Monthly Archives: March 2017

As expected the cuts are beginning. We’ve already heard that NASA climate is effectively closing, now we have more details at NOAA and EPA. Trump administration to cut climate change science agency NOAA’s budget by almost 20 percent claims new … Continue reading →

I had to share this tweet: #Brexit & negative UKGov #renewables policies have killed industry causing mass redundancies in #Scotland. #indyref2 https://t.co/QtuAnx0ONv — Chris Cathrine (@ChrisCathrine) March 4, 2017 Of course I will not stop trying to end the unreliables … Continue reading →

The theory of developmental pathways is that technology develops not due to some spontaneous event which is often referred to in the media as a “discovery”, but because technology and learning has reached a stage where it is inevitable that … Continue reading →

Given a large number of meteorological stations some will be warming and some not. Thus by simply excluding cooling stations it is possible to manufacture a warming trend. Likewise, given a large number of possible ways to process data, some … Continue reading →

For fun, I decided to see how well an inverted ENSO graph fitted with itself and find out whether this fit was optimised at any specific lag. One pattern (writing shown correctly) is dragged back in time to find whether … Continue reading →

When the eco-idiots started going on about Arctic temperatures a few weeks ago, I thought one possible response was “we’d expect melting in an El Nino year”. However since El Nino is an equatorial phenomenon and Arctic melting isn’t … … Continue reading →

NotaLotOfPeopleKnowThat has an interesting graph which they post from NoTricksZone: In a new paper (Stein et al., 2017), scientists find that Arctic sea ice retreat and advance is modulated by variations in solar activity. In addition, the sea ice cover … Continue reading →

I’m posting this because it took some time to align all the various layers, because it may be interesting to see, not because it seems to show anything in particular. A few of things of note: Source: http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/ Dec 2015 … Continue reading →

If you ever wondered why NASA should have employed Hansen, who was such an eco-activist that I understand he was arrested six times, this incredibly revealing document, from NASA’s “Societal Impact of Spaceflight” (2007) explains why. In part NASA used … Continue reading →