Archive for November 30th, 2009
The Liberal Party in Australia’s parliament has a new leader. Herald Sun Blogger and Columnist, Andrew bolt writes to me in an email: Anthony, This may be a first: a major political party
Tags: Climategate, politics, WUWT
From the Times of India – a “put up or shut up” moment – “we’ll go along if you pay us”. Excerpts below: BEIJING: In an unprecedented move, India on
In science, as in most disciplines, the process is as important as the product. The recent email/data release (aka Climategate) has exposed the process of scientific peer-review as failing. If the
Tags: Climate Science, Climategate, master resource, Peer review and science
Monbiot is not someone to take PR advice from in this story.
Scientists working to validate data from ESA’s water mission SMOS, launched in November, will get help from skippers competing in the SolOceans around-the-world single-handed race.
A series of newly discovered pits in the bottom of the Hudson Canyon, 100 miles southeast of New York Harbor, may be a key ingredient for the abundant and diverse marine ecosystem in and around the
Messages from British climate scientists gave insight into their thinking, and they might be their own worst enemies.
Some 450 peer-reviewed papers that fall outside the global-warming consensus, for your reading pleasure.
Since 1985, seawater temperature in Kuwait Bay, northern Persian Gulf, has increased on average 0.6 degrees Celsius per decade. This is about three times faster than the global average rate
us chamber of commerce.jpg The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has already done everything it can to kill the chances of a legally binding agreement emerging from the Copenhagen climate change
Tags: astroturf, BINGOs, Brian Flannery, Center for Public Integrity, Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy, climate change, COP15, Copenhagen Climate Summit, Environment, Exxon Mobil, General, global warming, green, International Chamber of Commerce, lobbyists, Nick Campbell, oil industry lobbyists, Sustainability, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Don Monroe alerts me to his very well written review of The Honest Broker. He writes: Pielke’s short, readable book provides a helpful guide for what we can hope for in policy debates
Gareth Renowden has uncovered the shocking story behind Christopher Monckton’s screed at Pajamas Media. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post…
Tags: Monckton
Supply (we got too much) and Demand (ain’t got enough)There may be nothing new under the sun, but the cost of solar electric is falling rapidly due to an oversupply of polysilicon. With new
Tags: Eli Rabett
Monbiot says yes, and he should have done it quickly: [link] Similarly, Judith Curry also argues that scientists must be squeaky clean: [link]
Confident predictions of catastrophe are unwarranted. A commentary by Richard S. Lindzen in the WSJ Is there a reason to be alarmed by the prospect of global warming? Consider that the measurement
Tags: Alarmism, climate data, Climategate, climate_change, WUWT
This battle between alarmists and skeptics is really about which vision of the world will guide us going forward. It's really important and it's a bit strange that leaked emails play such
Tags: Liberal Skeptic
Reuters: CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia’s plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions are set for almost certain defeat in a hostile Senate after the opposition on Tuesday elected a new
Russ Steele writes: President Obama will soon be on his his way to Copenhagen and his Bagdad Bob moment in Air Force One. Climategate is sure to create some turbulence. From The Chilling
Tags: Climategate, satire, WUWT
IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri has a theory on Climategate: Dr Pachauri, speaking to The Times on Saturday before travelling to Paris to brief President Sarkozy, suggested that the fossil fuel lobby
For $1,209 you can meet Al Gore in Copenhagen, drinks and light snack included. So, uh, who gets the proceeds?
Richard Lindzen writes in Tuesday’s WSJ: Is there a reason to be alarmed by the prospect of global warming? Consider that the measurement used, the globally averaged temperature anomaly
Aerosols, very small particles suspended in the air, play an important role in the global climate balance and in regulating climate change. They are one of the greatest sources of uncertainty in
I’ve been waiting a few months to finish up an analysis of the implications of the proposed Australian ETS for the decarbonization of Australia’s economy (along the lines of my UK and
The WSJ’s Bret Stephens writes on Climategate: Last year, ExxonMobil donated $7 million to a grab-bag of public policy institutes, including the Aspen Institute, the Asia Society and
It’s hard to know what to write about, there is simply too much here. So let’s do a fun one… Where would you hold a global warming conference dedicated to ‘extremes’
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A Myth About The Surface Temperature Record Analyses Perpetuated On Dot Earth By Andy Revkin By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. On the weblog Dot Earth today, there is text from Michael Schlesinger, a
Tags: climate data, media, WUWT
John Tierney’s must read on Climategate over NYTimes.com. An excerpt: If you have not delved into the thousands of e-mail messages and files hacked from the computers of British climate
Sea levels could rise by as much as 1.4 metres (4.6 feet) by 2100 – more than twice previous estimates – according to new studies showing that one of the Antarctic’s massive ice sheets is
Tags: climate change