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” on society. The paper was written in response to a paper I wrote with my [...]
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: [...]
„Klimatické změny, fakta a mýty ve světle vědy“, pořádané českou pobočkou CLINTEL 12.–13.11. 2024 v PS PČR Czech Parliament Prague Tento text se nezabývá okolnostmi pořádání konference (včetně různých obstrukcí, nátlaku a naschválů ve snaze konferenci překazit nebo aspoň potrestat její účastníky a organizátory), ani nemá ambice vyvracet všechny lživé a manipulativní zprávy, [...]
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 [...]
