Do Alarmist Climate Scientists Have their Thumb on the Scale?

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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 […]

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Leading Scientists Urge Greater Data Quality Accountability

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Over 300 scientists, engineers, economists, and other scholars last week sent a letter to Congressman Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, in support of the Committee’s efforts to implement greater accountability for the scientific work of federal agencies involved in climate research, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

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Robert M. Carter, RIP

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I just received word from Joe Bast at the Heartland Institute that Dr. Robert M. Carter, a palaeontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist and environmental scientist with more than 30 years professional experience and one of the world’s leading experts on climate change, died today, several days after suffering a heart attack. I met Bob first through correspondence,

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To Magnify Apparent Climate Risk, Magnify Temperature Data

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In the early 1990s, working partly as a freelance book editor, I had the privilege of being the main managing editor of Julian L. Simon’s (edited) The State of Humanity (Blackwell, 1995). One of my responsibilities was turning raw data from the book’s 60 authors into graphs so people could grasp them better. But the graphs

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Study Showing High Climate Sensitivity Deeply Flawed

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If you run in the right circles, you might encounter someone who breathlessly tells us that the downward trend in estimates of climate sensitivity (how much added warmth comes from added atmospheric CO2) got turned around by a new study in Nature Climate Change, and we’re back to a best estimate of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity

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Long-term Climate Data Show Arctic Fauna Not Endangered by Global Warming

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The photogenic Arctic megafauna (polar bears, walruses, and seals) that global warming alarmists use to gin up public empathy for their campaign against global warming have survived far greater temperature swings than anything the IPCC predicts should come from human activity, concludes a new study. Oh, well. The alarmists will surely keep using them anyway.

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Study Attributes to “Climate Change” what Really Came from a 2012 Greenland Weather Event

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Chelsea Harvey in reported in the Washington Post: “Rising global temperatures may be affecting the Greenland ice sheet — and its contribution to sea-level rise — in more serious ways tha[n] scientists imagined, a new study finds.” What’s up with this? The concern is about the “firn”—a porous sheet of snow that slowly freezes into

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Is Global Warming to Blame for Spread of “Tropical” Diseases?

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The New York Times has just published an article claiming that global warming is (partly) to blame for the spread of various “tropical” diseases to the U.S. and other areas where previously they had been eradicated or had never existed. Donald G. McNeil Jr. begins his article titled “U.S. Becomes More Vulnerable to Tropical Diseases Like

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