Another batch of private emails from climate scientists has been leaked/hacked/stolen/whatever. These ones, though, are very different than the last. It’s a thread of emails from the NAS (US National Academy of Sciences), and these guys are mad. They are mad about vested interests skewing the discussion. They are mad that journalists have sat andRead more
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Jones et al. (2010) 1
A brief summary of the Science & Technology Committee”s “ClimateGate” hearing The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee met yesterday for a one off evidence session looking at the disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. This blog post is a brief summary of the keyRead more
Climate Scientists Withdraw Journal Claims Of Limit To Rising Sea Levels 1
Cross-posted from the Wonk Room. Scientists who challenged the possibility of catastrophic sea level rise in coming decades have retracted their argument. Mark Siddall, whose paper claimed sea level rise from global warming could not be more than 82 centimeters (32 inches) by 2100 — despite other estimates of up to 1.9 meters — askedRead more
Sunday Times promotes climate denier 2
A couple of weeks ago, Ben Goldacre bashed out a quick piece for the Guardian’s news desk on the subject of the General Medical Council’s damning verdict on the conduct of Andrew Wakefield, in which he said: As the years passed by, media coverage deteriorated further. Claims by researchers who never published scientific papers toRead more
Glaciergate in perspective
The “Glaciergate” story is about a claim in the 2007 IPCC report that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. It turns out that the evidence for this claim was from a speculative comment made by a not-very-prominent glaciologist in New Scientist in 1999. The Times and The Express have gone to town with thisRead more
ClimateGate & public opinion 5
Following the UEA email hack, it’s become part of the media narrative that opinion is turning against man-made global warming. It’s usually worth checking any such media claim about changes in public opinion that have supposedly occurred following a series of news stories, particularly ‘dramatic revelations’.
Melting compost heaps and the permafrost precautionary principle 1
Thawing permafrost could inject enough carbon into the atmosphere to cook the planet. But nobody’s quite sure how fast it’s going to happen. Permafrost is a giant cold-storage compost heap, stuffed full of frozen carbon. Just like you chucked out last night’s potato peelings, the planet has chucked out billions of tonnes of dead plants,Read more
Melanie Philips uses careful scientific investigation to debunk climate change
*Yawn* Another week, another howler from the Spectator, rapidly pulling ahead in the 'single least informed source on climate science' awards, or maybe just the 'most credulous rag' category. So Melanie Philips announces on her Spectator blog… Yet another scientific scandal has come to light which knocks another whopping crater in the already shattered theoryRead more
