Roy Spencer just published an excellent article bursting the "97% consensus" balloon. Here's an excerpt: The 97 percent number comes from a 2013 paper that was published by John Cook in Environmental Research Letters and that claimed to review about 12,000 published scientific papers on global warming and climate change. Now, for those of us who work in climate change research, it is well known that "climate change" is widely assumed to be mostly human-caused, despite the fact that very few … [Read more...]
Is Sea Level Rise Accelerating? A Look at the Evidence
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report claims that the rate of sea level rise from 1993 to 2010 was roughly twice that from 1901 to 2010, offering one of the strongest reasons for alarm about anthropogenic global warming. But a major review by Kenneth Richard of recent journal publications on the subject finds little to no basis for the claim. Says Richard: According to the IPCC (2013), sea levels rose at a rate of 1.7 mm/year (6.7 inches per century) for the … [Read more...]
A Month or Two Does Not a Long-term Trend Make
It was inevitable that when the current extra-strong El Nino resulted in some anomalously hot months the climate alarmists would declare victory, and, sure enough, when Drs. John Christy and Roy Spencer of University of Alabama Huntsville announced that the satellite global temperature data showed February the hottest month in the satellite record (which goes all the way back to the practically prehistoric year of 1979!), they did. One example among many: Mary Papenfuss's article in … [Read more...]
Forget the Almost-19-Year Global Warming “Pause”? How about 58 Years?
That's the implication of new analysis of NOAA radiosonde (weather balloon) data by Tony Heller at RealClimateScience.com. Heller begins: In their “hottest year ever” press briefing, NOAA included this graph, which stated that they have a 58 year long radiosonde temperature record. But they only showed the last 37 years in the graph. NESDIS Strategic Communications Here is why they are hiding the rest of the data. The earlier data showed as much pre-1979 cooling as the post-1979 … [Read more...]
The Theologization of Global Warming Among American Evangelicals: Who Says Religion and Science Can’t Mix?
[Note: This essay was written in the summer of 2010 at the request of Dr. Patrick Michaels, intended for a book he was editing. His publisher declined to include it in the book because of its religious content. It was never published elsewhere until now. We hope it remains a helpful survey of the history of the debate over global warming among evangelicals up to that time.—ECB, March 11, 2016] Introduction In the last half decade there has been a blossoming of public concern about global … [Read more...]
Using GPS Satellites to Measure Global Temperature
Interesting new research indicates that ... global temperature over the lower atmosphere — using the series of GPS (Global Positioning System) satellites — can be obtained by accurately by measuring the propagation of radio waves through the atmosphere. The importance of this new method is that a near-complete coverage of the Earth is afforded and that global atmospheric temperature can be determined without requiring any complex satellite inter-calibration. Only the precise atomic clock is … [Read more...]
Those Greedy Climate Deniers!
Can't help chuckling as the chickens come home to roost for the nattering nabobs of climate correctness. They've been telling everybody for over a decade that "the science is settled," "there is no debate": Human emissions of CO2 are driving catastrophic global warming and we must, absolutely must, drastically curtail emissions to save humanity and even planet Earth itself! Well, if that's so, why continue spending $Billions on research related to that settled question? I mean, we're not … [Read more...]
Keating’s Bogus Challenge to CAGW Skeptics
Today a friend on Facebook sent me a link to an article about Christopher Keating, a climate activist for 30 years and a former tenure-track assistant professor of physics at the University of South Dakota, who in 2014 offered $10,000 to anyone who can use the scientific method to disprove anthropogenic climate change and $1,000 to the first person to provide scientific evidence of any kind that climate change is not real. "What's the deal?" my friend asked. Well, here's Keating's offer: I … [Read more...]
Christy Defends Satellite Temperature Data
Dr. John R. Christy (Ph.D., Meteorology), Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, Alabama State Climatologist, Director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, former Lead Author, Contributing Author, and Reviewer of United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments, recipient of NASA’s Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (all that just to shame the climate alarmists … [Read more...]
Do Alarmist Climate Scientists Have their Thumb on the Scale?
Ever wondered if alarmist climate scientists purposely hide uncertainties when they communicate with the media and the public? Wonder no longer. They do. That's the conclusion of Senja Post's "Communicating science in public controversies: Strategic considerations of the German climate scientists," published this month in the journal Public Understanding of Science. Here's the abstract: In public controversies on scientific issues, scientists likely consider the effects of their findings on … [Read more...]
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