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Hmm, looks like a lot of ice...or maybe not: Have a look at daily data: Definitely not a lot of ice. For the last month it's been skirting, and even below the 95% range of the long term average.

Depending on how you define a model that 'works', it may be impossible. Complete and true representation is not likely possible. No model is technically right, some are useful. The work Locutus posted earlier will lead to more useful models, so that's hardly a death knell for AGW.

How is that a death knell? That's good work that will help improve models.

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Steyn is counter-suing. He's being hauled to court by Mann. Who is seeking legal action besides Steyn?

His only hope? The judge in Mann's defamation suit refused to have it thrown out, and it's going to trial now. You can't call someone a fraud without evidence, and all inquiries involving Mann have found no evidence of fraud. And comparing someone to a convicted child molester, that is going to...

How is this still being discussed? McIntyre and McKitrick sampled randomly from data that had a trend...of course you're going to get a hockey stick when the data has a hockey stick shape. How is that shocking? You put trended data into a noise model, you will still get a trend. If you take any...

So, according to this drivel, planetary atmospheres can be opaque to solar radiation, and therefore the only heating of the the surface is due to heat driven by compression of the planetary system...yet if an atmosphere is opaque to longwave radiation, and prevents heat from being radiated away...

Exxon CEO Profits Huge As America's Largest Natural Gas Producer-But Frack In His Own Backyard And He Sues! - Forbes A key and critical function of Mr. Tillerson’s day job is to do all he can to protect and nurture the process of hydraulic fracturing—aka ‘fracking’—so that his company can...

Women protest Russian underwear ban: ‘Freedom to panties!’ MOSCOW — A trade ban on lacy lingerie has Russian consumers and their neighbours with their knickers in a twist. The ban will outlaw any underwear containing less than 6 per cent cotton from being imported, made, or sold in Russia...

It's articles like this that make me chuckle at the 'settled science' series...some things are well established, others, like the apparent connection between Arctic warming and jet stream patterns are not. This is the bleeding edge of climate science, and it's funny now to see people so casually...

A blackbody is idealized. Lots of physics start from idealized matter, like the ideal gas laws. Do you also dispute Boyle's and Charles' Laws? Idealized sets the limit. We've manufactured materials that come very close to a black body. It's not realistic to believe that we will create a perfect...

Yet the stratosphere cools...laugh all you want. You haven't disproved anything. Stefan-Boltzmann law is alive and well, as are the laws of thermodynamics. But don't worry, a lot of people don't understand the laws of thermodynamics. :lol:

Never heard of Stefan-Boltzmann? You cannot explain the temperature of the Earth without the absorption of longwave radiation by greenhouse gases, and the re-radiated energy. You can try, but you'll very likely fail. Unless you have evidence that a greenhouse gas molecule has different radiative...

No...where are you getting this from? Well, for starters the study this OP is actually discussing is one great example. Many classes of organisms. http://theseamonster.net/wp-content/uploads/Poloczanska-et-al_NCC-2013.pdf Supplemental Information here...

Yes they did, but the map isn't temperature contours, it's a measure of species stability under changing climactic conditions. We already know that species distributions have been changing in adaptation to climate change. That's clear already.

Where does it show that? The map shows stability (green and white) and species loss (blue) when incorporating projected climate change. Those aren't temperature contours...

The surpluses from 1997-2008 totaled $105 billion, and the deficits since 2008 have totaled $160 billion. So according to Finance, we should be back to surpluses next year. With that back drop, when we finally get back to surpluses, what should be done? Infrastructure development? Health...

Denmark is now the sixth European nation to ban ritual slaughter. Muslims and Jews seem most upset that they weren't in discussion with the government before this ban was announced. Denmark Just Banned All Kosher And Halal Meats, Leaving Jews And Muslims Outraged | Elite Daily

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