The climate change convinced dared to dream a dream: that human beings, single-handedly, uniquely, in the 4.2 billion year geological history of planet Earth, had, some time within the last few hundred years, initiated a new geological epoch they dubbed the Anthropocene. They have lovingly nurtured their dream for nearly two decades now, … Continue reading
In Twitterland, you get to see Human Nature, red in both tooth and varnished fingernail. So I thought I would post this brief, timely reminder that naked sexism, as manifest in the Naked Ape, is still alive and well – and it cuts both ways. Firstly, a familiar figure – Sarah Myhre, meteorologist Cliff Mass’s … Continue reading
The Met Office tweeted this yesterday: Spring started very cold ❄️but ended with provisionally one of the warmest and sunniest May's on record ☀️🌡️ Our latest seasonal summary has all the high's and low's of Spring 2018 – https://t.co/2U0tLTZU64 — Met Office (@metoffice) June 1, 2018 The BBC quickly jumped on the warmist good … Continue reading
Climate models were supposedly the future of climate change research. Their use heralded a new golden age of scientific understanding according to former Met Office chief scientist Dame Julia Slingo: I think today the incredible complexity and power and skill of these models that we use . . . . they are one … Continue reading
Carbon Brief recently ran an interview with the Met Office’s Chief Scientist, Prof Stephen Belcher. The interviewer brought up the subject of the Met Office’s updated UK climate projections, due to be released some time in 2018, known as UKCP18. The last projections were published in 2009 (UKCP09). CB: The Met Office will be … Continue reading
April 11th 2018 saw the publication of two studies (here and here) on the supposed ‘slowdown’ of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and what it might mean for the climate of Northern Latitudes in the coming decades (cooling, basically). The Day After Tomorrow being a perennial favourite of climate alarmists, inevitably headlines like … Continue reading
Carl Mears, who runs the RSS global satellite temperature dataset, has a new paper out, studying trends is atmospheric water vapour from 1988-2017. The data reveals a significant increasing trend in Total Precipitable Water (ocean only) of 1.49% per decade, which he states is confirmation of the effects of anthropogenic global warming. Water vapor … Continue reading
