or The Second Day of Thunberg Four nights ago, their time, Americans sat enthralled by a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing that’s just about to start (my time). The daily virus conference is the highlight of my existence of late; it’s one tradition I hope carries on long after COVID-19 is eradicated. Like … Continue reading
Some of the more reasonable climate scientists on twitter, such as Steve Forden here (“There seems to be a growing love of vague societal collapse scenarios that if you don’t accept then you are either bad or naive”) and Richard Betts (“no excuse for making up doom stuff. In fact it quite likely puts … Continue reading
The IPCC AR5 Report included this diagram, showing that climate models exaggerate recent warming: If you want to find it, it’s figure 11.25, also repeated in the Technical Summary as figure TS-14. The issue is also discussed in box TS3: “However, an analysis of the full suite of CMIP5 historical simulations (augmented for the period … Continue reading
Another day, another ‘new’ climate report. This one is something about oceans and ice. There’s nothing new in this report (see commentary from Roger Pielke here, here and here) so what’s the point? The answer is, of course, that the constant stream of climate reports is an attempt to keep the climate scare at the … Continue reading
Some ancient history Fifteen to twenty years ago, Michael Mann and colleagues wrote a few papers claiming that current warming was unprecedented over the last 600 to 2000 years. Other climate scientists described Mann’s work variously as crap, pathetic, sloppy, and crap. These papers caught the interest of Stephen McIntyre and this led to the … Continue reading
The latest piece of alarmist climate pseudoscience is Understanding climate change from a global analysis of city analogues, published in PLOS ONE by a large team from Thomas Crowther’s lab in Zürich. His name may be familiar, as he was one the authors of what Geoff described as the World’s Worst Scientific Paper, the feeble smear … Continue reading
The history of climate scientists adjusting data to try to make recent warming look greater than it really is goes back quite a long way – it’s a regular topic at Paul Homewood’s blog for example. But climate scientists continue to do it, giving the sceptics plenty of ammunition. Here are three recent blog … Continue reading
A journal called Scientific American (or ScAm for short) hosts the latest blog from Kate Marvel, claiming that the “Hot Planet” is “Creeping toward permanent drought.” The subtitle is “Both trees and climate models are telling us the same frightening story”. Most of the text is her usual substance-free emotional wittering: “The smell—a peppery sweetness, … Continue reading
A recent study by Jonathan Bamber et al solicited expert opinion regarding the possibilities for Sea Level Rise (SLR) resulting from Antarctic ice sheet collapse. The study’s methodology included a technique known as ‘Structured Expert Judgement’ to improve the reliability of the conclusions drawn by aggregating the opinions within the expert community. It has concluded … Continue reading
John Christy has written a new report, The Tropical Skies: Falsifying climate alarm, published by the GWPF. It’s based on a talk he gave recently in London to MPs and Peers. There’s also a press release, in which Christy says, of climate computer models: “They all have rapid warming above 30,000 feet in the … Continue reading
