Met Office Claims to Have Been Recording Temperatures at ‘Stornoway Airport’ Going Back to 1873 — 30 Years Before Airplanes Were Invented — Airport Was Not Built Until 1937
Met Office Claims to Have Been Recording Temperatures at “Stornoway Airport” 30 Years Before Aeroplanes Were Invented By Chris Morrison The U.K. Met Office claims to have a continuous record of temperatures at Stornoway Airport going back to 1873. This is truly remarkable since manned powered flight was not achieved until 1903 and the actual airport […]
Climatologist: Hot Death Valley Days: ‘Don’t Trust Those Temperatures’ – ‘Near-record temperatures are biased too high’
Hot Death Valley Days: Don’t Trust Those Temperatures by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Summary Previous research has shown the temperatures recorded at Death Valley National Park (DVNP) have curious warm biases on very hot days, possibly due to instrument deficiencies or proximity to mounting structure apparatus and other manmade structures. Here it is shown […]
Reality Check: The Earth is Not ‘Drying Out,’ Associated Press – AP does NOT understand the difference ‘between observed versus modelled climate conditions’
The Earth is Not “Drying Out,” Associated Press By Linnea Lueken The Associated Press (AP) claims in a recent article, “Earth’s lands are drying out. Nations are trying to address it in talks this week,” that a substantial percentage of the land on earth is drying out due to human-cased climate change. This is false. […]
Pielke Jr.’s U.S. Hurricane Overview 2024: North Atlantic was active while most of rest of the world saw relatively inactive year – No trend in global hurricanes since 1980
The IPCC actually concluded about trends in tropical cyclones: “There is low confidence in most reported long-term (multidecadal to centennial) trends in TC frequency- or intensity-based metrics . . .” …
MIT’s Kerry Emanuel, who is more bullish on human influences on tropical cyclones than the IPCC or most of his peers, but also recognizes that current understandings are far from black and white:
“At present, there is little scientific consensus about trends in global or regional [tropical cyclone] activity, either in the past, as detected in observations or in climate model simulations, or in the future as our climate continues to change.” …
By all metrics, 2024 was a very active season in historical context — the 12th most active in the past 74 years or about the 85th percentile. The continental U.S. saw five hurricane landfalls — 2 major (Category 3+ = Helene and Milton) and 3 minor (Categories 1 and 2 = Beryl, Debby, and Francine). …
The figures above show long-term trends in continental U.S. hurricane landfalls. The last 8 years have seen a lot of major hurricane landfalls. The 8 years before that saw none. Since 1900 there are no trends in either variable. …
North Atlantic hurricanes have not overall become more intense since 1900.
But what if you really, really want to show alarming, upwards trends? Here is what you do: Using ACE, identify the most inactive period for North Atlantic hurricane activity in the past 125 years. That happens to be the period 1970 to 1979. Then, start a trend analysis in 1970. Voila!
Pro tip: Start analyses of hurricane trends in 1970s to detect upwards trends. Attribute these trends to human causes and watch the publications, citations, media coverage roll in!
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Continental U.S. Hurricane Landfalls by President
Finally, a bit of fun with some meaningless data. The figure above shows U.S. hurricane landfalls by president. President Biden sits in the middle of the pack with Presidents Harding and Eisenhower. A second term President Trump will have a chance to continue his efforts to best President Taft as the president with the most hurricanes during his term in office. President Obama’s record hurricane inactivity over his two terms is likely to stand for a while — Thanks Obama!
Science Shock: U.K. Met Office is ‘Inventing’ Temperature Data from 100 Non-Existent Stations
Science Shock: U.K. Met Office is “Inventing” Temperature Data from 100 Non-Existent Stations by Chris Morrison Shocking evidence has emerged that points to the U.K. Met Office inventing temperature data from over 100 non-existent weather stations. The explosive allegations have been made by citizen journalist Ray Sanders and sent to the new Labour Science Minister Peter Kyle MP. […]
‘Climate Journalism Done Right’: The Washington Post Explains The Real Reason for Increasing Billion Dollar Disasters — ‘Disasters are more expensive because there is more to destroy’
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/climate-journalism-done-right By Roger Pielke Jr. Excerpt: Today, The Washington Post has published a lengthy analysis titled, “The real reason billion-dollar disasters like Hurricane Helene are growing more common.”1 The article, by the Post’s Harry Stevens, is brilliantly done — extensively reported, data rich, grounded in a large body of research, with a wide diversity of voices. […]
WaPo’s Uses ‘Political’ Research To Link ‘Climate Change’ to Natural Disasters — It’s Also Bankrolled with $10 million by WaPo Owner Jeff Bezos
WaPo’s Favorite Environmental Group Uses ‘Political’ Research To Link Climate Change to Natural Disasters. It’s Also Bankrolled by WaPo Owner Jeff Bezos. By Chuck Ross and Thomas Catenacci World Weather Attribution was founded in 2014 to produce research linking extreme weather events to climate change. That research is then funneled to mainstream media outlets, giving them what […]
European Trainee Doctors to Have Fake Malaria Climate Myths Added to Their Studies
European Trainee Doctors to Have Fake Malaria Climate Myths Added to Their Studies by Eric Worrall Malaria was endemic in Northern Europe and the USA during the Little Ice Age. But most people don’t realise how prevalent Malaria was in previous centuries, because our ancestors called Malaria “Ague“. Europe’s medical schools to give more training on […]
The Political Contamination of Climate Science: ‘If climate scientists wanted to be taken seriously, they should have stuck to the science’
The Political Contamination of Climate Science by Lucian G. Conway E ew scientific efforts have been so dramatically ruined by politics as climate science. For over 30 years, thousands of climate scientists have pushed the message that the world is in serious jeopardy because of human-caused climate change. They have signed manifestos saying we are in […]
Roger Pielke Jr. details ‘The Top Five Climate Science Scandals’: Study claiming no ‘climate crisis’ retracted ‘for not for being wrong…but instead for expressing views that are politically unhelpful’
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-top-five-climate-science-scandals Excerpt: By Roger Pielke Jr.: I define a scandal as a situation of objectively flawed science — in substance and/or procedure — that the community has been unable to make right, but should. … The Alimonti Retraction for an Unpopular View The science community has shown a willingness to retract a climate science paper […]