continue reading
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Tom Nelson extracts some interesting Müller quotes
Muller: “The fact is if you dump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere half of it disappears in the first year, and the rest will probably get mixed out over the next 20 to 25 years”; “The U.S. is responsible for .15 degrees Celsius…US automobiles have contributed almost nothing to global warming and they will contribute almost nothing in the future” Continue reading
Matt Ridley: How Bias Heats Up The Warming Debate
I argued last week that the way to combat confirmation bias—the tendency to behave like a defense attorney rather than a judge when assessing a theory in science—is to avoid monopoly. So long as there are competing scientific centers, some will prick the bubbles of theory reinforcement in which other scientists live. Continue reading
Poor senescent old bugger’s really losing it
James E. Hansen: “Climate change is here — and worse than we thought” Continue reading
Mapping the future of climate change in Africa
“Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and partner universities create tools to help vulnerable populations adapt to climate change and political instability“
Sounded good until you get to the waffle about “detailed regional climate models” Continue reading
Déjà Vu at Senate Climate Hearing
Same as it ever was. After a 3-year hiatus, a key U.S. Senate committee today once again examined the science of climate change, sparking feisty and predictably partisan sparring over the reality of climate change and what, if anything, the United States should do about it. Continue reading
David Evans: Climate change science is a load of hot air and warmists are wrong
Climate scientists’ theories, flawed as they are, ignore some fundamental data. Continue reading
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That virtual world is a terrible place: Worldwide increase of air pollution
Atmospheric model calculates Chicken entrails predict changes in air quality over the coming decades Continue reading
Duncan Steel: Climate Change And The Shape Of The Earth
This is what scientists are supposed to do, find inconsistencies, point them out, and put them right. And so I gave this a little thought. Continue reading
Tim Ball: Soil Moisture Illustrates Why IPCC Computer Models Fail
Claims of human produced CO2 causing climate change are based on output of computer models of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Programmed to produce predetermined results their output is used for global and national policies on energy even though projections have been consistently wrong. Continue reading
Pierre Gosselin: Temperature Charts Reveal Astounding Cluelessness Among Top Scientists On Real Global Mean Temperature!
“We’ve got to keep the planet from warming 2°C since industrialization began, the AGW alarmist scientists warn us. So far we are told that manmade greenhouse gases have warmed the planet 0.8°C since about 1880, which means it must not warm more than another 1.2°C.” Continue reading
C3: NASA / IPCC Climate Models: Latest Global Temperature Data Confirm Computer Simulations Lack Of Predictive Skill
The major NASA and IPCC climate models, that policymakers have poured billions into, continue to consistently overestimate global warming – this complete lack of predictive skill in regards to global temperatures has literally been mind-boggling bad Continue reading
India’s climate: Monsoon, or later
A looming drought is manageable. Long-term changes to the monsoon might be catastrophic Continue reading
Coalition green policies are ‘incoherent and failing to achieve objectives’
Uh, yes, they’re green policies. Continue reading
Chronic 2000-04 drought, worst in 800 years, may be the ‘new normal’
Hmm… chronic 2000-04 drought, worst in 800 years, may be ‘the Tooth Fairy’s last stand’
chronic 2000-04 drought, worst in 800 years, may be ‘named Bert’
chronic 2000-04 drought, worst in 800 years, may be ‘the worst in 800 years’
chronic 2000-04 drought, worst in 800 years, may be ‘the last ever such incidence’
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. –Mark Twain. Continue reading
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