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Written by Steven Goddard
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 12:04 |
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The massive bulk of evidence indicates that nothing is wrong, and that Hansen, Mann and the rest of the hockey team are not being honest with us.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 February 2012 12:08 |
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Read more... [2012 Global Warming Report Card]
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Written by Dr. David Evans
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Saturday, 28 January 2012 09:37 |
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We check the main predictions of the climate models against the best and latest data. Fortunately the climate models got all their major predictions wrong. Why? Every serious skeptical scientist has been consistently saying essentially the same thing for over 20 years, yet most people have never heard the message -- here it is, put simply enough for any lay reader willing to pay attention.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 28 January 2012 09:46 |
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Read more... [The Skeptic's Case: Who are You Going to Believe? The Government Climate Scientists or the Data?]
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Written by Dr. William R. Graham (Chairman), et al.
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Saturday, 14 January 2012 09:56 |
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Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack Volume 1: Executive Report 2004.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 14 January 2012 10:02 |
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Read more... [Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from EMP Attack, Volume 1: Executive Report]
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Written by Marlo Lewis
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Friday, 13 January 2012 14:24 |
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This paper assesses EPA’s rule setting standards for motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.
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Last Updated on Friday, 13 January 2012 16:27 |
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Read more... [EPA Regulation of Fuel Economy: Congressional Intent or Climate Coup?]
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Written by Nicola Scafetta, PhD
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Friday, 06 January 2012 10:04 |
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We compare the performance of a recently proposed empirical climate model based on astronomical harmonics against all CMIP3 available general circulation climate models (GCM) used by the IPCC (2007) to interpret the 20th century global surface temperature. The proposed astronomical empirical climate model assumes that the climate is resonating with, or synchronized to a set of natural harmonics that, in previous works (Scafetta, 2010b, 2011b), have been associated to the solar system planetary motion, which is mostly determined by Jupiter and Saturn. We show that the GCMs fail to reproduce the major decadal and multidecadal oscillations found in the global surface temperature record from 1850 to 2011. On the contrary, the proposed harmonic model (which herein uses cycles with 9.1, 10–10.5, 20–21, 60–62 year periods) is found to well reconstruct the observed climate oscillations from 1850 to 2011, and it is shown to be able to forecast the climate oscillations from 1950 to 2011 using the data covering the period 1850–1950, and vice versa. The 9.1-year cycle is shown to be likely related to a decadal Soli/Lunar tidal oscillation, while the 10–10.5, 20–21 and 60–62 year cycles are synchronous to solar and heliospheric planetary oscillations. We show that the IPCC GCM’s claim that all warming observed from 1970 to 2000 has been anthropogenically induced is erroneous because of the GCM failure in reconstructing the quasi 20-year and 60-year climatic cycles. Finally, we show how the presence of these large natural cycles can be used to correct the IPCC projected anthropogenic warming trend for the 21st century. By combining this corrected trend with the natural cycles, we show that the temperature may not significantly increase during the next 30 years mostly because of the negative phase of the 60-year cycle. If multisecular natural cycles (which according to some authors have significantly contributed to the observed 1700–2010 warming and may contribute to an additional natural cooling by 2100) are ignored, the same IPCC projected anthropogenic emissions would imply a global warming by about 0.3–1.2 C by 2100, contrary to the IPCC 1.0–3.6 C projected warming. The results of this paper reinforce previous claims that the relevant physical mechanisms that explain the detected climatic cycles are still missing in the current GCMs and that climate variations at the multidecadal scales are astronomically induced and, in first approximation, can be forecast.
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Last Updated on Friday, 06 January 2012 11:21 |
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Read more... [Testings an Astronomically Based Decadal-Scale Empirical Harmonic Climate Model vs. the IPCC (2007) General Circulation Climate Models]
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Written by Dr. William R. Graham (Chairman), et al.
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Wednesday, 21 December 2011 12:34 |
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Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 12:46 |
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Read more... [Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack]
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Written by Fang J Y, Zhu J L, Wang S P
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 11:20 |
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Global warming is an objective fact with great uncertainty in the magnitude of the temperature increase. Worldwide observational data indicate that the global average temperature has increased during the last century. In addition to rising temperatures, evidence of global warming also includes the global increase in the average sea level, widespread snow and ice melt, and changes in plant phenology. However, this still has large uncertainties in the magnitude of the global temperature rise.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 November 2011 11:33 |
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Read more... [Global Warming, Human Induced Carbon Emissions and Their Uncertainties]
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Written by Joanne Nova
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Friday, 07 October 2011 01:08 |
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Two professors of sociology think they can explain why “Climate Deniers” are winning. But Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright start from the wrong assumption and miss the bleeding obvious: the theory was wrong, the evidence has changed, and thousands of volunteers have exposed it.
The real question sociologists will be studying for years to come is: how was an exaggerated scare, based on so little evidence, poor reasoning and petty namecalling, kept alive for two whole decades?
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Last Updated on Friday, 07 October 2011 01:15 |
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Read more... [MAP: The Climate Change Scare Machine - The Perpetual Self-Feeding Cycle of Alarm]
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Written by Chip Knappenberger
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Thursday, 28 July 2011 11:45 |
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The first six months of 2011 are now in the books. Heat waves are currently in the headlines, but how does the national average temperature compare to other years and ‘normal’? And what does the first half of the year portend for the year as a whole?
The indication is that 2011 will mark the continued return of U.S. national temperatures to conditions much closer to the 20th century mean, down from the unusually elevated temperatures that characterized the 1998–2010 period.
If this proves to be the case, it strongly suggests that the unusually warm decade from 1998–2007, was just that–unusual–and does not best represent the expected trend or the climate state of the U.S. for the next several decades to come.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 28 July 2011 11:59 |
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Read more... [2011 U.S. Temperature Update: Alarmism Not]
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