Changing Climate Debate History
While researching my next book, I found a bit of interesting deception on the Intelligence Squared web site. This is the organization that hosted the famous March 14, 2007 global warming debate on the motion [...]
Ocean Temperatures, what do we really know?
This is the last in my current series of posts on ocean temperatures. In our previous posts we compared land-based measurements to sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) and discussed problems and contradictions in the land-based measurements [...]
Sea-Surface Temperature Anomalies
My previous post on sea-surface temperature (SST) differences between HadSST and ERSST generated a lively discussion. Some, this author included, asserted that the Hadley Centre HadSST record and NOAA’s ERSST (the Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature) record could be used [...]
Sea-Surface Temperatures
My last post compared actual sea-surface temperature (SST) estimates to one another to see how well they agreed. It was not a pretty sight; the various estimates covered a range of global average SSTs from ~14°C [...]
Sea surface and mixed layer temperatures
As described in my previous post, the ocean "mixed layer" is sandwiched between the very thin "skin" layer at the ocean surface and the deep ocean. The skin layer loses thermal energy ("heat") to [...]
There is no climate emergency
A global network of
1977
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.