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Balanced analysis?
Some grudging kudos is due to the BBC for a detailed airing of the sceptical viewpoint on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning. They even interviewed ‘Sceptical Blogger’ Andrew Montford (Bishop Hill) – who made a great contribution. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate
Tagged AGW, Andrew Montword, BBC, Roger Harrabin, sceptics, Sir John Houghton, Today programme, uncertainty
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A Modern Climatologist
Guest Post – the wit and rhyme of Mostly Harmless (with apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore – if you’re not sure of the meter click here to listen). I am the very model of a modern climatologist, I’m … Continue reading
Silence of the lambs
I apologise up front for the title of this post, but it aptly describes the impact of this snowy spring on Britain’s hill farms. The point of this post is to show the severity of this weather event. As the … Continue reading
Weather swings and see-saws
The contrast of the current March weather to Spring last year could hardly be a greater swing (Daily Mail: What a difference a year makes: Mother’s Day daffodils delayed by the cold weather…) to the coldest March in 50 years … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Cycles, Weather
Tagged Arctic, Climate Science, Cold, Met Office, Natural Cycle, snow, Temperatures
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Masters of understatement
You might have heard we’ve had a bit of snow in the UK in the last few days. From the Daily Mail, (accompanied by impressive photos) The blockades have closed many roads in the area, while the M6 between Hackthorpe … Continue reading
The Altruist
“Pure altruism consists of sacrificing something for someone other than the self (e.g. sacrificing time, energy or possessions) with no expectation of any compensation or benefits, either direct, or indirect (e.g., receiving recognition for the act of giving).” (Source Wikipedia) … Continue reading
Arrhenius Revisited
Guest Post by Peter Morcombe Verity Jones kindly provided a soap box for me to compare the theories of Nikolov & Zeller to those of “Climate Scientists” exemplified by Scott Denning. If N&Z are right the huge sums of money … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, CO2
Tagged Arrhenius, Forcing, Nikolov & Zeller, Peter Morcombe, Scott Denning
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Snow record due to ‘colder temperatures’
Last week’s extreme snow accumulation in Japan featured on the Asia pages of the BBC news website. The video report ends by alluding to the ‘Extreme Weather’ mantra “People here are well equipped for dealing with snow, but even they … Continue reading
Unified Theory of Climate Revisited
Peter Morcombe copied me into an email last week asking for feedback on a reworking of his calculations on Nikolov & Zeller’s theory. He’s had some feedback, notably from Robert G. Brown. Peter emails: “Robert’s objections are based on dimensional … Continue reading
A New Kind of Rain
Environment Agency chief says ‘weather is unpredictable’. In an article published in the Sunday Telegraph (and also covered by the Daily Mail – link image right), Lord Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency, perpetuates the ‘extreme weather’ meme. Referring to … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, Weather
Tagged "new kind of rain", Environment Agency, Extreme weather meme, rain
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