Grunt work
UPDATE: 1/15/2012 11:30AM PST The probe is down, but see how the BBC fouled up the reporting of it here -Anthony Look up in the air, it’s a bird, its a plane, no it’s Phobos-Grunt! Video follows. From...
View ArticlePhil Jones demonstrates that math is hard
Sure, we’ve all made some doozies (me included) but you have to admit this exchange between top climate scientists Tom Wigley and Phil Jones is downright hilarious. No wonder he has trouble with Excel....
View ArticleNorfolk police give indications that Climategate investigation is...
Bishop Hill Writes: A surprise from Norfolk Constabulary Norfolk Constabulary have previously released details of their spend on the UEA emails investigation – Operation Cabin. This showed that no...
View ArticleMet Office April Forecast: “…drought impacts in the coming months are...
UPDATE: Forecast humor on steroids, here You can’t make up FAIL like this. First this story in the BBC Today: Now let’s have a look at the official Met Office forecast for April, issued on March 23rd,...
View ArticleQuite possibly the funniest weather/climate photo, evah
Readers may recall my story from last night about the Met office and their spectacular failure of a forecast for April. See Met Office April Forecast: “…drought impacts in the coming months are...
View ArticleFriday Funny – The Sceptic Isle
Josh writes: With a certain amount of hysteria and hand wringing over the latest Heartland ads I thought a more pastoral cartoon might be a good idea. I will update the cartoon if people suggest...
View ArticleMore on the wettest April in 100 years in the UK
Readers may recall how the Met Office botched yet another forecast, calling for drought but instead getting a month of deluge. Here’s the numbers. By Paul Homewood The UK Met Office have just released...
View ArticleUK Endures Coldest Autumn Since 1993
Guest post by Paul Homewood The UK Met Office report that the UK has just had its coldest autumn for nineteen years, leaving 2012 on course to be second coldest year since 1996. Mean temperature in...
View ArticleUK Rainfall 2012-The Report The Met Office Should Have Produced
Guest post by Paul Homewood According to the Met Office, UK has just had the second wettest year on record, just behind 2000. These claims, however, are based on records dating back to 1910. The Met...
View ArticleExpert predicts ‘Monsoon Britain’
Guest post by Paul Homewood h/t Robuk A study, by Professor Stuart Lane of Durham University back in 2008, appears to have been remarkably percipient. Written just after the extremely wet summer of...
View ArticleThe Winter Of 1947
“Climate disruption” before the current lunacy of “CO2 caused extreme weather” era By Paul Homewood The Great Freeze of 1963 was the coldest winter in the UK for over 200 years. However, the winter of...
View ArticleColdest Spring In England Since 1891
By Paul Homewood Originally, it was thought to be the coldest spring since 1962. Winter? Teesdale in County Durham blanketed in snow on May 23 in what is likely to be Britain’s coldest spring since...
View ArticleMet Office Confirms St Jude’s Day Storm Was Not Unusual
By Paul Homewood The Met Office have now issued their comprehensive report on the St Jude’s Day storm, that hit southern England in October. Readers will recall idiotic headlines at the time,...
View ArticleI’ve been Lenfesteyed
Sometimes you just have to laugh. This is one of those times. I’ve been put in my place by an “urban coyote poet” for daring to publish on this blog. Elmer (of M4GW, not M4CC), Chris Monckton, and I ,...
View ArticleThe World won’t stop having climate cycles just because they are inconvenient.
Guest post by David Archibald The most skillful climatologist the World has seen was Hubert Lamb (1913 – 1997). He can be credited with making the first prediction of the current solar minimum. This...
View ArticleHow a lay climate skeptic's view can count on global warming
Putting Sir Isaac Newton on the right path Short story by Christopher Bowring When lay global warming skeptics point out to alarmists that the recent seventeen year period of steady global temperatures...
View ArticleChinese virus drives a startling increase in Europe’s excess mortality...
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The scale of the Chinese-virus pandemic is now beginning to become visible. Yesterday, the death toll of 59,000 in the United States exceeded the 58,000…
View ArticleUK Coronavirus Cases Rising
Fresh restrictions are being introduced in some parts of Britain to contain an uptick in the growth of Covid-19 cases.
View ArticleWeather Records Shattered–180 Years Ago
By every measure Hawkins claims don’t stand up to scrutiny, for England at least. It may be that rainfall is now more extreme in Scotland, but it is dishonest to pretend that the whole country is...
View ArticleEngland Needs a National Strategy for Sunny Weather!
England is "not ready" to respond to extreme heatwaves this summer and ministers must implement a national strategy, researchers have said. The post England Needs a National Strategy for Sunny Weather!...
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