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Breaking news: Cherry Picking of Historic Proportions
A big news day. It appears Steve McIntyre (volunteer unpaid auditor of Big-Government-Science) has killed the Hockey Stick a second time… The details are on the last three days of Steve McIntyre’s site...
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A simple proof that global warming is not man-made
Guest post by Dr David Evans PDF at sciencespeak.com Now that ClimateGate has buried the fraudulent hockey stick for good, it is easy to prove that global warming is not man-made: just compare the...
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Is the Western Climate Establishment Corrupt? Part 4: Past Temperatures
The public might not understand the science, but they do understand cheating Dr. David Evans 6 October 2010 [A series of articles reviewing the western climate establishment and the media. The first...
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Is the Western Climate Establishment Corrupt? Part 5: CO2 Emissions Versus...
The public might not understand the science, but they do understand cheating Dr. David Evans 6 October 2010 [A series of articles reviewing the western climate establishment and the media. The first...
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The brutal cold of the Maunder Minimum and the Great Irish Frost
A Scene on the Ice by Hendrick Avercamp, circa 1600 Dennis Avery reminds us of just how painfully cold the Little Ice Age was (see below) and also pointed me to this excellent historical description:...
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Climate helped drive Vikings from Greenland
Qassiarsuk: This is the site of the Viking settlement of 972 and unlike much of Greenland, offers relatively sheltered grazing land for sheep. Photo: John McLean. (Click to see more images of...
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It wasn’t CO2: Global sea levels started rising before 1800
Fans of man-made global warming frequently tell us seas are rising, but somehow forget to mention the rise started 200 years ago, long before our coal-fired electricity plants cranked up, and long...
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Chinese 2,485 year tree ring study shows natural cycles control climate,...
A blockbuster Chinese study of Tibetan tree rings by Liu et al 2011 shows, with detail, that the modern era is a dog-standard normal climate when compared to the last 2,500 years. The temperature, the...
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Medieval Warm Period found in 120 proxies. Plus Roman era was similar to...
Two major proxy studies, larger than ever, were released in April and June 2012. They show that the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) existed, and was similar to current temperatures. These comprehensive...
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The message from boreholes
There have been suggestions that Jo Nova might be trying to hide or ignore the most recent boreholes graph from Huang et al. So here it is. This is the last 2,000 years according to 6000 boreholes,...
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Fourier Analysis reveals six natural cycles driving temperatures, no man-made...
Thermometer circa 1790 Lüdecke, Hempelmann, and Weiss found that the temperature variation can be explained with six superimposed natural cycles. With only six cycles they can closely recreate the 240...
View ArticleMelting glacier in Alaska reveals ancient remains of forest – evidence of...
Glaciers that tore trees in half and then froze the stumps are receding again in Alaska to reveal those old remnants of a warmer era. I like these little “concrete” anecdotes, though their true meaning...
View ArticleOcean heat content around Indonesia shows Medieval Warm Period and 2C warmth...
Rosenthal et al have put out quite a humdinger of a paper. They’ve reconstructed the temperature of the water flowing out of the Pacific to the Indian Ocean over the last 10,000 years and as deep as...
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The North Atlantic jet stream correlates with Solar output over a millennium
A new paper (Moffa-Sánchez et al) reports that they looked at layers of dead plankton in ocean mud (otherwise known as foraminifera in marine sediments) and have reconstructed the temperature and...
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Sun controls half of the groundwater recharge rate in China for last 700 years
Could this be why climate models do rainfall with all the competence of tea-leaf-reading? Tiwari et al report that as much as 47% of the recharge rates of ground water in China are controlled by the...
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Scientific American: black death and slavery cause the little ice age?
Looks like Scientific American has gone a bit “cosmic”: The Little Ice Age was apparently caused by black death, small pox, and slavery. The theory goes that there was a small spikey dip in CO2 levels...
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How do we panic about warming during a maunder-type freeze?
Is this the way the Great Global Warming Scare fades out? The UK newspapers are full of “Maunder Freeze Coming” as forecast by Ineson et al.[1] Rest assured, the solar-driven-cold is only a local...
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Solar activity was really at exceptional lows during the cold Maunder Minimum
Fig 3 (Part VI only) Sunspot drawing of by G.D. Cassini in 1671 (Oldenburg, 1671c). What is surprising is just how much data we have on the Sun from 400 years ago. For some aspects of solar activity we...
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Experts “surprised” to discover what skeptics have known for years: world has...
For years, skeptical scientists have been pointing at data that showed the the world started warming somewhere from 1700 – 1820. This has been known from glaciers, sea level studies, ice cores,...
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History rewritten, Global Cooling from 1940 – 1970, an 83% consensus, 285...
The Global Cooling Scare of the 1970s was real, there was a consensus, and it was all over the media. It flies in the face of the man-made warming campaign. After World War II there was a massive...
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