Category: CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE

New study shows half of the global warming in the USA is artificial

on July 29, 2012 by Anthony Watts PRESS RELEASE – U.S. Temperature trends show a spurious doubling due to NOAA station siting problems and post measurement adjustments. Chico, CA July 29th, 2012 – 12 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A comparison and summary of trends is shown from the paper. Acceptably placed thermometers away from common urban [...]

Frack Global Warming

    New Technologies Can Defeat Persistent Environmental Problems by Repair_Man_Jack Wednesday, July 18th     US CO2 Emissions 2005-2010   Good morning. Excellent news abounds. The United States has significantly lowered its airborne emissions of CO2. This is truly positive news, given that the US EPA and many members of Congress view this pollutant with [...]

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This is what global cooling really looks like

This is what global cooling really looks like – new tree ring study shows 2000 years of cooling – previous studies underestimated temperatures of Roman and Medieval Warm Periods Posted on July 9, 2012 by Anthony Watts Since Princeton’s Dr. Michael Oppenheimer conflated weather with climate last week, proclaiming a short lived heat wave as “This is [...]

A Longer Look at Climate Sensitivity

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Willis Eschenbach Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach After I published my previous post, “An Observational Estimate of Climate Sensitivity“, a number of people objected that I was just looking at the average annual cycle. On a time scale of decades, they said, things are very different, and the climate [...]

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Dronning Maud Meets the Little Ice Age

 April 13, 2012 by Willis Eschenbach Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I have to learn to keep my blood pressure down … this new paper, “Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by sea-ice/ocean feedbacks“, hereinafter M2012, has me shaking my head. It has gotten favorable reports in the scientific blogs [...]

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Does CO2 correlate with temperature history?

Does CO2 correlate with temperature history? – A look at multiple timescales in the context of the Shakun et al. paper Posted on April 11, 2012 by Anthony Watts   by Michael Pacnik Especially in the context of recent discussion of the Shakun et al. paper, a look at other sources for temperature history versus CO2 [...]

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Shakun The Last, I Hope

   April 11, 2012 by Willis Eschenbach Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In three previous posts here, here, and here, I discussed problems with the paper by Shakun et al., “Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation” (PDF,hereinafter S2012) Commenters said, and reasonably so, that I had not fully addressed [...]

Hansen and Schmidt of NASA GISS under fire for climate stance

Article from Whats Up With That blog. Hansen and Schmidt of NASA GISS under fire for climate stance: Engineers, scientists, astronauts ask NASA administration to look at empirical evidence rather than climate models Posted on April 10, 2012 by Anthony Watts An embarrassing image for NASA: James Hansen, arrested in front of the White House in [...]