Month: December 2016

Wisconsin DNR Revises Position on Climate Change: Removes Caused by “Human Activities” from Great Lakes Webpage

Bob Tisdale's avatarBob Tisdale - Climate Observations

Lee Bergquist opens his article DNR purges climate change from webpage at the Wisconsin Journal Sentinal (my brackets):

The state Department of Natural Resources recently scrubbed language from an agency web page on the Great Lakes that said humans and greenhouse gases are the main cause of climate change. [See DNR webpage The Great Lakes and a changing world.]

The DNR now says the subject is a matter of scientific debate.

The department made the changes on Dec. 21, striking out whole sentences attributing global warming to human activities and rising levels of carbon dioxide.

Bergquist explains:

In the latest changes, the DNR says of climate change, “as it has done throughout the centuries, the earth is going through a change. The reasons for this change at this particular time in the earth’s long history are being debated and researched by academic entities outside the Department of Natural Resources.”

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2016 State of the Climate Report

screen-shot-2016-12-26-at-10-33-41-amThe 2016 State of the Climate Report Presented to the United Nations Climate Conference in Morocco November 2016 gives an excellent and pithy summary on where things stand in regard to Global Warming and/or Climate Change and the manmade CO2 contribution, or non-contribution, to those important topics for anyone interested in the subject.

The report quotes University of London Professor Emeritus Philip Stott in the introduction: “The fundamental point has always been this. Climate change is governed by hundreds of factors, or variables, and the very idea that we can manage climate change predictably by understanding and manipulating at the margins one politically selected factor (CO2) is as misguided as it gets…It’s scientific nonsense.”

Surprising Results From Study: Moderate Cold Kills More People Than Extreme Heat

On the Decrease of Hot Days in the US

curryja's avatarClimate Etc.

by Turbulent Eddie

Adjusted USHCN data indicate a decrease in CONUS hot days TMAX >= 100°F

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‘Truthiness’ and ‘factiness’ in politicized scientific debates

curryja's avatarClimate Etc.

by Judith Curry

The trappings of science can be decoupled from the actual rigor of science.

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