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7 02, 2021

“Climate Adaptation Summit” turns out to be a fundraising event

By |2021-02-07T16:36:30+01:007 February 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on “Climate Adaptation Summit” turns out to be a fundraising event

The recent Climate Adaptation Summit 2021 was not about helping nations against the effects of climate change. It was all about finding huge amounts of money. Even worse, it was about planning on finding money, not actually finding it. Even more embarrassing, in some cases it was just about thinking about planning. In [...]

4 02, 2021

Scafetta: CMIP5 models unable to replicate Medieval Warm Period, ignore nature

By |2021-02-05T14:57:34+01:004 February 2021|Italy, News, USA|Comments Off on Scafetta: CMIP5 models unable to replicate Medieval Warm Period, ignore nature

Nicola Scafetta has written a new paper (Scafetta, 2021) in Atmosphere on a new millennial surface temperature reconstruction. This is his latest “what if the models are accurate?” analysis. Scafetta’s idea is, let’s assume a model is correct, what are the implications? Previously, he examined the PMOD solar model, by assuming it was correct and the Sun is invariant [...]

3 02, 2021

A review of “Politics & Climate Science – A HISTORY”, Andy May’s new book

By |2021-02-04T16:49:22+01:003 February 2021|Book review, France, News, USA|Comments Off on A review of “Politics & Climate Science – A HISTORY”, Andy May’s new book

A review by Patrice Poyet Abstract of the Review This book is a must-have for any person interested in the history of what is called climate science and of the people who contributed to shaping the dominant ideas of our time. It also describes how the power struggles of various influential groups determined where [...]

25 01, 2021

William Happer’s review of “False Alarm”, Bjorn Lomborg’s new book

By |2021-01-25T14:35:49+01:0025 January 2021|Book review, News, USA|Comments Off on William Happer’s review of “False Alarm”, Bjorn Lomborg’s new book

For many years, the Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg has bravely contested the lie that a “climate apocalypse” is the greatest threat to humanity. He correctly points out that humanity faces much more serious problems than climate change. Much of the world’s population is trying to cope with real problems such as hunger, disease, [...]

24 01, 2021

Nuclear superior to wind and solar

By |2021-01-24T19:08:23+01:0024 January 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on Nuclear superior to wind and solar

Future energy mixes should show a growing contribution from modern nuclear power plants. That is the core finding of the new “No Regrets Energy Policy” proposed by the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL).  CLINTEL finds current governmental energy-transitions to be “scientifically unfounded and economically suicidal” because of their dependence on wind and solar power [...]

23 01, 2021

A New Look at the Urban Heat Island Effect

By |2021-01-23T13:58:48+01:0023 January 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on A New Look at the Urban Heat Island Effect

Nicola Scafetta has just published a new paper in Climate Dynamics examining evidence of the urban heat island (UHI) effect (Scafetta, 2021). The paper is not paywalled and can be downloaded here. In summary, Scafetta shows that part of the recent warming shown in the HadCRUT 4 global temperature record may be due to the UHI effect. He uses [...]

22 01, 2021

New presentation by John Christy: models for AR6 still fail to reproduce trends in tropical troposphere

By |2021-01-22T11:38:14+01:0022 January 2021|Ireland, News, USA|Comments Off on New presentation by John Christy: models for AR6 still fail to reproduce trends in tropical troposphere

Last night John Christy, the Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, gave an online talk for the Irish Climate Science Forum. The event was organised by Jim O'Brien who is also the Irish ambassador of CLINTEL. Signees of CLINTEL's [...]

20 01, 2021

Global Disasters: A Remarkable Story of Science and Policy Success

By |2021-01-22T17:21:50+01:0020 January 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on Global Disasters: A Remarkable Story of Science and Policy Success

Believe it or Not, Disaster Trends are Moving in a Positive Direction By Roger Pielke Jr The Earth is a dangerous and violent place. Volcanoes, tropical cyclones, earthquakes, fires, tornadoes, tsunamis, drought … the list of perils is long and scary. But one of the most remarkable scientific and policy successes of [...]

18 01, 2021

The Rational Climate e-Book

By |2021-01-18T18:54:11+01:0018 January 2021|France, News, USA|Comments Off on The Rational Climate e-Book

Patrice Poyet has just published a new 431-page eBook entitled, The Rational Climate e-Book, it is free to download here. Dr. Poyet studied geochemistry, remote sensing, and computer science at Ecole des Mines de Paris / Nice University. He received his doctorate in 1986. As an expert computer modeler, he spends much of the book evaluating climate [...]

13 01, 2021

Rebuttal to Geological Society of London Scientific Statement on Climate Change

By |2021-01-13T15:42:53+01:0013 January 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on Rebuttal to Geological Society of London Scientific Statement on Climate Change

Guest essay by David Middleton and Andy May The Geological Society of London recently published a statement on climate change: Geological Society of London Scientific Statement: what the geological record tells us about our present and future climate Geologists Andy May and David Middleton have spent the past few days reviewing the Geological Society [...]