The inauguration of Donald Trump on Monday, January 20th as 47th President of the United States promises to dramatically change the trajectory of U.S. energy policies pursued by the outgoing Biden administration as well as the previous two-term Obama presidency. Reposted from THE DAILY SCEPTIC by Tilak Doshi In a speech and Q&A session on [...]
Why the 2024 climate report is more about fear than facts. The recent article published in BioScience, "The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth," is a parade of exaggerated claims and half-truths, a propaganda piece designed to scare the public into adopting misguided policies while turning a [...]
Ian Magness Name: Ian Magness Country: UK What is your background? I studied Earth Sciences for my BSc at Imperial College, after which I worked in the geophysics department of an oil company. I became a Fellow of the Geological Society of London although, frankly, I suspect that was less on merit [...]
Douglas Cormack Name: Douglas Cormack Country: UK What is your background? Having obtained a 1st class Honours BSc and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Glasgow University, I spent 2.5 years at Woodshole in Massachusetts. Thereafter, I joined the UK Scientific Civil Service at my recruitment grade of Senior Scientific Officer. Thereafter, I [...]
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 [...]
Senator John Kennedy tried to get an estimate of the cost of net zero in a recent hearing By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The New Pause has lengthened to 8 years 9 months. The least-squares linear-regression trend on the UAH monthly satellite global-temperature dataset shows no global warming from July 2014 to March [...]
John Anthony Barney Name: John Anthony Barney Country: United Kingdom What is your background? I graduated in polymer science and spent the first part of my professional life in the rubber industry: research at Dunlop (Birmingham) and latex concentrate manufacture in Kuala Lumpur. I built a demo factory for The Rubber Research [...]
by Nic Lewis reposted from Climate Etc. Official estimates of future global warming may be overstated. A brief summary in press release style of my new paper (written in the third person) One of the most important conclusions of the recent 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6) was [...]
Official IPCC estimates of future global warming may be overstated Press Release by GWPF A new paper reduces the estimate of climate sensitivity – the amount of warming expected for a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations – by one third. The results therefore suggest that future global warming will be much [...]
BY Chris Morrison Reposted from What's up with that Inevitable really, but the Daily Sceptic‘s recent article on the World Climate Declaration (WCD) has attracted a green-activist ‘fact check’, and on that flimsy basis has been labelled “false information” by Facebook. On August 18th we published an article reporting that scientists across the world had declared there [...]
