THE MODELS ARE WRONG (BUT ONLY BY 400%)

Joanne Nova discusses the importance of a new paper by McKitrick, McIntyre and Newman.

"It’s a big step forward in the search for the hot-spot. (If the hot spot were a missing person, McKitrick et al have sighted a corpse.) "

LINK to article

NOAA'S MAGIC WAND WAVES AWAY 2000-2009 COOLING

Paul MacRae looks at the NOAA State of the Climate report at the Science & Public Policy Institute blog.

"The recent report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows that surface temperatures have increased in the past decade. In fact, the NOAA report, “State of the Climate in 2009,” says 2000-2009 was 0.2 Fahrenheit (0.11 Celsius) warmer than the decade previous."

But is this so?  LINK to article

PULLING ANOTHER THREAD FROM THE IPCC FRAGILE TAPESTRY

Australian Marc Hendricks has posted an article at the Watts Up With That website outlining more errors in claims of Himalayan temperature trends.

"The case for dangerous man made global warming hangs on the wall like a frayed medieval tapestry. By pulling just one loose thread the whole thing starts to unravel. We pulled one of those threads recently…"

LINK to article

POLITICIANS MISS THE POINT

Professor Bob Carter writing at Quadrant Online raises the point of the declining political appeal to the major parties from the global warming issue. 

"Lazurus-like, the issue of global warming has again risen to prominence in the political debate. Stimulated by the announcement of Labor’s “new” climate policy  by Prime Minister Gillard, Australian voters were once more subjected to a parade of self-anointed, global-warming-is-dangerous public figures whose innocence of knowledge of the science of climate change is exceeded only by their sense of moral superiority.

For the moment, though, all seems to have gone quiet on the climate change front..."

LINK to article

DEATH OF THE GRAND NARRATIVE?

Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor at the University of London sees the begining of the end for a narrative that should never have been.

Grand narratives - those overarching, dominant systems of socio-political thought so beloved of post-modernists - come and go. Some, such as major religions, can persist, through shape-shifting, for millennia; others last for centuries, while most survive for mere decades.  Such is the current fate of global warming, the grand narrative that human greed and profligacy are changing the world’s climate apocalyptically, a sin that can only be appeased through public confession and self-sacrifice to the Goddess, Gaia.

LINK to article

IN RESPONSE TO NOAA'S STATE OF THE CLIMATE REPORT

A collection of papers by Idso, Monckton, Evans, Ambler and Soon published by the Science and Public Policy Institute which respond to NOAA's recent State of the Climate Report.

LINK to SPPI pdf [5MB] paper