Doubts cast on warmest decade - news - the-press | Stuff.co.nz

A warmer atmosphere provides more energy for weather systems, which leads to more extreme weather.

In winter, that increases the chances of severe snowstorms, like those being experienced in Europe, North America and parts of Asia.

However, Trewinnard questioned how Niwa could claim a long-term warming trend when the 2000s were only marginally warmer than the 1971-2000 norm and the 1980s, and when the 1990s were cooler than both those decades.

"There isn't a long-term warming trend by his [Renwick's] own numbers, nationally," he said.

Global warming yes, but not necessarily caused by humans

So, yes we do need to clean up our act but not at the risk of seriously harming various economies of the world and putting the welfare of millions of people at stake because there is strong reason to believe that global warming would continue to occur [or not] if we closed down every single factory on the planet.

David R. Filbey-Haywood

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: An Inconvenient Democracy: A Guest Post by Nico Stehr and Hans von Storch

Within the broad field of climatology and climate policy one is able to discern growing concerns about the virtues of democracy.

Climate Change killing Peru’s mountain people with freezing temperatures | CLIMATEGATE

What a bunch of bullsh*t.

CRU 3b – Urban Warm Bias in GHCN « the Air Vent

I don’t think the drop in temps to 1900 levels in the early 70’s is the kind of curve that supports the high CO2 sensitivity claimed by climate science. Does anyone remember the snow storms of the early 70’s? Yeah, yeah just weather, I know.