Daily Archives: September 28, 2013

A breathtakingly ignorant climate denier who blogs under a pen name has been pointing out for the last three months that 2013 Arctic ice extent was tracking just below 2006. He took huge amounts of abuse and knee slapping laughter from … Continue reading →

In June 1991 Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted, and blocked sunlight entering the Earth’s atmosphere for 3-4 years – causing large scale global cooling. The summer of 1993 was the coolest on record in the US. At the time … Continue reading →

The Deseret News – Google News Archive Search This is certainly a typo, but whatever the actual forecast was – it was also way off the mark.

The fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report states with 95 percent confidence that humans are the main cause of the current global warming. Many media outlets have reported that this is an increase from the 90 percent certainty … Continue reading →

With each successive decline in temperature, the IPCC has gained confidence that their exponentially increasing warming models are correct. Note that the linear decline seen since TAR in 2001 is almost a perfect fit for the exponential increase of 0.4ºC … Continue reading →

After five more years of no warming, AR6 will announce that they have 99% confidence that humans have wrecked the climate. They gain confidence and boldness from each worsening failure, apparently taking their inspiration from the White House.

Six weeks ago Walt Meier made this bold pronouncement : This year “will without a doubt” rank in the top five lowest levels of ice extent ever recorded in the satellite era, and there is a good possibility that 2013 could rank second in … Continue reading →

The IPCC has been running around naked and ugly ever since Michael Mann killed off the last few thousand years of climate history and chopped down Briffa’s trees. They believe that by making loud proclamations that they are clothed in … Continue reading →

 Why We’re Shutting Off Our Comments Starting today, PopularScience.com will no longer accept comments on new articles. Here’s why. Comments can be bad for science. That’s why, here at PopularScience.com, we’re shutting them off. Exchange of ideas is bad for … Continue reading →