Category Archives: CAGW Proponent Arguments

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 →

Posted in Alarmism, CAGW Proponent Arguments | 2 Comments

More Curiosities about NOAA’s New “Pause Busting” Sea Surface Temperature Dataset

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE 2: KNMI added the HadNMAT2 data to their Climate Explorer, so we no longer have to rely on my replication of data from a graph. See the update before the closing. # # # UPDATE: I was just informed … Continue reading →

Posted in CAGW Proponent Arguments, NOAA ERSST.v4, SST Dataset Info, The Pause | 74 Comments

NOAA/NCDC’s new ‘pause-buster’ paper: a laughable attempt to create warming by adjusting past data

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

This is a cross post from WattsUpWithThat. Did SNL’s Tommy Flanagan Oversee the New Surface Temperature Data? By Bob Tisdale and Anthony Watts, commentary from Dr. Judith Curry follows There is a new paper published the journal Science about the … Continue reading →

Posted in CAGW Proponent Arguments, Hiatus, NCDC, NOAA ERSST.v4 | 65 Comments

Climate Propaganda from the Australian Academy of Science

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Bob Tisdale

The Australia Academy of Science has recently published a Q&A about human-induced global warming titled The science of climate change.  Their press release is here.  Examples from around the blogosphere:

Posted in Alarmism, CAGW Proponent Arguments, Climate Model Failings | 4 Comments

Researchers Find Northeast Pacific Surface Warming (1900-2012) Caused By Changes in Atmospheric Circulation, NOT Manmade Forcings

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE:  See the update at the end of the post. # # # This is a revisit of a paper already discussed in the WUWT post Surprising PNAS paper: CO2 emissions not the cause of U.S. West Coast warming.  We’re … Continue reading →

Posted in CAGW Proponent Arguments, SST Update, The Blob | 13 Comments

Arguments For and Against Human-Induced Ocean Warming

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE: Corrected the percentage of ocean heat loss though evaporation. Update 2: I added a link to a post by Willis Eschenbach at the end, and I corrected a typo. # # # Ocean heat content and vertically averaged temperature … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic Ocean Warming, CAGW Proponent Arguments, Ocean Heat Content Problems, Ocean Processes | 10 Comments

The Tempering Effect of the Oceans on Global Warming

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

There are now 2 UPDATES at the end of the post. # # # This post presents a very simple way to illustrate the tempering effect of the oceans on global warming. The idea for this simple presentation came from … Continue reading →

Posted in CAGW Proponent Arguments, More On Series | 10 Comments

Silly Headline of the Day – NYT: Climate Change Threatens to Strip the Identity of Glacier National Park

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

And the opening of the NewYorkTimes article reads: GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. — What will they call this place once the glaciers are gone? My suggestions are at the end of the post.

Posted in Alarmism, CAGW Proponent Arguments | 4 Comments

Finally Some Reality from RealClimate – But, Unfortunately, They Remained Unreal about Some Things

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

The post Ocean heat storage: a particularly lousy policy target + Update at RealClimate finally presented a few realities of the global-warming metric known as ocean heat content—realities we have discussed numerous times.  But they weren’t completely open about it … Continue reading →

Posted in CAGW Proponent Arguments, Ocean Depth Averaged Temperature, Ocean Heat Content Problems | 5 Comments

Open Letter to Miriam O’Brien of HotWhopper (a.k.a. Sou)

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Bob Tisdale

UPDATE: Miriam responded in depth (?). See update at end of post for links. # # # Date: October 5, 2014 Subject: Thank You for Admitting You Were Clueless From: Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations and Regular Contributor at WattsUpWithThat … Continue reading →

Posted in CAGW Proponent Arguments, HotWhopper | 31 Comments