Unforced Variations: Apr 2023
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This month’s open thread on climate topics (no joke). The post Unforced Variations: Apr 2023 first appeared on RealClimate.
This month’s open thread on climate topics (no joke). The post Unforced Variations: Apr 2023 first appeared on RealClimate.
By Jim…
By Jim…
In summer 2020, the media hyped various versions of “Tropical Oceans Headed For Collapse Within The Next 10 Years”. One outlet…
By Paul…
By Paul…
Read time: 8 minsA major New York Times investigative report, published March 2, revealed efforts by Indur M. Goklany, a…
Author: Thomas K. Bjorklund, University of Houston, Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric…
Author: Thomas K. Bjorklund, University of Houston, Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences October16, 2019 Key Points 1. From…
Government agencies, businesses, academic researchers, and members of the public rely on climate information to support…
Back in February 2017, I wrote about the tediously predictable arc of criticisms of the Karl et al (2015) paper, and in…
A British newspaper admitted that a controversial climate article from February was misleading and inaccurate. The story’s…
Back in February, the conservative UK tabloid Mail on Sunday ran an error-riddled piece by David Rose attacking Noaa climate…
The Committee on Science, Space
Terms such as “gas skeptics” and “climate skeptics” aren’t really very descriptive, but they refer to sentiments that have…
Anthony Watts has published another defamatory article on his blog (archived here). I use the term without it being proven in…
William Happer, frontrunner for job of providing mainstream scientific opinion to officials, backs crackdown on federal…
I've had a post in train for a week now, after last week's ridiculously wrong article from David Rose in the Mail on Sunday. He…
By Rafi Letzter9 February 2017 (Business Insider) – […] Every step climate scientists take happens under the scrutiny of a well-f…
As a climate scientist who is trained to base his conclusions strictly on scientific evidence and not politics, I find it…
Global average temperature 1880-2016 (NASA)Climate NexusAs a result of human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels…
The latest attempt to resurrect climate change deniers' favourite trope of a warming pause is just more smoke and mirrors, say…
Using a rarely invoked Congressional Review Act, Congress has paved the way for President Donald Trump to roll back three Obama-e…
Republicans in the new U.S. Congress unleashed on Tuesday some of their opening salvos against the U.S. Environmental…
The US House Committee on Science, Space
I have mostly been sitting back and watching the John Bates story go through the predictable news-cycle of almost all supposed ‘s…
By Henry Fountain7 February 2017 (The New York Times) – In an article that appeared online in The Mail on Sunday, a British…
Spotlight on Green News
A recent article published in the Daily Mail critical of climate science has drawn sharp criticism from multiple climate…
A British tabloid said American government scientists overstated global temperatures to influence climate talks. Other…
A British tabloid says American government scientists overstated global temperatures to influence climate talks. Respected…
UPDATE (February 10, 2017): A draft version of a manuscript on NOAA’s ERSSTv5 climate dataset has been leaked while it is…
As a result of human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, the planet is warming. Those who deny this fact have…
Un recente articolo accusa l'ente americano del clima di aver manipolato i dati per sostenere il riscaldamento globale. Le…
New research has confirmed the results of a 2015 study led by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.C…
I think that the idea of a pause in the global warming has been a red herring ever since it was suggested, and we have…
By Joel Stronberg Wisconsin — the home of House Speaker Paul Ryan, Governor Scott Walker, and Senator Ron Johnson — is having…
I know NOAAthing.This post is about nothing. Nearly nothing. But when I found this title I had to write it.Once upon a time in…
Spotlight on Green News
An independent evaluation of NOAA's disputed data further supports the steady upward march of temperatures
New research has confirmed the results of a 2015 study led by scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
In 2015, scientists from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration published a paper that angered a lot of…
The planet is still warming , and fast.
There's a new paper out that shows that, contrary to what you'll read on denier blogs, NOAA's latest version of global sea…
Every day, thousands of measurements of the Earth’s temperature are taken across the world by weather stations, ships…
Enlarge / A research vessel drops off a float that will make measurements as it drifts. (credit: Olivier Dugornay/IFREMER) …
Republicans in Congress plan to undermine climate science and dismantle regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. To prevent a…
In a new paper, leading climate scientists reconsider whether the planet recently underwent a “global warming hiatus.”
Over the last year, a battalion of attorneys general, journalists, scientists, and activists has been clanging away at…
This morning the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing to discuss its legal authority to issue…
It’s become a go-to strategy for climate change deniers to demand subpoenas and documents from scientists whenever they get a…
Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, in a speech in the U. S. House of Representatives, lamented the widespread press coverage…
Representative Lamar Smith of Texas in a speech, lamented the widespread press coverage of a scientific publication last year…
Representative Lamar Smith of Texas in a speech, lamented the widespread press coverage of a scientific publication last year…
Tomorrow, NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan will testify before the House Science Committee. It is possible that Rep. Lamar…
Sheldon Walker has written another two articles for Anthony Watts' blog WUWT (archived as Part 1 and Part 2). What Sheldon was…
House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith has revived his misguided crusade against climate change scientists who work for…
There's another new paper out in Nature Climate Change today that discusses the recent trends on global surface temperature. It's…
A global warming slowdown has come and gone, but an academic brouhaha continues to boil over the nitty gritty details of what…
by Judith…
It has been claimed that the early-2000s global warming ‘slowdown’ or ‘hiatus’, characterized by a reduced rate of global…
David Icke is a weirdo. That’s not me saying that, but Canadian Mark Steyn, who has been crowned “world’s greatest…
Perhaps if climate change looked like this, there would be fewer deniers and delayers. See Lenny Flank’s photo diary on the…
Last summer, Carbon Brief delved into the canon of published climate papers to discover which were the most influential, most…
Depending on how you interpret the data, the warming of the air may have slowed somewhat (This is very unlikely though) for a…
Depending on how you interpret the data, the warming of the air may have slowed somewhat (This is very unlikely though) for a…
The end of 2015 was filled with climate change policy talk, as the Paris conference brought a rare ray of hope, driven in part…
At the United Nations’ Conference of the Parties in Paris, 195 countries approved an agreement that commits nearly every…
This story originally appeared in The New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Monday…
For months, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration head Kathryn Sullivan has been tangling with U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith…
This is an update of an update of an article which originally appeared at Climate Etc. The authors are grateful for the helpful…
Lamar Smith, the Republican Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, has launched a one-man crusade…
Eight key scientific bodies warn Republican congressman Lamar Smith that his committee’s investigation into Noaa could have a ‘ch…
"Scientists should not be subjected to fraud investigations or harassment simply for providing scientific results that some may…
The Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration continue to resist attempts by House Science…
by Zeke Hausfather and Kevin…
Earlier this year, NOAA made a new assessment of the surface temperature increase since 1880. Republican Congressman Lamar Smith…
On Monday, I wrote a blog post of FAQs on House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith’s subpoena to NOAA scientists over…
Lamar Smith has targeted government climate change researchers with a subpoena that demands all their notes and correspondence…
Concern is growing about the broader implications of House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith’s subpoena to NOAA and…
#ISupportNOAA’s refusal to bend to @HouseScience's harassment. Kudos to @NOAA for standing strong for #science https://t.co/LiKTP…
Was there a pause in climate change or is our planet heating up? Photo by Steven Depolo. Within the scientific community…
Apparently eager to ride the coattails of Vin Diesel’s new movie, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) seems intent on taking up the mantle…
The last couple of days has seen ex-scientist Judith Curry hunkering down in the conspiracy theorists' bunker. She is suggesting …
by Judith…
The American Meteorological Society today issued a strongly-worded letter condemning House Science Committee Chairman Lamar…
(Photo: Stephen Melkisethian/Flickr)The House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology wants to know…
Lamar Smith, Committee on Science, Space and Technology, seems to think science is a scam. Early this year, House Republicans…
This week, Sen. Ted Cruz held a hearing to attack the clean air and clean water safeguards that protect millions of...
I was reminded this week, by an exchange of words between Senator Ted Cruz and Sierra Club President Aaron Mair, that at…
There are many ongoing signs that the planet is heating up, even “on fire.” In the western region of North America, the…
Environment Photo credit: Look to the Pacific for reasons behind the hiatus. diversey/flickr, CC BY-SA There…
Earlier today, Anthony Watts copied and pasted a press release about a new article from Kevin Trenberth (archived here). Anthony…
Lund/Hampton/De Bilt/Karlsruhe/Mainz/Leipzig. Obwohl die Konzentrationen an Treibhausgasen in der Atmosphäre kontinuierlich …
Volcanic aerosols have acted as a natural umbrella to slow down global temperature increase from greenhouse gases. Lund/Hampton…
Lund/Hampton/De Bilt/Karlsruhe/Mainz/Leipzig. Obwohl die Konzentrationen an Treibhausgasen in der Atmosphäre kontinuierlich…
Welcome to Altmetric’s “High Five” for June, a discussion of the top five scientific papers with the highest Altmetric scores…