By Andy May Lazard’s levelized cost of energy (LCOE) is cited on the internet all the time as the source for “solar and wind are cheaper than fossil fuels.” They…
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Climate, CO2, and the Sun
By Andy May Christian Freuer has translated this post into German here. In my previous post on multiple regression of known solar cycles versus HadCRUT5, I simply threw the solar…
Modeling HadCRUT5 with CO2 and without CO2
By Andy May I hate statistics, as many of you know. Some people think statistics and/or statistical models that meet standard statistical criteria are facts. The IPCC can be like…
John Constable’s talk at Universidad de las Hespérides
By Andy May h/t Wim Röst The Universidad de las Hespérides is in the Canary Islands, off the coast of Morocco. The Hespérides are the nymphs of the evening and…
Australia Warns Ferries about EVs
By Andy May h/t Don Keiller and Ken Gregory Australia’s Maritime Safety Authority has issued a domestic commercial vessel safety alert on the risks of ferrying battery powered cars (EVs),…
Can extreme heat make parts of the Earth too hot for humans?
By Andy May In another “How the hell did this paper pass peer-review?” incident we find yet another PNAS absurdity by Daniel Vecellio and colleagues (Link), that is described by…
Leah Stokes, PNAS, and Conflicts of Interest
By Andy May Leah Stokes is the senior author of a new paper in PNAS, Prevalence and predictors of wind energy opposition in North America, in which she blames White…
Marcel Crok Speaks in the Danish Parliament
By Andy May Clintel’s Marcel Crok gave the Keynote Lecture at the Climate Realism conference: The Climate Emergency is Canceled. The conference was in Copenhagen, Denmark in their beautiful Parliament…
A Conversation with Google Bard on the Consensus
By Andy May It turns out it is trivially easy to get Google’s AI product “Bard” to admit it is biased about climate change. Others, like Jonathan Cohler have managed…
More on the statistical dispute between Scafetta and Schmidt
By Andy May The argument about the proper way to estimate error in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) ERA5 weather reanalysis dataset between Nicola Scafetta and Gavin…
The Buzz about The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC
Our new book, The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC: An Analysis of AR6, is creating a lot of attention and excitement around the world. It is the first authoritative…
A Twitter Debate on Clintel’s IPCC AR6 Critique
By Andy May In May 2023, Clintel published a book (see figure 1) criticizing AR6 (IPCC, 2021), a publication that was supposed to summarize climate science research to date. We…
A Critique of AR6
By Andy May After more than two years of hard work, Marcel Crok, I, and 11 other scientists have finally published our critique of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
Open letter to Dr Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC
The following letter was sent to Dr. Lee, the Chair of the IPCC earlier today (May 25th, 2023) by Dr. A.J. (Guus) Berkhout, President of Clintel, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics,…
Is AR6 the worst and most biased IPCC Report?
By Andy May This is the text of my presentation on Tom Nelson’s podcast which can be viewed here. The question and answers start at about 18:15 into the interview.…
The Mysterious AR6 ECS, Part 4, converting observations to ECS
By Andy May Christian Freuer has translated this post to German here. In part one we discussed various estimates of climate sensitivity (ECS, TCR, and observation-based values) and what they…
The Mysterious AR6 ECS, Part 3, What is Climate Sensitivity?
By Andy May Christian Freuer has translated this post to German here. In part one we discussed various estimates of climate sensitivity (ECS, TCR, and observation-based values) and what they…
The Mysterious AR6 ECS, Part 2, the Impact of Clouds
By Andy May Christian Freuer has translated this post to German here. The yearly net impact of clouds on outgoing and incoming radiation varies over one W/m2 from year-to-year, according…
The Mysterious AR6 ECS, Part 1
By Andy May Christian Freuer has translated this post to German here. The climate sensitivity to CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) is arguably the most important number in the…
The error of the mean: a dispute between Gavin Schmidt and Nicola Scafetta
By Andy May You can read this post in German here, courtesy of Christian Freuer. Here we go again, writing on the proper use of statistics in climate science. Traditionally,…
Koonin wins in Cornell Oxford Style Debate
By Andy May Steve Koonin is still undefeated! The Steamboat Institute hosted a Campus Liberty Tour Oxford style debate at Cornell University on Mar 15, 2023. Drs. Steven Koonin and…
Atmospheric water vapor (TPW) and climate change
By Andy May Christian Freuer has translated this post into German here. In the latest IPCC major report, AR6, they report: “a best estimate of equilibrium climate sensitivity of 3°C,…
The Holocene Temperature Conundrum
By Andy May This post has been translated in German by Christian Freuer here. As my regular readers know, I’ve been writing about the Holocene, especially Holocene climate, for over…
Holocene CO2 and the earlier IPCC Reports
By Andy May This post has been translated into German by Christian Freuer here. As I noted in my earlier post, “The IPCC AR6 Report Erases the Holocene,” the IPCC…
