BRITAIN embarked on a hugely ambitious policy to decarbonise its economy with virtually no scrutiny of the costs. Now those costs are starting to hit families and firms. Continue reading
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Christopher Monckton of Brenchley: An independent constraint on climate sensitivity
Abstract: Global CO2 emissions per unit increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration provide an independent constraint on climate sensitivity over the timescale of the available data (1960-2008), suggesting that, in the short term and perhaps also in the long, climate sensitivity may lie below the values found in the general-circulation models relied upon by the IPCC. Continue reading
Climate change spawns salmon dilemma for San Joaquin River
Skeptical farmers often ask a big key question about the $2 billion revival of the San Joaquin River and salmon runs: How can cold-water salmon possibly survive here as the climate heats up the river?
Prominent fishery biologist Peter Moyle replies that the San Joaquin will be an ideal place for salmon in the future. It will be a pipeline of chilly snowmelt from the high Sierra.
But for years, nobody has been able to settle that debate with science. Now, using a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant, the University of California at Merced is working on at least part of the answer — a profile of the future San Joaquin River. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged climate models, PlayStation® climatology, salmon protection
S. Fred Singer: Winning the AGW Science Debate: Here’s How
The upcoming election battles may be unique in offering for the first time a debate about global warming. Continue reading
Peter C Glover: The Climate Change Racket: Finally a ‘Day in Court’?
It’s what we non-alarmists have long wanted: the climate change racket on trial in a court of law. In threatening National Review and its international columnist Mark Steyn with legal action over alleged “defamatory remarks” in his ‘Corner’ column, inventor of the famously debunked “hockey stick” climate graph, Dr Michael Mann, may have finally bitten off way more than he can legally chew. Continue reading
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
GOP platform highlights the party’s abrupt shift on energy, climate
Over the past four years, the Republican Party has undergone a fairly dramatic shift in its approach to energy and environmental issues. Global warming has disappeared entirely from the party’s list of concerns. Clean energy has become an afterthought. Fossil fuels loom larger than ever. And one way to see this shift clearly is to compare the party’s 2008 and 2012 platforms. Continue reading
Moonbat: The day the world went mad
As record sea ice melt scarcely makes the news while the third runway grabs headlines, is there a form of reactive denial at work? Continue reading
Heatwaves to Move Toward Coasts, Study Finds
Scripps researchers reassess heatwaves against the backdrop of rising temperatures Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged climate hysteria, PlayStation® climatology, weather superstition
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
Pierre Gosselin: Unfit For Debate – Rahmtorf’s Flies Off – Unleashes Tirade Against “Conspiracy Theororist” Skeptics
I’ve been wondering when the PIK would take off the muzzle they seemed to have put on Rahmstorf after a German court fined him for spreading untruths about a journalist who dared to contradict his science. On that read: Lubos here, court-certification here, and here. Continue reading
Michael Kile: Catastropharians give a hoot
After the Queen of Climate Consensus came the Prince of Climate Ethics: Dale Jamieson, Director (and Professor) of Environmental Studies and Affiliated Professor of Law from New York University. Continue reading
Bob Carter: A bumper week for climateers
Last week saw the release of a CSIRO report card entitled Marine Climate Change in Australia, and a Climate Commission Report The Critical Decade – Victorian climate impacts and opportunities. Continue reading
Carbon efficiency failing to fight warming: study
And conversely carbon profligacy is failing to aid warming, with a slight decline in global mean temperature despite a rise in CO2 emissions. What’s their point? 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
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
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged climate fraud, climate hysteria, climate research, PlayStation® climatology
Climategate and the exclusionary principle
A new paper by Garud et al (Social Studies of Science, forthcoming) reviews Climategate and analyses some of the sociology involved. Continue reading
Fighting mad
Another interesting set of emails from the University of Arizona release. These ones date back to 2001, eight or nine months after the publication of the Third Assessment Report. Continue reading
Reporting climate change
The way to improve “reporting climate change” would be to stop doing it. We have no way of telling what a coupled non-linear chaotic system will deliver in a few months time, much less decades hence. We suspect things are likely to get cooler due to the sun’s apparent funk but we will have to wait and see, won’t we. Continue reading
Bats threatened by climate change
Climate change threatens the future of a significant number of bat species. Bats have already suffered due to changing temperatures, according to a study published in Mammal Review. That change is “alarming” say the report’s authors, but worse is expected as temperatures rise further. Continue reading
