Global Warming Science – Page 64

Jan 22 2010

In Praise of Scientific Piranhas: the Legacies of Climategate

By E. Calvin Beisner / January 22, 2010

It’s been two months now since Climategate broke. The disclosure of thousands of emails, computer programs, and other documents from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in the UK revealed scandalous scientific misconduct of monumental proportions–enough that it has crippled the credibility of an entire field of science (paleoclimatology) and seriously tarnished […]

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Apr 25 2008

Facing Fears & Global Warming

By John Christy P.HD / April 25, 2008

With all of the pending disasters blamed on global warming blasting their way through the media, I can understand why many might fear the future climate. We are told emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide (CO2), are destroying not only polar bears and petunias, but the planet as a whole. If we don’t “stop

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Apr 18 2008

Our Climate Numbers Are a Big Old Mess

By Patrick J. Michaels / April 18, 2008

For years, records from surface thermometers showed a global warming trend beginning in the late 1970s. But temperatures sensed by satellites and weather balloons displayed no concurrent warming. These records have been revised a number of times, and I examined the two major revisions of these three records. They are the surface record from the

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Apr 13 2008

Researchers Reverse Stance on Link Between Global Warming and Hurricane Intensity

By Michael Asher / April 13, 2008

Author of the theory that global warming breeds stronger hurricanes recants his view Noted Hurricane Expert Kerry Emanuel has publicly reversed his stance on the impact of Global Warming on Hurricanes. Saying “The models are telling us something quite different from what nature seems to be telling us,” Emanuel has released new research indicating that

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Apr 7 2008

Norman Borlaug: Still Feeding the World

By Paul Driessen / April 7, 2008

Norman Borlaug just turned 94 – and is still going strong. During the “Eat This” segment of their docu-comedy series BS, Penn Jillette beat Teller in a round of their “Greatest Person in History” card game. Penn needed just one card: Norman Borlaug. This Iowa farm boy and University of Minnesota agriculture graduate lived Thomas

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Mar 24 2008

Peer-Reviewed Research Suggests Very Little Warming from CO2

By E. Calvin Beisner / March 24, 2008

A year-old article in Idõjárás: Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service is suddenly getting attention in the meteorological community. And it deserves it. By Hungarian meteorologist Ferenc M. Miskolczi, the peer-reviewed article uses rigorous mathematical and physical analysis to re-estimate climate sensitivity–that is, the amount of warming to be expected from doubled atmospheric concentration

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Mar 24 2008

Check Out Sunspot Record for Yourself

By E. Calvin Beisner / March 24, 2008

Increasing numbers of scientists are predicting that a quieting Sun will lead to global cooling here on Earth. Here is a fairly typical picture of the Sun, courtesy of the University of Wisconsin, showing lots of sunspots, on March 29, 2001: Here’s a more recent image, courtesy of NASA, for March 24, 2008: You can

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Mar 24 2008

How Not To Measure Temperature: Los Angeles

By Anthony Watts / March 24, 2008

[Editor’s note: This is REALLY FUN READING. Don’t miss it. It explains creatively, with good humor but deadly serious, one among hundreds of examples of the kinds of actions that taint temperature records not just in America but all around the world.–ECB] This is the city. Los Angeles, California. I study weather stations here. I

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Mar 20 2008

My Nobel Moment and Global Climate Change

By John Christy P.HD / March 20, 2008

I’m sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see. Rather, I see a reliance on climate models (useful but never “proof”) and the

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Mar 15 2008

Hey, Nobel Prize Winners, Answer Me This

By Roy W. Spencer / March 15, 2008

As a climate scientist, I would like to see some answers to a few basic global warming science questions which I’m sure the U.N.’s Ministry of Global Warming Truth (also known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) can handle. After all, since they are 90% confident that recent global warming is manmade, they

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