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- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #16 2024
- How extreme was the Earth's temperature in 2023
- At a glance - Is the science settled?
- What is Mexico doing about climate change?
- 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #15
- Fact Brief - Did global warming stop in 1998?
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #15 2024
- EGU2024 - Picking and chosing sessions to attend virtually
- At a glance - The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is not causing global warming
- Climate Adam: Is Global Warming Speeding Up?
- 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #14
- Gigafact and Skeptical Science collaborate to create fact briefs
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #14 2024
- How can I make my retirement plan climate-friendly?
- At a glance - Global warming and the El Niño Southern Oscillation
- A data scientist’s case for ‘cautious optimism’ about climate change
- 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #13
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #13 2024
- You can start applying for the American Climate Corps next month
- At a glance - Human fingerprints on climate change rule out natural cycles
- Want clean electricity? These are the overlooked elected officials who get to decide.
- 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #12
- Climate - the Movie: a hot mess of (c)old myths!
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #12 2024
- Climate Adam: Could the Amazon Rainforest Collapse?
- At a glance - Does CO2 always correlate with temperature?
- The U.S. has never produced more energy than it does today
- 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #11
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #11 2024
- Cartoons: ‘At least I didn’t make things awkward’
Skeptic papers by argument
Total Number of Papers: 57
Climate sensitivity is low
- On the observational determination of climate sensitivity and its implications
(Year: 2011, Citations: 0) - On the determination of climate feedbacks from ERBE data
(Year: 2009, Citations: 17) - Reconciling observations of global temperature change
(Year: 2002, Citations: 13) - On the climatic implications of volcanic cooling
(Year: 1998, Citations: 35)
Hockey stick is broken
- Hockey sticks, principal components, and spurious significance (MM 2005)
(Year: 2005, Citations: 40)
Infrared Iris will reduce global warming
- Cloud and radiation budget changes associated with tropical intraseasonal oscillations
(Year: 2007, Citations: 19) - Does the Earth Have an Adaptive Infrared Iris?
(Year: 2001, Citations: 155)
IPCC is alarmist
- Reasoning about climate uncertainty
(Year: 2011, Citations: 0) - Overlooked issues in the US National climate and IPCC assessments
(Year: 2002, Citations: 22)
It's aerosols
- Climatic-Change in Britain - Is SO2 More Significant than CO2
(Year: 1992, Citations: 6) - Anthropo-generated Climate Change in Europe
(Year: 1992, Citations: 4)
It's cosmic rays
- What do we really know about the sun - Climate connection?
(Year: 1997, Citations: 18)
It's El Niño
- Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature
(Year: 2009, Citations: 6)
It's not bad
- Climate Change: Dangers of a Singular Approach and Consideration of a Sensible Strategy
(Year: 2009, Citations: 14) - Greenhouse gases and greenhouse effect
(Year: 2009, Citations: 1) - Greenhouse Warming May Moderate British Storminess
(Year: 1991, Citations: 2) - Surface Air-Temperature Response to Increasing Global Industrial Productivity - A Beneficial Greenhouse-Effect
(Year: 1991, Citations: 9)
It's not happening
- Introductory Paper on Paradigm Shift: Should We Change Emphasis in Greenhouse-Effect Research?
(Year: 2010, Citations: 1) - Was the 2003 European summer heat wave unusual in a global context?
(Year: 2006, Citations: 15) - Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years
(Year: 2003, Citations: 64) - Revised 21st century temperature projections
(Year: 2002, Citations: 1) - Nature of observed temperature changes across the United States during the 20th century
(Year: 2001, Citations: 13) - The continuing search for an anthropogenic climate change signal: Limitations of correlation-based approaches
(Year: 1997, Citations: 19) - Global warming - a reduced threat
(Year: 1992, Citations: 25) - Historical Temperature Trends in the United-States and the Effect of Urban-Population Growth
(Year: 1989, Citations: 35)
It's not us
- Quantifying the influence of anthropogenic surface processes and inhomogeneities on gridded global climate data (McKitrick & Michaels, 2007)
(Year: 2007, Citations: 4) - On global forces of nature driving the Earth's climate. Are humans involved?
(Year: 2006, Citations: 9) - Global warming and long-term climatic changes: a progress report
(Year: 2004, Citations: 8) - The relationship between near-surface air temperature over land and the annual amplitude of the atmosphere's seasonal CO2 cycle
(Year: 1999, Citations: 5)
It's planetary movements
- Empirical evidence for a celestial origin of the climate oscillations and its implications
(Year: 2010, Citations: 4)
It's the sun
- Implications of the secondary role of carbon dioxide and methane forcing in climate change: Past, present, and future
(Year: 2007, Citations: 8) - Phenomenological reconstructions of the solar signature in the Northern Hemisphere surface temperature records since 1600
(Year: 2007, Citations: 23) - Development of a multi-year climate prediction model
(Year: 2005, Citations: 4) - Climate hypersensitivity to solar forcing?
(Year: 2000, Citations: 20) - Variations of solar coronal hole area and terrestrial lower tropospheric air temperature from 1979 to mid-1998: astronomical forcings of change in earth's climate?
(Year: 2000, Citations: 34) - Inference of solar irradiance variability from terrestrial temperature changes, 1880-1993: An astrophysical application of the sun-climate connection
(Year: 1996, Citations: 35) - Evidence on the climate impact of solar variations
(Year: 1993, Citations: 7)
Models are unreliable
- Multidecadal Tendencies in ENSO and Global Temperatures Related to Multidecadal Oscillations
(Year: 2010, Citations: 0) - A Natural Constraint to Anthropogenic Global Warming
(Year: 2010, Citations: 0) - Validity of climate change forecasting for public policy decision making
(Year: 2009, Citations: 34) - Climate forcing by the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo
(Year: 2005, Citations: 0) - Likelihood of rapidly increasing surface temperatures unaccompanied by strong warming in the free troposphere
(Year: 2004, Citations: 7) - Climate change: detection and attribution of trends from long-term geologic data
(Year: 2004, Citations: 13) - Global Warming: Soon & Baliunas
(Year: 2003, Citations: 4) - Modeling climatic effects of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions: unknowns and uncertainties
(Year: 2001, Citations: 20) - Observed warming in cold anticyclones
(Year: 2000, Citations: 18) - Calculating the climatic impacts of increased CO(2): The issue of model validation
(Year: 2000, Citations: 1) - CO2-induced global warming: a skeptic's view of potential climate change
(Year: 1998, Citations: 10) - Observed changes in the diurnal temperature and dewpoint cycles across the United States
(Year: 1996, Citations: 11) - On the scientific basis for global warming scenarios
(Year: 1994, Citations: 14) - Some coolness concerning global warming
(Year: 1990, Citations: 300) - Some remarks on global warming
(Year: 1990, Citations: 3)
Polar bear numbers are increasing
- Polar bears of western Hudson Bay and climate change: Are warming spring air temperatures the ‘‘ultimate’’ survival control factor?
(Year: 2007, Citations: 14)
Temp record is unreliable
- A test of corrections for extraneous signals in gridded surface temperature data (McKitrick and Michaels 2004)
(Year: 2004, Citations: 1) - Analysis of adjustments to the United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) temperature database
(Year: 2002, Citations: 6) - Analysis of trends in the variability of daily and monthly historical temperature measurements
(Year: 1998, Citations: 22) - Predicted and observed long night and day temperature trends
(Year: 1995, Citations: 1)
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