Climate & Climate Change

KEVIN Rudd is about to bank his leadership on a variation of Pascal’s wager, appropriate during the Pope’s visit but reflecting a new and risky calculus in Australian politics. His independent expert Ross Garnaut has done the same, as he explained … [Read more...] about Krudd’s Karbon Krunch and Pascal’s Wager

Roger Pielke Sr has highlighted three research findings that are in the peer reviewed literature, but have been completely ignored by the IPCC and CCSP climate assessment communities, nor have they been refuted in the literature. These are just … [Read more...] about Three Peer Reviewed Research Findings Ignored by the IPCC and CCSP

Dr. Roy Spencer from The University of Alabama at Huntsville will be presenting a special seminar at CU Boulder in the CIRES Auditorium on Thursday, July 17th, based on the Journal of Climate paper (in press): Spencer, R.W., and W.D. Braswell, 2008: … [Read more...] about Global Warming: Recent Evidence for Reduced Climate Sensitivity

A top Democrat told high school students gathered at the U.S. Capitol Thursday that climate change caused Hurricane Katrina and the conflict in Darfur, which led to the “black hawk down” battle between U.S. troops and Somali rebels. Rep. Edward … [Read more...] about Some More Things ‘Caused’ by ‘Global Warming’

Physics and Society, in its July 2008 quarterly edition, has published a paper by Christopher Monckton entitled Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered, which exposes the IPCC's strange method of calculating the effect of CO2 on temperature and suggests … [Read more...] about Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered

As a dissenting physicist, I simply can no longer buy the notion that CO2 produces any significant warming of the atmosphere at any rate. I've studied the atomic absorption physics to death, from John Nicol's extensive development to the much longer … [Read more...] about The Greenhouse Effect is a Myth: A Note from Jim Peden