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by Judith Curry Beto O’Rourke’s Climate Change Plan deserves a close look. For those of you not in the U.S., Beto O’Rourke is one of the 20+ candidates vying for the Democratic Party nomination for the Presidential...

by Judith Curry Are all of the ‘worst-case’ climate scenarios and outcomes described in assessment reports, journal publications and the media plausible? Are some of these outcomes impossible? On the other hand, are there...

by Judith Curry Part II:  what causes variations and changes in hurricane activity? 4. Detection and attribution of changes in hurricane activity  If oceans are getting warmer as a result of climate change, so the argument...

by Judith Curry Part II:  what causes variations and changes in hurricane activity? 4. Detection and attribution of changes in hurricane activity  If oceans are getting warmer as a result of climate change, so the argument...

As I reported before, the US collected record income tax revenues after the tax cut.  This is due to higher real wages as well as more people working.  So lower tax = higher receipts for the federal government.  This is...

A common opinion (e,g, Scott Adams) is that the “other proxies”, not just Mann’s stripbark bristlecone tree rings, establish Hockey Stick...

Texas has 15.8 million registered voters of which 58,000 had at one point provided identification that showed they were not citizens.    This equates to 0.36% of the voting population which self identified as a non-citizen...

We are told again and again that cutting taxes increases the deficit.  It’s so bad that people have invented stupid programs like the penny plan (which Hannity really promotes) and paygo which used to be Republican...

The PAGES (2017) North American network consists entirely of tree rings. Climate Audit readers will recall the unique role of North American stripbark bristlecone chronologies in Mann et al 1998 and Mann et al 2008 (and in...

by Nic Lewis A close reading of Chapters 1 and 2 of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15) reveals some interesting changes from the IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5), and other science-relevant statements....

The most recent large-scale compilation of proxy records over the past two millennia is PAGES (2017).  They made a concerted effort to archive data (to the credit of Julien Emile-Geay), archiving 692 series, but they perpetuated...

by Patrick J. Michaels We’ve long been fond of showing the satellite evidence for planetary greening caused by increasing carbon dioxide, particularly the work of Zhu et al.(2016): Figure 1: Trends in Leaf Area Index around...

Central to the Mueller indictment is attribution to Russia of a spearphishing campaign from domains then located in Romania. It is therefore more than a little surprising that one of these spearphishing domains is not only...

by Judith Curry Countdown to the ‘conversation’ between Mann, Titley, Moore, Curry.  Looks like you can now register for the live broadcast, for a fee of $10 [link]. I will post my talk about 15 minutes before...

Jordan Peterson, a fellow Torontonian who is obviously not shy about challenging authority, recently cited the World Health Organization (WHO) on Douma chemical attacks as follows: WHO says: “Bombs were dropped at...