Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Not a Lot of People Know That ( 9 - 12 months )

English: Picture of Theologian Steve Macias Sp...English: Picture of Theologian Steve Macias Speaking on Global Warming to City of Sacramento residents. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Satellite image of ship tracks, clouds created...Satellite image of ship tracks, clouds created by the exhaust of ship smokestacks. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Truth Behind Christian Aid’s Campaign

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood http://www.christianaid.org.uk/ActNow/find-out-more/background-information/climate-justice-background.aspx We looked at Christian Aid’s latest campaign yesterday to fight “global warming”. Their website features this recent article on Bolivia. http://www.christianaid.org.uk/ActNow/blog/january-2015/reflections-on-climate-change-from-bolivia.aspx Fundacion Solon are listed as their “partner”, but who are they? Their website, below, seems to be all in Spanish, but in a prominent […]

Now It’s OK To Lie About Climate Change – Yale Project

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By Paul Homewood h/t rwoollaston http://www.piercepioneer.com/officials-warn-global-warming-slowdown-actually-quite-misleading/38352 Studies recently show that the global warming trend is in a bit of a slowdown. Does that mean we may be nearing the end of the heating period? Well, experts say that the slowdown may be quite misleading. The study authors describe, “The recent slowdown in […]

Polar Vortex Common In The 19thC

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood I came across a chapter in Hubert Lamb’s “Climate, History and the Modern World”, which has more than a bit of topical relevance. We are all well aware of the extremely cold winters in the eastern half of the States, both this year and last. This has coincided […]

Christian Aid Saving The World From Global Warming!

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By Paul Homewood h/t Retired Dave It seems Christian Aid are banging their global warming drum again! Maybe they could tell us where all these communities are around the world, who are suffering from the effects of climate change? Their website does actually offer a couple of case studies. http://www.christianaid.org.uk/ActNow/blog/january-2015/reflections-on-climate-change-from-bolivia.aspx […]

Mikey Discovers Ocean Cycles!

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/scientists-now-know-why-global-warming-has-slowed-down-and-it%E2%80%99s-not-good-news-for-us/ar-BBhZW8r?ocid=iehp Climate “scientist”, Michael Mann, has discovered that the 17 year pause in global warming is due to “internal variability”, particularly ocean cycles. In a paper written with a Byron Somebody, and someone called Sonya, he finds: That internal variability is found in the natural cycles of temperature change […]

Myths About Biomass

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By Paul Homewood http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581887/The-bonfire-insanity-Woodland-shipped-3-800-miles-burned-Drax-power-station-It-belches-CO2-coal-huge-cost-YOU-pay-cleaner-greener-Britain.html It is often claimed that producing electricity from biomass is carbon neutral, and that the CO2 emitted into the atmosphere is simply taken back out when forests are replanted. Unfortunately, things are not as simple as this. Last April, a number of environmental scientists from the US […]

The Met Office & The Pause

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By Paul Homewood h/t Green Sand http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/2015/variations-rate-global-warming The Met Office have had another attempt at explaining the global temperature hiatus. Using, you’ve guessed it, “models”, they conclude: A new study, led by Met Office climate scientist Chris Roberts and colleagues, looks at this issue by using a huge archive of climate […]

New Coal Power Station In Germany To Open This Week

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By Paul Homewood http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2015/02/vattenfall-s-hamburg-coal-fired-power-unit-finally-set-to-activate.html News from Germany: Vattenfall plans to start full commercial operations of the long-delayed first unit (800 MW Moorburg B) of its new coal-fired power plant at Hamburg-Moorburg in Germany. The Swedish company’s Germany unit plans the commencement before the end of February, a spokeswoman for the utility […]

Biomass Emits Double The CO2 Of Gas

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By Paul Homewood As we all know, burning coal and gas to produce electricity is BAD, but burning wood is GOOD. But what do the actual figures tell us? I asked DECC to supply comparative figures CO2 produced/MWh, for coal, gas and biomass (specifically wood pellets). I specifically requested that the biomass […]

McCarthyism Not Dead

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By Paul Homewood Others have covered Roger Pielke Jnr’s run in with US Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) who is the ranking member of the House of Representatives Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. Anyone who has not seen it, Roger has it on his blog here. But just to bring home Stalinist […]

BBC Ignore The Facts

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By Paul Homewood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31604953 More alarmist nonsense from the BBC, by yet another of their “Environmental Correspondents”. (How many do they ruddy well have?) Many people reading this will be led to believe that outlandish forecasts of several feet of sea level rise this century must be true. This is what the BBC […]

How Research Grants Corrupt Science

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By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public If anybody doubts how massive research grant funding can corrupt climate science, consider this tale from Dr JV’s Frack Land blog. (JV is an applied geophysicist based at the University of Bristol) There is uproar at Bristol University at the sacking of an academic (in the […]

Met Office To Go On Strike!

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By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11431308/Met-Office-staff-to-strike-jeopardising-accuracy-of-weather-forecast.html According to the Telegraph, the strike may compromise the accuracy of weather forecasts. So I don’t suppose we’ll notice any difference!

Equation Finds Funding Is Linked To CO2!

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood https://theconversation.com/our-equation-proves-climate-change-is-linked-to-emissions-34897 Back in December, The Conservation ran an article on climate change written by Philip Goodwin, of the University of Southampton, and Ric Williams, Professor at the University of Liverpool. Both took care the declare their funding from the NERC, but I wonder whether people realise how much this […]

Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon Criticised As Too Expensive

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By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/11426748/Swansea-Bay-tidal-lagoon-appalling-value-for-money-says-Citizens-Advice.html The Telegraph report: Plans to build the world’s first ‘tidal lagoon’ in Swansea Bay have suffered a setback after influential consumer charity Citizens Advice said the project was “appalling value for money” and should not receive subsidies. Ministers are preparing to begin formal bilateral negotiations with developers over […]

Thoughts From Leo Smith

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood Will Janoschka came across this comment on WUWT today, which really hits home: Leo Smith February 23, 2015 at 1:59 am ” In one of Castenada’s novels there is a story about a young man who left his poor village in Mexico and went to the city to […]

New BBC Programme On Climate Change

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By Paul Homewood h/t QV http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02jsdrk The BBC have a programme on climate change going out tonight next Monday. According to the blurb: This programme aims to remedy that, with a new perspective on the whole subject. Presented by three mathematicians – Dr Hannah Fry, Prof Norman Fenton and Prof David […]

NOAA Caught Cooling The Past

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By Paul Homewood h/t AC Osborn http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2014/13 NOAA claim that 2014 was the hottest year on record, with global temperatures 1.24F above the 20thC average of 57.0F. In other words, 58.24F. This is all very strange, because back in 1997, they said global temperatures were 62.45F! http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/1997/13 Now I […]

How To Access Iceland Temperature Data

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood Some background and a bit of clarification to the issue of where the Icelandic temperature data comes from. As I mentioned in the post, The Official Iceland Temperature Series, the Iceland Met Office, IMO, have a homogenised set of temperature data, dating back to 1931. These have been carefully and […]

Booker And The Dogger Bank Wind Farm

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By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11426890/Gold-in-them-there-windmills.html Booker also picks up on the Dogger Bank wind farm story, which I covered this week. The BBC naturally got very excited by the news that Ed Davey, our Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, has given the go-ahead to the largest offshore wind farm in […]

Booker & Those Temperature Adjustments

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By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11426889/Expert-team-plans-to-examine-adjusted-temperature-data.html Booker stays on the case: Mother Nature has certainly been showing her amusement at those excitable claims last month that 2014 was “the hottest year on record”. In the north-eastern US, the past month has been the coldest since records were kept, and four of the five Great […]

African Climate Data Not Fit For Purpose

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By Paul Homewood http://www.uneca.org/sites/default/files/publications/wp3-climate_data_network_and_rescuing_draft_final.pdf In 2011, the UN published this paper on the quality, or otherwise, of climate records in Africa. Their findings, though coming as no surprise, were clear. This paper has looked on the situation of climate data and observations network in the continent. It is shown that the […]

Massive Adjustments At Every Icelandic Station (And Guess Which Way)

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood As requested, I have had a look at all of the GHCN stations in Iceland, to see if we have the same pattern of adjustments. Let’s start by comparing the GHCN Adjusted figures with the official IMO data for Reykjavik: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/find_station.cgi?dt=1&ds=12&name=teigar&world_map.x=333&world_map.y=64 http://en.vedur.is/climatology/data/ We see clearly how GHCN has […]

The Official Iceland Temperature Series

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood With special thanks to Trausti Jonsson, Senior Meteorologist with the Iceland Met Office. Now that GHCN and GISS have managed to emasculate the Icelandic temperature record, it is time to present the official version. The Iceland Met Office, (IMO), have kept meticulous temperature records since the 19thC, including […]

Revolving Doors At Forewind

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By Paul Homewood http://www.forewind.co.uk/news/121/34/Dogger-Bank-Creyke-Beck-granted-consent.html The giant Dogger Bank offshore wind farm, approved by DECC this week, is being developed by Forewind Ltd, a consortium of RWE, SSE, Statkraft and Statoil. Its chairman is none other than Charles Hendry, who took over from Lord Deben in 2013. Who is this Charles Hendry, […]

What The BBC Forgot To Tell You About Dogger Bank

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By Paul Homewood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-31512089 From the BBC: The government has approved plans for what is believed to be one of the world’s largest offshore wind projects. Dogger Bank Creyke Beck A and B would be built 77 miles (125km) off the Yorkshire coast. Forewind Ltd said it would consist of 400 wind […]

Sea Ice Extent Trends

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By Paul Homewood http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/images/global-snow/2014/12/global_seaice.png NOAA have this chart of annual Arctic & Antarctic sea ice extents. It is a pity they have no global picture, but while Antarctic ice has been growing in the last decade, it appears that Arctic has stabilised since 2005. We get hung up about Arctic sea ice […]

Sturgeon In A Pickle Over Longannet Coal Power Station

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By Paul Homewood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-31490010 From the “Chickens coming home to roost department”. The BBC report: Nicola Sturgeon has demanded assurances from the prime minister on the security of Scotland’s electricity supplies. It follows BBC Scotland’s disclosure that the huge coal-fired power station at Longannet in Fife is facing a renewed threat to […]

One Hundred Years In The Norwegian Sea

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By Paul Homewood http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00291950701409256 I mentioned this article in discussion of the sea ice years last week. It is worthwhile, though, looking in some detail at some of the earlier periods. What will strike you is just how big the climatic changes in the Arctic have been over the last century or so. […]

Global Sea Ice Well Above Normal In January

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By Paul Homewood http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2015/02/vary-january/ From the “What NSIDC forgot to tell you department”. Who would have guessed that global sea ice area was well above normal for nearly all of January! http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008 As it has been for most of the last two years. http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg

GISS Land Temperature Trends Not Supported By Satellites

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By Paul Homewood Since the start of satellite temperature measurements in 1979, land temperatures, according to GISS, have been rising almost twice as fast as the lower atmospheric temperatures over land have. http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc_lt_5.6.txt http://data.remss.com/msu/monthly_time_series/RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Channel_TLT_Anomalies_Land_v03_3.txt http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/GLB.Ts.txt Between 1979 and 2014, GISS recorded an increase of 0.68C. This compares to 0.49C and 0.38C for […]

Wind Tycoon Funds Labour Party – Out Of Subsidies You Have Paid For!

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By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/11413504/The-wind-tycoon-the-donations-to-Labour-and-36m-in-subsidies.html Ed Miliband has been attacking big business donors to the Tory party lately, which makes this story doubly ironic: Dale Vince has done all right for a former hippy. Reckoned to be Britain’s wealthiest green energy tycoon, he lives in a castle, drives a £750,000 electric sports car […]

Andrew Revkin & “The Hidden Methane Threat”

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By Paul Homewood Guest Post by Ron Hughes The Global Methane Initiative and "Natural Gas: Hidden Climate Threat (and Opportunity)” https://www.globalmethane.org/index.aspx "The Global Methane Initiative (GMI) promotes cost-effective, near-term methane recovery through partnerships between developed and developing countries, with participation from the private sector, development banks, and nongovernmental organizations.” […]

The Unadjusted Arctic Stations

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood I meant to post this last week. As you will recall, when I ran the post Temperature Adjustments Transform Arctic Climate History, I mentioned that four stations in that part of the Arctic had remained unadjusted. Below are the GISS temperature trends for these. They pretty much follow the […]

Arctic Temperature Data From CLIMAS

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By Paul Homewood h/t Josik http://nwpi.krc.karelia.ru/e/climas/ The CLIMAS (Climate information access system) was set up to provide climate data for high latitudes, although it does not seem to have been updated since 2000. The project was a joint effort from, amongst others, the Max Planck Institute, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center […]

UHI In South Korea Ignored By GISS

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By Paul Homewood Seoul I ran a post on this study concerning UHI in South Korea a couple of years ago, and thought it worth updating. Quantitative estimates of warming by urbanization in South Korea over the past 55 years (1954–2008) Kim and Kim ABSTRACT The quantitative values of the urban […]

What’s It All About, Angie?

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By Paul Homewood http://rt.com/business/232135-germany-coal-imports-russia-2014/ From RT News: Germany imported more than 12 million tons of coal from Russia in 2014 – the biggest volume in 9 years, despite calls for energy independence and a switch to renewables. Coal imports from Russia increased 6.6 percent in 2014, at 12.6 million metric tons, […]

It’s Called UHI, Zeke

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By Paul Homewood According to Zeke, whenever we dare mention massive warming adjustments, which at the very least have minimal justification, we should also mention all of the opposing cooling adjustments they make. “You will rarely see them pick out stations like Reno, Paris, London, Tokyo, or many others where the […]

Climate Variations In Iceland

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood http://en.vedur.is/media/loftslag/myndasafn/frodleikur/Einarsson.pdf This study of the Icelandic Climate appeared in the World Survey of Climatology: 15: Climates of the Oceans, in 1984. Of particular interest is the section on climatic variations. Note how much warmer than now it was up to 2500 years ago. The author goes on to […]

Can We Trust NOAA?

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By Paul Homewood http://www.noaa.gov/features/archives/themestory_archive.html If anybody wonders why we don’t trust NOAA, just look what is still in a prominent position on their website. Even though they know that statistically this is not the case.

Temperature Adjustments and UHI

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood The only official response I have seen from NOAA to the discussion of temperature adjustments is the above from Fox News two nights ago. It is, of course, the standard response, but, as Steve Goddard says, ‘the fact that they can provide theoretical justifications for data tampering, […]

Shub’s Thoughts On The Great Debate

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By Paul Homewood https://nigguraths.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/mosher-venema-adjustments/ Some thoughts from Shub Niggurath on the temperature adjustment debate: As always, the climate orthodoxy possesses little understanding of how the internet works. They struggle to understand how ‘small, inconsequential issues’ seem to get magnified and blow up in their faces. There is undeniable shock at the Booker […]

Real Climate Fail

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By Paul Homewood Real Climate have just issued their attempt to disprove my allegations about temperature adjustments in the Arctic. The only piece of evidence they can offer is this plot of temperatures at Svalbard Airport, which compares GISS temperatures with a composite series developed by Oyvind Nordli. The graph only […]

How Temperature Adjustments Have Transformed Arctic Climate History

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood There seems to have been a campaign of misinformation, to downplay the significance of the Arctic temperature adjustments we have been looking at. The claim is that they make little difference to temperature trends there, so let’s test this out with the example of Akureyri. ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v3/products/stnplots/6/62004063000.gif Note that […]

UK Met Office uses graphical tricks to hide the pause

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By Paul Homewood Reposted from Jo Nova. The UK Met Office went to some effort to graph the last 160 years, from hottest calendar year to coldest. Name the scientific reason: 1. Because the order of the calendar years is important. The graph reveals mysterious patterns — Years ending in 3, 4, or […]

Wind Power Down To 0.9% In UK

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By Paul Homewood http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp_home.htm It’s peak demand tonight in the UK, and wind is supplying just 0.9% of the country’s electricity. Meanwhile, coal and gas are producing 68.4%. Decarbonisation, anyone?

Adjustments In Puerto Casado

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v3/products/stnplots/3/30886086000.gif Let’s take a closer look at the GHCN temperature adjustments at Puerto Casado, one of the stations in Paraguay we looked at previously. In common with the other Paraguayan sites, a large adjustment was made around 1970, which seems to have been in response to a drop in the […]

Temperature Adjustment Scandal Goes Viral

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By Paul Homewood The genie is well and truly out of the bottle now. I have now had more than 50,000 views in the last two days, as the story of temperature adjustments has taken hold. Many, many more will have read the accounts in the media from Britain to America […]

Spot The Sea Ice Years

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood Jan P Perlwitz says: And while I’m at it. Why do I still see those “ice years” or the mentioned very cold years around 1980 in the data, compared to the 1940/50ies, also after the adjustments? These are the adjusted graphs he is referring to: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=620040630000&dt=1&ds=12 […]

Cooling The Past In New Zealand

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By Paul Homewood In case you thought widespread temperature adjustments were confined to the Arctic and South America, consider again. Apparently, New Zealand has caught Paraguayan fever! There are five stations currently operational under GHCN in New Zealand and surrounding islands. It will come as no great surprise now to learn that […]

EU To Splash 20% Of Budget On “Climate Action”

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By Paul Homewood http://markjohnston.org/2015/02/09/eu-climate-diplomacy-plan/ Reposted from Mark Johnston. No wonder they tried to keep it quiet! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dSm8fhLv79LAuiO1tB-gWDmUgOHn-y6lC_94vs5I31ekWEyF0tcBJehA-EkXtEsFL9B6V3ToOjN_ZD52/view?pli=1 So, 20% of the entire EU budget is to be wasted on “climate action”, as the EU becomes ever more irrelevant.

How Much Do Temperature Adjustments Affect Global Temperatures?

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By Paul Homewood While we’re on the topic of temperature adjustments, it is worth revisiting this paper from 2012. http://www.itia.ntua.gr/getfile/1212/2/documents/EGU2012-956-1.pdf It must be pointed out that it is the old GHCN Version 2 which they are working on, though adjustments such as the Arctic ones did not seem to appear […]

Temperature Adjustments In The Canadian Arctic

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By Paul Homewood I have had a quick look at temperature adjustments in the part of the Arctic which I previously looked at, and where they were so dominant. The area already covered was Greenland east to Siberia. Using Nick Stokes handy tool, we can look at Siberia through to Canada. (Pinks […]

Comparing Arctic Temperature Trends

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 9 months ago
By Paul Homewood A bit more background to the Arctic temperature adjustments. To recap, the sudden climatic shift to much lower temperatures in the 1960’s, known in Iceland as the sea ice years, has caused the algorithm to adjust previous temperatures down, on the assumption that they were due to observation or equipment changes. […]

Booker & The Fiddling With Temperature Records In The Arctic

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By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html Booker with episode two of the temperature fiddling scandal: When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically […]

How Much Have Adjustments Contributed To Global Warming?

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By Paul Homewood http://www.sealevel.info/Cowtan_unintentionally_vindicates_Booker.html There has been some discussion about James Delingpole’s reference to a graph from Dave Burton. To recap – the usual defence, when temperature adjustments are criticised, is to claim that they make little difference in overall terms. This was repeated in the Cowton video. Dave Burton has […]

The Sea Ice Years

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By Paul Homewood As promised, there is a batch of scientific studies here which look at temperature trends in Iceland and Greenland, and in particular at the abrupt end of the warm period, that began in the 1920’s, and the onset of the sea ice years. 1) Hanna et al – An […]

Dellers On Temperature Adjustments, Cowton & More

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By Paul Homewood http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/07/breathtaking-adjustments-to-arctic-temperature-record-is-there-any-global-warming-we-can-trust/ Delingpole has an interesting piece up at Breitbart this morning: Here’s a video that you absolutely must see. Not, I hasten to warn you, because it’s exciting, well-produced or informative; rather, because of the fascinating light it sheds on the debate about global warming in general and also, […]

Why The GHCN Adjustments In The Arctic Are Wrong

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By Paul Homewood GHCN are quite clear on why they adjust temperatures. This is what their Technical Report says: The nature of the homogeneity adjustments made to remove non – climatic influences that can bias the GHCN – M temperature record are described in Lawrimore et al. 2011 for version 3.0.0. In brief, […]

Renewable Energy In Europe Cost £600 Billion (And That’s Only Up To 2012!)

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By Paul Homewood http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/05/renewable-energy-infrastructure-costs-more-than-greek-and-irish-bailouts-combined/ From Breitbart: Astonishing figures show that the total cost of renewable energy infrastructure in Europe to the end of 2012 came to over €600 billion, excluding additional fees for grid connections and upgrades. And this enormous sum is one and a half times the cost of twice […]

NASA’s Arctic Fraud

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By Paul Homewood http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ArcticIce/arctic_ice3.php I showed this graph from a 2003 NASA report earlier today. It came with this commentary: Comiso’s new study presents some striking trends. When compared to longer- term, ground-based surface temperature data, the rate of warming in the Arctic from 1981 to 2001 is eight times larger […]

Arctic Temperature Trends

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By Paul Homewood h/t Green Sand & Quinn The Eskimo There’s a couple of items that are worth adding to yesterday’s post on Arctic temperature trends and adjustments. 1) NASA Report Back in 2003, NASA published a report called “Dwindling Arctic Ice”, which included this graph: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ArcticIce/arctic_ice3.php We can […]

WWF’s Wind Power Claims

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By Paul Homewood http://www.wwf.org.uk/about_wwf/press_centre/?unewsid=7398 A couple of months ago, WWF were bragging off that Scottish wind farms had supplied enough electricity in November to supply all Scottish homes. I am not quite sure what “Scottish homes” has to do with anything. The wind power is there to supply the whole of the UK, […]

Temperature Adjustments Transform Arctic Climate History

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By Paul Homewood We are told that the biggest sign of “climate change” is the rapidly warming Arctic, even called the World’s thermometer, proof that global warming cannot have stopped. Certainly, the evidence of this from GISS is persuasive. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/nmaps.cgi?sat=4&sst=3&type=anoms&mean_gen=1212&year1=2014&year2=2014&base1=1951&base2=1980&radius=1200&pol=pol Yet it is well established that the Arctic warmed up […]

CCS Less Effective Than Thought Say Researchers

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By Paul Homewood http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2015/01/ccs-less-effective-than-thought-researchers-say.html Two items of news this week from PEI: CCS less effective than previously thought, researchers say 30/01/2015 By Tildy Bayar Carbon & Capture (CCS) technology may be less effective at mitigating power plant emissions than previously thought, a new US study has found. In a paper published this […]

Many Thanks

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Many thanks to all who have contributed to my tip jar. It is good to know that my work is appreciated. I won’t come round with it again till next year, but if anybody does want to contribute in the meantime, there is a link on the top menu bar. Again, […]

Bad Metadata In South America

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By Paul Homewood h/t Ian C http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/homr/#ncdcstnid=30085465&tab=LOCATIONS http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/homr/#ncdcstnid=30089897&tab=LOCATIONS http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/homr/#ncdcstnid=30023234&tab=LOCATIONS Ian C noticed that one of the Paraguayan stations I looked at last week, Pilar, was, according to the Station Metadata used by GHCN, in the middle of the River Paraguay. Bearing in mind that the station is actually located at […]

Satellites Confirm Global Warming (Standstill)!

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By Paul Homewood http://www.washington.edu/alumni/uwnewslinks/200405/article_warming.html In 2004, scientists claimed that the troposphere had warmed faster then the surface, and that this was consistent with climate models. From University of Washington: For years the debate about climate change has had a contentious sticking point — satellite measurements of temperatures in the troposphere, the […]

How To Access GISS Temperature Records

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 10 months ago
By Paul Homewood It’s a while since I explained how we can track temperature adjustments on the GISS system, so here is a bit of a refresher. Below is the screenshot of the GISS opening menu. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data/ 1) Note near the bottom is a drop down box marked “Data Set”. This […]

Paraguayan Adjustments Not Supported By Regional Trends

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By Paul Homewood Raw Data As we know, Puerto Casado is one of the Paraguayan stations where GHCN have turned a cooling trend into a warming one. To do this, they compare temperature trends against other stations in the region. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/find_station.cgi?lat=-22.28&lon=-57.87&dt=1&ds=12 So let’s take a look at the other […]

Dellers Takes Up The Battle

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By Paul Homewood http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/30/forget-climategate-this-global-warming-scandal-is-much-bigger/ From James Delingpole: How can we believe in ‘global warming’ when the temperature records providing the ‘evidence’ for that warming cannot be trusted? It’s a big question – and one which many people, even on the sceptical side of the argument, are reluctant to ask. Here, for […]

Shock News – We’ve Only Got Five Years Left

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By Paul Homewood http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver Time to emigrate to the moon? The Guardian report: Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters.. A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that […]

How GHCN Keep Rewriting Reykjavik History

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By Paul Homewood Bill Illis adds some interesting fuel to the debate over temperature adjustments. As many of you may be aware, I first became aware of this issue in 2012, with the adjustments made in Iceland, such as this one at Reykjavik. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=620040300000&dt=1&ds=1 http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=620040300000&dt=1&ds=12 As with all the other sites in […]

Cooling The Past In Bolivia

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By Paul Homewood Eliza suggested I looked at some of the temperature records for Bolivia, as it shares a border with Paraguay. One station she suggested was Santa Cruz. As with all of the Paraguayan stations, we find that a substantial, artificial warming trend has been introduced. What is also significant is […]

Cooling The Past In San Diego

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By Paul Homewood One more significant temperature adjustment I forgot to add to my round up yesterday. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=425722900004&dt=1&ds=1 http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=425722900000&dt=1&ds=12

Greene Hypocrisy

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By Paul Homewood http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2924457/He-said-Multi-billionaire-gave-lecture-American-s-needing-things-live-smaller-existence-owns-FIVE-mansions-are.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus Property investor Jeff Greene recently spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, saying he believes people in the United States need to stop aiming so high and start living with less. ‘America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have […]

Higher Snowfalls Due to Change In Measurement, Not Global Warming.

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 10 months ago
By Paul Homewood We all know that snowstorms are worse than ever before, and that it is all the fault of global warming. After all, Bill Nye himself told us! Unfortunately, Matt Kelsch, a hydrometeorologist at UCAR, throws a spanner in the works. Matt specializes in weather and climate events involving […]

Temperature Adjustments Around The World

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By Paul Homewood As well as the well documented adjustments to past temperatures in Paraguay, it is worth remembering just how widespread this practice is. Greenland Iceland Russia California Australia None of these are isolated instances, and there are other similar adjustments at […]

Shub Niggurath On The Paraguayan Adjustments

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By Paul Homewood https://nigguraths.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/the-puerto-casado-story/ Reposted from Shub Niggurath Climate:- Puerto Casado is a small town along the border of Paraguay whose temperature history became a topic on Christopher Booker’s column in the Telegraph. Booker showed how a raw cooling trend had metamorphosed into its opposite after ‘adjustments’. This was contested quickly by […]

The EPA & Heatwaves

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 10 months ago
By Paul Homewood It is regularly claimed that climate change will lead to more heatwaves and unusually hot days. Interestingly, the EPA have a map which seems to disagree. http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/indicators/weather-climate/high-low-temps.html They explain the map as follows:- This map shows trends in unusually hot temperatures at individual weather stations […]

Grassroots Defeat Bureaucrats & Environmentalists In Virginia

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By Paul Homewood http://www.cfact.org/2015/01/27/new-virginia-law-protects-farmers-from-meddling-local-officials-2/?utm_source=CFACT+Updates&utm_campaign=21022eeea4-Martha_s_victory_for_property_rights_1_28_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a28eaedb56-21022eeea4-270134521 A bit of good news, never mind commonsense from America. Although why, for heaven’s sake, does it need a law? CFACT report: In a hard-fought and stunning victory for family farmers and property rights throughout the Commonwealth, Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) March 5 signed into law […]

Another Even Handed Piece From The BBC!

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By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26553117 It comes as no surprise to see the BBC pushing out yet more anti-fracking propaganda. Fracking has the potential to devastate wildlife habitats across the UK, says research commissioned by leading wildlife and countryside groups. The report Are We Fit to Frack? was […]

Costs Of Green Policies In UK Underestimated

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By Paul Homewood https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/decc-forced-to-release-data-showing-impact-of-climate-policies-on-energy-prices/ Readers will recall that DECC were forced to release their calculations of how much electricity prices would rise as a result of climate change policies. The data they released contained three scenarios of fossil fuel prices – low, central and high. Naturally, the higher the fossil fuel price, the […]

AMO & PDO Cycles

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By Paul Homewood We discussed the role of the PDO and ENSO changes in the earth’s climate yesterday. I though it worthwhile republishing one of my posts from October 2013 (frightening – it only seemed a few months ago!). This related the PDO and AMO cycles to global temperatures. ( The ESRL graph is […]

BBC – Global Warming Doubles Risk Of Extreme Weather

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By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30985039 Unsurprisingly, the BBC is making a big splash about the latest piece of junk science to come out of CSIRO and Exeter University: Extreme weather arising from a climate phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean will get much worse as the world warms, according […]

Polar Vortex 1977 Style

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By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11371426/Were-New-York-and-Boston-snowstorm-warnings-overblown-ask-Americans-on-Twitter.html New Yorkers seem to be underwhelmed by their latest “Snowmageddon”! No doubt, Jennifer Francis will be wheeled out to explain that it is all caused by global warming, and John Holdren will tell us about melting Arctic ice and polar vortices. It might be helpful then to […]

Monckton Responds To Warmist Critics

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By Paul Homewood http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/01/25/monckton-fires-back-point-by-point-rebuttal-at-warmist-critics-of-new-peer-reviewed-study-shoddy-rent-a-quote-scientists/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ClimateDepot+%28Climate+Depot%29 Readers will probably recall the recent paper published on 23rd January by Monckton, Soon, Legates and Briggs which demonstrates that most climate models had hopelessly overestimated GHG warming. The paper has already been reviewed at WUWT, so I don’t want to go over old ground. But what was surprising […]

All Of Paraguay’s Temperature Record Has Been Tampered With

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By Paul Homewood Just when you thought it could not get any worse! After identifying that all of the three rural stations currently operational in Paraguay had had huge warming adjustments made to their data since the 1950’s, I tended to assume that they had been homogenised against some of the nearby […]

Tip Jar

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Several have suggested that I open a Tip Jar, although I did not start the blog to make money. Nevertheless, if anybody would like to donate, I would be very grateful. To pay by PayPal etc, simply click on the DONATE link below. Many thanks Paul DONATE […]

Glacial Advance During The Little Ice Age

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By Paul Homewood From HH Lamb’s “Climate, History and the Modern World” We know that sea levels have risen since the late 19thC, and that much of this is due to melting of glaciers and ice sheets. However, we also know that the same glaciers were growing rapidly during the Little Ice Age, […]

Booker On Temperature Adjustments

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By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11367272/Climategate-the-sequel-How-we-are-STILL-being-tricked-with-flawed-data-on-global-warming.html Christopher Booker devotes his whole column today to the scandal of temperature adjustments: Although it has been emerging for seven years or more, one of the most extraordinary scandals of our time has never hit the headlines. Yet another little example of it lately caught my eye when, […]

NCDC’s Retrograde Step

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By Paul Homewood http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/national-temperature-index/background/ushcn Since 1987, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has used observations from the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) to quantify national- and regional-scale temperature changes in the conterminous United States (CONUS). Or at least, that is, until last February. The USHCN is actually […]

Philip Eden On January Trends

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 10 months ago
By Paul Homewood Another interesting column from Philip Eden in last week’s Telegraph. He makes a couple of points that are worth exploring. While January temperatures have certainly warmed up since the 18thC, there has been little change since the early 20thC, other than the drop between 1940 and 1970. […]

News From Nutty Norwich

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By Paul Homewood h/t Dave Ward More tales from the nutters in Norwich! http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/solar_panels_on_new_houses_near_norwich_to_be_hidden_so_council_homes_cannot_be_identified_1_3920502 Apparently, the solar panels are to be hidden behind parapets on the roof, so they cannot be seen at street level. I wonder how much sunlight will also be blocked? http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/electric_car_puts_pupils_on_the_road_to_learning_1_3921657 Meanwhile, primary […]

The Pollution Pimp

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By Paul Homewood https://twitter.com/Pharrell/status/558293187660636160 I have not a clue who Pharrell Williams is, nor why anybody would want to pay the slightest attention to anything he says. But apparently he is big buddies with the big hypocrite, Al Gore. Singer Pharrell Williams with former US vice president Al Gore at the World […]

Met Office Congratulate Themselves For Getting It Right For Once!

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By Paul Homewood h/t QV http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2015/01/how-the-met-office-forecast-a-hot-2014-and-why-it-thinks-2015-may-be-even-hotter Apparently, the Met Office has been bragging off about how clever that have been in forecasting global temperatures accurately for the last few years. Although HADCRUT have still to come up with December numbers, their forecast from a year ago that this year would end up […]

No Warming In Antarctica During Satellite Record

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By Paul Homewood According to GHG theory, it is the poles which should be warming fastest. Apparently, nobody told the South Pole. http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc_lt_5.6.txt Even in summer months, satellites show no trend. http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc_lt_5.6.txt And to complete the picture, Southern Ocean temperatures have been way below average since […]

UK Sea Level Trends

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 10 months ago
By Paul Homewood A lot is said about sea level rise, much of it nonsense. But what really matters is its impact on local areas. With that in mind, let’s do a round up of the situation around the UK’s coast. We have nine tidal gauges with records over the last 30 years, […]

World Leaders Jet Out To Davos To Save Us From Global Warming

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By Paul Homewood REPOSTED FROM SUNSHINE HOURS https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/557563754557480960/photo/1 https://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/global-warming-causes-private-jets/ Where oh where would we be without the Great and the Good?

The Heavily Urbanised Temperature Record In Chile

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By Paul Homewood https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/massive-tampering-with-temperatures-in-south-america/ Frederick Colbourne raised the question, in yesterday’s post, as to just how many temperature stations there actually were in the Chilean Andes, which NOAA show as being much warmer than average last year. A quick analysis seems to show not many. Altogether, there are twelve stations in Chile […]

Four Utilities Pull Out Of The EU’s CCS Programme

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By Paul Homewood http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2015/01/top-utilities-pull-out-of-eu-ccs-project.html PEI report: A decision by four of Europe’s largest utilities to opt out of a decade long carbon capture and storage (CCS) project is "a matter of great concern" according to a leading academic and advocate of the technology. Germany‘s RWE, France’s Electricite de France , Sweden’s Vattenfall […]

UEA Plans For Straw Burning Power Station In Norwich

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 10 months ago
By Paul Homewood h/t Dave Ward http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/graphic_vision_for_325m_energy_plant_in_heart_of_norwich_is_revealed_1_3920476?usurv=skip Locals don’t seem to be too enamoured with UEA plans to build a straw burning power station on the heart of Norwich. The EDP report: A £325m energy plant could be built in Norwich, with supporters claiming it will create hundreds of jobs […]

Wind Power Slumps To Under 1% Of UK Electricity Generation

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By Paul Homewood h/t Paul2 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/11358062/Electricity-demand-hits-highest-this-winter-as-wind-power-slumps-to-its-lowest.html The Telegraph reports: UK electricity demand hit its highest level this winter on Monday – while wind turbines generated their lowest output, official figures show. Cold weather saw UK demand hit 52.54 gigawatts (GW) between 5pm and 5.30pm, according to National Grid. At the […]

TEST

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Massive Tampering With Temperatures In South America

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By Paul Homewood http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/nmaps.cgi?sat=4&sst=3&type=anoms&mean_gen=1212&year1=2014&year2=2014&base1=1951&base2=1980&radius=1200&pol=rob One of the regions that has contributed to GISS’ “hottest ever year” is South America, particularly Brazil, Paraguay and the northern part of Argentina. In reality, much of this is fabricated, as they have no stations anywhere near much of this area, as NOAA show below. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/hottest-year-claims-based-on-sparse-coverage/ […]

Marc Morano On Fox News

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By Paul Homewood Climate Depot’s Marc Morano on Fox News: http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/01/19/watch-morano-on-fox-on-hottest-year-claims-its-statistical-nonsense-nasas-gavin-schmidt-has-egg-all-over-his-face-with-this/

Why The Hay Paper On Sea Level Got It So Wrong

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By Paul Homewood Further to the Hay et al paper, which claims that sea level rise must have been less during the 20thC, a reminder of another paper in 2013 by Gregory et al which came to the opposite conclusion. just to recap, Hay et al claim that sea levels up to around 1990 […]

Hottest Year Claims Based On Sparse Coverage

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By Paul Homewood Remember, when NOAA and NASA declare “hottest years”, just how poor their surface temperature coverage is. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/map-land-sfc-mntp/201401-201412.gif

USCRN Trends

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By Paul Homewood To address long standing complaints about the accuracy of temperature records because of poor siting, bad quality control, UHI equipment issues and so on, NOAA have introduced a network of high quality stations called the USCRN, the US Climate Reference Network. NOAA describe it thus: The U.S. Climate Reference […]

New Paper On Sea Level Rise Adjusts The Data To Match The Models

Paul Homewood at NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - 10 months ago
By Paul Homewood http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14093.html I meant to have a look at this paper last week, but with the kerfuffle over GISS, it had to go on the back burner. This is the Abstract: Estimating and accounting for twentieth-century global mean sea-level (GMSL) rise is critical to characterizing current and future human-induced sea-level […]

Who Runs The GHCN

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By Paul Homewood http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ghcnm/ The Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) is a database of temperature, precipitation and pressure records. The aggregate data are collected from many continuously reporting fixed stations at the Earth’s surface and represent the input of approximately 6000 temperature stations, 7500 precipitation stations and 2000 pressure stations. Temperature data from […]

What Gavin Forgot To Tell You

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By Paul Homewood http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2915061/Nasa-climate-scientists-said-2014-warmest-year-record-38-sure-right.html David Rose picks up the story about the “hottest year” claims. The Nasa climate scientists who claimed 2014 set a new record for global warmth last night admitted they were only 38 per cent sure this was true. In a press release on Friday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute […]

WMO Demolish NOAA/NASA Claims Of Hottest Year

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By Paul Homewood http://www.wmo.int/pages/publications/bulletin_en/archive/56_3_en/56_3_gcs_en.html If anybody is still in any doubt that it is UNSCIENTIFIC to make claims about hottest years, without taking into account error bars, I would advise what the WMO had to say on the issue in their report on global temperatures for 2006: “All temperature values have […]

Met Office Say Surface Temperatures Should Agree With Satellites

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By Paul Homewood http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-guide/science/temp-records In 2013, the Met Office had this to say about global temperature datasets: “Changes in temperature observed in surface data records are corroborated by records of temperatures in the troposphere recorded by satellites” Well, except when they’re not!! https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/why-satellite-records-cannot-be-ignored/

Why Satellite Records Cannot Be Ignored

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By Paul Homewood As we all know by now, satellite data has failed to support claims made by the surface datasets of “hottest year evah”. This has led to many now claiming that the satellite datasets should be ignored, as they don’t measure the same thing. This argument, however, ignores the fact that […]

GISS Hottest Year Claims Not Supported By The Data

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By Paul Homewood http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20150116/ As has been suspected for a few months now, GISS have announced that 2014 was the “hottest year on record”. Nowhere does their press release tell us that it only beat the previous record by a tiny, effectively unmeasurable 0.02C. Nor do they mention that the error bars are […]

The Pause Continues.

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By Paul Homewood http://www.thegwpf.org/category/press-releases/ From the GWPF: Dr David Whitehouse, the GWPF’s Science Editor, comments on the latest set of 2014 global temperature data and misleading claims: The addition of 2014 global temperature data confirms that the post-1997 standstill seen in global annual average surface temperature has continued for one more year […]

Evidence Of MWP In China

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By Paul Homewood Yet another study shows that the MWP was not a European phenomenon. This one finds that SST’s were higher than now in the South China Sea, both during the MWP and also the RWP. From CO2 Science Paper Reviewed Yan, H., Sun, L., Shao, D., Wang, Y. and […]

UHI? What UHI Say GISS

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By Paul Homewood San Diego International Airport San Diego International Airport, also known as Lindbergh Field, is the busiest single-runway commercial airport in the United States, and the second-busiest single-use runway in the world after London Gatwick with about 465 scheduled operations carrying 48,000 passengers each day; a total of 17,710,241 passengers in […]

Another Wind Turbine Incident

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By Paul Homewood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-30811998 From the BBC: A wind farm in the Borders has been shut down after part of a turbine was found by a roadside. The three-metre-long turbine component, which is made of fibreglass, was found close to the Longpark wind farm near Stow. Local people believe it […]

Professor Issues Damning Indictment Of Renewables

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By Paul Homewood http://www.scotsman.com/news/comment-renewables-drain-our-resources-1-3659067 The Scotsman reports: ENVIRONMENTAL advantages of renewable energy are a myth – fusion energy is the way forward says Anthony Trewavas Renewables use sun, water, wind; energy sources that won’t run out. Non-renewables come from things like gas, coal and uranium that one day will. But unless electricity […]

Cooling The Past In California

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By Paul Homewood http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/ When we consider drought, we need to take account of temperatures as well as precipitation, and it is claimed that rising temperatures in California are making the drought worse there. But how much are temperatures rising there? Out of 54 USHCN stations in the State, CDIAC list […]

NOAA Get Another Forecast Right (Not!)

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By Paul Homewood http://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/southeastern-colorado-dry-times-may-persist-summer Last April, the “experts” at NOAA were warning that the southeastern Colorado , (the Arkansas Valley), was heading for another Dust Bowl era. Based at Colorado State University, Nolan Doesken is the Colorado State Climatologist, and he has monitored the ongoing drought in the southeastern portion of […]

California Droughts & Smelt Fish

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By Paul Homewood h/t Dave Burton Whenever anybody mentions the drought in California, remind them about the smelt fish. Two years ago, California had plenty of water following heavy rains in November and December. But there was a problem, as the Western Farm Press reported: It would take […]

BBC Deny Saying Denier!

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By Paul Homewood Stewgreen passes on this comment on Bishop Hill, regarding complaints to the BBC: @TerryS just shared this on Bishop-Hill I sent them a FOI request asking for copies of any formal or informal guidance on the use of the term “denier”. I also asked for their definition of a “denier”. […]

Hillary’s Drought

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By Paul Homewood Back in September, Hillary Clinton told a clean energy conference that climate change was causing extreme weather and droughts, no matter what deniers say. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2014/13

California Rainfall Nearly Back To Normal In 2014

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By Paul Homewood Alarmists seem to have gone quiet about the drought in California lately. I wonder why? http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/ Precipitation in 2014 was actually close to normal, ranking 44th driest since 1895. Note that the blue line is the trend, which is falling at a barely noticeable 0.02”/decade. The bionomial […]

Channel 5’s “Worst Weather Ever” Drivel

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By Paul Homewood h/t QV http://www.channel5.com/shows/worst-weather-ever The other night, Channel 5 broadcast what might have been better titled “The Worst Documentary Ever?”. Indeed, if the blurb is an accurate reflection of the programme as a whole, I am not even sure “documentary” is an accurate term; fantasy might be more […]

Harrabin’s Halloween Trick

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By Paul Homewood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30754443 In his warming propaganda piece, which I reported on yesterday, Harrabin stated: The Met Office has confirmed 2014 as the warmest year on UK record, with the wettest winter and the hottest Halloween. Does one day in one country have any possible relevance to climate, whether it […]

Booker On The Hottest Year Claims

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By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11337317/Was-2014-really-the-hottest-year-ever.html Christopher Booker has picked up on the fact that both RSS and UAH satellite make a nonsense of “hottest ever year” claims. An ever-more curious riddle has arisen over the rush by all the usual suspects to proclaim that 2014 was “the hottest year in history”. From the […]

Oregon Wind Farm Fined For Killing Golden Eagles

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By Paul Homewood h/t nzrobin http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/01/09/wind-power-co-pay-25-million-killing-golden-eagles-other-protected-birds-158633 A Portland, Oregon–based wind-farm company, the second to be sentenced to fines for killing hundreds of protected birds in Wyoming with its turbines, will pay $2.5 million in fines, restitution and community service. PacifiCorp subsidiary PacifiCorp Energy pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Wyoming […]

How To Complain To The BBC

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By Paul Homewood We often have our whinges about the BBC, but what can we actually do about it? As Joe Public points out, we can complain. This is Joe’s comment in full:- Aunty has a long-winded ‘Complaints Procedure’. Takes about 5 – 10 mins to complete: https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/?reset=#anchor Corporate Policy seems to be […]

Govt Energy Efficiency Claims Don’t Stand Up To Scrutiny

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By Paul Homewood One of the UK Government’s defences, when faced with accusations that its climate policies are pushing up energy bills, is to claim that it is promoting lower energy use via various initiatives to insulate homes. These initiatives include the Energy Company Obligation, Green Deal and Building Regulations. But how much difference […]

More Nonsense From The BBC’s Harrabin

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By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30754443 Another day, another global warming propaganda story from Roger Harrabin. Botanists have been stunned by the results of their annual hunt for plants in flower on New Year’s Day. They say according to textbooks there should be between 20 and 30 species in flower. […]

The Decadal Climate Bet

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By Paul Homewood h/t nzrobin Reposted from Kiwi Thinker http://www.kiwithinker.com/2015/01/the-decadal-global-climate-bet-dec-2014-update-4-years-into-the-race/ Four years ago, early 2011, a decadal global temperature bet was made. And with all the hype about 2014 being the hottest year, now is a good time to check out progress with ‘the bet’. But first a little background for any […]

UK Storms Caused By Slow/Fast Jet Stream (Delete as appropriate)

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By Paul Homewood A lorry overturned on the M74 According to the BBC, yesterday’s storms in Scotland, and to a lesser extent the rest of Britain, have been triggered by a very strong jet stream: The Met Office’s chief forecaster said a depression had been developing over the Atlantic in association with […]

January 9th Storms

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By Paul Homewood The Met Office have updated the situation regarding last night’s storms, which hit Scotland particularly hard: As forecast by the Met Office, a powerful low pressure system passed to the north of the UK in the early hours of this morning bringing exceptionally strong winds in places. Two low […]

UAH Confirms 2014 Was Not Hottest Year

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By Paul Homewood UAH have now released their global temperature data for December and, as with RSS, they confirm that 2014 was a long way from being the “hottest ever year”, much touted recently. http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc_lt_5.6.txt Whereas RSS have last year ranked only the 6th warmest, according to UAH it is 3rd. However, […]

The Growth In China’s Steel Industry

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By Paul Homewood This post is a continuation of the theme addressed in a couple of recent posts, regarding just how much of the mammoth increase in China’s emissions since 2000 has been the result of offshoring of western industries. One of the key indicators we have to measure this are the Iron […]

UK Industry Energy Trends

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By Paul Homewood Yesterday I raised the question in my post, It’s All Our Fault!!, just how much of China’s increased emissions of CO2 were simply a displacement of savings in western countries, due to migration of industry. So let’s take a closer look at the position in the UK. First, the CO2 emissions, […]

UK Wholesale Power Falls to £46/MWh

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By Paul Homewood http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2015/01/bad-news-for-coal-as-wholesale-power-prices-boost-uk-gas-generation.html PEI report: UK wholesale power prices dropped to a two-year low on Monday 5th January, representing good news for gas generators. The ICIS Power Index (IPI) is now just £46.316/MWh, the cheapest since July 2012 and while that is good news for the gas sector, it’s not so […]

Made In China!

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By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public No comment is necessary!! https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10891461_10153015694544813_3922972156006871284_n.jpg?oh=d84bad0ff4d284ac37d17761c8d3d400&oe=5521F731&__gda__=1428462692_3f558d369bcf8d3a13ebbc865f49971d

Heat Melts The Internet In Oz!

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By Paul Homewood h/t Dave Ward http://www.watoday.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/perth-heat-melts-the-internet-20150106-12iee2.html Down under in Oz, the residents of Western Australia seem none too pleased that their internet has been turned off because it is too hot, as this commenter makes clear. Apparently, temperatures reached 44.4C. It was just as well they did not have […]

It’s All Our Fault!!

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By Paul Homewood From the “It’s All Our Fault Department” Whenever there is a debate about the ever increasing emissions of CO2 in China, there is usually some comment like this one at Euan Mears’ site yesterday: http://euanmearns.com/wwf-masters-of-spin/#comment-6106 In other words, Chinese emissions are all the fault of us […]

Bob Ward’s Wettest Year Fails To Materialise – 2014 Only 16th Wettest

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By Paul Homewood https://uk.news.yahoo.com/warmest-warning-issued-131014113.html#gHEw1fE You may recall headlines a couple of months ago, in the run up to Lima, about how 2014 was on course to be one of the wettest on records in the UK. The story seems to have been peddled around by our old friend, Bob Ward. As I […]

Coal Still Dominates The Energiewende

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By Paul Homewood http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/downloads-englisch/pdf-files-englisch/data-nivc-/electricity-production-from-solar-and-wind-in-germany-2014.pdf The Fraunhofer Institute in Germany has produced a detailed study of electricity trends there up to Nov 2014. Based on Jan-Nov comparisons, these are some of the highlights: In terms of capacity, wind/solar account for about 42%. Note also that nearly all of the wind power […]

Warmest Year In UK Brings Big Benefits

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By Paul Homewood The Met Office have announced that, provisionally, 2014 was the warmest on record in the UK. The Central England Temperature series confirms that last year finished at 10.93C, slightly higher than the 10.87C recorded in 2006. Is this evidence of global warming, as no doubt many will suggest? We know […]

The UK Offshore Wind Industry

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By Paul Homewood A year ago, I published an analysis of the state of the Offshore Wind industry in the UK here. This is an update of the situation, based on Renewable UK’s latest report, Offshore Wind Project Timelines. Capacity http://www.renewableuk.com/en/publications/reports.cfm/Offshore-Wind-Project-Timelines This is what Renewable UK’s report shows. Ignoring […]

Wind Farms Paid £53 Million To Switch Off Last Year

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By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/windpower/11323685/Wind-farms-paid-1m-a-week-to-switch-off.html The Telegraph report: Wind farms are being paid more than £1 million a week to switch off their turbines. Latest industry figures show £53.1 million was handed out to green energy companies over the past 12 months for shutting down turbines. The money is […]

North Atlantic Hurricane Stats For 2014

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By Paul Homewood I took a look at global tropical cyclone stats yesterday, but I thought it would also be useful to have a look at the situation in the North Atlantic. First, hurricane numbers. These include all hurricanes, whether making landfall or not. And Accumulated Energy: On […]

RSS Data Rubbishes Hottest Year Claims

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By Paul Homewood RSS satellite data is now published for December, and confirms that global atmospheric temperatures for 2014 are nowhere near the record being touted by NOAA and NASA. http://data.remss.com/msu/monthly_time_series/RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Channel_TLT_Anomalies_Land_and_Ocean_v03_3.txt The anomaly for the year has finished at 0.256C, which ties with 2007 as only the sixth warmest […]

Green Leader: Being On Benefits Worse Than Poverty In India

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By Paul Homewood Leader of the UK Green Party, Natalie Bennett, gave us all a telling insight into how greenies’ minds work in this interview with the Economist this week. They are broadly against consumption, for example: “The world is sodden with stuff, it cannot have more stuff,” said Ms Bennett. Yet […]

EU After Your Coffee Pots!

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By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30643357 It seems the EU, inevitably cheer led by the ridiculously biased Harrabin, now have their sites on our coffee pots: The new EU rules even extend to the coffee machine. Drip filter machines with non-insulated jugs must power down 40 minutes after the […]

Hurricane ACE Data For 2014

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By Paul Homewood Dr Ryan Maue has now updated his ACE data to the end of December 2014. Just a quick recap for those not familiar, Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is a measure used by the NOAA to express the activity of individual tropical cyclones and entire tropical cyclone seasons. It uses an approximation […]

The Great Hurricane Of 1780

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By Paul Homewood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hurricane_of_1780 The Great Hurricane of 1780, also known as Huracán San Calixto, the Great Hurricane of the Antilles, and the 1780 Disaster is probably the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record. Between 20,000 and 22,000 people died when the storm passed through the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean 10–16 October. […]

Global Sea Ice Well Above Average For Most Of 2014

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By Paul Homewood http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/archives.html Global sea ice extent finished the year at 1.69 million sq km above the 1981-2010 average. This equates to 8.2% above normal. During 2014, sea ice extent has been above normal for 245 days, at an average of 295,000 sq km. Antarctic ice continues to blow away […]

Preliminary US Tornado Data For 2014

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By Paul Homewood http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/torngraph-big.png Based on provisional data, 2014 has been another very quiet year for tornadoes in the US, the third such year on the trot. It will be a couple of months before provisional data for November and December is fully confirmed and classified. The number of confirmed tornadoes is usually […]

Deller’s Guide To 2015

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By Paul Homewood http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/01/2015-your-handy-month-by-month-guide-to-the-year-ahead/ Totally off topic, but it is New Year’s Day! James Delingpole gives his predictions for 2015. Read the rest of the year here.

Welcome To The World Of Climate Science – Where Anything Goes

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Happy New Year all!! http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/biggest-climate-fiasco-of-the-year.html Welcome to the new world of science, where computer models and preconceptions trump real live data.

2014 in review

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 650,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 28 days for that many people to see […]

The British Council At Lima

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By Paul Homewood h/t Greensand & QV http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2014/cop20/eng/inf02.pdf Amongst the thousands of participants at the Lima Conference were six from the British Council. To recap, according to their website, the British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. They are on the ground in six […]

BBC Media Action

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By Paul Homewood http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2014/cop20/eng/inf02.pdf As I mentioned earlier, BBC Media Action sent a couple of people to the UN Climate Conference in Lima this month. I would stress that these were listed by the UN under “Non-Governmental Organisations”, and not media. The BBC, of course, plenty of journalists etc as well. So, […]

Temperature Adjustments At Ostrov Dikson

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By Paul Homewood http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/cooling-the-past-in-russia/ I looked yesterday at the temperature adjustments made by GISS/GHCN to the temperature record for Ostrov Dikson, a small settlement on the edge of the Kara Sea in Siberia. As with many similar adjustments at Arctic stations, the effect has been to downgrade the warm spell of the 1940’s. […]

Bye Bye Lima – Roll On Paris

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By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2014/cop20/eng/inf02.pdf What do the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation, World Association of Girl Guides, the Solar Energy Industries Association, the Maryknoll Sisters of Dominic, Women in Europe for a Common Future and the University of East Anglia have in common? They’ve all just come back from […]

South Carolina Worries About Non Existent Warming!

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By Paul Homewood http://uk.businessinsider.com/south-carolinas-hidden-climate-report-2014-12?r=US Apparently there is some fuss down in South Carolina about a report by their Department of Natural Resources on the local effects of climate change which was shelved for a while. It seems they are worried about a warming trend of 0.0F/decade since 1920! http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/

Stephen Belcher On Extreme Weather

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By Paul Homewood h/t Alex Henney Professor Stephen Belcher Back in October, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change, which boasts such luminaries as Tim Yeo, Caroline Lucas and Emily Thornberry amongst its leading members, co hosted a seminar along with the Royal Society and the Parliamentary Office of Science […]

Aussie Droughts “Far From Exceptional” – Ice Core Study Finds

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By Paul Homewood http://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2014/antarctic-ice-cores-tell-1000-year-australian-drought-story This story from the Australian Antarctic Division seems to have slipped below the radar. Antarctic ice cores tell 1000-year Australian drought story Ice core drill and glaciologists from the Australian Antarctic Division and Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, Law Dome, East Antarctica. (Photo: Joel […]

Cooling The Past In Russia

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By Paul Homewood http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=222206740006&dt=1&ds=1 http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=222206740000&dt=1&ds=14 How GISS got rid of the embarrassing 1940’s blip in Siberia.

New Study Shows Extreme Rainfall Not Increasing In England & Wales

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By Paul Homewood The Met Office frequently claim that rainfall is becoming more intense in the UK. This claim stems in part from the study by Matthew Perry, “A spatial analysis of trends in the UK climate since 1914 using gridded dataset”. This was the paper I mentioned a few days ago, with regard […]

Arctic Sea Ice In Canada Greater Than 1970’s

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By Paul Homewood http://polarbearscience.com/2014/12/26/polar-bear-habitat-more-arctic-sea-ice-in-canada-this-week-than-in-early-1970s/ More of those darned inconvenient facts from Arctic mammal expert, Dr Susan Crockford: This week, Arctic sea ice in Canada, where 2/3 of the world’s polar bears live, had more sea ice than was present in the early 1970s. Globally, the ice is spitting-distance close to the […]

Watch Your Pocket – Hansen’s About!

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By Paul Homewood That well known, totally impartial, ex govt scientist, James Hansen has issued what I guess is his Xmas message, “Assuring Real Progress on Climate”. He acknowledges that the annual round of climate negotiations is pretty much a waste of time, and even if some sort of […]

David Viner Is Now Just A Thing Of The Past

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By Paul Homewood Sheffield – Dec 2014 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/11314304/Snow-shuts-airports-and-brings-roads-to-standstill-across-Britain.html Snow in Scarborough, North Yorkshire – Jan 2013 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/15/snow-low-temperatures-uk-forecasters Snowy scenes as freezing conditions come to the UK – Feb 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16883674 Large parts of England and Wales could get as much as 10cm of snow today […]

Tribe Attacks Another Tribe

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By Paul Homewood http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/12/24/peru-uncontactedtribe.html Tribe Attacks From the “You could not make it up dept”, comes news that global warming has led to cooling in Peru, which in turn has led to one tribe raiding another tribe. This is apparently something that has never happened before. From Al Gore Jazeera: Climate […]

Winters Were Wetter 100 Years Ago

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By Paul Homewood One of the things that Julia Slingo and her cronies insist they are sure about is that climate change is making winters wetter in the UK. But is there any evidence for this? Not according to the long running England & Wales Precipitation Series. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadukp/data/download.html To […]

Search Facility

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By Paul Homewood I have added a Search Box (at the bottom of the Tag Cloud), following earlier suggestions.

The Truth About Davey’s Energy Savings

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By Paul Homewood Ed Davey has been stung into defending his disastrous energy policies, following revelations that his department had disgracefully attempted to hide data, showing that electricity prices would soon be 40% higher, as a result of climate policies. The above letter was published in last week’s Sunday Telegraph. Unfortunately, he is […]

Warm Arctic Is Simply Part Of Natural Cycle

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By Paul Homewood The most iconic symbol of the global warming scare is the “melting Arctic”. But is the Arctic any warmer than back in the 1930’s and 40’s? Certainly not in places like Akuryri, in Iceland, as GISS show. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=620040630003&dt=1&ds=1 To get a fuller picture, I have calculated […]

Happy Xmas!!

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By Paul Homewood https://fenbeagleblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/merry-christmas-2014/ Merry Xmas to all, courtesy of Fenbeagle!

Increase In UK Temperatures Largely Due To Increase In Sunshine Hours – (Caused By Reduced Pollution)

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By Paul Homewood Further to my post, “Has Increased Sunshine Caused UK Warming In Late 20thC?”, the Met Office published a study of UK Climate Trends, called Climate Memorandum 21, which looked at gridded datasets of temperatures, rainfall etc. The paper, published in 2006 and including data up to 2004, had this to say […]

BBC & The Penguins

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By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public First we had WWF asking for money under false pretences to save the Adelie penguins. Now it seems that the BBC have jumped on the bandwagon. In their report on Cambridge scientist, Stacey Adlard’s work studying the penguins in Antarctica, they prominently show this chart: […]

A Nice Little Earner

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By Paul Homewood h/t Reality Check For anyone wondering how much Greenpeace pay their staff, their Annual Accounts give the answer. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/greenpeace/2014/GPI-Combined-Financial-Statements-2013.pdf Including pension costs, it works out at Eur 55,265 per head, about £43,000 at current exchange rates, not bad remuneration for those supposedly in it to save the […]

Is There A Trend To Heavier Rainfall In The UK?

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By Paul Homewood http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/has-there-been-a-recent-increase-in-uk-weather-records/ The Met Office report on a study by one of their scientists, Mike Kendon, (which, as seems to be usual, is hidden behind a paywall here , despite the fact that taxpayers have funded it). The claim is made that The large number of recent wet records […]

WWF Lie For The Penguins

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By Paul Homewood h/t QV http://www.wwf.org.uk/adoption/penguin/toy/?pc=ANZ004001&ds_medium=cpc&gclid=CJbfq5a02cICFQEGwwod-QkAmQ&gclsrc=aw.ds WWF want your money and are prepared to lie for it. This is what they state: As we all know, sea ice around Antarctica has been at record high levels in recent years. But, as Wikipedia explains, the extent of sea […]

Greenpeace Off!

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By Paul Homewood http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/index.html

CET Winter Temperatures Less Extreme Than In The Past

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By Paul Homewood As promised, I have run the Central England Temperatures for winter, as I did with summer ones yesterday, to see whether extremes, whether warm or cold, are increasing. Remember that these anomalies are calculated against the average of the previous 30 years. So 2014 is worked out against 1985-2014. […]

Has Increased Sunshine Caused UK Warming In Late 20thC?

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By Paul Homewood http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries/actualmonthly The sharp rise in UK temperatures, which effectively began in the 1980’s, is widely known about, but, (and I may be wrong here), has never been satisfactorily explained. Indeed, I am not sure anybody from the Met Office, Hadley Centre, etc has ever seriously attempted to explain it. […]

Booker On Our Zero Carbon Future

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By Paul Homewood h/t AC Osborn http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11305122/Forget-your-gas-cooker-were-headed-for-zero-carbon-Britain.html Christopher Booker lays bare the dangerous delusions of those running our energy policies. From the Telegraph: As we look back over the past 12 months and forward to the next, I regret that there is one story I reported two months ago to […]

UK Summer Temperature Not Becoming More Extreme

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By Paul Homewood http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/has-there-been-a-recent-increase-in-uk-weather-records/ The Met Office report on a fairly meaningless study, which tells us that since 2000 there have been more hot records set than cool ones in the UK. They say: Temperature records: Since 2000, there have been 10 times as many hot records as cold records. Taking into […]

Nasa observatory reveals high CO2 concentrations in southern hemisphere

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By Paul Homewood h/t Paul2 We all know that it is us wicked developed countries that are destroying the world with our CO2. This doubtlessly explains why CO2 concentrations are so much higher across a wide band of the southern hemisphere. Global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations from October 1 […]

It’s Nuts!

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By Paul Homewood http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/19/claim-squirrels-cause-climate-change/ Now I’ve heard it all!! According to researchers working on the Polaris Project in the Arctic, which aims to study climate change at the poles, arctic ground squirrels and beavers both contribute to carbon emissions by burrowing into the frozen soil to make their homes, churning […]

Nissan Leaf Fails The Test

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By Paul Homewood Nissan Leaf With oil prices falling through the floor, and confirmation of just how much electricity prices are going to rise in the next few years, it is time to look again at the comparative costs of electric and conventional cars. The Nissan Leaf seems to be the […]

Sheffield City Council’s Priorities

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By Paul Homewood From the local rag: Could this be the same Sheffield City Council, who last year admitted that they were employing ten Climate Change Officers at a cost of over £500,000 pa? http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/sheffield-waste-500k-on-climate-change-officers/

Govt Awards Capacity Market Contracts

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By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/11303088/Households-to-pay-new-11-energy-bill-levy-to-keep-the-lights-on.html The Telegraph have joined the “let’s show backlit water vapour and pretend it’s black smoke” campaign. They report: Consumers will pay an £11.40 annual energy bill levy to help keep the lights on from 2018, ministers have announced, amid fears the policy could inadvertently increase the risk of […]

Too Many Twits At DECC

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By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public https://twitter.com/DECCgovuk/status/545569375173242880 DECC can evidently afford to waste time and taxpayers’ money running a twitter account, now they have 35% extra staff! I wonder why they did not brag about how wind only contributed 3.8% to electricity generation in September though? Or the fact that […]

BBC Bang The Drum For DECC & The EU

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By Paul Homewood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30518649 Let’s leave aside the fact that the BBC say the economy is now growing (they usually try to deny it)! It can be no coincidence that the BBC have chosen to make a splash of this story, just days after DECC were forced to reveal how electricity prices would […]

DECC Increase Staffing By 35%

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By Paul Homewood http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/9026/numbers-game-the-latest-civil-service-staff-numbers/ At a time of austerity, I am sure we will all be pleased to see that DECC have managed to increase their staffing levels by 35% since 2010, according to the Institute for Government. Figures from the Office for National Statistics confirm that numbers of staff have increased from […]

Global Sea Ice For Dec 14th Highest Since 1988

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By Paul Homewood Reposted from SunshineHours Global sea ice extent is now at its highest level since 1988, and the fourth highest on the satellite record, for Day 348. http://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/sea-ice-extent-day-348-highest-global-sea-ice-since-1988/

The Cost Of The UK Govt’s Climate Policies

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By Paul Homewood I looked the other day at the impact on electricity bills of UK climate policies, which showed that, by 2020, prices could be 40% higher than they would be otherwise. But what does this mean in terms of overall costs in the UK? The overall cost for domestic users […]

What Are Weather Bombs?

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By Paul Homewood “Weather Bombs” tick all the right alarmist boxes: It’s sexy, so it sells papers. It gives the impression of the sort of wild, violent weather that “scientists” have said we could expect. It sounds like some new phenomena, that we never used to have in the good old days of […]

And Pigs Might Fly!

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By Paul Homewood http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/rising-sea-levels-could-make-florida-residents-climate-refugees-1.2871710 CBC report: Florida’s vulnerability to the effects of climate change doesn’t seem at first blush to be a Canadian issue. But every year, some 3.5 million Canadians travel to the sunshine state. What’s more, about half a million Canadians own property in Florida, much of it at risk […]

China & India To Lead Growth In Coal Demand Say IEA

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By Paul Homewood http://www.powerengineeringint.com/index.html Latest news from PEI: China leads as global coal demand set to reach 9bn tonnes by 2019 The world’s appetite for coal-fired power will continue to grow over the next five years, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Medium-Term Coal Market Report, released today. The report […]

No, Seth, Weather Disasters Aren’t Getting Worse.

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By Paul Homewood http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hotter-weirder-how-climate-change-has-changed-earth/ Among the various fact free claims made in this Borenstein article, which I debunked a couple of weeks ago, was this concerning weather disasters. Since 1992, there have been more than 6,600 major climate, weather and water disasters worldwide, causing more than $1.6 trillion in damage and killing […]

More WWF Propaganda About The Philippines

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By Paul Homewood https://uk.news.yahoo.com/observers-slam-lackluster-lima-climate-deal-104854958.html#R3U18dG A carbon-curbing deal struck in Lima on Sunday was a watered-down compromise where national intransigence threatened the goal of a pact to save Earth’s climate system, green groups said. The hard-fought agreement sets out guidelines for the submission of national greenhouse-gas pledges next year. But, the groups said, initially […]

Oh Dear! Oh Dear Oh Dear! Oh Dear Oh Dear Oh Dear!!!!

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By Paul Homewood h/t Catweazle http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/12/13/UN-Climate-Summit-Generated-More-CO2-Than-Small-Country From Breitbart: The 12-day UN climate change summit in Peru has generated more carbon dioxide than an entire African country. The talks, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, generated more than 50,000 tonnes of CO2, as more than 12,500 politicians, green activists, diplomats and […]

Is Britain Getting Wetter?

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By Paul Homewood Is it getting wetter in Britain? We have certainly had some wet weather in the last year or so, but it is easy to confuse short term weather with long term trends. People’s memories are notoriously short, made worse by overhyped media coverage. Add in the lack of any proper […]

DECC Forced To Release Data Showing Impact Of Climate Policies On Energy Prices

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By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/11292367/Green-policies-to-add-up-to-40pc-to-cost-of-household-electricity.html I’ve now had a chance to dissect the numbers that the Department of Energy & Climate Change, DECC, have been forced to release, regarding the effect of climate policies on energy prices. They base their assumptions around three scenarios of fossil fuel prices – high, central and low, […]

GWPF Welcomes “Toothless” UN Agreement

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By Paul Homewood GWPF has just released this announcement concerning the outcome of the Lima conference. London 14 December: Dr Benny Peiser, the director of the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF), has welcomed the non-binding and toothless UN climate agreement which was adopted in Lima earlier today. Dr Peiser said: “The Lima agreement […]

Electric Prices To Rise By 40%

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By Paul Homewood h/t Paul2 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/11292367/Green-policies-to-add-up-to-40pc-to-cost-of-household-electricity.html Don’t say I did not warn you! The cost of household electricity will rise by as much as 40 per cent by the end of the decade because of the Government’s green energy policies. Official figures — initially withheld by ministers — show an […]

Typhoon Season Update

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By Paul Homewood With the passing of Typhoon Hagupit, I thought it would be a good time to give an update of where the year stands, as regards typhoons. Unlike the Atlantic, there is no “season” for typhoons (which are simply what hurricanes are called in the Western Pacific), as they can happen all […]

BBC Use Brazilian Drought For Global Warming Propaganda

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By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30443919 Yet more dishonest reporting from the BBC. In their report on how the Lima conference has (rather inevitably!) gone into overtime, the BBC have included this photo: Drought in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The talks have highlighted divisions between developed and developing nations There […]

Aussie Sea Level Hysteria

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By Paul Homewood http://australianclimatemadness.com/2014/12/12/aussie-councils-reject-sea-level-hysteria/ Thank heavens for a little bit of Aussie sanity. Fort Denison, an old penal colony in the middle of Sydney Harbour, has one of the oldest tide gauges around, having been located there for 128 years. During this period, the sea level has risen just 6.5 cm, […]

The Truth About Mid West Heatwaves That The UCS Did Not Tell You

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By Paul Homewood http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/impacts/global-warming-and-heat-waves.html#.VIriunvLL5y As extreme summer heat has been a bit of a topic recently, let’s have a look at this report from the UCS that Steve Goddard highlighted a few days ago. Although the report was published in 2012, conveniently in the middle of the hot summer that year, it still […]

If Yoga’s The Answer, What Was The Question?

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By Paul Homewood h/t Dave Ward http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30438566 Forget carbon taxes, windmills and climate reparations. The BBC have got the answer!

Temperature Record In France Dominated By Urban Sites

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By Paul Homewood I was having a look at the GISS temperature record in France, and was astonished to find that there is only one rural station currently operational in the whole country. Moreover, this happens to be 4000 ft up Mont Aigoual. I can hardly believe that a station up a mountain […]

Shackleton’s Ill Fated Voyage

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By Paul Homewood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton#Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition_1914.E2.80.9317 100 years ago last week, Ernest Shackleton was preparing to depart from South Georgia with the Endurance on the Trans-Antarctic Expedition. As is well known, he ended up trapped in pack ice the following January in the Weddell Sea, only a few miles from the coast. What followed was […]

Russian Aluminium Oligarch Finances Blair’s Climate Change Charity

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By Paul Homewood Sorry to spoil your lunch, but I was reading a Sunday Telegraph report on Tony Blair’s charity activities, when I spotted this: Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch and close friend of Mr Blair’s former cabinet colleague Lord Mandelson, spent £300,000 co-funding a little-known charity run by Mr Blair, which […]

Extreme Summers?

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By Paul Homewood You can tell that Lima has started! Following quickly on from yesterday’s news of the Stott paper, which claimed that the chances of extreme hot summers across parts of Europe have increased dramatically, along comes another paper out today by Phil Jones. This one claims that extreme temperature anomalies — […]

Davey Attempts To Interfere In Pension Funds Investment Decisions

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By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/11277546/Fossil-fuel-investing-a-risk-to-pension-funds-says-Ed-Davey.html The Telegraph report: Investing in fossil fuels is becoming increasingly risky because global action to tackle climate change will curb demand, forcing companies to leave unprofitable reserves in the ground, Ed Davey, the energy secretary, has warned. Financial authorities must examine the risks posed by coal, oil and […]

Glaciers In Antarctica Advanced During Little Ice Age

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By Paul Homewood As we all know, Antarctica is melting, we’re all going to drown and its all your fault. Well maybe not. There is a growing body of evidence that the Little Ice Age affected the Antarctic just as much as the rest of the world, and as a result glaciers […]

Met Office Spin Heatwave Nonsense Again

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By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2014/heatwave-increase It seems the Met Office are spinning their extreme heatwave nonsense again, this time a paper by their own Peter Stott. The study is behind a paywall at Nature, which again raises the question of why taxpayer funded research is not made freely available. But […]

Heatwaves & Summer Mortality

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By Paul Homewood Readers may recall claims by Munich Re that 760 people died in the UK’s “heatwave” in July 2013. It turned out that this figure had no basis in reality, but was simply the product of some model. Now we have the mortality statistics from the ONS for the […]

Antarctic Glacier Retreat In Perspective

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By Paul Homewood http://www.cato.org/blog/some-perspective-headlining-antarctic-ice-loss-trends Reposted from the Cato Institute: The mainstream media has lit up the past few days with headlines of “alarming” news coming out of Antarctica highlighting new research on a more rapid than expected loss of ice from glaciers there. But, as typical with blame-it-on-humans climate change stories, the […]

Polar Bears Mystery

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By Paul Homewood h/t Richard Morris http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Science/article1493033.ece It seems that scientists have found out how polar bears have managed to migrate to the South Pole!! And Michael Hanlon is supposed to be the Science Editor! Heaven help us all. BTW – As usual, the Times is behind […]

Hottest Year Claims Are A Load Of Nonsense – Booker

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By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11277024/Billions-wont-satisfy-warmists.html Good to see that Christopher Booker has picked up and run with the satellite data, which show that claims of a “hottest year ever” are nonsense. Led by the BBC, the usual media suspects were quick to trumpet last week’s claims by the Met Office and the World […]

Another Quiet Hurricane Season

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By Paul Homewood http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2014/20141124_hurricaneseasonwrapup_2014.html With the hurricane season now officially at an end, it’s time to look back on yet another quiet year in the Atlantic. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2014/20141124_hurricaneseasonwrapup_2014.html There have been eight storms, ranked as tropical storms or stronger, which compares to the 30-year average of twelve. Only one storm, Hurricane […]

BBC Wheel Out The Extreme Weather Lie

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By Paul Homewood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30311816 While warning us that this year may be the warmest on record (if you don’t count the other years), David Shukman thought he should also link this to extreme weather. Of course, we never had bad weather before! Maybe Mr Shukman would like to remind his […]

UN Climate Funds Given To Japanese Companies To Build Coal Power Stations!

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By Paul Homewood http://www.newsweek.com/oopsie-1-billion-un-funds-fight-climate-change-built-coal-power-plants-instead-288497 Woops! Newsweek report: About $1 billion in Japanese funding that Japan claimed was part of a UN initiative to help developing countries take action against climate change went, unnoticed, towards Japanese companies for the construction of three coal-fired power plants, the Associated Press reported Monday. The slip-up […]

Lefties Don’t Even Want Cheap, Clean Fusion Power

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By Paul Homewood If there was any doubt about the guilt greenies like Paul Ehrlich (above) feel about modern western civilisation, just take a look at this article from the LA Times in 1989. http://articles.latimes.com/1989-04-19/news/vw-2042_1_fusion-uc-berkeley-inexhaustible So forget the nonsense about nasty polluting coal and other fossil fuels. They are against […]

Educating Seth Borenstein

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By Paul Homewood Seth Borenstein has been ratching up the nonsense ahead of the Lima conference in this AP piece. WASHINGTON (AP) – In the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed, not just the climate. It’s gotten […]

RSS YTD Temps Only 7th Highest Since 1998

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By Paul Homewood We now have the RSS satellite temperature data out for November, and, as with UAH, they show that this year will be nowhere a record, as is being touted for the surface datasets. Indeed, this year is running in only a modest 7th place. http://data.remss.com/msu/monthly_time_series/RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Channel_TLT_Anomalies_Land_and_Ocean_v03_3.txt As with UAH, […]

Records & Adjustments

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By Paul Homewood While the Met Office tell us that that global temperatures for 2014 are running 0.01C above the previous record (with an error margin of 0.1C!), we should remember how much their temperature data has changed over the last few years. http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/HadCRUT3-gl.dat http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut4/data/current/time_series/HadCRUT.4.3.0.0.monthly_ns_avg.txt [The latest update of the old V3 […]

No Record Temperatures According To Satellites

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By Paul Homewood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30311816 Unsurprisingly, the BBC put up a deliberately apocalyptic picture while telling us the world is on course for the warmest year on record. What they failed to tell us was that the more accurate satellites, which monitor atmospheric temperatures over nearly all of the globe, say no such thing. […]

HH Lamb, Jet Stream Meridionality & Extreme Weather

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By Paul Homewood It will come as no surprise to learn that HH Lamb had plenty to say about meridional jet streams and atmospheric blocking. Here is an extract from his book, “Climate, History and The Modern World”. From Chapter 14, Climate Since 1950. (Bear in mind that the book was published in […]

Europe’s Coldest Winter Of The 20thC

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By Paul Homewood h/t Henry P We are all familiar with stories of how the German advance on Moscow stalled in the winter of 1941/2. Meteorologists believe this may have been the coldest winter in Europe in the 20thC. The Severe Winter in Europe 1941–42: The Large-scale Circulation, Cut-off Lows, and […]

One Year To Save Planet Says Dopey Davey!

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By Paul Homewood http://australianclimatemadness.com/2014/12/01/ed-davey-one-year-to-save-planet/ Reblogged from Australian Climate Madness. Ed was no doubt following the timetable set by the WWF: WWF’s Climate Solutions report shows how the world can limit its heat-trapping emissions with known technologies and policy changes, using only sustainable, environmentally friendly energy sources. “The question for leaders and governments […]

The Winter Of 1962/63

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By Paul Homewood The winter of 1962/63 was the coldest for 200 years in Britain. The Met Office describe it: It began abruptly just before Christmas in 1962. The weeks before had been changeable and stormy, but then on 22 December a high pressure system moved to the north-east of the British […]

First Phase Of Dredging Completed On Somerset Levels

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By Paul Homewood Work has been ongoing since March to begin the 20-year flood action plan on the Somerset Levels. The main action so far has been to dredge 8km of the Rivers Tone and Parrett. The Environment Agency report that this was completed at the end of October, with the successful […]

A Look Back At The Winter Floods

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By Paul Homewood When we look back on the UK’s weather in 2014, the one thing that will stand out is the wet winter, which led to widespread flooding. However, it is important that we get this into perspective, disastrous as the floods might have been at an individual level. The Dept […]

The Great Flood Of 1862

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By Paul Homewood h/t John F Hultquist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862 Thanks to John for letting me know about what was called the Great Flood of 1862. From Wiki: The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of Oregon, Nevada, and California, occurring from December 1861 to […]

Mild Weather Reduces Winter Deaths To Record Low In UK

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By Paul Homewood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30243635 I wonder where Roger Harrabin is today! I was waiting for the stats to be published by the ONS, but in the meantime the BBC beat me to it! The lowest ever number of winter deaths was recorded last year, official figures for England and Wales show. […]

Doctors Will Save Us From Global Warming!

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By Paul Homewood h/t Dave Ward I’m sorry Mrs, but I can’t save you – you’re suffering from global warming! https://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2014/November/climate-change-doctors More money is being wasted on climate change nonsense at the UEA, this time by the Medical School. Doctors need to be prepared to deal with new […]

The Science Free Royal Society Report On Extreme Weather

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By Paul Homewood http://ipccreport.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/has-the-royal-society-abandoned-science/ Paul Matthews has a good analysis of the Royal Society’s new report “Resilience to Extreme Weather”. The Royal Society, formerly a highly regarded institution, is increasingly abandoning science in favour of political propaganda. Its latest piece of scaremongering, Resilience to extreme weather, is packed full of emotive images […]

Bob Ward Forgets 1903

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By Paul Homewood According to Bob Ward, global warming propagandist for the Grantham Foundation, The trend for wetter weather is being caused by climate change. The very wet and warm year we are experiencing is part of a pattern. The seven warmest years and four of the five wettest years on record so […]

Brazil To Boost Coal & Gas Power

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By Paul Homewood A round up of some of the power generation news from around the world this week. Brazil seeks energy stability as coal and gas power auction commences 27th Nov The Brazilian government launches a key auction in ensuring the country’s energy security on Friday. Dilma Rousseff’s administration wishes […]

Scientists Lose The Plot

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By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/11254817/Six-radical-ways-to-tackle-global-warming.html It’s at times like this that I am ashamed to be British. The Telegraph report: Radical, untested techniques to tackle global warming by reflecting the sun’s rays could have "terrifying" consequences, yet may ultimately be needed to prevent catastrophic climate change, scientists have said. Three Government-funded […]

Climate Catastrophe In The 17thC – Geoffrey Parker In Review

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By Paul Homewood I have already reviewed Brian Fagan’s excellent history of the Littler Ice Age, but Don B alerts me to a book published last year by another historian, Geoffrey Parker, Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. As the name suggests, this concentrates on the period […]

CO2 Emissions Rocketing In Oil Sheikdoms

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By Paul Homewood When we discuss CO2 emissions, we invariably gravitate to China and India, simply because they are such large emitters, and growing emissions rapidly. But what about the Arab world? Many of the Middle Eastern oil producing states are amongst the richest countries on earth, on a per capita […]

Why Does Obama Want To Kill The African Dream?

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By Paul Homewood A reader left this comment on my article China’s New Energy Plan Forecasts Big Rise In CO2 Emissions, which was reposted at WUWT. Mervyn Recently, Obama made his grandstanding-Obama/China deal, effectively allowing China to keep emitting enormous amounts of CO2 in its quest to develop, which is also what […]

The UK Clean Air Act & Black Smoke

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By Paul Homewood While we’re on the topic of power station smokestacks, it is worth noting that the UK has a Clean Air Act, originally introduced in 1956. The latest version, the Clean Air Act 1993, contains this provision: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/11/section/1 Dark smoke is defined with reference to the […]

Rainfall Patterns In The South West

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By Paul Homewood Whenever wet weather hits England, as often as not it is the South West which bears the brunt of it, as Somerset discovered last winter. But is it actually getting wetter in that part of the country, or is rainfall becoming more extreme? The Met Office maintain a regional […]

Smokestacks & Water Vapour

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By Paul Homewood Readers will recall the image of Eggborough power station used by the BBC (top), and a more conventional photo (bottom). But, regardless whether it is black or white, what is that stuff coming out of the smokestack? Surely it must be something nasty? Well, not really actually. According […]

New Study Finds Little Ice Age Was Global

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By Paul Homewood A new study has found that the Little Ice Age was global, rather than just affecting parts of the Northern Hemisphere. UK researchers show Little Ice Age was global, with implications for current Global Warming 18 November 2014 Gloucestershire, University of A team of UK researchers has shed new […]

UK Leads The World – (In Offshore Wind Subsidies!)

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By Paul Homewood h/t Paul2 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-is-the-best-place-to-do-business-in-offshore-wind-sector According to Ed Davey, This unique collaboration between UKTI, The Green Investment Bank, The Crown Estate, RUK and the Offshore Wind Programme Board, sets out why the UK is the best place in the world for doing business in offshore wind. With a stable and predictable […]

China’s New Energy Plan Forecasts Big Rise In CO2 Emissions

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By Paul Homewood News from Enerdata that China has published a new Energy Development Strategy Action Plan (2014-2020), presumably following on from the US-China agreement last week. The State Council of China has unveiled a new Energy Development Strategy Action Plan (2014-2020) focusing on the development of renewables and capping primary energy consumption […]

China Invest $73Bn In Global Oil Production

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By Paul Homewood http://www.iea.org/ieaenergy/issue7/chinese-national-oil-companies-investments-going-global-for-energy.html Obama seems to think that the Chinese govt is serious about reducing CO2 emissions. Meanwhile, Chinese oil companies, still primarily owned by the state, have been busy investing in oil production around the world. According to the latest report from the IEA, China has spent $73 billion in the […]

House of Commons Cancels Sceptics’ Climate Meeting

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By Paul Homewood I mentioned a while back a meeting on climate and energy issues which was scheduled to take place in the House of Commons on 5th Nov. UKIP MEP, Roger Helmer, was one of the speakers invited. I was therefore astonished to see Roger’s post today on the event. Dear Rt […]

Harrabin’s Black Water Vapour

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By Paul Homewood h/t Mick J https://twitter.com/RHarrabin Now I wonder why Roger Harrabin would have this picture on his Twitter home page? Answers on a postcard to the Global Warming Propaganda Dept at the BBC.

Another Dopey Journalist Can’t Tell Smoke From Steam

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By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public It’s not just the BBC!! http://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/China-must-change-economy-to-meet-climate-targets-5890149.php#photo-7137492 It appears that Associated Press journalists don’t know the difference between smoke and steam either. To make matters worse, they seem to suggest that China should away from steel production and manufacturing. Back to the Dark […]

Germany’s Energy Dilemma

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By Paul Homewood Following news of the political battle going on in Germany over climate targets, it is perhaps time to see what progress they have actually been making in taking fossil fuels out of the mix. The Energy Information Administration (EIA), part of the US Dept of Energy, has data up to […]

Strongest Typhoon Claims Refuted By Philippines Weather Agency After Typhoon Yolanda

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By Paul Homewood Thanks to M Kelly for reminding me what the Philippines National Weather Agency had to say in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda. From the New York Times: Before the typhoon made landfall, some international forecasters were estimating wind speeds at 195 m.p.h., which would have meant the storm would hit […]

Typhoon Yolanda One Year On

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By Paul Homewood Philip Eden has a largely sensible piece on Typhoon Haiyan, or Yolanda as the Philippines named it, just over a year after it hit. He describes well how the storm surge did so much damage, although he fails to mention the shallow waters where this occurred, and which […]

Germany To Drop 2020 Climate Targets

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By Paul Homewood http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/11/17/Germanys-Social-Democrats-Descend-in-Uproar Since the Federal elections in Germany, earlier this year, there has been a running battle between Sigmar Gabriel, minister for economic affairs and energy, and Barbara Hendricks, the environmental minister. Gabriel has been keen to drop CO2 targets, because of the damage they have been doing to the economy, […]

Who Is Guy Smith?

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By Paul Homewood I reported yesterday on how the NFU (National Farmers Union) Vice President, Guy Smith, had been making nonsensical claims about the weather becoming more volatile at a Parliamentary event last week. So who is Guy Smith? And, more to the point, does he reflect the concerns of ordinary farmers? [