ACCURATELY recording the temperature of a body that is not in equilibrium can be complicated. Recording the average surface temperature of the earth reliably, and with such accuracy that one can know with certainty that there has been a less than one degree Celsius change over one hundred years, probably impossible.
Dr Vincent Gray explains why, and begins at the very beginning with an explanation of “temperature” and how it is measured: Read more »
REMEMBER the stories about how the Murray Darling Basin, the food bowl of Australia, was going to be lost to salt? Not so many years ago headline after media headline told of imminent ruin from rising water tables bring salt. Read more »
A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. Read more here.
THERE has been some anecdotal evidence suggesting that last month, October 2008, was unusually cold. The sophisticated weather-watcher, of course, waits for some official global temperature data to be published before concluding very much. Read more »
“There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.” Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
SWEDEN is, like Australia, experiencing the effects of an upward trend in temperatures that by some has been attributed to the recorded increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. However, Sweden unlike Australia is likely to gain economically from global warming. Read more »
In science, refuting an accepted belief is celebrated as an advance in knowledge; in religion it is condemned as heresy. via Fred Singer.
I have been critical of many environmental activists over the years on the grounds that they know what they are against, but they don’t know what they are for. For example, bushfire management systems developed by forestry agencies over many decades are savagely condemned, but no alternative system is offered up as a replacement. Read more »
NASA scientist, Josh Willis, was so concerned that his data, showing ocean cooling, did not fit the official consensus on climate change that he searched for a solution. Eventually he “applied a correction” so the historical ocean temperature record showed a relatively steady increase in line with the climate models. Read more »
“One of Barack Obama’s first tasks will be to lead the United States back into the heart of the global debate on climate change, ending the country’s years of isolation and scepticism.” Read more here.
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