Climate Misinformation from the UN – A new Swedish Radio investigation reveals – ‘UN has been systematically misrepresenting climate science’
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/climate-misinformation-from-the-united By Roger Pielke Jr. Excerpt: Lapses of scientific integrity in climate science have become normalized. I no longer expect the community to care about obvious and egregious problems in climate science, even when documented in the peer reviewed literature. The community’s willful blindness has had a long time to develop muscle memory — More […]
UN climate science body corrupt to the core ⎯ what will the IPCC peddle next?
https://www.americaoutloud.news/un-climate-science-body-corrupt-to-the-core-%e2%8e%af-what-will-the-ipcc-peddle-next/ By Tom Harris The Trump administration’s stop-work order to all US government scientists participating in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a breath of fresh air. After decades of unscientific doom and gloom forecasts that never come true, climate scientists will have to now find a different vehicle to peddle […]
Climate Skepticism, Even in Sweden! Swedish public radio asks inconvenient questions about UN reports
Sveriges Radio (Swedish public radio) released an English language version of its outstanding investigation into multiple exaggerations and falsehoods about climate change that have been promoted by the United Nations. Props to Swedish journalist Ola Sandstig and Sveriges Radio for conducting the investigation…
Trump’s State Department to pull delegation from UN climate science meeting
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/20/us-delegation-pulled-climate-science-meeting By Maria Curi & Andrew Freedman State Department officials won’t participate in next week’s meeting of the top UN climate science panel, sources familiar with the matter told Axios. Why it matters: A U.S. absence from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change meeting in Hangzhou, China, would leave the country out of conversations for the group’s next influential reports. It […]
‘My 40-year journey with climate change…from idealism to realism’: Former UN IPCC scientist Mike Hulme: ‘I uncritically absorbed the notion that climate change represented the pre-eminent challenge facing humanity’ – Now declares climate is ‘perhaps not the most important thing’
Mike Hulme, Professor at Cambridge University & one of the world’s most accomplished climate scientists. Hulme participated in the UN IPCC second and third assessments & was part of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, where he subsequently founded the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA. He has been at Cambridge University since 2017. … Mike’s publication record is expansive.
Prof. Hulme: “For a long period I uncritically absorbed the notion that climate change represented the pre-eminent challenge facing humanity in the twenty-first century. … I was easily convinced that the growing human influence on the world’s climate would be a reality that all nations would increasingly need to confront, a reality to which their interests would necessarily be subservient and that would be decisive for shaping their development pathways. For more than half of these 40 or so years, it seemed to me self-evident that relations between nations would forcibly be re-shaped by the exigencies of a changing climate.
But now, in the mid-2020s, I can see that I got this the wrong way round. … Too often the language, rhetoric, and campaigning around climate change remains wedded to a world that no longer exists. … Rather than geopolitics having to bend to the realities of a changing climate, the opposite has happened. … In short, this optimism was fueled by the rise of globalism; thinking strategically about climate change was caught-up in this zeitgeist. … Climate is not the only thing that is changing through our lifetimes, and perhaps not the most important thing. …
By 2007, the illusion under which I had been working—that geopolitics would bend to the force of concern over climate change—was already ending. The Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1997, ratified in 2004, had yielded next to nothing in terms of emissions reductions. … And the denouement came in December 2009 at COP15, billed as ‘the most important meeting in human history’. During a few days in a wintery Copenhagen, China’s growing political and economic muscle was firmly exercised, the impotence of the EU’s climate diplomacy revealed, and the limits of late twentieth century internationalism exposed.
The curtain finally came down on Sarewitz’s so-called “plan” during the (northern) 2009/10 winter of climate discontent. In November 2009, the western world was blind-sided by the Climategate controversy over leaked emails between corresponding scientists, and in the early months of 2010 its confidence in climate science further undermined by several challenges to the IPCC’s trust and credibility. …
So this has been my 40-year journey with climate change, initially from idealist to pragmatist, and now from pragmatist to realist. It is not a particularly hopeful story-arc, but then why should I, or anyone else, ever think that climate change was going to offer one?…Climate is not the only thing that is changing through our lifetimes, and perhaps not the most important thing. …
I now see the need for a deeper reading of political realism and power, that goes beyond seeing science as a coercive force that trumps geopolitics, beyond appeals to a superficial cosmopolitanism. To use the language of Jason Maloy at Louisiana University, climate change is neither an emergency or a crisis; it is a political epic, “a process of collective human effort that features gradual progression through time, obscure problem origins, and anticlimactic outcomes.”
The best that we can say is that the world will continue slowly to decarbonize its energy system and, at the same time, the Earth will continue slowly to warm. And societies will continue to adapt to evolving climate hazards in new ways, as they have always done, with winners and losers along the way.
New Study by team of scientists on climate change: ‘The scientific debate is still ongoing’
SR305 Click to access SR305.pdf The Unreliability of Current Global Temperature and Solar Activity Estimates and Its Implications for the Attribution of Global Warming Authors: Willie Soon, PhD, Ronan Connolly, PhD, and Michael Connolly, PhD “The scientific debate is still ongoing, and the scientific community is not yet in a position to establish whether […]
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!
European scientists refute UN narrative — Declare ‘climate emergency’ at an end during conference in Prague
Climate scientists officially declare ‘climate emergency’ at an end Press release by the Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) The Chamber of Deputies in session Climate scientists have issued a shock declaration that the “climate emergency” is over. A two-day climate conference in Prague, organised by the Czech division of the international Climate Intelligence Group (Clintel), which […]
UN ‘IPCC is one of the worst sources of scientific misinformation.’ — Dr. John Clauser, Nobel laureate in Physics (2022)
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/12/weekly-climate-and-energy-news-roundup-607/ # Report: Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. John Clauser — who recently declared climate science a ‘pseudoscience’ — has his IMF talk abruptly canceled July 22, 2023 2022 Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. John Clauser declares his climate dissent: ‘There is no real climate crisis’ – Warns ‘climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience’ Nobel […]
Watch: Astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon’s keynote presentation on the ‘non-scientific’ claims of the UN IPCC
https://www.ceres-science.com/post/clintel-5th-anniversary-2024 CERES co-team leader, Dr. Willie Soon was the keynote-speaker at the Clintel 5th Anniversary Congress on 18 June 2024. This is the recording of his speech. Below you can find a summary of his presentation and details on the peer-reviewed papers he referred to in the talk. Summary of presentation In this talk, Dr. […]