Sunspots and Temperature

Ed Caryl, author of One Of Our Hemispehere Is Missing and A Light In Siberia, brings us his latest essay. If history is an indicator, then today’s simultaneously declining PDO and AMO, in combination with a solar quiet period, mean that a “rapidly cooling situation” may be in the works, or we could even be “headed for a new ice age”.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: UN IPCC Scientist Asks Tough Questions

Other tough as yet unanswered questions include:

How did they [climate scientists] manage to reach conceptual consensus in spite of persisting scientific gaps, imminent uncertainties and limited means of model validation?

Why, to put the question differently, did scientists develop trust in their delicate model constructions?

Early Cold Blast Headed For Moscow | Real Science

Forecast : Romm will blame it on global warming.

The cold is due to “more energy in the system.” “It was hot in the summer and now it is cold in the winter. The world is falling apart.”

The Rumours of Manhattan’s Death Are Exaggerated | Real Science

In 1988, James (3-6 metres) Hansen forecast that Manhattan’s West Side Highway would be submerged by 2008.

Pachauri: Nobel one day, embarrassment the next | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Three years ago, Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was co-winner with Al Gore of the Nobel Peace for his global warming alarmism.

Now even Fred Pearce, the influential warminst and New Scientist writer, says he should be sacked for his alarmism and cover-ups