I recently came across Azimuth – a fascinating blog by John Baez. What prompted me to actually get around to writing a brief article was the latest article - This Week’s Finds (Week 307) – about El Nino and its uncertain causes and comes with great graphics and interesting explanations. A brief extract: I finally broke [...]
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Posted in Commentary on December 17, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Things Climate Science has Totally Missed? – Convection
Posted in Commentary, Debunking Flawed "Science" on December 7, 2010 | 121 Comments »
With apologies to my many readers who understand the basics of heat transfer in the atmosphere and really want to hear more about feedback, uncertainty, real science.. Clearing up basic misconceptions is also necessary. It turns out that many people read this blog and comment on it elsewhere and a common claim about climate science [...]
And The Woody Guthrie Award Goes To..
Posted in Commentary on November 22, 2010 | 6 Comments »
..Nick Stokes with the Moyhu blog. I received this award some time ago from Skeptical Science, and passing it on is long overdue. The idea is the award gets passed on from blog to blog, to those whom they deem a ‘thinking blog’ Nick has frequently commented on Science of Doom and always makes a great [...]
Interesting Refutation of Some Basics
Posted in Basic Science, Commentary on November 12, 2010 | 16 Comments »
I while ago I wrote an article - Do Trenberth and Kiehl understand the First Law of Thermodynamics? It could have been very short. “Yes”. However, I did produce an extremely basic model to demonstrate that simple systems with heating “from within” can lead to outcomes that – for many people – are unexpected. A huge [...]
Updated Roadmap and Simple Models
Posted in Commentary on October 14, 2010 | 16 Comments »
I have done a partial update of the Roadmap section – creating a few sub-pages and listed the relevant articles under the sub-pages. It is a work in progress, the idea is to make it possible for new visitors to find useful articles. Most blogs have a high bias towards the last few articles. I [...]
Updated CO2 – An Insignificant Trace Gas – Part One
Posted in Commentary on August 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Just a note that CO2 – An Insignificant Trace Gas? – Part One has been significantly rewritten. There’s probably too not much of interest for regular readers, as I’ve taken material from more recent posts to replace the old. And I didn’t try to cover the 500 different reasons why people think CO2 IS an [...]
The Woody Guthrie award
Posted in Commentary on May 19, 2010 | 16 Comments »
This is a very quick post to say thanks to John Cook of Skeptical Science for the recent “Woody Guthrie award for a thinking blogger” and especially the kind comments he made. The idea is the award gets passed on from blog to blog, to those whom they deem a ‘thinking blog’ I’m proud to be [...]
On the Miseducation of the Uninformed by Gerlich and Tscheuschner (2009)
Posted in Commentary on April 5, 2010 | 210 Comments »
In On Having a Laugh – by Gerlich and Tscheuschner (2009) I commented that I had only got to page 50 and there were 115 pages in total. Because there were so many errors already spotted, none central to the argument (the argument hadn’t started even at page 50), it seemed a pointless exercise to [...]
American Thinker Smoking Gun – Gary Thompson’s comments examined
Posted in Commentary on March 27, 2010 | 31 Comments »
Recap This post is a follow on from my original article: American Thinker – the Difference between a Smoking Gun and a Science Paper. Gary Thompson who wrote the article in American Thinker that prompted my article was kind enough to make some comments and clarifications. Instead of responding in the comments to the first [...]
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Water Vapor vs CO2 as a “Greenhouse” Gas
Posted in Commentary on February 24, 2011 | 59 Comments »
If you read many articles and comments in the blogosphere you would think that “skeptics” have discovered something hidden. Or highlighted an important truth that climate science is trying to hide. Water vapor is actually the dominant “greenhouse” gas This is true. If only climate science actually realized it and stopped pretending that CO2 was [...]
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