Category Archives: Arctic

Frozen Hindsight is Twenty-Twenty

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

Richard Black, environment correspondent for BBC News, has a story explaining that the cold, snowy winters faced by Europe in recent years are … wait for it … the result of global warming. Specifically, the peer-reviewed article that Black draws … Continue reading →

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The End of the Holocene Will Look a lot Like This

Posted on January 18, 2012 by

It’s a fairly important piece of AGW dogma that Alaska has warmed to a significant extent during the last human generation. Bringing this up with anyone who actually lives in Alaska at this time might not be a great idea, … Continue reading →

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Giving Shape to Phantoms

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

What follows is the second excerpt from my new book, Don’t Sell Your Coat, which can be purchased as a paperback on Amazon here. It will be available on Kindle, iPad, and Nook by New Years. The excerpt is from … Continue reading →

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You Cannot Have It Both Ways

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

I spent 25 years of my life worried about global warming. And one of the best proofs that the scientists and the media both had to keep me convinced was warmer winters, with less snow. Al Gore talked about it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, Cap-and-trade, Climate change, crying wolf, global cooling, global warming, hurricanes, media, weather, winter | 21 Comments

How to Measure Temperature in the Arctic — the Lesser of Two Evils

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

As has been well covered by Steve Goddard on WUWT, the “interpretation” of Arctic conditions by NASA/GISS is based on astonishingly little data north of 80 degrees latitude, which is to say no data at all. As the Danish Meteorological … Continue reading →

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UN Climate Report Confuses Arctic and Antarctic

Posted on October 6, 2009 by

Things get stranger and stranger with the United Nations’ climate change science compendium published two weeks back. First, it was learned that the graph indicating temperature for the past 1,000 years had been taken from Wikipedia, where it had been … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to a Legal Scholar Specializing in Climate Change

Posted on June 17, 2009 by

The following is my response to an open letter published by the legal scholar Dan Farber on his blog. Farber’s letter says that global warming “denialists” are about as right as Neville Chamberlain was returning from Munich in 1938 and … Continue reading →

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Arctic Cooling Has Begun

Posted on May 14, 2009 by

What follows is the first guest post on Talking About The Weather. I chose Peter Taylor‘s short essay on the Arctic out of respect for Peter’s research, his calm during intense debates, and the focus he brings to the issues. As … Continue reading →

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Cold comfort: Catlin team awaits re-supply

Posted on April 28, 2009 by

With adverse weather, including at least one blizzard, preventing its scheduled re-supply, the Catlin Arctic Survey expedition on the Arctic Ocean sea ice has slashed food rations by more than 80 percent. On normal sledging days, the team members consume … Continue reading →

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