As we saw in Part 2 of this brief history, the Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship didn’t work out as originally hoped. But that didn’t mean the Cornwall Declaration would lie dormant forever.David Rothbard and Craig Rucker, whom I introduced in Part 2, kept in touch with me over the next few years, encouraging me to take up afresh the challenge of spreading the principles of the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship. At last in the summer of 2005—having finished my … [Read more...]
We’re Waiting for Media’s Corrections on Ocean Warming
Joshua Emerson Smith, a reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune, has picked it up, and the U-T gave his story prominent placement: "Climate contrarian uncovers scientific error, upends major ocean warming study." "It" was the revelation, by mathematician Nicolas Lewis, who specializes in statistical analysis related to climate change, that a major paper in Nature, widely considered the world's premier scientific journal, grossly overestimated the amount of warming to the world's oceans and, … [Read more...]
On an Error in Applying Feedback Theory to Climate: Paper by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, Willie Soon, David Legates, William M. Briggs, Michael Limburg, Dietrich Jeschke, John Whitfield, Alex Henney, James Morrison
Click here to read the full PDF of this paper. *Christopher Monckton of Brenchley (a), Willie Soon (b), David Legates (c), William M. Briggs (d), Michael Limburg (e), Dietrich Jeschke (f), John Whitfield (g), Alex Henney (h), James Morrison (i) a Science and Public Policy Institute UK, Dyrham, Wiltshire, England: monckton@mail.com * Corresponding author: +44 781 455 6423; +44 117 937 4155 b Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts c Department of … [Read more...]
After 24 Years, What’s Happened to the Global Warming Rate?
An article in the prestigious scientific journal Nature reports that the most comprehensive, reliable method we have of measuring global average temperature reveals a decadal warming rate of just about 0.09C per decade. That's about half the rate predicted by the computer models on which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and various government agencies rely for their predictions of climate doom. Why's that significant? Because it undermines the models' credibility---and the models … [Read more...]
A Great Disturbance in the Force?
Earlier today we posted a blog piece, "Cracks in the Empire's Armor Appear," by Dr. Roy W. Spencer, that commented humorously on how the media have responded to a new study by climate scientists who heretofore have reliably toed the alarmist line. Observing that actual warming trends are far smaller than those projected by the computer climate models on which the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and various national agencies depend, the authors concluded that therefore there's … [Read more...]
Human-induced Global Warming—A Little, or a Lot?
Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Roy W. Spencer's monthly graph of global lower atmosphere temperature anomaly for March 2017 shows we're still cooling from the super-El Nino that so warmed 2016. Track your eye straight left from the farthest-right point and you'll see that there's little change from the anomalies of roughly 2001--2006, and of course we had significant downs and ups in between. John Christy in his February 2017 Global Temperature Report (go to … [Read more...]
This changes everything!
"Consensus" climate science has for decades assumed that the vast majority of the increase in atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (from about 280 parts per million by volume [ppmv] before the Industrial Revolution to about 400 today) has come from burning fossil fuels for energy. On that assumption, "consensus" scientists have alleged that human activity has driven all or most global warming over that time. Most criticism of that thinking has focused on "climate sensitivity"---how … [Read more...]
Introducing the global warming speedometer
A single devastating graph shows official climate predictions were wild Guest column by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The new global warming speedometer shows in a single telling graph just how badly the model-based predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have over-predicted global warming. The speedometer for the 15 years 4 months January 2001 to April 2016 shows the [1.1, 4.2] C°/century-equivalent interval of global warming rates (red/orange) that … [Read more...]
Two Climate Scientists Offer Cases for and against Climate Alarmism
It's fairly unusual to find a balanced presentation of both sides in the global warming debate in any publication, so I'm glad to be able to recommend one. Our good friend Will Happer, whom we interviewed for our documentary video Where the Grass Is Greener: Biblical Stewardship vs. Climate Alarmism, was interviewed by TheBestSchools.org, and the full interview is here. Presenting the opposite perspective was Dr. David Karoly, whose interview is here. At some future time they're supposed to … [Read more...]
Study Showing High Climate Sensitivity Deeply Flawed
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 (ECS) of 3.0 for doubled CO2. That would indeed appear to be a plausible interpretation of the study. But the study itself is badly flawed, as climate sensitivity … [Read more...]
