Are Global Warmists Fudging Temperature Data?

COP21 in Paris ended with a legally unenforceable but politically dangerous agreement among about 180 countries to reduce their CO2 emissions or slow their growth. Here in the United States Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) stands by his claim that manmade global warming is our greatest security threat, while President Obama treats it as a greater

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Getting a Grasp on Grid Reliability Issues with Wind and Solar

Critics of calls for rapid replacement of coal and natural gas with wind and solar to power the grid often argue that the intermittency of wind and solar destabilize the electrical power grid, making brownouts and blackouts, which are costly and often life threatening, more likely. The basic point is that simple to make, but

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Responding to Risks of Climate Change—and to Risks of Responding to Climate Change

Judith Curry delivers a (typically) very thoughtful analysis of one attempt to push people into applying the “Precautionary Principle” so as to embrace major policy initiatives to mitigate “climate change” to avoid its risks. I’ll not try to summarize here other than to say she shows clearly that the arguments fail. Read her post here.

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Why It’s Misleading to Speak of “Ocean Acidification”

Calling a decline in pH of ocean water from 8.2 to 8.1 (which is calculated to have happened over recent decades, perhaps in response to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration though other causes are possible) “acidification,” meaning “becoming more acidic,” is misleading at best. Something can’t become “more acidic” unless it’s already acidic, and a

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Never Underestimate Your Opponent—Coming to Grips with the Paris Climate Agreement

Master Sun [Tzu] talks often about deception and therefore warns against being deceived by the enemy and underestimating their ability. ‘He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.’ It’s important to properly assess your opponent without prejudice or assumption. Many skeptics of catastrophic, anthropogenic global

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