Jay Currie

I wrote a month ago that the so called post-1960 tree ring “divergence problem” might have been an artifact of the temperature record (as adjusted by Jones, Hansen et al) rather than a problem with the trees.

Looks like there is some support for that view. First from paper records which have not been “adjusted”. Second [...]

The bottom line is the actual statistics, conceded even by warmists: since 1970 the world’s polar bear population has “declined” from 5,000 to 25,000. Some of us would term that a quintupling, but obviously we do not share the same mathematical skills as those who predicted the imminent loss of the Himalayan glaciers. The IPCC [...]

India and Russia today signed a nuclear co-operation agreement, which paves the way for the building of about a dozen nuclear reactors in India, with Russian help, over the next few decades. the guardian

Rather than blowing billions on wind, the Ontario government might want to look at the steady, reliable, electric power which nuclear offers. [...]

savegreenpeace.org is a brilliant example of the perfect being the enemy of the good out in eco-land. Tzeporah Berman – much as I disagree with much of what she believes – has been one of the world’s most effective environmentalists. And for her sins she has just been co-director of its (GreenPeace’s) climate change campaign.

The [...]

Possibly the smartest guy I know writes about Ontario’s wind power scheme.

In October 2007, the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) — the government’s own agency, tasked with planning Ontario’s power system and now entering into long-term contracts with renewable energy producers — published its Integrated Power System Plan, where it analyzed a “high wind power” scenario [...]

One of the fun things to do with schooled or unschooled children is to ask estimation/order of magnitude questions.

My favorite is “How many golf balls fit in a suitcase?”

Your average kid knows that a golf ball is about one inch in diameter. With a little thinking that makes 12 to the linear foot and, with [...]

For those of us who have watched the wheels fall off the AGW bus the past few months have been deeply encouraging. The emails, the horrible code, the various “Gates” have been grand because they have put paid to the sheer arrogance of the AGW believers. It is possible that science, rather than crudely tuned [...]

http://climateaudit.org/ and http://wattsupwiththat.com/ are both down at 3:10 PST

Hacked? DNS attack? Overheated servers?

http://www.climatedepot.com/ is still up.

UPDATE…Back 3:26…Just a glitch I presume.

At the bottom of a Telegraph report on the manifold problems with the global temperature record, IPCC lead author (and guy whose email said “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment, and it is a travesty that we can’t.”) Kevin Trenberth runs out the “other indicators” trope [...]

H – If you agree that there were similar periods of warming since 1850 to the current period, and that the MWP is under debate, what factors convince you that recent warming has been largely man-made?

Phil Jones: The fact that we can’t explain the warming from the 1950s by solar and volcanic forcing phil [...]

This remark has nothing to do with any “decline” in observed instrumental temperatures. The remark referred to a well-known observation, in a particular set of tree-ring data, that I had used in a figure to represent large-scale summer temperature changes over the last 600 years.

The phrase ‘hide the decline’ was shorthand for providing a composite [...]

Phil Jones has many problems. Apparently one of them is releasing Canada temp records.

Canda, you can help save the CRU…Let them know what the temperature is in Flin Flon. And let them publish it.

The editor of Nature has been forced to resign from the panel investigating the East Anglia emails, code and data. Apparently someone notice that Nature has been in the global warming hysteria tank for years.

“There was some discussion on the Channel Four report of sceptics seeing his departure as “taking a scalp” – I don’t [...]

In the course of the development of climate-change science, all sorts of loose ends were left unresolved and sometimes unattended. Even the most fundamental quantitative parameter of all, the forcing factor relating the increase in mean temperature to a doubling of CO2, lies somewhere between 1 and 3 degrees, and is thus uncertain to [...]

Sure this is old news. And sure Eric Rugly is writing from Rome rather than Front Street; but the good, grey, Globe and Mail has staggered into the climategate/IPCC fakery/CRU fraud story.

Jeffery Simpson will be pissed.

Climate Guerrillas….you’ll recognize the names. And it is good to see them get the recognition they deserve.

“Lard asses” ???? Did commentator Jay Currie REALLY call people in what he calls the “Canadian legacy media” “lard asses” who, he suggests, can’t comprehend the climate issue because it’s “To, (sic) well, sciency” ???

Really, man? This is how you foster intelligent debate? Seriously? j-source

Ms. Jones appears to be the [...]

“The British public are sceptical about man’s contribution to climate change – and becoming more so,” he added.

“More people are now doubters than firm believers.”

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (Defra) chief scientific adviser, Professor Bob Watson, called the findings “very disappointing”.

“The fact that there has been a very significant drop in the [...]

The Wheels on the Bus are falling off…

Greenpeace gives the lug nuts a couple of turns.

Writing in the Guardian George Monbiot notices – but falsely sources – that maybe, just maybe, Phil Jones and CRU really did have something to hide and that they hide it by stonewalling legitimate FOI requests. And he suggest they have to go.

Along the way he completely ignores a) the huge contributions of Watt and [...]