Category Archives: Alarmism

Have The Poorest Countries Been Hit Hardest By Climate Change/Global Warming?

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Bob Tisdale

One of the constantly repeated, sympathy-seeking (and basis for wealth distribution) messages by politicians, by alarmists, by the mainstream media, and by brainwashed good-intentioned people, is that the world’s poorest countries have been hit hardest by human-induced global warming/climate change. … Continue reading →

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A Must Read for Those Involved with the IPCC and Other Alarmists:

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Bob Tisdale

See Update 1 near the end of the post. # # # Hans Rosling’s book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Posted in Alarmism, IPCC | 8 Comments

Does Ed Hawkins’s Spirally Global Temperature Animation Defeat Its Purpose?

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

Eric Worrall’s post Making Global Warming Scarier at WattsUpWithThat included an animation of global surface temperature anomalies from Ed Hawkins of the University of Reading.  [Thanks, Eric.]  I’ve included the gif edition as my Animation 1, which is available from Ed … Continue reading →

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Are You New To the Global Warming Debate? James Hansen Admits a Couple of Things about Global Temperatures and Sea Levels You Should Know

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

Yale University’s Katherine Bagley interviewed James Hansen, former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in the post For James Hansen, the Science Demands Activism on Climate at YaleEnvironment360.  That interview was replayed in the article Climate scientist James Hansen … Continue reading →

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Headlines: What Climate Alarmists Write Versus What the Rest of Us See

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

I always enjoy the headlines of climate alarmist news stories. This one caught my eye this week.  Of course the headline included the infamous weasel words:  COULD BE. At BusinessInsider.com:  4.2 million Americans could be displaced by rising sea levels … Continue reading →

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February 1998 Global Temperatures Reach Unprecedented Levels

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

Guest Post The satellite-measured temperature of the lower troposphere—the layer of Earth’s atmosphere that’s closest to the surface—has risen about 0.75 deg C (more than 1.3 deg F) in less than a year in 1997 and 1998, astounding climate scientists … Continue reading →

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February 2016 Global Surface Temperature Anomalies May or May Not Have Been Highest on Record, According to the UKMO

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE:  I used the phrase “may or may not” with respect to February 2016 being the warmest on record in the title and text of this post.  Nick Stokes on the thread of the cross post at WUWT advises that … Continue reading →

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More Alarmist Nonsense with the Release of the Redundant* NOAA Global Temperature Data for February 2016

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

*Or Maybe the GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index is Redundant. In the post Alarmism Cranked Up to Absurd Level, we discussed the misleading media reports about the temporary February 2016 El Niño-related uptick in monthly global surface temperature data from the Goddard … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015-16 El Nino Series, Alarmism, Global Temperature Update, Global Warming Goofiness | 14 Comments

Alarmism Cranked Up to Absurd Level

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

With the El Niño-related uptick in the February 2016 GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index, Figure 1, alarmism has reached beyond the Spinal Tap 11 volume setting, up to 20. (For those in need of a chuckle, the YouTube video of related … Continue reading →

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A Foolish Bet about 2016 Global Surface Temperatures – It’s Nothing More than a Silly Publicity Stunt

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Bob Tisdale

SEE UPDATE 2 – Dr. Boslough’s wager is truly a sucker bet. TheHuffingtonPost published a laughable post on December 31st by Sandia Labs’ Mark Boslough titled Are Climate Bullies Afraid to Bet Me?  It begins (You’re going to enjoy this):

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