The Glacial Climate: Why so Cold?

On the ‘Suggestions’ page, Roger Andrews says: November 30, 2011 at 5:11 pm Reading through the RealClimate discussion of the recent Schmittner et al. paper on ice age climate sensitivity (http://www.princeton.edu/~nurban/pubs/lgm-cs-uvic.pdf) I came across the following claim: “without the role of CO2 as a greenhouse gas, i.e. the cooling effect of the lower glacial CO2 concentration, [...]

Six die in Kwa-Zulu-Natal floods as COP17 begins

What is it with International Climate Jamborees and unseasonal weather? Two years ago Copenhagen got an early blast of wintry storms. Last year Cancun shivered in temperatures 9C below average. Now Durban gets flooded as the show gets underway. According to the South Africa Weather Bureau, 2.5 inches of rain fell last night in Durban, [...]

The Talkshop: second anniversary

As of today, Tallbloke’s Talkshop has been running for two years. A moment for reflection and also for looking forward. Firstly I want to express my gratitude to the people who are the main reason this blog is still running – that’s you. Without the encouragement, admin assistance, guest authors and comment contributions, the talkshop [...]

Talkshop Poll

After the revelations of the FOIA2011.zip emails, and subsequent blandishments from Phil Jones and the mainstream media that there is nothing untoward and it’s just that quotes have been mined out of context, I thought we should conduct a reality check to see what the readership thinks. Please visit below the break to cast your

Stephen Wilde: CO2 or Sun ? Which one really controls Earth’s surface temperatures ?

CO2 or Sun ? Which one really controls Earth’s surface temperatures ? Stephen Wilde – November 2011 1) Here is a chart showing the Temperature of the Lower Stratosphere (TLS) from 1979 to date.  From 1979 the modern satellite temperature record first became available.  

UBS Report: Europe’s $287bn carbon ‘waste’

SID MAHER  From:The Australian  November 23, 2011 12:00AM SWISS banking giant UBS says the European Union’s emissions trading scheme has cost the continent’s consumers $287 billion for “almost zero impact” on cutting carbon emissions, and has warned that the EU’s carbon pricing market is on the verge of a crash next year. In a damning report [...]

Sad death of Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski, Nov 12th 2011, Poland

Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski died whilst undergoing surgery, Nov 12th 2011, Poland A brief obit is  here on 21st Century Science and Technology An EIR interview given last year is here Warwick Hughes has a copy of another EIR text here I apologise for not picking this up days ago. Tim Channon

Christopher Booker: Is the global warming scare the greatest delusion in history?

It’s rare that I republish a strongly political opinion piece here on the talkshop. Mostly because on other blogs it it tends to generate exchanges which create more heat than light. But the time has come to consider the consequences of the policies being foisted on us in the name of averting the threat of [...]

Ross McKitrick: If the IPCC’s flaws can’t be fixed, we should fold it

For many years, attempts to encourage debate on global warming science or policy have run into the obstacle that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued definitive statements, and therefore—the reasoning goes—the era of debate is over. The IPCC is made up of thousands of the world’s top scientists, it has one [...]

Dr Roy Spencer: Climategate 2.0: Bias in Scientific Research

Reposted from Roy Spencer’s blog November 23rd, 2011 Ever since the first Climategate e-mail release, the public has become increasingly aware that scientists are not unbiased. Of course, most scientists with a long enough history in their fields already knew this (I discussed the issue at length in my first book Climate Confusion), but it took [...]