Category Archives: Comedy

The Virial Theorem

Posted on October 8, 2017 by

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 →

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Climateball, GWPF style

Posted on September 25, 2017 by

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 →

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Seems OMICS International will publish anything

Posted on May 17, 2017 by

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 →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Comedy, Global warming, Greenhouse effect, Research, Science, The scientific method | Tagged , , , , | 30 Comments

Clutching at straws GWPF style

Posted on January 24, 2017 by

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 , , | 61 Comments

No, stabilising emissions will not stabilise concentrations!

Posted on December 17, 2016 by

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 →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Comedy, Research, Science, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 103 Comments

It woz El Nino wot dunnit!

Posted on November 27, 2016 by

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 , , , , , | 46 Comments

Less science, more social science!

Posted on August 12, 2016 by

Stoat has a new post called climate science identifies the problem – it can’t tell us what to do in response and – as he says – this is pretty bleedin’ obvious. Science can clearly provide information as to how … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Comedy, Policy, Politics, Research, Science | Tagged , , , , , , | 215 Comments