Climate Research News

David Adam, previously Environment Correspondent at The Guardian, has now joined Nature as Nature op-ed Editor. d.adam@nature.com

August 31st, 2010 | Tags: Climate Alarmism | Category: News | Leave a comment

New peer reviewed paper: Bouwer, L.M. (in press). Have disaster losses increased due to anthropogenic climate change? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:10.1175/2010BAMS3092.1 Abstract The increasing impact of natural disasters over recent decades has been well documented, especially the direct economic losses and losses that were insured. Claims are made by some that climate [...]

August 24th, 2010 | Tags: Climate Alarmism, Climate Change, Weather | Category: News | Comments (1)

It’s not exactly rocket science – when building a wind farm, look for a site that is, well, quite windy. But more than half of Britain’s wind farms are operating at less than 25 per cent capacity. In England, the figure rises to 70 per cent of onshore developments, research shows. Experts say that over-generous [...]

August 18th, 2010 | Tags: Energy, Wind Power | Category: News | Leave a comment

US Government admits global warming satellite sensors “degraded” – temperatures may be out by 10-15 degrees. Now five satellites in controversy. Top scientists speak out. In an escalating row dubbed ‘Satellitegate’ further evidence proves NOAA knew of these faults for years. World’s top climate scientists and even prior governmental reports cite underfunding and misallocation as [...]

August 17th, 2010 | Tags: Global Average Near Surface Temperature, Global Warming | Category: News | Leave a comment

A paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, confirms other studies of tide gauge records which show that there has been no statistically significant acceleration in sea level rise over the past 100+ years, in contrast to statements of the IPCC and Al Gore. Sea levels have been rising naturally since the [...]

August 17th, 2010 | Tags: Sea Levels | Category: News | Leave a comment

As reported over at Climate Audit, an important study on proxy reconstructions (McShane and Wyner 2010) is to be published in the Annals of Applied Statistics (one of the top statistical journals): A Statistical Analysis of Multiple Temperature Proxies: Are Reconstructions of Surface Temperatures Over the Last 1000 Years Reliable? It states in its abstract: We find [...]

August 17th, 2010 | Tags: Paleoclimate | Category: News | Leave a comment

An international team of scientists including Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz of the Geology Department of the University of Leicester, and led by Dr. Thijs Vandenbroucke, formerly of Leicester and now at the University of Lille 1 (France), has reconstructed the Earth’s climate belts of the late Ordovician Period, between 460 and 445 million years [...]

August 12th, 2010 | Tags: Climate Sensitivity to CO2, Paleoclimate | Category: News | Leave a comment

1. Introduction News broke on or around November 19 2009 that a large archive of emails and files from the Climate Research Unit had been released on the internet. The contents of the files were sufficiently disconcerting to the public, governments and university administrations to prompt the establishment of a number of inquiries. This paper [...]

August 11th, 2010 | Tags: Climategate | Category: News, Opinion | Comments (2)

TROPICAL TROPOSPHERE: The 2006 CCSP report pointed to a mismatch between models and observed trends in the tropical troposphere as a “potentially serious inconsistency.” In short, the climate models need to get the tropical troposphere right, since it’s a vast region where the models all show a relatively enhanced and rapid response to greenhouse gases. [...]

August 11th, 2010 | Tags: Climate Models | Category: News, Observations | Leave a comment