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Climate bozos keep popping up all over

Climate Alarmism: When Is This Bozo Going Down? By Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger Climate alarmism is like one of those pop-up Bozos. No matter how many times you bop it, up it...

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Significant new paper by Nic Lewis and Judith Curry lowers the range of...

This is one of those times I’m really glad WiFi has been installed on passenger aircraft. After reviewing this paper at Nic Lewis’ home prior to that extraordinary meeting with climate scientists I...

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Quote of the Week – models, climate sensitivity, the pause, and psychology

There’s a saying that “even a blind squirrel will find a nut occasionally”, and while I don’t think of Steven Mosher as anywhere close to a blind squirrel, he does have the habit of posting comments on...

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The Collection of Evidence for a Lower Climate Sensitivity Continues to Grow...

By Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger Nic Lewis and Judith Curry just published a blockbuster paper that pegs the earth’s equilibrium climate sensitivity—how much the earth’s average...

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Yet another significant paper finds low climate sensitivity to CO2,...

Hot on the heels of the Lewis and Curry paper, we have this new paper, which looks to be well researched, empirically based, and a potential blockbuster for dimming the alarmism that has been so...

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Claim: CO2 effects felt on decadal time scales, rather than centuries

But, why if that is true, why are we in a pause, when there’s been an increase in CO2 the last decade and no correlation with temperature? From the Institute of Physics: CO2 warming effects felt just a...

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#AGU14 poster demonstrates the divergence problem with IPCC climate models...

Earlier this week I to reported on some of the poster sessions at the American Geophysical Meeting but was told the next day that I’m not allowed to photograph such posters to report on them. However,...

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Calculations suggest that Global warming caused by the doubling of CO2 will...

Guest essay by Saburo Nonogaki It has been said that the averaged earth surface temperature would be 255K if no green-house-effect(g-h-e) gases were contained in the atmosphere, and is 288K at present...

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Questing Into The New Year

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s a cold clear night here along the north Pacific coast where I live, with a waxing moon surveying the scene. As befits New Years Day, I’ve been thinking about the...

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What Does Gavin Schmidt’s ‘Warmest’ Year Tell Us About Climate Sensitivity to...

Guest post by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism A...

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Recent Paper Ends Abstract with “…Model Might Be Too Sensitive to the...

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The paper is Douville et al. (2015) The recent global warming hiatus: What is the role of Pacific variability? [paywalled].    The abstract reads (my boldface): The observed...

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New Study: Climate Alarmism Takes One Helluva Beating

Climate Sensitivity Takes Another Tumble (via the GWPF)   Since [the publication of the IPCC’s] AR5, various papers concerning aerosol forcing have been published, without really narrowing down the...

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A reply to Born: How to represent temperature feedbacks in a simple model

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, David Legates, Willie Soon and Matt Briggs Mr. Born has had another go at our paper Why models run hot, published in January 2015 (PDF here) in the Science...

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Climate Insensitivity

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been wanting to [take] another look at the relationship between net top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiation changes on the one hand and changes in temperature on the...

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I only ask because I want to know

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley I propose to raise a question about the Earth’s energy budget that has perplexed me for some years. Since further evidence in relation to my long-standing question...

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2°C or not 2°C–that is the question

This note by The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley uses methods and data exclusively from mainstream climate science to constrain the interval of 21st-century global warming. In 2009 the Copenhagen...

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Lags and Leads

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been thinking about thermal lags in the climate system. Everyone is familiar with thermal lag in everyday life. When you put a cast-iron pan on the stove flame, it...

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Wrong Again, Again

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach One of the best parts of new tools is new discoveries. So the tools to calculate the heat constants of the ocean and land as described in my last post, Lags and Leads,...

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Antarctic Refrigerator Effect, Climate Sensitivity & Déformation...

Guest essay by Jim Steele Reference link: Déformation professionnelle Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An...

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Study from Marvel and Schmidt: Examination of Earth’s recent history key to...

From NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER Estimates of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics of each important driver of recent climate...

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