Climate & Climate Change

Thanks to Steve McIntyre and Anthony Watts, 1998 is no longer ranked as the warmest year on record in the USA, due to the correction of a significant error. That honour now goes to 1934. More here at ICECAP Roger Pielke Sr also has a post about … [Read more...] about And the winner is……1934

A hat-tip to Walter Starck for alerting us to this article from The Australian "THE head of the world's leading climate change organisation has backed the Howard Government's decision to defer setting a long-term target for reducing greenhouse … [Read more...] about A note of caution from the IPCC chairman

Newsweek Magazine’s cover story of August 6, 2007 entitled, "The Truth About Denial” contains very little that could actually be considered balanced, objective or fair by journalistic standards. The one-sided editorial, masquerading as a “news … [Read more...] about Newsweek Magazine’s Climate Editorial Screed Violates Basic Standards of Journalism: A Note from Marc Morano

Readers may already have seen the ABC News story 'Big brown Asian cloud blamed for glacial melting.' This story is based on a new paper published in the weekly journal Nature, also featured in the News and Views section. The paper, which looks at … [Read more...] about Asian Brown Clouds

‘Recent oppositely directed trends in solar climate forcings and the global mean surface air temperature’ There’s nothing really new in this paper, which is a review partly written in response to the controversial Wag TV documentary ‘The Great … [Read more...] about Lockwood and Frohlich, Part 2

It has become common practice in climate science for a press release reporting the findings of a new paper to precede the publication in the journal concerned. Thus, the Lockwood and Frohlich paper ‘Recent oppositely directed trends in solar climate … [Read more...] about Lockwood and Frohlich, Part 1