By Nic Lewis reposted from Climate Etc. James Hansen’s latest paper “Global warming in the pipeline” (Hansen et al. (2023)) has already been heavily criticized in a lengthy comment by Michael Mann, author of the original IPCC ‘hockey stick’. However Mann does not deal with Hansen’s surprisingly high (4.8°C) new estimate of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS)ECS [...]
By Ralph B. Alexander reposted from Science Under Attack "If it [a scientific hypothesis] disagrees with experiment, it’s WRONG." – Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman No Evidence That Today’s El Niños Are Any Stronger than in the Past The current exceptionally strong El Niño has revived discussion of a question [...]
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. [...]
