The “uncertainty” behind global warming science that got its real start with the ClimateGate emails is getting legs as more and more “questionable” things start to pop up. Here is the latest: Glaciergate The IPCC and it’s chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, are starting to take real heat, particularly in India and the UK for promoting the …
Category Archive: Climate change
Dec
21
Calculating Copenhagen
OK, so I’ve crunched the numbers on the non-agreement made at Copenhagen, using data from the IEA on emissions. In 2006, CO2 emissions from the world were about 28.4 billion tonnes, of which about 51.5% were from the “developed world”. This compares to about 21 billion tonnes in 1990, when 66% were from developed countries. …
Dec
08
Are you ready to pay?
In the draft proposal leaked in Copenhagen yesterday apparently suggests: … that developing countries would not be allowed to emit more than 1.44 tonnes of annual carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per person by 2050, but that developed countries would be allowed to emit up to 2.67 tonnes of annual carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per person in …
Dec
06
Understanding “Hide the Decline”
Thanks to Kate over at SDA for this: Understanding Climategate’s Hidden Decline. As she said – a MUST READ. Key to the problem is: The truth is that the proxy data was scrapped because unlike those measured, reconstructed temperatures showed a marked decline after 1980. And, as the chart plotted temperature anomalies against what the …
Dec
01
RWP and MWP warmer than current
So, the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods were warmer than the current day in the North Atlantic. All while CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere were lower. Correlation is that higher temperatures are not necessarily caused by high CO2. So does high CO2 today matter? Also – see Lord Monckton’s latest paper on ClimateGate!
Dec
01
Credibility and Climategate
Ronald Bailey has a very good editorial on the subject. A couple of key portions on the climate change science: In an email to University of Alabama climatologist John Christy I asked, “Is there a possibility that the teams that compile temperature data could all be making the same set of errors which would result …
Nov
28
So the sea ice isn’t really changing…
This is a very good graph
Nov
27
On Climategate
To my readers, There are three items of interest on this subject in this post. 1. There are some new postings from Steve McIntyre (and here) that show us the hidden decline in Briffa’s tree ring data – basically it appears that Briffa only published the data up to 1960, and that ignoring the tree ring …
Nov
23
Some more CRU info…
Here are some more great pieces from the CRU leak: CO2 is Ultimately a Political Decision Cooling masked from Public
Nov
23
Is Climate Change a Fraud?
In todays’ papers, there is a story about how climate change (aka global warming) puts billions of dollars in Canadian Assets at Risk. Of course, this whole assessment by Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research is based on the ASSUMPTION that the climate is changing… Which it is becoming more clear from the evidence released …