December 16, 2003
British scientist Phillip Stott reports on an intriguing new piece of research on his highly-recommended EnviroSpin Watch web log.
November 11, 2003
McIntyre and McKitrick conclude that "Professor Mann's public comments regarding MM contain many provably false statements. Professor Mann himself has made a prima facie case for a new refereeing of MBH98."
November 11, 2003
Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, authors of the paper that raises questions about the quality of the data underlying the IPCCs hockey stick graph of temperatures in the last 1000 years, briefed congressional staff on the issue.
October 29, 2003
The U.S. Senate defeated a scaled-down version of Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and John McCains (R-Az.) Climate Stewardship Act, S. 139, on October 30 by a vote of 55 to 43.
October 29, 2003
The "hockey stick" graph of temperatures is a key component of the case for action on global warming. However, two Canadians with expertise in statistical analysis have looked again at the source data and found considerable errors in the way the data was collated.
October 20, 2003
Russian advisers were at pains to stress that their skepticism towards Kyoto was based on genuine misgivings over the treaty's scientific basis and the effects of climate change on Russia rather than simply a negotiating tactic to extract more concessions from the west.
October 20, 2003
In an inversion of the way Malthusian arguments usually run, a team of Swedish geologists has said that constraints on fossil fuel resources mean that there is not enough oil and gas available to fuel the doomsday scenarios of greenhouse gas production envisaged by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
September 16, 2003
Satellite readings of atmospheric temperature have long been a thorn in the side of greenhouse theorists, because they fail to show atmospheric warming at the level their theory demands. A new study manipulates the current data to provide that warming trend.
September 2, 2003
Michael Mann's coauthor Philip Jones played amateur historian when he tried to explain away common knowledge about past warm and cold spells in Northern Europe.
August 19, 2003
A review at CO2science.org of the latest paper by Michael Mann reconstructing historic temperatures casts doubt on his continued assertion that the data prove that the warmth in recent decades is unprecedented.
July 22, 2003
20th century sea level remains an enigma -- we do not know whether warming or melting was dominant, and the budget is far from closed.
July 8, 2003
Researchers from the University of Illinois found that large cities such as New York or Chicago experience significantly fewer days of freezing rain and ice storms than surrounding rural areas.
June 24, 2003
A report in the June 13 issue of Science entitled "Potential Environmental Impact of a Hydrogen Economy on the Stratosphere" suggests that hydrogen fuel cells could pose environmental risks.
June 10, 2003
Researchers published a study, funded by NASA and the Department of Energy, in the June 6 issue of Science that found that "Global changes in climate have eased several critical climatic constraints to plant growth, such that net primary production increased 6% globally." The Amazon rain forests accounted for 42 percent of the observed increase in plant growth.
May 27, 2003
Adding another complicating factor to the debate over what causes rising surface temperatures, a major study found that land use changes may be at least as important as greenhouse gas emissions in accounting for climate change.
May 14, 2003
Its a curious way to do science, to use a model to verify data rather than the other way around. If you follow this too far down that road, youre in danger of saying, Its my theory thats correct and the real world thats wrong.
April 29, 2003
A study by Joel Schwartz challenges the scientific basis of both the Bush Administrations Clear Skies Initiative and Senator Jim Jeffordss (I-Vt.) Clean Power Act.
April 15, 2003
A new study reviewing over 240 climate studies shows that the 20th century is neither the warmest century nor the century with the most extreme weather over the last 1000 years as has been argued by some scientists.
April 1, 2003
According to renewable energy expert Glenn Schleede, wind energy entails significant environmental costs, with little environmental gain, and significant economic costs that hurt customers, but serve to line the pockets of wind farm owners.
April 1, 2003
Very little of the change in temperature projections is due to changes in scientific understanding or better modeling, but due almost entirely to different emissions scenarios.
