
“No matter how many slides he shows you, it is too warming!”...
With over 500 USHCN climate stations now surveyed - 13% of the sites (those rated "1" or "2") met acceptable standards....
This just in from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration; Increased Hurricane Losses Due to More People, Wealth Along Coastlines, Not Stronger Storms, New Study Says A team of scientists have found that the economic damages from hurricanes have increased...
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At the National Research Council; Tapping oversees the operation of a 60-year-old radio telescope that he calls a “stethoscope for the sun.” Recent magnetic field readings are as low as he’s ever seen, he says, and he’s worked with the...
Joe Bastardi, Meteorologist(PDF); The maturation of the La Nina to its classic major cold look, both in the equatorial Pacific waters and the amazing amount of the Northern Hemisphere troposphere that is covered by colder than normal temperatures, is not...
Official NOAA thermometer, Cordova, AK....
Gorman, .... who has spent 25 years observing and predicting ice patterns in the Arctic, and now does the same remotely from Ottawa for shipping company Fednav, said that it is important to consider differences between climate change and decadal...
Following up on a global warming "sweet spot"; ...there is a tendency in the model for greater than average warming in the southeastern and central U.S. and relatively cooler or less than average warming in the western U.S. and much...
Data collection has begun in the Stevenson Screen Paint Test....
And "unsettling" climate model results; Steve, here’s my conjecture about what this means. The references to Senior and Mitchell in the TAR were written by person A who had read them a while back and thought they fit into the...
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Who are these people? For the uninitiated, here is the lowdown: Andrew Dessler is a professor at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University. He is complaining about a US senate report which listed hundreds of individuals who have...
Consensus Busters: The pushback grows stronger Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called "consensus" on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former...
An open letter to the Secretary General of the UN; The IPCC Summaries for Policy Makers are the most widely read IPCC reports amongst politicians and non-scientists and are the basis for most climate change policy formulation. Yet these Summaries...
Official USHCN station for Livermore, CA....
Who to believe? The computer models or your own lyin' satellite data?...
A Nobel Peace Prize denier; Two detailed investigations by Committees of the House confirm that the IPCC has deliberately, persistently and prodigiously exaggerated not only the effect of greenhouse gases on temperature but also the environmental consequences of warmer weather....
In this first map of it’s kind, one can clearly see the how the quality distribution of the 460 out of 1221 stations surveyed so far looks [...] results clearly show that the majority of USHCN stations surveyed so...
Exerpts: Memorandum by Professor Paul Reiter, Institut Pasteur. "specialist in the natural history and biology of mosquitoes, the epidemiology of the diseases they transmit, and strategies for their control. " I wonder how many of your Lordships are aware of...
Concrete evidence: GISS temperature plot - climate monitoring station from Panguitch, UT. 25 miles down the road at Parawan, UT......
The Greatest Scientific Scandal of our Time; We thus find ourselves in the situation that the entire theory of man-made global warming—with its repercussions inscience, and its important consequences for politics and the global economy—is based on ice core studies...
Abstract: (pdf) An online poll of scientists' opinions shows that, while there is strong agreement on the important role of anthropogenically-caused radiative forcing of CO2 in climate change and with the largest group supporting the IPCC report, there is not...
An interview with "climate denier" Dr. John Christy on The World Tonight. (Christy is director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a participant in the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). O'BRIEN:...
Thanks, but no thanks; Both halves of the [Nobel Peace Prize] honor promoting the message that Earth's temperature is rising due to human-based emissions of greenhouse gases. The Nobel committee praises Mr. Gore and the IPCC for alerting us to...
Blunder down under......
Good news for wooly mammoths. Nobody's going to be
getting at their bones in
A Climate Audit project; In 2002, Malcolm Hughes
sampled bristlecones at
How long does a theory have to be dead, before the general
public starts to smell the reek of it's corpse: A new NASA-led study found a
23-percent loss in the extent of the
I wonder if the "models" accounted for dirt ... likely not, as gool'ol dirt just ain't as sexy as C02 or Ozone. Cleaning up ordinary pollution; something I can get behind: The global warming debate has until now focused almost...
Little by little the "concensus" that Anthropogenic Global Warming exists is being broken. In what is becoming a death by a thousand cuts, AGW takes another hit: A new peer-reviewed scientific study counters a major premise of global warming theory,...
A parting comment from Roger A. Pielke Sr. of Climate Science; ... suppose a group of scientists introduced a new cancer drug that they claimed could save many lives. There were side effects, of course, but they claimed that the...
USHCN station
Remember this? August 14 - The Sound Of Settled Science And now, Douglas J. Keenan raises serious questions about the Chinese surface station data (PDF) The paper is titled "Wei-Chyung Wang fabricated some scientific claims". Sept 16 - 19 -...
When you don't like the bottom line... Shortly after NASA published their source code on Sept 7, we started noticing puzzling discrepancies in the new data set. On Sep 12, 2007, I inquired about the changes to Hansen and Ruedy,...
The margin of error... Anthony Watts; Immediately after the conference, a senior official at NCDC requested a copy of the [slide show], which I provided to him on CDROM. After receiving it, in a follow up email he inquired as...
GHCN stations with mean temperature data from
present to the year 1900. For those who say... that "the
At Climate Audit, it's candy day for geeks. Hansen has released his temperature analysis source code and documentation - finally; Hansen says resentfully that they would have liked a “week or two” to make a “simplified version” of the program...
Warming in
It may not rise to the level of scientific inquiry of a thermometer installed over a barbeque, but still... CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets) is a novel experiment at CERN conducted by an interdisciplinary team of leading scientists from 18...
USHCN station - Port Angeles, WA. Update - I originally spotted this one surfing through the reports at the site. Reader "Johnlee" advises that it received particular attention from Steve McIntyre. Worth the read, especially if you're new here and...
In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI Web of Science database from 1993 to 2003, she found a majority supported the "consensus view," defined as...
USHCN station -
What better project for a Sunday morning than reviewing "global warming" proxies? Because science is settled by consensus! (Contemporary data here.)...
USHCN Station Healdsburg, CA - aerial view....
Concerned about global warming? There are worse things... The Past And Future Of Climate (PDF) The satellite record is the highest quality temperature data series in the climate record. It shows that the temperature of the Southern Hemisphere has been...
Investor's Business Daily; [A] new study in the Aug. 2 issue of the British science journal Nature suggests that the absence of technology, not its reckless use, may be a major factor in raising the Earth's global temperature. The haze...
Science writers at The Economist explore one of the known problems with climate modeling: Psychologically, people tend to be Bayesian—to the extent of often making false connections. And that risk of false connection is why scientists like Pascal's version of...
USHCN Station - Lovelock, NV "this site has many exposure problems, and the curator is unaware of them."...
New research ...concludes that the Earth’s climate is only about one-third as sensitive to carbon dioxide as the IPCC assumes. [...] According to Schwartz’s results, which are based on the empirical relationship between trends in surface temperature and ocean heat...
USHCN station -
Another star of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth has
left the building; The media release for the 2005 Nature study ominously read,
“The ocean currents that help to maintain
And now, Douglas J. Keenan raises serious questions
about the Chinese surface station data (PDF); This report concerns two research
papers co-authored by Wei-Chyung Wang, a professor at the University at
From today's "I Kid You Not" file... The
climatological station of record for
Good morning to our regular media hounds sniffing around for tips - have we got a doozy for you! Roger Pielke Sr. ; The hard work of of Steve McIntyre (Climate Audit) and Anthony Watts (www.surfacestations.org) has resulted in the...
Reader "Vitruvius" in the comments; "The following is a media piece, not a learned essay; with that proviso I can now report that apparently there is some decent new evidence to the effect that - wait for it - stars...
Would you mind flipping the burgers while you're
out there?" In apparent response to Anthony Watts' project at
surfacestations.org.. ...the
"It is clear to me that those who espouse and promote acceptance of the “killer AGW” scenario are highly threatened by serious auditing of the surface record and the network used to obtain it. I have been in both...
USHCN Station, Tucson It gets better! USHCN
Wickenberg - "Remember, these are the few select stations being used to determine
how much global warming the
This discussion (PDF)"... reviews the analysis and conclusions of Lockwood and Fröhlich and then asks other notable scientists in the field of solar/terrestrial relations to comment on the findings. In doing so, it is found that the conclusions being forwarded...
Models trump measurements (Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post); We are doomed, say climate change scientists associated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations body that is organizing most of the climate change research occurring in the...
""There seems to be a discontinuity in the temp curve just before 1980. Is this when the site was moved here, or when the a/c was upgraded?"...
Breitbart.com; Scientists who probed two kilometers (1.2 miles) through a Greenland glacier to recover the oldest plant DNA on record said Thursday the planet was far warmer hundreds of thousands of years ago than is generally believed. DNA of trees,...
DavidSuzuki.org; "The debate is over about whether or not climate change is real." You know, you'd think a geneticist would know better. A massive international study of the human genome has caused scientists to rethink some of the most basic...
One of these is not like the other. The Briffa data deletions; "If a practising scientist selected a 1987 data set over more recent versions, failed to cite it correctly, altered the appearance of the data without a clear explanation...
A global warming believer denies Al Gore; Dr. Mote is the co-author of an article in the July/August issue of American Scientist magazine that debunks claims by Mr. Gore and others that Kilimanjaro's famous glaciers are melting away because of...
John Brignell; Huxley was one of a long tradition of British sceptical philosophers. From the Bacons, through the likes of Locke, Hume and Russell, to the magnificent climax of Popper’s statement of the principle of falsifiability, the scientific method was...
Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post; More than six months ago, I began writing this series, The Deniers. When I began, I accepted the prevailing view that scientists overwhelmingly believe that climate change threatens the planet. I doubted only claims that the...
Data collection - IPCC style! I decided I’d drop some
more fun with entropy your way. Here is the USHCN station of climate record in
In the same way* that accuracy on the gun range can be expected to improve as distance from the target increases, or that small errors in interest charged disappear when the sums they are applied to go over the million...
Kevin Trenberth[1], who is listed as a contributing author of the 2007 IPCC climate summary, surprised me, given his belief in anthropogenic global warming (AGW), when he said “climate models are markedly deficient by not adequately representing tropical cyclones.” Sea...
(click for full size) Comment 33; Forgetting for a moment that none of those lines is what it purports to be … just take the whole mess at face value. What I see is this: 1) The caption is...
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