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Category Archives: Comedy
Propagation of nonsense
A couple of years ago, I had a guest post about Pat Frank’s suggestion that the propagation of errors invalidate climate model projections.. The guest post was mainy highlighting a very nice video that Patrick Brown had produced so as … Continue reading
The Black Knight
I’ve been engaging in some discussions with people I shall politely call climate “skeptics”. It struck me that it’s a bit like the classic Black Knight scene from Monty Python. Start off being polite and complimentary. The resonse is unpleasant … Continue reading
Posted in ClimateBall, Comedy, Global warming, Satire
Tagged climate skeptics, Monty Python, Online climate debate, The Black Knight
523 Comments
Between conflation and denial
I’m on my way back from Cambridge, where I had a very pleasant evening with our Stoatness. I also happened to have a look at Climate etc., where Judith is promoting a new paper by Peter Tangney, a Lecturer at … Continue reading
Posted in ClimateBall, Comedy, Policy, Politics, Pseudoscience, Research, Satire
Tagged Climate policy, Flinders University, Judith Curry, Matt Ridley, Peter Tangney, STS
340 Comments
Sea level rise
There’s a bizarre article in the Wall Street Journal by Fred Singer called, The Sea Is Rising, but Not Because of Climate Change. It’s actually so bonkers that it’s quite hard to know where to start. I’ll give it go, … Continue reading
The Virial Theorem
I had another brief Twitter discussion with Ned Nikolov, whose paper I discussed in this post. Ned seems to think that there is no atmospheric greenhouse effect and that the enhanced surface temperature is due to atmospheric pressure somehow enhancing … Continue reading
Climateball, GWPF style
I came across a Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) post called climate scientists shoot the messenger. That it’s from the Forum, rather than the Foundation, may be relevant. It discusses the recent Millar et al. paper (that I discussed here … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Comedy, Scientists
Tagged climate scientists, Global Warming Policy Forum, GWPF, Millar et al., Own Goal
41 Comments
Seems OMICS International will publish anything
A new paper in the Environment Pollution and Climate Change journal (published by OMICS International) claims to have provided a refutation of the climate greenhouse theory. It’s, of course, utter nonsense, so I’m not planning on saying much. What is … Continue reading
Clutching at straws GWPF style
Since I have a few minutes spare I thought I would highlight another laugh aloud post from the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF). It’s about Arctic sea ice growing back to 2006 levels. Wow, amazing, what a turnaround after spending … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Comedy, Research, Satire, Science, The philosophy of science, Uncategorized
Tagged arctic sea ice, Global Warming Policy Forum, GWPF
61 Comments
No, stabilising emissions will not stabilise concentrations!
I’ve written before about stabilising temperatures; stabilising temperatures requires getting net anthropogenic emissions pretty close to zero. See, for example, this Realclimate post, or Solomon et al. (2008). Stabilising atmospheric concentrations, however, would not require getting emissions to zero, but … Continue reading
It woz El Nino wot dunnit!
It looks likely that 2016 will end up as the warmest year in the surface temperature record. One question is whether or not the recent El Nino contributed significantly to this. As the figure on the right shows, if you … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Comedy, ENSO, Gavin Schmidt, Global warming, Science
Tagged David Rose, David Whitehouse, El Niño, Global Warming Policy Foundation, GWPF, Mail Online
46 Comments
...and Then There's Physics 