by Jim Johnstone and Judith Curry reposted from Climate Etc. With the Atlantic hurricane season underway, we are closely monitoring the exceptionally warm SSTs in the Atlantic. This post describes what has been happening and why. Atlantic SSTs Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) over much of the North Atlantic are exceptionally high in [...]
By Andy May In May 2023, Clintel published a book (see figure 1) criticizing AR6 (IPCC, 2021), a publication that was supposed to summarize climate science research to date. We found that AR6 was biased in its reporting of recent developments in climate science, and they ignored published research contrary to their narrative that [...]
The media all over the world are making headlines, telling us that the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting at an accelerating speed. The data for melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, however, give us no basis for such a conclusion, says guest author Jørgen Keinicke. The climate of Greenland is, just like the [...]
Amsterdam, June 23, 2023 Professor A.J. (Guus) Berkhout office@clintel.org António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY 10017, United States of America. Dear Mr. Guterres, On 23 September 2019 we have sent you a registered letter, expressing our major concerns about your idealistic plans to stop [...]
Willie Soon, Ronan and his father Michael Connolly released a new interesting video about the snow cover debate. Clintel covers this debate in chapter 4 of our report The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC. The three scientists published a paper in 2019 comparing snow cover in climate models with observations. In [...]
Professor Dr. Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC, c/o World Meteorological Organization 7bis Avenue de la Paix C.P. 2300 CH -1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland. The Hague, May 25, 2023 Dear Dr. Hoesung Lee, With the recently published Synthesis Report, the IPCC finished its sixth assessment cycle, consisting of seven reports in [...]
By Andy May This is the text of my presentation on Tom Nelson’s podcast which can be viewed here. The question and answers start at about 18:15 into the interview. The first IPCC Physical Science Basis report is called “FAR” and was first published in 1990. An updated 1992 version of the report contains this [...]
© Clintel Foundation / Tuesday May 9, 2023 Amsterdam, 9 May 2023 * IPCC hides good news about disaster losses and climate-related deaths * IPCC wrongly claimed the estimate of climate sensitivity is above 2.5°C; it is more likely below 2°C * IPCC misleads policy makers [...]
An international team of scientists from the Clintel network has looked into parts of the Working Group 1 and Working Group 2 reports of the IPCC Sixth Assessment report. The report will be released on Wednesday 26 April. To stay informed about this and other Clintel projects, please subscribe to our newsletter. Clintel [...]
By Andy May You can read this post in German here, courtesy of Christian Freuer. Here we go again, writing on the proper use of statistics in climate science. Traditionally, the most serious errors in statistical analysis are made in the social sciences, with medical papers coming in a close second. Climate science is biting [...]
