The featured image for this post is from Angela Wheeler at the CO2 Coalition, used with permission. This post is a comment on Cobb, 2024, the paper is entitled “The politics of climate denialism and the secondary denialism of economics.” The paper defines climate denialism, discusses the reasons it exists, and the effect of widespread “denialism” [...]
One of my interests is in understanding how and why the climate is so stable, for sure it has been over the last several thousand years. Where I live, on the Tropic of Capricorn, daily atmospheric temperatures may fluctuate by 20C, yet the seasonal variation in sea temperatures is less than 10C and [...]
[There is also a Greek version of the post—Υπάρχει και ελληνική έκδοση της ανάρτησης] Following the brief introduction (Part 1 of the series “The Nile’s gifts for understanding climate” referring to the booklet “Understanding Climate: Gifts from the Nile”), in today’s post I discuss some of the Nile data sets and the failed attempts to interpret [...]
[There is also a Greek version of the post—Υπάρχει και ελληνική έκδοση της ανάρτησης] In today’s post I wish to celebrate our booklet (Special Report) that was published yesterday: D. Koutsoyiannis, and T. Iliopoulou, Understanding Climate: Gifts from the Nile, 60 pages, SR 301, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, USA, 2024. Its abstract reads as follows: [...]
With Merkel gone, Germany finds itself on an accelerating trajectory of impoverishment. One might have hoped that the German Right would learn a few lessons from the Merkel disaster. It has not. The European People's Party (EPP), the largest political group in the European Parliament -- in which the CDU is a member [...]
I last wrote about Climate Change and Civilization for the past 4,000 Years in 2016. Since then, a lot has changed, and I’ve learned a lot more about the subject. First, we learned that various air and sea temperature proxies, such as ice core δ18O or tree rings, are all different. For a discussion of some temperature [...]
“Consensus” scientists do not believe that solar variability, internal climate variability (in this model simplified to the ~67-year stadium wave), or volcanism influence net global warming or climate change since 1750, yet considerable evidence exists that these factors have an impact. I’ve previously built a model of the HadCRUT5 global average temperature (see here) from seven [...]
Australia experienced severe drought during the 1990s, and for much of that decade Australia’s National Climate Centre was headed by meteorologist Bill Kininmonth. He provided advice to government and also to the IPCC. Bill subsequently published an important book entitled ‘Climate Change: A Natural Hazard’. In it he explains that the model of [...]
[There is also a Greek version of the post—Υπάρχει και ελληνική έκδοση της ανάρτησης] By now, I have published 41 peer-reviewed papers about climate—out of my total of 258 papers in journals and my total of 1000 works recognized by Google Scholar.1 The peer review system has had bad facets ever since I started writing papers (around 1990). I had [...]
Climate is a hot topic, but I have been studying it in a cool way. I have used math in my studies, as it is something that I have learned and appreciate. And I fully embrace Stendhal’s maxim about math: What is more I loved, and still do love, mathematics for itself as not [...]
