‘For over 30 years, I have been giving talks on the science of climate change. When, however, I speak to a non-expert audience, and attempt to explain such matters as climate sensitivity, the relation of global mean temperature anomaly to extreme weather, that warming has decreased profoundly for the past 18 years, etc., it is … Continue reading
Author Archives: John Shade
Earth Hour: why not use it to reach out and help a victim of the CO2 Alarm?
Tomorrow, 25th March, sees the annual abomination of Earth Hour, during which we are being cajoled to compete with North Korea in terms of just how dark, dismal, ill-informed, manipulated, obedient and coerced we can manage to be for a whole hour. My favourite text for the occasion is this classic piece from Ross McKitrick: … Continue reading
A Calm Overview of Recent Climate Variation
The GWPF has just published another excellent contribution on climate – they claim it is ‘The World’s First State Of The Climate Survey Based on Observations Only’. That by itself is an indictment of the IPCC and its political goal-driven mission. Let us contrast that massive but essentially poisoned endeavour with this decent, calm, apolitical, scholarly … Continue reading
The Poor Quality of the CO2 Alarm
If ever there was a top noble cause, you might think ‘saving the planet’ would be it, and that it would attract our brightest and best to rally round its flag and trumpet its alarums. But I don’t see that happening. I see low quality science (e.g. the MBH Hockey Stick), I see low quality scheming … Continue reading
Illustrations of Conjectures Are Not Evidence for Them
A new post up at WUWT by Lawrence Hamlin supports the recent Lindzen et al petition for the USA and others to leave the UNFCCC, and he draws attention to this phrase buried deep in the IPCC report (AR5), concerning outputs from coupled socioeconomic and climate models: “The scenarios should be considered plausible and illustrative, and do … Continue reading
Well, There’s A Possible Risk from Rising CO2 … So Please Wreck Your Economy and Your Spirit
The argument that a CO2 alarmer can always fall back upon when pushed about this, that, or the other flaw in dire prognostications about our impact on the climate system is that there might, there just might possibly might, be a risk that rising CO2 will be dangerous. This is a big climb down from … Continue reading
Monckton’s 10 Steps for Calming Climate Craziness
I sometimes take a scroll down Spiel Climate’s list of latest links, and usually find a few things of interest. Yesterday, I found this one containing suggestions for the new administration in the USA by Christopher Monckton. 10 actions to cut back on the CO2-fuelled madness on climate – they look like a pretty useful set to … Continue reading
