Monthly Archives: February 2012

Alarmist Ways Continue at New York Times

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Harold Ambler

I would say that The New York Times has jumped the shark, but you have to separate from the shark first in order to jump it. The Times has been grasping the shark in a death-embrace for years now, when … Continue reading →

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Frozen Hindsight is Twenty-Twenty

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Harold Ambler

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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Rise of the Hobbits

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Harold Ambler

This just in: According to the Christian Science Monitor, global warming could turn us all into hobbits: It’s been long known that the Earth’s rising surface temperatures portend mass extinction, prolonged droughts, extreme weather, and rising seas. Now we can add … Continue reading →

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Bank

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Harold Ambler

When I began writing Don’t Sell Your Coat, in 2009, the predictions by solar physicists and a few other maverick scientists that I was drawing on for the book that the planet was in for a period of mild cooling … Continue reading →

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“Forever, and Ever, and Ever”

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Harold Ambler

Attention scientists and journalists: I want my word back. You don’t get to use it anymore, unless you want to admit that you are in the business of deceiving people. That word? “Ever.” I know I’m in for it when … Continue reading →

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The Strange World of Andy Revkin on Twitter

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Harold Ambler

If you wanted to dream up a bizarre representation of AGW alarmists’ view of themselves as prophets, you couldn’t come up with anything stranger than what Andy Revkin came up with on his own. In the image on his Twitter … Continue reading →

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Positive Reviews of DSYC Continue

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Harold Ambler

The good reviews of DSYC keep coming: Andrew Montford (author of The Hockey Stick Illusion), Anthony Watts, Tallbloke, Tom Nelson, and now John Shade, posting at Climate Lessons: This is a beautiful book in many ways.  First of all, in terms of … Continue reading →

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500-Year Storm of Scientific Illiteracy

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Harold Ambler

A new paper in Nature Climate Change suggests that: 1. Hurricane Irene was an especially bad tropical system, and that its power was due to “climate change”; 2. what were once called “100-year floods” may now occur every “three to … Continue reading →

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European Cold-Weather Disaster

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Harold Ambler

Among the many things that Anthony Watts does well is simply to deliver news of cold-weather events that go completely unnoticed or underreported by the mainstream media.  For whatever reason, heat waves, hurricanes, fires, and droughts rate high production costs, … Continue reading →

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Harold Ambler Wikipedia

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Harold Ambler

A pet peeve: People google me all the time with wikipedia or wiki in the search field, and the result often carries them to a skeptic-bating PR machine known as realclimate.org. Specifically, they are brought to that cute little part … Continue reading →

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