Category Archives: Temperature

Unsettling Koonin Critiques Continue

May 26, 2021TemperatureAPS, Ben Santer, Carl Mears, Cranky Uncle, El Chichón, Gavin Schmidt, John Christy, Judith Curry, LLNL, Mark Boslough, Mt Pinatubo, Peter Sinclair, Richard Lindzen, Steve Koonin, Strawman, UCS, Yale Climate ConnectionsJim Hunt

We have previously mentioned assorted reviews of Steven Koonin‘s new book “Unsettled”, but today we bring news of a novel variation on that theme. In an article on the Union of Concerned Scientists web site Ben Santer writes:

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has invited Professor Steven Koonin to give a seminar on May 27, 2021. Professor Koonin’s seminar will cover material contained in a book he published on May 4. His book is entitled “Unsettled”. Its basic thesis is that climate science is not trustworthy.

Professor Koonin is not a climate scientist. I am. I have worked at LLNL since 1992. My primary job is to evaluate computer models of the climate system. I also seek to improve understanding of human and natural influences on climate.

Please read Ben’s article in full, but I expect you can already see what’s coming?

Steve Koonin’s Unsettled History of US Temperature

May 20, 2021TemperatureAR5, CSSR, Heat waves, IPCC, LSAT, Steve Koonin, Temperature, WRITJim Hunt

Regular readers will no doubt have noticed by now that here at the Great White Con we are publishing a series of reviews of Steven E. Koonin‘s new book “Unsettled”? Today we move on to the topic of Land-Surface Air Temperature (LSAT for short). Here is an extract from the very first page of the book:

IPSO OKs Matt Ridley’s Toxic Pausebuster “Opinion”

August 1, 2017TemperatureBob Ward, Daily Mail, David Rose, IPSO, John J Bates, Matt RidleyJim Hunt

Way back in February Bob Ward of the Grantham Institute complained to the Great British Independent Press Standards Organisation about a Matt Ridley article in the no longer Great or British Times newspaper. According to Mr. Ward:

Reanalysis of Arctic Climate

July 1, 2017TemperatureERA, MERRA, NCAR, Reanalysis, UCARJim Hunt

For years now I’ve been using the convenient tools provided at the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis web site to generate custom maps and time series illustrating the climate of the Arctic. By way of example see last December’s “Post-Truth Global and Arctic Temperatures“:

Shock News! Mail on Sunday Silently “Corrects” Another David Rose “Porky Pie”

March 21, 2017TemperatureDaily Mail, David Rose, Lamar Smith, Met Office, Peter Stott, Shock NewsJim Hunt

In our latest astonishing disclosure concerning David Rose’s optimistically named “Climategate 2” campaign in the Mail on Sunday in February we can now reveal the Mail’s botched attempt to cover up another “inadvertent” error in Mr. Rose’s February 19th article entitled “US Congress launches a probe into climate data that duped world leaders over global warming“.

Shock News! 19 years without warming?

February 21, 2017TemperatureBill the Frog, Mt Pinatubo, NCEI, NOAA, Shock News, TLT, UAHJim Hunt

In the wake of the 2015/16 El Niño, recent weeks have seen the denialoblogosphere inundated with assorted attempts to proclaim yet again that there have been “19 years without warming”. In another of his intermittent articles Great White Con guest author Bill the Frog once again proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that all the would be emperors are in actual fact wearing no clothes. Without further preamble:

Climategate 2 – Episode 3 of David Rose’s Epic Saga

February 19, 2017TemperatureClimategate 2, Daily Mail, David Rose, GWPF, HadCRUT, Hadley Centre, John Kennedy, Met Office, NOAAGate, Peter StottJim Hunt

This morning’s instalment of the Mail on Sunday’s serialisation of David Rose’s latest piece of fantasy fiction is headlined as follows:

“US Congress launches a probe into climate data that duped world leaders over global warming”

David Rose’s Climatic Alternative Facts and Deceptions

February 12, 2017TemperatureAlt Facts, Benjamin Friedman, Climategate 2, Daily Mail, David Rose, Donald Trump, Judith Curry, Lamar Smith, NOAA, NOAAGateJim Hunt

For some relevant background to this weekend’s dose of “Alternative Facts” from David Rose in the Mail on Sunday you may wish to peruse this article in our sister journal “Alternative Facts Wetware™“:

Climategate 2 Falls at the First Hurdle?

February 5, 2017TemperatureAAAS, Anthony Watts, BEST, Climategate 2, Daily Mail, David Rose, Gavin Schmidt, John J Bates, Judith Curry, Kevin Cowtan, NOAAGate, Peter Thorne, Richard Betts, Rush Holt, Shock News, Tom Karl, Tony Heller, Zeke HausfatherJim Hunt

Shock News! The David and Judy Show took to the road once again last night, aided and abetted by all the usual suspects. We’ll skip the Breitbarts, Hellers and Watts of this world and head straight for the now ex Prof. Judith Curry‘s “Climate Etc.” blog. There we will discover “Climate scientists versus climate data“, a guest post by ex NOAA scientist John Bates. According to John:

Expensive ENSO Expertise

December 17, 2016TemperatureBob Tisdale, David Rose, El Nino, Judith Curry, TemperatureJim Hunt

Regular readers will be aware that in a recent article in the Mail on Sunday David Rose quoted Professor Judith Curry as stating that:

The record warm years of 2015 and 2016 were primarily caused by the super El Nino

Read more on Expensive ENSO Expertise…

The Great White Con

Putting the Arctic sea ice record straight