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- Cool climate papers 2011
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- Climate change policy: Oil's tipping point has passed
- New research from last week 4/2012
- The Latest Denialist Plea for Climate Change Inaction
- 2012 SkS Weekly Digest #4
- David Archibald Exaggerates the Solar Influence on Future Climate Change
- Bilal Bomani, Cutting Edge Biofuels from NASA
- Katharine Hayhoe, Intent to Intimidate
- Public talk: Global Warming - The Full Picture
- New temperature record for the Arctic in 2011
- NASA scientists expect more rapid global warming in the very near future (part 1)
- Patrick Michaels Continues to Distort Hansen 1988, Part 2
- New research from last week 3/2012
- Patrick Michaels Continues to Distort Hansen 1988, Part 1
- Debunking Handbook: update and feedback
- The National Center for Science Education defends climate science in high schools
- 2012 SkS Weekly Digest #3
- National (US) Strategy Proposed to Respond to Climate Change’s Impacts on Fish, Wildlife, Plants
- 2011 Hottest La Niña Year on Record, 11th-Hottest Overall
- How do Climate Models Work?
- A Comprehensive Review of the Causes of Global Warming
- Arctic methane outgassing on the E Siberian Shelf part 2 - an interview with Dr Natalia Shakhova
- Lessons from the Whitehouse-Annan Wager
- New research from last week 2/2012
- Patrick Michaels: Serial Deleter of Inconvenient Data
- 2012 SkS Weekly Digest #2
- Puget Sound, Under Threat From Ocean Acidification, Put on "Waters of Concern" List
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It's not happening (97,24)
- Scientists falsified data
(12,51)
- Phil Jones hid flaws in UHI study (5,1)
- NASA emails show corruption (2,1)
- New Zealand data was fudged (5,8)
- Darwin temperature adjustments (6,4)
- CRU lost temperature data (3,6)
- NASA blew up their own satellite (2,1)
- Mid-century cooling was rewritten (0,3)
- Ben Santer changed the 1995 IPCC report (0,1)
- Temp record is unreliable
(38,365)
- Hockey stick is broken
(38,231)
- Briffa's hockey stick was broken (5,13)
- Tiljander was flipped upside down (3,3)
- Tree-rings diverge from temperature after 1960 (4,15)
- Temperature proxies are unreliable (5,10)
- Russian Kola data refutes hockey stick (0,1)
- McShane and Walters debunk the hockey stick (7,2)
- Ljungqvist broke the hockey stick (0,1)
- Principal components disprove hockey stick (0,0)
- Dropped stations introduce warming bias (16,17)
- It's Urban Heat Island effect (23,171)
- Global temperature does not exist (4,13)
- 1934 - hottest year on record (24,156)
- It's microsite influences (5,32)
- NASA GISS adjustments introduce warming bias (2,7)
- IPR restriction invalidate climate research (2,1)
- Increase in temperature is less than instrument error (0,0)
- Mercury thermometers can't measure within tenths of a degree (0,1)
- 3 of 4 temperature datasets are interdependent (15,3)
- There's not enough weather stations (0,3)
- Satellite error inflated Great Lakes temperatures (1,4)
- Satellite temperature measurements are degrading (0,3)
- Thermometer measurements are uncertain (0,3)
- Hockey stick is broken
(38,231)
- It's cooling
(63,465)
- We're heading into an ice age (20,270)
- It's freaking cold! (11,220)
- Oceans are cooling (57,110)
- It hasn't warmed since 1998 (28,302)
- The southern hemisphere hasn't warmed as much (7,19)
- Phil Jones says no global warming since 1995 (10,22)
- Radiative imbalance is negative (7,2)
- Global warming stopped in
1998,1995,2002,2007,2010, ???? (13,55) - DMI show cooling Arctic (1,4)
- We're heading into cooling (4,7)
- There's been statistically-significant cooling since 2001 (1,5)
- Global warming has stopped so can't be causing Arctic warming (1,1)
- Ice isn't melting
(18,7)
- Antarctica is gaining ice
(58,244)
- Antarctica is cooling (12,14)
- Antarctica is too cold to lose ice (4,1)
- Antarctic ice melt is falling (5,1)
- Glaciers are growing (174,80)
- Greenland is gaining ice (54,65)
- Antarctica snowfall hasn't risen (4,3)
- Arctic icemelt is a natural cycle (29,148)
- Global sea ice is increasing (12,2)
- Southern sea ice is increasing (14,2)
- Antarctica is gaining ice
(58,244)
- Climategate CRU emails suggest conspiracy
(54,176)
- Trenberth can't account for the lack of warming (3,14)
- Scientists tried to 'hide the decline' in global temperature (7,36)
- Freedom of Information (FOI) requests were ignored (6,9)
- Peer review process was corrupted (5,29)
- Climategate was whitewashed (4,39)
- CRU tampered with temperature data (2,12)
- Skeptics were kept out of the IPCC? (2,7)
- Principal source of predictions is CRU (0,0)
- Sea level rise is exaggerated
(30,187)
- Pacific Islands are not drowning (3,7)
- Maldives is not sinking (2,9)
- Bangladesh sea levels aren't rising (2,2)
- Arctic sea level is falling (2,1)
- Sea level was high 81,000 years ago in Mallorca (1,0)
- New Zealand sea level rise is not accelerating (1,1)
- Sea level rise is decelerating
(13,18)
- Sea level fell in 2010 (1,1)
- Sea level is not rising (8,5)
- Tuvalu sea level isn't rising (11,7)
- There is no consensus
(45,488)
- IPCC is alarmist
(12,132)
- IPCC were wrong about Dutch sea levels (1,2)
- IPCC were wrong about Himalayan glaciers (37,29)
- IPCC overstated link to extreme storms (7,2)
- IPCC were wrong about Amazon rainforests (54,9)
- IPCC exagerated African agriculture impact (3,6)
- IPCC overestimate temperature rise (12,25)
- Pachauri labelled Himalayagate as 'voodoo science' (1,2)
- IPCC were wrong about Antarctic sea ice (0,3)
- IPCC ‘disappeared’ the Medieval Warm Period (0,19)
- 1/3 of IPCC is not peer-reviewed (12,7)
- The IPCC consensus is phoney (4,12)
- IPCC relied on one solar physicist (0,1)
- IAC review of IPCC is devastating (0,1)
- IPCC overpredicts CO2 rise (0,4)
- UN predicted 50 million climate refugees (0,5)
- Uncertainties have been underestimated (0,2)
- IPCC graph showing accelerating trends is misleading (0,1)
- 28% of IPCC arguments are incorrect (1,2)
- Al Gore got it wrong (6,242)
- Less than half of published scientists endorse global warming (1,25)
- 500 scientists refute the consensus (10,13)
- APS reversed its stance on climate change (2,3)
- Naomi Oreskes' study on consensus was flawed (4,12)
- The science isn't settled (10,47)
- They changed the name from global warming to climate change (9,22)
- 900+ peer reviewed papers are skeptical of AGW
(13,7)
- The Science Is Not Settled (1,17)
- Over 31,000 scientists signed the OISM Petition Project (8,15)
- Institute of Physics doesn't support AGW (9,0)
- Climate 'Skeptics' are like Galileo (3,9)
- PNAS study publishes black list of skeptics (0,10)
- Royal Society embraces skepticism (1,3)
- The 97% of Scientists is a small sample (0,2)
- US Senate Minority Report Debunks Concensus (2,1)
- Consensus is not science (0,1)
- Calling skeptics 'deniers' is equating them to Holocaust deniers (0,0)
- IPCC is alarmist
(12,132)
- People are making money from global warming (7,156)
- Deserts are retreating (13,20)
- Springs aren't advancing (33,3)
- Global warming theory isn't falsifiable (2,10)
- AGW is religion (1,47)
- Global warming does not cause volcanic eruptions (4,0)
- Melting ice isn't warming the Arctic (11,1)
- The stratosphere isn't cooling as predicted (11,0)
- Hurricane activity was low in 2010 (0,5)
- Opinion polls suggest the public don't believe in Global Warming (0,7)
- Global warming is a hoax (0,0)
- IPCC needs improvement (0,2)
- European heat wave exaggerated (0,0)
- Scientists falsified data
(12,51)
It's not us (42,37)
- There's no empirical evidence (16,105)
- Increasing CO2 has little to no effect
(54,108)
- CO2 is just a trace gas (17,32)
- Outgoing longwave radiation hasn't changed (6,1)
- CO2 has a short residence time (30,17)
- CO2 effect is saturated (21,35)
- Greenhouse effect has been falsified (26,30)
- CO2 is heavier than air (2,5)
- 2nd law of thermodynamics contradicts greenhouse theory (19,11)
- CO2 cools as well as heats (3,6)
- CO2 effect is logarithmic (2,7)
- Venus doesn't have a runaway greenhouse effect (3,3)
- CO2 only causes 35% of global warming (2,1)
- LWIR back radiation does not heat the oceans but causes evaporation and cooling (0,0)
- Removing all CO2 would make little difference (0,1)
- Water vapor masks CO2 effect (4,2)
- CO2 is invisible, odourless, weightless, tasteless (0,2)
- Climate's changed before
(38,558)
- Medieval Warm Period was warmer (61,99)
- Greenland was green
(3,121)
- Greenland was warmer in 1940 (1,32)
- We're coming out of the Little Ice Age (3,108)
- CO2 was higher in the past (10,84)
- Glaciers have been receding since the 1800's
(9,37)
- Glacier melt is natural (10,8)
- Lake Chad has emptied before (1,35)
- Arctic was warmer in 1940 (6,23)
- It's a 1500 year cycle (9,151)
- It's a climate regime shift (3,21)
- Wine grew in England in Roman times (3,6)
- It's a natural cycle (28,40)
- Holocene Optimum was warmer (2,3)
- Global temperatures have risen as fast in the past (2,7)
- Thomas Jefferson wrote about warming winters (0,1)
- It was warmer in the Roman Warm Period (2,7)
- It warmed just as fast in 1860-1880 and 1910-1940 (2,10)
- Most of the last 10,000 years were warmer (3,10)
- Droughts and floods have happened before (2,5)
- Earth was warmer in past interglacials (2,4)
- The Earth warmed 11 degrees in the last 10,000 years (0,0)
- There's no correlation between CO2 and temperature
(15,94)
- Polynomial cointegration refutes AGW (1,1)
- It cooled mid-century (8,94)
- CO2 lags temperature (24,270)
- It warmed before 1940 when CO2 was low (7,93)
- Temperature has fallen while CO2 was rising (1,4)
- Constructal Law disproves global warming (0,1)
- We didn't have global warming during the Industrial Revolution (1,1)
- Soares finds lack of correlation between CO2 and temperature (10,2)
- An exponential increase in CO2 will result in a linear increase in temperature (3,5)
- It's the sun
(52,618)
- It's cosmic rays (43,193)
- Solar Cycle Length proves its the sun (13,23)
- It's SSCs (0,1)
- The sun is getting hotter (2,7)
- Water levels correlate with sunspots (1,7)
- Solar cycles cause global warming (4,14)
- It's the solar system
(0,11)
- It's planetary movements (0,5)
- Ultraviolet light increased since 1979 (1,1)
- Solar flare index and temperature are linked (2,1)
- Low solar activity causes cold European winters (0,2)
- Other planets are warming
(8,116)
- Neptune is warming (2,47)
- Mars is warming (11,163)
- Jupiter is warming (3,45)
- Triton is warming (1,27)
- Saturn is warming (0,8)
- Pluto is warming (3,38)
- Encaladus is warming (1,2)
- Iapetus is warming (0,1)
- Venus is hot due to internal heating (2,3)
- Methane on Mars disproves AGW on Earth (0,0)
- Venus is hot from a collision (1,0)
- It's the ocean
(8,48)
- It's El Niño (13,34)
- It's ocean salinity (0,7)
- It's the gulf stream (1,2)
- It's Pacific Decadal Oscillation (8,55)
- It's Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) (4,4)
- CO2 is not the only driver of climate
(11,22)
- It's clouds (8,38)
- It's soot (4,25)
- It's the earth's orbit
(1,4)
- It's Milankovitch cycles (8,24)
- The earth’s orbit is decaying (0,1)
- It's dust (4,2)
- It's aerosols (14,28)
- It's ozone (2,2)
- It's methane (4,15)
- It's magnetic poles (0,9)
- It's ice crystals (2,3)
- It's the Milky Way (1,4)
- It's land use (17,18)
- It's forests (0,1)
- It's geothermal (2,2)
- It's albedo (7,8)
- It's God
(1,2)
- God won't allow it. (0,0)
- It's magma (0,2)
- It's Internal Radiative Forcing (6,8)
- It's satellite microwave transmissions (1,1)
- It's the moon (0,2)
- It's wind (1,2)
- It's waste heat (7,5)
- It's overpopulation (1,0)
- It's CFCs (1,3)
- Water vapor is the most powerful greenhouse gas (15,134)
- It's heat from combustion (0,0)
- It's latent heat flux from increased plant water use efficiency (1,0)
- It's gravity (0,2)
- It's interstellar dust (1,0)
- It's Nibiru/Planet X (0,2)
- It's global brightening (17,5)
- It's something we haven't thought of (0,0)
- Humans are too insignificant to affect global climate
(9,23)
- Human CO2 is a tiny % of CO2 emissions
(34,124)
- It's bushfires (1,0)
- It's earthquakes (0,0)
- It's bacteria (0,2)
- CO2 is coming from the ocean (20,6)
- Volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans (19,37)
- CO2 emissions do not correlate with CO2 concentration (5,3)
- Breathing contributes to CO2 buildup (4,7)
- Murry Salby finds CO2 rise is natural (5,2)
- CO2 is not increasing (31,4)
- Human CO2 is a tiny % of CO2 emissions
(34,124)
- Models are unreliable
(37,430)
- Climate is chaotic and cannot be predicted (4,10)
- The upper troposphere is drier than the models had predicted (0,1)
- Ice age predicted in the 70s (36,274)
- Scientists can't even predict weather (8,60)
- Aerosols provide too much uncertainty (3,10)
- Models exagerate projected temperature rise (6,9)
- There's no tropospheric hot spot (18,68)
- Ozone theory is uncertain (0,2)
- Increasing snowfall in Northern Hemisphere invalidates models (8,4)
- Hansen's 1988 prediction was wrong (11,20)
- Errors in model projections accumulate over time (1,2)
- Clouds provide too much uncertainty (6,15)
- Global warming is based on modelling (2,34)
- Computer code isn't included in peer-review process (0,0)
- There's too much uncertainty (3,6)
- Models are rigged to produce desired results (5,8)
- Finite-difference solving method don't work with a grid this large (0,0)
- UAH atmospheric temperatures prove climate models and/or surface temperature data sets are wrong (0,1)
- Extreme weather isn't caused by global warming
(82,99)
- Hurricanes aren't linked to global warming (43,204)
- The 2003 heat wave was not caused by global warming (4,0)
- Drought is not caused by global warming (23,6)
- Pakistan flood was nothing special (0,3)
- One-in-1,000-year events happen all the time (0,0)
- Linking extreme weather to AGW is political opportunism (3,2)
- There's no link between global warming and extreme weather (0,0)
- 2010 Russian heatwave (0,1)
- Sea level rise preceded temperature rise in the past (2,6)
- Wildfires are not caused by global warming (16,18)
- Diurnal Temperature Range is not decreasing (44,2)
- Mt. Kilimanjaro's ice loss is due to land use (3,82)
- It's geomagnetic activity (0,5)
- It's the clearing stratosphere (0,2)
- Hot Water Bottle Effect regulates temperature (0,1)
- It's wobble theory (0,1)
- Magnetic polar shift correlates to climate change (0,0)
It's not bad (420,252)
- Climate sensitivity is low
(93,170)
- Earth hasn't warmed as much as expected (5,19)
- Infrared Iris will reduce global warming (13,21)
- Negative feedbacks will stabilise climate
(32,65)
- Growing forests can offset our CO2 emissions (2,1)
- Natural weathering will remove excess CO2 (2,2)
- Early Faint Sun Paradox proves negative feedback (3,3)
- Extra plant transpiration-cooling negates CO2 warming (5,0)
- Thunderstorms regulate Earth's temperature (0,1)
- Negative feedback from vegetation will cancel out global warming (77,2)
- Carbon cycle amplification less than thought (26,5)
- Lindzen and Choi find low climate sensitivity (15,17)
- Monckton finds low climate sensitivity (5,2)
- Chylek finds low climate sensitivity (2,2)
- We don't need to cut CO2 emissions (11,1)
- Positive feedback means runaway warming (2,3)
- Humidity is falling (31,11)
- Clouds provide negative feedback (12,24)
- Warming in pipeline is small (3,3)
- Non-CO2 forcings have higher efficacy (1,2)
- Spectroscopic study finds low climate sensitivity (0,2)
- Water vapour levels have fallen since the 1950s hence water vapour does not increase with temperature (16,2)
- Roy Spencer finds negative feedback (16,14)
- Schmittner finds low climate sensitivity (0,6)
- Animals and plants can adapt (239,32)
- There's no such thing as an ideal climate (3,21)
- Greenland ice sheet won't collapse (11,37)
- CO2 is not a pollutant
(6,112)
- CO2 is plant food
(28,74)
- CO2 increases vegetation (25,12)
- CO2 is good for plants (7,18)
- Ocean acidification isn't serious (239,33)
- CO2 is plant food
(28,74)
- Gulf stream is stable (33,44)
- Coral reef threat is exaggerated (81,26)
- Technological breakthroughs will fix global warming (5,4)
- Cold spells kill more people than heat waves (36,13)
- Sea level rise predictions are exaggerated (33,28)
- Amazon is not vulnerable to drought (58,4)
- Daily temperature change is much greater than long-term climate change (1,1)
- Major climate change only occurs over geologic time (3,0)
- Heat waves won't become more intense or frequent (34,4)
- Greenland has only lost a tiny fraction of its ice mass (2,3)
- It's only a few degrees (3,2)
- Glacier melt doesn't affect many people (8,1)
- God promised Noah no floods (1,1)
- Melting permafrost is a good thing (32,1)
- Diseases won't spread because of global warming (135,9)
- There is no tipping point (21,1)
- 300,000 climate deaths estimate is flawed (1,3)
- Global warming is beneficial (0,0)
- Climate sensitivity is low
(93,170)
It's too hard (12,14)
- CO2 limits will harm the economy (18,116)
- CO2 limits will hurt the poor (8,55)
- CO2 limits will make little difference (7,28)
- Renewables can't provide baseload power (12,3)
- Efficiency leads to more energy use (3,3)
- Peak oil will make us reduce emissions anyway (0,0)
- Science should keep out of politics (2,1)
- It's not urgent (13,16)
- Electric cars accelerate global warming (0,1)
- Fukushima means fossil fuels are here to stay (0,1)
- Humanity needs energy (0,0)
- Our country shouldn't go first (12,0)
- Can't accurately measure CO2 emissions (0,0)
It's too late (1,3)
- Better to adapt than mitigate (43,42)
- China pollutes more (3,21)
- Better to geoengineer (23,5)
- It's unstoppable (0,5)
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