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July 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Climate Alarmism, Climate Change, Tipping points | Category: Opinion | Leave a comment

Met Office winter ‘forecast’ 2009-10 attacked as ‘reckless misleading nonsense without scientific basis or skill’. “It should be ignored absolutely. The opposite to whatever the Met Office says in long range has been what happened for the last three years!” Piers Corbyn, astrophysicist of WeatherAction said today, 23 July:   “The Met Office long range [...]

July 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Met Office, Weather/Climate Forecasts | Category: News, Opinion | Comments (11)

A new paper has been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres entitled: ‘Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature’ by McLean, J. D., C. R. de Freitas, and R. M. Carter (2009)Geophys. Res., 114, D14104, doi:10.1029/2008JD011637. The Abstract states: Time series for the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and global tropospheric temperature [...]

July 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Climate Change, Natural Variability | Category: News | Comments (15)

For the first time, the numbers from government documents have been compiled in one place. It’s time to start talking of “Monopolistic Science”. It’s time to expose the lie that those who claim “to save the planet” are the underdogs. And it’s time to get serious about auditing science, especially when it comes to pronouncements [...]

July 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Climate Change, Funding | Category: News | Comments (2)

The Government was facing a growing credibility gap over green jobs last night as environmental campaigners and trade unionists united to fight the closure of Britain’s sole major wind turbine plant. Only last week, ministers proclaimed a green employment future for the UK involving 400,000 jobs in environmental industries such as renewable energy – yet [...]

July 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Climate Policy, Energy, Wind Power | Category: News | Comments (1)

A new paper in Science reports that a careful study of satellite data show the assumed cooling effect of aerosols in the atmosphere to be significantly less than previously estimated. Unfortunately, the assumed greater cooling has been used in climate models for years. In such models, the global-mean warming is determined by the balance of [...]

July 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Aerosols, Black Carbon | Category: Observations | Leave a comment

As we’ve discussed before (and is well known), clouds are the greatest source of uncertainty in climate sensitivity. Low-level (“boundary layer”) tropical clouds have been shown to be the largest source of inter-model difference among Global Climate Models (GCMs). Clouds have been known to be problematic for GCMs since at least the Charney Report in [...]

July 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Climate Models, Clouds, IPCC | Category: Opinion | Leave a comment