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2 12, 2023

Interview Richard W. Hurst

By |2023-12-02T16:16:06+01:002 December 2023|Interviews, USA|Comments Off on Interview Richard W. Hurst

Richard W. Hurst Name: Richard W. Hurst Country: USA What is your background? My interest in science began at an early age due to my God-given inquisitive nature. I survived an operation at birth to repair a blocked esophagus that saved my life and, due to my parents’ desire to help future [...]

23 11, 2023

Nic Lewis debunks James Hansen’s overheated claims

By |2023-11-23T16:46:43+01:0023 November 2023|News, USA|Comments Off on Nic Lewis debunks James Hansen’s overheated claims

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 [...]

22 11, 2023

Are El Niño’s becoming stronger?

By |2023-11-22T14:11:09+01:0022 November 2023|News, USA|Comments Off on Are El Niño’s becoming stronger?

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 [...]

22 11, 2023

COVID, climate and manufactured consensus

By |2023-11-22T13:49:40+01:0022 November 2023|News, USA|Comments Off on COVID, climate and manufactured consensus

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, [...]

21 11, 2023

Steven Koonin’s visit to The Netherlands: the science is not settled

By |2023-11-22T14:58:21+01:0021 November 2023|CLINTEL, News, The Netherlands, USA|Comments Off on Steven Koonin’s visit to The Netherlands: the science is not settled

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 [...]

25 09, 2023

Interview Jilong Rao

By |2023-09-25T16:42:10+02:0025 September 2023|Interviews, USA|Comments Off on Interview Jilong Rao

Jilong Rao Name: Jilong Rao Country: USA What is your background? I realized the harmony of both Eastern and Western moral values in my childhood. Reading taught me influential thinkers from China and the West shared similar ideas about natural philosophy and natural law. In 1957, when I was a sophomore in [...]

25 09, 2023

Interview Stephen Dartt

By |2023-09-25T16:38:23+02:0025 September 2023|Interviews, USA|Comments Off on Interview Stephen Dartt

Stephen Dartt Name: Stephen Dartt Country: USA What is your background? I earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). While at Princeton, I also took every Operations Research (applied statistics) class that was offered. I also [...]

12 08, 2023

Nobel Prize winner Dr. John F. Clauser signs the Clintel World Climate Declaration

By |2023-08-12T16:24:22+02:0012 August 2023|CLINTEL, News, USA, World Climate Declaration|Comments Off on Nobel Prize winner Dr. John F. Clauser signs the Clintel World Climate Declaration

John F. Clauser, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum mechanics, has decided to sign the World Climate Declaration of Clintel with its central message “there is no climate emergency”. Clauser is the second Nobel Laureate to sign the  declaration, Dr. Ivar Giaever was the [...]

6 07, 2023

Solar Activity: Cycle 25 Surpasses Cycle 24

By |2023-07-06T14:24:05+02:006 July 2023|News, USA|Comments Off on Solar Activity: Cycle 25 Surpasses Cycle 24

By Javier Vinós reposted from Andy May Petrophysicist Over the past two decades, solar activity has been characterized by an extended solar minimum spanning two solar cycles, known as the Clilverd Minimum. This phenomenon is currently affecting the climate, but before we can understand its impact, we must address the significant discrepancy [...]

5 07, 2023

What’s causing the extremely warm temperatures in the North Atlantic?

By |2023-07-05T15:51:28+02:005 July 2023|News, USA|Comments Off on What’s causing the extremely warm temperatures in the North Atlantic?

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 [...]