climate snarking:
Or so says some spam for terradaily that made it to my inbox (which is just a rehash of the Berkley press release, though thankfully without the stupid flood picture). This is obvious b*ll*cks, as google shows. The wiki page...
Posted on September 28, 2008 2:40 PM • 10 Comments
As Atmoz noted, its a bit of a slow season, but via Deltoid comes probably the most stupid ever explanation for GW: yes, its the microwave radiation from satellites warming us up. This is blindingly obviously nonsense, but John Mashey...
Posted on June 16, 2008 4:49 PM • 3 Comments
Lucia lost the plot some time ago, mostly by cherry-picking her time period, using a weird data-fitting method and failing to understand what she was looking at. Now RP Jr follows her down the rabbett hole and bizarrely describes her...
Posted on May 14, 2008 6:05 PM • 23 Comments
Says the FT, via DSB. Since I've already argued that Stern is over-bleak, Im surprised he has got more pessimistic. Whats up?...
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Posted on April 19, 2008 5:04 PM • 9 Comments
Just a provocative title, to point you towards I accept Bill Gray's climate bet offer - will he seal the deal? by Brian Schmidt. My feeling is that Gray will wimp out - I'll even put money on it if...
Posted on April 16, 2008 5:42 PM • 7 Comments
1.5 m sea level rise this century, that is. Nature sez the "estimate released today says that it could be as as much as 1.5 metres (4.9 feet) by the end of this century". Their source seems to be Reuters,...
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Posted on April 15, 2008 4:45 PM • 18 Comments
More gumf from the Grauniad. Supposedly based on something in PNAS: anyone seen it? The usual suspects: the Potsdam folk and Tim Lenton and so on. Sadly (?) the online version doesn't have the appalling map that the print edition...
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Posted on February 7, 2008 6:08 PM • 18 Comments
James is too busy worrying about his shares so I shall have to continue Corbynwatch. He's popped up in the Times, making the implausible claim that his forecasts for November were correct. Quite where he is going to find -17...
Posted on January 21, 2008 4:51 PM • 6 Comments
RP Jr has a whole succession of posts, starting here. I was going to point out why it was all rather pointless, but it seems so obvious and tedious to wade through that I'm not going to bother. This probably...
Posted on January 10, 2008 3:32 PM • 4 Comments
According to google reader, RP Sr posted the below today to his "blog" (only its not really a blog cos it doesn't allow comments), in a post entitled Question The Weblog Real Climate. And indeed he did; the comment is...
Posted on December 18, 2007 5:42 PM • 13 Comments
Jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, I can now read the full lyrics and realise I haven't got a clue what they are on about. Wiki...
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Posted on December 8, 2007 2:34 PM • 15 Comments
A reader writes... I trust you will critique Ingrid is born; Humberto and Felix--a sign of climate change?. Naturally I'm stupid enough to fall for that sort of a challenge....
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Posted on September 17, 2007 7:30 AM • 6 Comments
The goal of Climate Science on this subject (of glacier advance and retreat) is to present documentation that the frequently stated claim that glaciers are retreating everywhere is an inaccurate statement sez RP in response to his first comment. Of...
Posted on July 16, 2007 12:54 PM • 3 Comments
Bush said something about climate change. Sounds like the usual nothing to me: My proposal is this: By the end of next year America and other nations will set a long-term global goal for making sure we don't have to...
Posted on May 31, 2007 5:10 PM • 15 Comments
Oh dear, now we have Does The 2007 IPCC Statement For Policymakers Accurately Present The Observations Of Recent Global Temperature Trends? on the grounds of a lack of trend over the last 5 years (actually "statistically significant", though its not...
Posted on May 11, 2007 4:21 PM • 19 Comments
Um, I do like my new category of "climate snarking", since it allows me to offend people but get away with it because I'm being ironic. Or something. Anyway: Natures Climate Feedback blog has undergone a quiet revamp. Perhaps they...
Posted on May 9, 2007 6:31 PM • 8 Comments