Reposted From the Cliff Mass Weather Blog Tornado damage, Courtesy of State Farm Insurance Powerful, long-lived tornadoes struck western Kentucky, southern Illinois, and the vicinity on Friday night. And within hours, major media outlets, national politicians, and several climate activists were claiming that global warming was partly or mainly to blame. [...]
This article was originally published at Science Under Attack. Melting due to climate change of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has led to widespread panic about the future impact of global warming. But, as we’ll see in this and a subsequent post, Antarctica may not be warming overall, while the rate of ice loss [...]
Jim O'Brien, Clintel's Irish ambassador and active in the Irish Climate Science Forum regularly organizes very interesting lectures given by prominent climate scientists. Last night the well-known US climate/policy scientist Roger Pielke Jr had the virtual floor. The full talk can be viewed above or on youtube. In his lecture, Roger will [...]
Een gastbijdrage van Ferdinand Meeus (Verscheen eerder bij Opiniez). Media en politici doen al jaren hun uiterste best om ons ervan te doordringen dat er een klimaatcrisis bestaat. We worden overspoeld met angstaanjagende berichten over de dreigende ondergang van de wereld. EU-klimaatpaus Frans Timmermans wil zelfs meer dan 1000 miljard euro uitgeven om Europa te [...]
European Court of Human Rights Earlier this week, CLINTEL submitted a petition to the European Court of Human Rights to be allowed to participate in a climate law suit initiated by climate activists against 33 countries. The case is known as the DUARTE case. We previously filed a similar request, which the court denied [...]
By Steve McIntyre - repost of Climate Audit About 20% of the PAGES 2019 proxies are 50 Asian tree ring chronologies, all of which were originally published as chronologies in PAGES (2013). At the time, none of these series (and certainly not in these digital versions, had ever been published in technical literature, [...]
Statement by CLINTEL on the publication today of the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of Working Group I (WGI) of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) August 9, 2021 CLINTEL has carried out a preliminary review of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the AR6 WGI report (on the Physical Science) issued today. [...]
By Madhav Khandekar* Toronto, Canada The recent extreme heat episode (June 29- July 5, 2021) over the NW region of Canada-USA led to highest recorded temperature of 49.7C in Lytton (British Columbia) in Canada. This unusual weather event was caused by a development of a ‘heat dome’ resulting from a persistent high-pressure [...]
By Andy May This post is a result of an online conversation with Dr. Leif Svalgaard, a research physicist at Stanford University. Leif knows a great deal about the Sun and solar variability and can explain it clearly. Our disagreement is over whether long-term solar variations could be large enough to affect Earth’s climate [...]
In Part 1, we introduced the concepts of climate sensitivity to CO2, often called ECS or TCR. The IPCC prefers a TCR of about 1.8°C/2xCO2 (IPCC, 2013, p. 818). TCR is the short-term, century scale, response of surface temperature to a doubling of CO2, we abbreviate the units as “°C/2xCO2.” In these posts we review lower [...]
