The upcoming election battles may be unique in offering for the first time a debate about global warming. Continue reading
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New blockbuster paper finds man-made CO2 is not the driver of global warming
An important new paper published today in Global and Planetary Change finds that changes in CO2 follow rather than lead global air surface temperature and that “CO2 released from use of fossil fuels have little influence on the observed changes in the amount of atmospheric CO2″ Continue reading
C3H: The Natural Medieval Warming Melts Arctic Northwest Passage Sea Ice, But Modern Warming Does Not
Over recent years, the Arctic has warmed much like it did during the natural Medieval Warming Period – during prior warm phases, mother nature melted the Northwest Passage sea ice completely, but not yet in the modern era Continue reading
Up in the air: Heating by black carbon aerosol re-evaluated
First field study finds soot particles absorb significantly less sunlight than predicted by models Continue reading
Pierre Gosselin: Europe’s Summer Of 2003 Was Not “Unprecedented” – Climate Science Amnesia Exposed Again
Surprise in Western Europe: Hot Summer of 1540 Was Significantly Hotter Than Assumed Record Holder 2003
By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt Continue reading
The boy who cried ‘Warming’
This is apparently a feature length video. It has ben strongly recommended to me although I have not yet had an opportunity to view it.
Readers are encouraged to post reviews.
Author: Journalists ‘Cover Energy And Environment Subjects As Liberal Activists,’ E-Mails Show
Liberals claim to support transparency in government – until conservatives start finding shady things through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Climategate 1.0, Climategate 2.0
Climate change stories from the abyss
A team of scientists including those from the University of Southampton have shed new light on the world’s history of climate change. Continue reading
Antarctic ice confirms we’ve had a dry spell – for a century
Ice cores in the Antarctic have confirmed rainfall in eastern Australia over the past 100 years has been below the average for the past millennium. Continue reading
Tim Ball: Climate Science Falsehoods Repeated With PR Orchestrated Counterattack
Why do ‘official’ climate scientists need spin doctors? Because they practice politics not science. Climategate like Watergate was completely undone by the cover up of disgraceful behavior disclosed in emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in November 2009. Continue reading
New evidence that water vapor is a negative feedback
Hmm… that’s not exactly what the new paper says. Nor is greater effect from rising non-H2O greenhouse gases anything other than expected in cold dry regions – Pat Michaels and WCR used to make a regular feature of greatest warming being found in the super-cold, super-dry air masses like Siberia in winter. Little or no greenhouse enhancement can be expected in the wet tropics for the simple reason the atmosphere is already infrared opaque and you just can’t close a closed window. Continue reading
Paper finds droughts & floods due to natural variability, not man-made greenhouse gases
A paper published in the Journal of Climate finds regional precipitation trends from 1977-2006 were related to natural variability of sea surface temperatures, not man-made greenhouse gases or aerosols. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged climate research, drought, flood, weather superstition
New paper finds deep Arctic Ocean from 50,000 to 11,000 years ago was 1–2°C warmer than modern temperatures
A new paper published in Nature Geoscience finds “From about 50,000 to 11,000 years ago, the central Arctic Basin from 1,000 to 2,500 meters deep was … 1–2°C warmer than modern Arctic Intermediate Water.” This finding is particularly surprising because it occurred during the last major ice age. Continue reading
Doug L. Hoffman: The Mysterious Oxidant X
With the IPCC getting ready to churn out yet another frightening report based on consensus science in 2013, it is interesting to note that many things have changed since the previous report (AR4). Continue reading
Tracking Shuttle Exhaust Reveals More Information About Atmospheric Winds
On July 8, 2011 the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched for the very last time. On that historic day, as the world watched its last ascent up into orbit and commentators discussed the program’s contributions to space flight and scientific research over 20 years, the shuttle helped spawn one last experiment. Continue reading
Energy and Climate – Dr Kevin E Trenberth
Hmm…
On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Kevin Trenberth wrote:
Hi Tom
How come you do not agree with a statement that says we are no where close to knowing where energy is going or whether clouds are changing to make the planet brighter. We are not close to balancing the energy budget. The fact that we can not account for what is happening in the climate system makes any consideration of geoengineering quite hopeless as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not! It is a travesty!
Kevin
Compare and contrast with: Continue reading
Ye Old Boy’s Club – An Example With Ben Santer and Kevin Trenberth
It certainly seems that when there is internal disagreement among the Old Boy’s Club, they want to make sure it stays there. As a result, we all lose an important scientific debate on this subject. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Climategate 1.0, Climategate 2.0
Tagged climate fraud, climate research
For Climate Change, a Possible Trial Could Echo the Scopes Monkey Case
Eighty-seven years ago, people and organizations who believed in freedom of scientific inquiry arranged for a test case of Tennessee’s law against teaching the theory of evolution. The result was theater so cogent that it was later distilled as the play “Inherit the Wind.”
Now the climate scientist Michael E. Mann may be laying the groundwork for his own version of that trial, threatening to sue National Review for defamation. Continue reading
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Tagged climate fraud, climate hysteria, climate research, PlayStation® climatology
International team of researchers finds a link between cold European winters and solar activity
Studies of Germany’s largest river reveal a correlation between periods of low activity of the sun and regional cooling Continue reading
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Will climate change awaken Antarctic ‘sleeping giant’?
A novel technique for dating the ‘exposure age’ of rocks is uncovering how the East Antarctic Ice Sheet responded to past climate change. Continue reading
