New study suggests global warming could be mostly an urban problem
Reposted from CERES-Science A new study published in the scientific peer-reviewed journal, Climate, by 37 researchers from 18 countries suggests that current estimates of global warming are contaminated by urban warming biases. The study also suggests that the solar activity estimates considered in the most recent reports by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel [...]
Open Letter to Dr. James Skea of the IPCC
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, August 25, 2023 Dear Dr. Skea, Congratulations on your position as [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Twitter Debate on Clintel’s IPCC AR6 Critique
By Andy May In May 2023, Clintel published a book (see figure 1) criticizing AR6 (IPCC, 2021), a publication that was supposed to summarize climate science research to date. We found that AR6 was biased in its reporting of recent developments in climate science, and they ignored published research contrary to their narrative that [...]