Doug Proctor: What #COP21 agreement means

Doug Proctor has gone over the decision at COP21 for us. 1. Everybody gets to do what he wants to do, without repercussions other than official notes in the media of progress vis-a-vis what he said. 2. Nothing has to be done that “threatens” food production. Not “reduces”, but threatens. This should allow cutting down […]

Doug Proctor: The Lima Declaration – In Denial of Disunity and Despond

Guest post from Talkshop regular Doug Proctor The Draft Decision coming out of the Lima, Conference of the Parties (COP20) meetings of 01-12 December 2014 is now available. The summary is only 4 pages long (the fifth is a blank Annex). It is short but an interesting read for what it doesn’t demonstrate: a commitment […]

Doug Proctor: The Trouble with Global warming is it’s Regional

Guest Post By Doug Proctor. What sparked my post is  Bob Tisdale’s graphs of global temperature anomalies AND a graph that split the anomalies into Northern and Southern Hemispheres. A clear example of a computational result that misleads: the Northern Hemisphere has been warming while the Southern Hemisphere has been cooling. Not global, regional. What […]

Doug Proctor: Essay on West and beyond

Doug has posted an essay[1], book review with wider commentary I’m reading “American Betrayal”, by Diana West, macmillan (2013). It is concerned with not the fact of Soviet influence (through placement and support of specific pro-Communist figures in the WWII+) American government, but with the refusal to recognize American political (and military and intelligence) life […]

Doug Proctor: Dowsing and Divining the Direction of Debate

Our good friend Doug Proctor has left a thoughtful and provocative essay on the suggestions page, which I think worthy of debate. Doug is a geologist by profession, and like most geologists, he is keenly aware of how much we don’t know, and has developed a keen eye for plausibility. His previous posts at the […]

Doug Proctor: On abuse of power

“Because they can, Dad” Doug writing on the Snowdon thread left this nicely written text “You do not have to harbour secret, revolutionary thoughts to be frightened and shell-shocked by the behaviour of the American government to those it feels act or may act against its current, and very malleable, interests. I was a supporter […]

Doug Proctor: How can IPCC projections play out in the real world?

Guest post from Doug Proctor who has some interesting questions he’d like some help answering: I’ve copied this from a comment I made on today’s Tisdale WUWT post wrt IPCC models on hemispheric ice changes. He noted the disconnect between observation and modelled mean outcome, but also addressed the complaint that you “cannot” compare observation […]

Doug Proctor: The rough and smooth of data as seen from afar

Doug writes he is not a computer man. Well Doug a computer is just a robot, a tool following our instructions, exactly, to err is human, jolly good idea too because Artificial Intelligence is and has been a dead end, damagingly so. The reason is simple enough, it is without what Doug uses, his eyes, […]

Doug Proctor: Our former man at Mauna Loa writes on Curried aerosols

This is content promoted from Suggestions to a full article. Image credit NOAA. GMD Lidar: Mauna Loa, Hawaii This is a followup to an old post whose subject has come up again. Since recently I was at the Mauna Loa site where the data comes from, I have a particular interest in studies that have […]

Doug Proctor: A geologist on sea level and dust

People post things on the Suggestions thread, in this case Doug wrote well at length and I think it works as a main article. I’ll add some links and images (click images for links to source web sites). “I’m in the United Arab Emirates right now. Two things: I’m off, being a geologist, to check […]

Doug Proctor: Climate Change is caused by Clouds and Sunshine

This paper pretty much refutes co2 driven global warming. We all owe a debt of thanks to Doug Proctor, who has put a huge amount of work into this paper over the last months. Some of the images have suffered in resizing, so download the pdf for reference too. It’s a long read, but then, […]

Normalised UK regional temperature

The fuss about extreme rainfall last year tripped me into looking for myself. This led to an innovative analysis of Met Office areal time series for precipitation. There was little interest shown but also little criticism. I’m bringing up Windows 8.1 64 here, same hardware, testing various codebases. As a wonder-if… the Met Office publish […]

The Davey interview graph used by Andrew Neil

In his interview, Ed Davey took exception to the graph of global temperature referred to by Andrew Neil. Neil pointed out that the data had a reputable source, the Climate research Unit. This was the only dubious statement he made that I’m aware of. He went on to ask Davey about the ‘pause’ in warming. […]

AR5 draft leaks, cheers, too young, but there is a sunshine backtaste

WUWT has posted with details of a leak by Alec Rawls of the AR5 WG1 draft suggesting some kind of solar effect is acknowledged. Link to WUWT on AR5 draft entitled “IPCC AR5 draft leaked, contains game-changing admission of enhanced solar forcing” The IPCC mentioning the possibility of a GCR link to clouds is important […]

Mollweide maps October 2012 for UAH layers, IPCC hotspot visible, sure, over New York

The Talkshop: A Million Page Views

It’s a landmark moment here at the Talkshop. After a quiet start 33 months ago, we have reached a million page views.  The blog has had its ups and downs, May 2010 saw only 714 visits all month, at the moment we average at least twice that per day. In all the excitement around the […]

An oceanic indicator of changing cloud cover?

I was very interested to read the latest post over on Bob Tisdale’s blog on the abject failure of the IPCC’s models in relation to sea surface temperatures. His point is well made, so I won’t belabour it here. My purpose with this post is to spark a discussion about that most contentious of issues: […]

Politics weekend open thread

Something has started over on the suggestions page with a comment by Doug  Proctor. Seem like a good opportunity for a grouse about the state of things, since the UK local elections are just around the corner, so come ye all. 🙂 Doug Proctorsays: April 27, 2012 at 5:30 pm Martin Cohen says: April 27, […]

The Talkshop thrusts towards a new theory of climate

Hunting around for info on the timing of maxima and minima in annual sea surface temperatures I found the following snippet: The annual range of surface temperature of the oceans is much less than that of the continents. The annual variation of the ocean surface temperature in any part of the world depends on the […]

David Hoffer: Short Circuiting the Greenhouse Effect

The Hoff takes a novel approach to explaining the way energy moves through the Earth’s climate system and raises surface temperature above the theoretical limit of Holder’s Inequality without the need for any radiative ‘greenhouse effect’; illustrated by a simple electrical circuit.