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Giles, Weather balloon By Jo Nova Things are far far worse at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology than even we realized. “If you think your public forecasts have gotten worse, that’s because they have,” one meteorologist...

Things are hotting up. After all the hard work of the past few posts, the payoff begins. By solving the flaws inherent in the basic conventional model we solve some of its biggest missed-predictions. And the clincher for...

Who’s desperate to find the missing hot-spot? Sherwood’s new paper claims to have found it, but after years of multi-layered adjustments, and now kriging the gaps, and iteratively homogenizing, the results of...

The classic hot spot prediction (A) compared to 28 million weatherballoons (B). Click to enlarge. You won’t see this in the new report. It was a major PR failure in 2007. The IPCC won’t make the same mistake again....

Remember the evidence is overwhelming, and deniers deny the evidence. But in Oct 2012, two atmospheric scientists were reporting, yet again, the models are wrong. Twenty years after we started looking for the fingerprint...

It’s worse than we thought — again….

This is part of a series that Tony Cox and I are doing that references the most important points and papers, as a definitive resource about the evidence...

Some people claim that I mislead people. But it seems they are the misled — not by me, but by their own heroes.

Fu and Manabe agree the hot spot is missing GRL June 2011. Yet another study hunted for a form of the missing hot spot–  and again the results show the models are unable to make useful predictions. The upward rising...

Dr David Evans’ address to the Anti-Carbon-Tax rally, Perth Australia, 23 March 2011. Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen. The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro thin half-truths...

Emails are coming in about the latest attempt to announce that they’ve “found the hot-spot”: Thorne et at 2010. It’s already being used in NOAA press releases to repeat the same line about how a “new...

In the climate models, the critical hot spot is supposed to occur because (specific) humidity rises in the upper troposphere about 10km above the tropics...

This point is THE critical one. It was the first point raised in the Skeptics Handbook, developed in the Second Handbook; the point that Dr Glikson had no reply too; the point that tripped up Will Steffen, Deltoid, and John...

The Hawaiian Islands are one of the outstanding volcanic features on Earth, but their origins have been shrouded in mystery. Still in debate has been a theory proposed 40 years ago, which states that mid-tectonic plate hotspots...