At the BBC's Earth Watch blog, Richard Black takes a different perspective on the recent survey of the British public (well, 500 of them, anyway) and Climate Porn that we covered in our last post. Among the emails that arrive in my inbox regularly on climate change,...
Who'd've Discredited It?
'Case against climate change discredited by study' shrieked the Independent yesterday. That must be one hell of a study. Except that it isn't: A difference in the way British and American ships measured the temperature of the ocean during the 1940s may explain why the...
Dessler’s Grist to the Sceptics’ Mill
On Gristmill, Andrew Dessler provides us with an excuse for a self-indulgent recap: I was at a meeting earlier this week and was talking to one of the coordinating lead authors of the recent IPCC working group 1 report on the physical science of climate change. He...
Climate Change Rhetoric Worse Than Previously Thought
In case you hadn't noticed, the IPCC released its AR4 Synthesis Report, Summary for Policymakers on Saturday. 'Today the world's scientists have spoken clearly and with one voice,' said United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The BBC reported the event on Friday...
Model Muddle
A new study suggesting that Arctic ice is melting faster than IPCC forecasts has been reported by the BBC as evidence that the IPCC is too conservative.Since 1979, the Arctic has been losing summer ice at about 9% per decade, but models on average produce a melting...