Search Results for: climategate
April 10, 2013 — John Hinderaker
This letter to the editor of a newspaper in Washington State was written by Dr. David Deming in response to an attack on Don Easterbrook by a group of professors at Western Washington University. I thought it was too good not to share; in part, because it isn’t just about global warming alarmism, it is about science. Via Watts Up With That? Note that there are numerous links in the
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March 29, 2013 — Steven Hayward
In my Weekly Standard cover story about the fallout from the “Climategate” email scandal three years ago, I offered the following question by way of prediction: Eventually the climate modeling community is going to have to reconsider the central question: Have the models the IPCC uses for its predictions of catastrophic warming overestimated the climate’s sensitivity to greenhouse gases? The article then went on to survey emerging research (U.S. government funded!) casting
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February 20, 2013 — Steven Hayward
This week we’re having to break out an Oscar Meyer eight-pack of Green Weenies to give away. First, the Keystone (Pipeline) Kops have attracted the notice of New York Times columnist Joe Nocera, who writes the following this week in “How Not To Solve Climate Change”: In fact, this should be a no-brainer for the president, for all the reasons I stated earlier, and one more: the strategy of activists
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December 23, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Michael Mann is the climate scientist who invented the now-notorious “hockey stick” graph, which purported to show unprecedented warming in the 20th century. The hockey stick has come and gone, but Mann lives on as one of the principal figures in the world of climate alarmism. Currently, climate realists have gone to court to try to obtain email communications that Mann, who teaches at Penn State, authored as a public
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November 26, 2012 — John Hinderaker
That is the title of this essay by Dr. Walter Starck. If you are just beginning to look into the issues surrounding purported anthropogenic global warming, Dr. Starck’s essay is a good place to start. He notes that claims of precision in describing the Earth’s climate history are bogus: The average temperature for the Earth, or any region or even any specific place is very difficult to determine with any
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August 22, 2012 — Steven Hayward
Oh this is going to be fun. Michael Mann—he of the iconic climate change “hockey stick” that purports to prove man-made climate change by displaying how global temperature is at its highest level in 2000 years (somehow making the Medieval warm period disappear)—is threatening to sue National Review and Mark Steyn (and perhaps Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars) for libel for questioning whether Penn State’s exoneration of
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July 15, 2012 — Steven Hayward
Shouldn’t the coveted Power Line Green Weenie Award be like those typical sweepstakes prizes where friends and family of the sponsoring company are ineligible to win? Well, since I make the rules, why can’t I suspend them, like Harry Reid in the Senate? Because the winner of this week’s Power Line Green Weenie Award is . . . me! Well okay, not quite literally me alone, but close enough for
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April 1, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Climatologists have recognized for decades that urban areas are warmer than rural areas. This is familiar to all of us; how many times have you heard a weather forecast that included, “possible frost in outlying areas?” The fact that concentrations of people, automobiles, buildings and factories create warm zones has long been called the Urban Heat Island Effect. Measuring the UHIE is very difficult, but about the fact that it
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February 26, 2012 — Steven Hayward
I mentioned to my cruise mates John O’Sullivan and David Pryce-Jones over drinks down here in the South Atlantic a couple days ago that based on the available evidence, Britain is currently being governed by its second woman prime minister. They immediately offered the predictable dissent, namely, that while the description clearly fits David Cameron, Lady Thatcher was among the more manly political figures of the last century. True, that.
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February 7, 2012 — John Hinderaker
One by one, the more honest of the scientists who fell for the anthropogenic global warming hoax are confessing their error. The latest is Germany’s Professor Fritz Vahrenholt. Melanie Phillips explains: [A] new book, Die Kalte Sonne, written by Prof Dr Fritz Vahrenholt and geologist/paleontologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning, has caused a sensation even in advance of its official publication yesterday. For Prof. Vahrenholt, a renewable energy expert, was one of
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January 13, 2012 — Scott Johnson
We posted the letter from Koch Industries spokesman Melissa Cohlmia to New York Times public editor (ombudsman) Art Brisbane regarding the Times’s ludicrous treatment of the Koch brothers in “Obsessive Koch disorder.” Brisbane has now responded with what I take to be almost endearing candor. Key quote: This brings forward another ingredient in this situation: The Times’s audience. That audience consists of New Yorkers, by and large a liberal population,
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December 5, 2011 — Steven Hayward
In my Weekly Standard Climategate 2.0 article I refer to Michael “hockey stick” Mann as the Fredo of the climate mafia, because of his endless bluster and the obvious embarrassment he brings to his fellow scientists. Today he has a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal complaining about the whole matter. (If it’s behind a subscriber firewall, Greg Pollowitz has posted the whole letter over on NRO’s PlanetGore.)
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December 4, 2011 — Steven Hayward
Several weeks back I posted a link to the climate cartoon stylings of “Josh.” I don’t know who “Josh” is, but the Global Warming Policy Foundation, based in London and run by the indispensable Benny Peiser, linked to my Weekly Standard article, and also offered a movie poster from “Josh” to go along with the meme I used to set up the piece:
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December 3, 2011 — Steven Hayward
So I’m finally climbing back in the saddle after a week of very heavy travel, featuring four plane trips that included a red eye flight from the west coast followed by a half-day meeting that I somehow managed to remain awake for, class at Ashland last Monday, two speeches, and lunch yesterday with Howard Baker and two other former U.S. Senators. I’ve got about a dozen blogposts to catch up
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November 30, 2011 — Steven Hayward
I’m still making my way through the new batch of emails from Climategate 2.0, and as there are more than 5,000 of them it is an overwhelming job. But keep your eye out for this space–I’m working on an article for the next edition of the Weekly Standard out this Saturday. But I can’t resist this one short excerpt that I haven’t seen mentioned in any of the coverage so
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November 28, 2011 — John Hinderaker
The Science & Environmental Policy Project comments on the Climategate II emails: As with the original, Climategate II involves email correspondence among various individuals, the “team,” who are highly influential in preparing the reports of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as well as other reports such as those by the US Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) and a climate change report by the US National Research Council
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November 26, 2011 — Steven Hayward
Climategate 2.0 is the main climate news this week, right? As it happens, there’s a study just out a couple days ago in ScienceExpress, which is the advance online venue for Science magazine, on a new study that blows the hinges off the catastrophic global warming scenarios. The study concerns the sensitivity of climate to carbon dioxide concentrations. The complete study (“Climate Sensitivity Estimated from Temperature Reconstructions of the Last
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