Recently, Watts and D'Aleo released their study, Surface Temperature Records: Policy Driven Deception, revealing manipulation of temperature data collected from stations worldwide. The short version is: a) roughly 75% of the some 6000 stations supplying data have been eliminated. b) No compensation for this difference was built into subsequent climate modeling. c) Most of the stations removed wer
Sort of Political | more | posted February 26th
Much critique has been levelled at the methodology used to adjust for the urban heat island effect. Now, more ammo has been added to the sceptic camp:“The problem would seem to be the methodologies engendered in treatment for a mix of urban and rural locations; that the ‘adjustment’ protocol appears to accent to a warming effect rather than eliminate it. This, if correct, leaves serious doub
Celestial Junk | more | posted February 26th
The debate over man-made global warming seems very much alive notwithstanding pronouncements from prominent global warming watchers that the facts supporting Anthropogenic Climate Change are irrefutable; the debate is over. Climate Change, we are told, will cause massive change to our planet—all negative. And we are rapidly running out of time. Climate scientists have based their predictions on
Russ Campbell | more | posted February 9th
When it looked like we were not going to see an unbroken string of ever warmer winters, the man-made global warming crowd changed it tune. They changed the name of the so-called Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) phenomenon to “climate change.” That way they couldn’t be proved wrong, or so they thought. It did not take long for the international media to pick up on the name change, and fuel
Russ Campbell | more | posted January 26th
Have a read of the Copenhagen Accord. It's not lengthy, and won't take but a minute.Good.Now go back and pay particular attention to the basic premise..."1. We underline that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. We emphasize our strong political will to urgently combat climate change in accordance with the principle of common but differentiated responsibilit
Sort of Political | more | posted December 19th
Clarity:I am a climate scientist, and it is clear that the evidence that “human activity is prominent [sic] agent in global warming” is NOT overwhelming. The repeated statement that it is does not make it so. Further, even if we accepted the hypothesis, cap-and-trade legislation does not do anything about it.Here are the facts. We have known for years that the Mann hockey stick model was wrong
Celestial Junk | more | posted December 4th
Apparently, India may yet sign on at Copenhagen.Indian Premier Manmohan Singh said for the first time Saturday he was willing to commit his country to ambitious global carbon emission cuts, provided others shared the burden.Home to nearly 1.2 billion people, India is the only major greenhouse gas emitting nation yet to announce figures on reining in its carbon output, with just over a week to go u
The Raging Tory | more | posted November 30th