Category Archives: Comedy

Propagation of nonsense

Posted on September 8, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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The Black Knight

Posted on July 2, 2019 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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Between conflation and denial

Posted on December 5, 2018 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 , , , , , | 340 Comments

Sea level rise

Posted on May 17, 2018 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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The Virial Theorem

Posted on October 8, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Comedy, Global warming, physicists, Pseudoscience | Tagged , , , , | 199 Comments

Climateball, GWPF style

Posted on September 25, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 ...and Then There's Physics

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 ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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No, stabilising emissions will not stabilise concentrations!

Posted on December 17, 2016 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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It woz El Nino wot dunnit!

Posted on November 27, 2016 by ...and Then There's Physics

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