by Judith Curry reposted from Climate Etc. Politically-motivated manufacture of scientific consensus corrupts the scientific process and leads to poor policy decisions An essay with excerpts from my new book Climate Uncertainty and Risk. In the 21st century, humankind is facing a myriad of complex societal problems that are characterized by deep uncertainties, [...]
The science is not settled. That is the central message in prof. Steven Koonin’s climate bestseller: Unsettled. Koonin, former Undersecretary for Science in the Obama Administration (2009-2011), demonstrates in his book that the climate problem is often exaggerated and that the proposed energy transition is unfeasible. On the occasion of the launch of the [...]
By Antero Ollila The media has reported record-high temperatures for the recent months. Climate change has been blamed, which the IPCC claims is solely due to the increase in greenhouse gases. Nowhere has there been any news that the Earth received about 3 W/m2 more solar radiation in August 2023 than in the [...]
by FRANCO BATTAGLIA It is not the CO₂ levels that influence temperatures but the exact opposite The Greek academic: It's the hen or egg dilemma applied to the climate. Italy? Beautiful but it's difficult to do science Demetris Koutsoyiannis Demetris Koutsoyiannis is Professor Emeritus of Hydrology at the [...]
By Jo Nova The “hottest ever” headline ignores most of history While the UAH satellite measurements are the hottest by far of the 44 year satellite record, nothing about the “hottest ever” media frenzy makes sense — not for health, history, the long term, or human biology. It’s only the “hottest ever” if [...]
Wise Hok Wai Lum Almost no one is aware that the Great Barrier Reef has had two bumper years of record high coral cover. The excellent results of 2022 were repeated in 2023, showing that the grand recovery of the corals, after years of bleaching, was no fluke result. The Great Barrier Reef [...]
Professor Dr. James Skea, Chair of the IPCC, c/o World Meteorological Organization 7bis Avenue de la Paix C.P. 2300 CH -1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland. Dr. A.J. (Guus) Berkhout President of Clintel The Hague, September 20, 2023 Dear Dr. Skea, On August 25 Clintel has [...]
Article by Ronan Connolly, Michael Connolly and Willie Soon, originally published at Ceres Science. In July and August 2023, several of us at CERES-Science were involved in three important new peer-reviewed scientific papers. So far, most of the feedback from the scientific community and the public on these papers has been very positive. [...]
Article by Ronan Connolly, Michael Connolly and Willie Soon, originally published at Ceres Science. In the last month, we have co-authored three papers in scientific peer-reviewed journals collectively dealing with the twin problems of (1) urbanization bias and (2) the ongoing debates over Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) datasets: Soon et al. (2023). [...]
Why matching of CMIP5 model-simulated to observed warming does not indicate model skill Guest post by Nicholas Lewis. Originally published at Judith Curry's blog Climate Etc. A well-known Dutch journalist, Maarten Keulemans of De Volkskrant, recently tweeted an open letter to the Nobel-prizewinning physicist Professor Clauser in response to his signing of the Clintel [...]
