Eulogy of Thomas Wysmuller (May 10, 1944 to June 29, 2021)
Thomas Wysmuller (right) with Rick Sanders and his wife Leonore in 2018. By Rick Sanders Thomas Wysmuller passed away on June 29, 2021. He was born into the famous Dutch Wijsmuller Zeesleeper family, and [...]
Agriculture policy is a climate change witch hunt
Political debates over climate policy under the present zeitgeist of climate-change hysteria is like competing to see how many witches you can burn. This is how Professor William Happer described the situation [...]
Science, Philosophy and Politics
Greg Weiner has written a great essay in Law & Liberty, entitled: “Why We cannot Just ‘Follow the Science.‘” His point is that scientists and science are important, but relying only on “The Science” [...]
How to compare today to the past
In the last post, I discussed the problems comparing modern instrumental global or hemispheric average temperatures to the past. Ocean temperature coverage was sparse and of poor quality prior to 2005. Prior to 1950, land [...]
Global Warming is happening, what does it mean
The concepts and data used to make temperature and climate reconstructions, or estimates, are constantly evolving. Currently, there are over 100,000 global weather stations on land and over 4,500 Argo floats and weather buoys [...]
There is no climate emergency
A global network of
1971
scientists and professionals has prepared this urgent message. Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.