Questioning Climate

"Correlation is NOT Causation" For quite some while now I have been interested in the Anthropogenic Global Warming (now "Climate Change") debate. No, it is not over, particularly for those people who have the integrity to do a little studying rather than relying upon what politicians and mainstream media say, particularly in the UK. On this website analyses, questions and opinions are aired in the hope that it might inspire others to reassess the science and policies associated with Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Bring science back out of the political arena and return it to solid facts-based truth!

The work contained in this website was undertaken in my spare time as an interest. I do not receive sponsorship or reward of any kind from any individual or organisation to pursue this activity. Furthermore, I have no affiliation with any political party nor any university.

NB: Due to the dynamic nature of the Internet, some of my external references and links may alter or become broken. However, this should not affect the validity of this work.

Latest News and Additions: 3/1/2011 GHCN Analysis. This builds upon 'The Influence of Station Numbers on Temperature' work. Two large warming biases were found in the raw average records of GHCN, along with a possible solar linkage. Note: This document is an early draft and contains some of my notes, and no doubt plenty of grammatical and other issues, however, the basic content is the important aspect. Available as pdf here. 3/1/2011 NEWS: The Influence of Station Numbers on Temperature analysis has been published (revised form) in ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, VOLUME 21 No. 8 2010 as:

THE INFLUENCE OF STATION NUMBERS ON TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT

20/5/2010 Will Satellite Mean Sea Levels Continue to Rise? Available as pdf here. 19/5/2010 Minor up-dates and website structure repairs. 5/5/2010 Here is my response to the UK Government statement to an Epetition regarding CRU. Available as pdf here. 18/3/2010 Here is a short analysis of UK (England & Wales) rainfall using Met Office figures: UK Rainfall Where is the Global Warming? Available as pdf here. 1/3/2010 I have revisited the Arctic sea ice extent study, Declining How Fast? It now includes area values of differences between the satellite measurements. Available as pdf here. 20/1/2010 Shall we take a look at the Met Office rankings of Central England Temperatures? 16/12/2009 Minor revision to How does Global Warming stack up against Annual Global Temperature? 6/12/2009 Watch videos explaining where the Copenhagen Treaty will take us: http://www.co2science.org/video/cop/cop15.php 27/11/2009 Here is a short document that puts into context the amount of global warming over the last 100 years and the amount of annual variation. How does Global Warming stack up against Annual Global Temperature? 17/11/2009 Added another coincidence for fun. Is the price of gold and global temperature linked? 16/11/2009 Could there be some problems with Biofuels that are not spoken about? Find out here. 13/10/2009 Blame the Met Office is a short piece to demonstrate how easy it is to use cumulative processes to match an unrelated dataset to rising carbon dioxide level. 10/10/2009 Per Capita Carbon has been extended to include the relationship with wealth (GDP). It also includes analysis of the relative efficiently of each sate in converting carbon to GDP. 17/9/2009 Per Capita Carbon has been turned into a short article. 8/9/2009 Per Capita Carbon page added. 6/9/2009 Several changes have been made with the most obvious being the menu. Nothing has disappeared but the locations may have. If you have problems finding a page, please use the website facilities. Also in this update is a page entitled 'Spot the UK Warming'. Go on, have a go, you know you want to! 1/9/2009 Section About the Author was added. 1/8/2009 Some new links added. These include a new blog called 'Keep a cool head on climate change' operated by The Freedom Association (TFA), presently chaired by Roger Helmer MEP. 30/6/2009 Sea Level Trends and some new links added. The Influence of Station Numbers on Temperature was updated. 26/6/2009 Big Oil. This explains some of the main reasons why the oil industry does not attack the AGW movement. 25/6/2009 An update has been presented regarding my paper "A Simple Method to Correct Carbon Dioxide Concentrations in Ice Core Data for Ice / Gas Age Difference Perturbations." 24/6/2009 I have realised that when the site is viewed on low resolution monitors not all the menu to the side is accessible. To overcome this, please use the link to the Site Map and navigate from there. 22/6/2009 Has the Sun been turned down? This is a relatively non-technical piece regarding solar activity. 20/6/2009 Having finally migrated to a new PC, or rather partially migrated, I have finally managed to get enough software running to make some additions here. An Arctic sea ice extent analysis has been added. This was a guest post on Jeff Id's blog some weeks ago. The Links page has been amended, and a few other items tweaked. 7/2/2009 Another prediction was added. This is actually a link to the new UN IPCC page where a crystal ball is used to predict effective carbon dioxide climate forcing in the year 2100. 4/2/2009 Various changes were made, the main items being update to MLO versus Global CO2, MLO data changes, Station Numbers and Temperature supplemental analysis, and Arctic Sea Ice. 23/11/2008 The Influence of Station Numbers on Temperature was updated. There is now an appendix where comparisons are made to satellite records. 17/11/2008 Some while ago I was inspired by an article by Ross McKitrick regarding station numbers and temperature. I did a little work and wrote a short article. In my usual way, I put it to one side and didn't publish it. Having just been reminded about it, I have placed it under the new title of Station Numbers. 29/10/2008 Having run into numerous discussions regarding the Cumulative process and its effect, I decided it was a good idea to demonstrate what it does through a few examples. Hence, the Cumulative Examples page was born. 9/10/2008 I have added a page named "In Progress" which is pretty much what it says. It is a selection from my notes, data analysis, graphs etc. from various aspects of my climate studies. This is by no means all; it is just some that I feel needs sharing at this particular time. 16/9/2008 Facts related to the Vostok ice-core corrections included on link page. "Power to the People" added. This is a response to the UK Conservative Party's energy policy. 8/9/2008 Small addition to Antarctica page. 29/8/2008 Corrected rounding error in Seasonal Differences. 14/8/2008 CO2 & Ocean pH has addition of further reading, an article by Dr J Floor Anthoni. 12/8/2008 Added CO2 & Ocean pH. The reference shows virtually no change in pH as a result of doubling atmospheric CO2. Extra links added. 7/8/2008 Update to Antarctica page. 3/8/2008 Antarctica page added. Is Antarctica isolated from Anthropogenic Global Warming? A white paper from

IPICS shows an interesting temperature profile for the continent of Antarctica.

1/7/2008 Added Gallery of "Temperature & CO2". Here you can find some examples of plots from peer reviewed papers showing that atmospheric CO2 cannot be driving temperatures. 9/6/2008 Added Links page and made some minor changes. 3/6/2008 A few minor changes here and there. 24/5/2008 Link to the revised paper was put up with a clear statement of ownership. 23/5/2008 I realised that there was confusion of authorship of my discussion paper. It was pulled and will be unavailable until such time as it has been revised.

19/5/2008 Added two galleries of graphs. One contains those from my paper and the other plots that I didn't include. 17/5/2008 Added "Vostok Ice Core" and my paper, entitled "A Simple Method to Correct Carbon Dioxide Concentrations in Ice Core Data for Ice / Gas Age Difference Perturbations." It ultimately suggests that CO2 ice-core data used as evidence of AGW is compromised. 10/5/2008 "Biofuels vs Food" was added. 4/5/2008 "Seasonal Differences" was added. Is this yet more evidence against AGW? 28/4/2008 Added First Model. The is a first pass attempt to model CET data. Minor revisions to some other pages. 17/4/2008 "Double Standards" added. AIT versus MoD in schools. 13/4/2008 "Responsibility" page was added. This is an essay on the personal responsibility of each and every scientist. 9/4/2008 "NOAA Atmospheric CO2" page was added, which highlights some differences between Mauna Loa and Global data sets. 6/4/2008 Added more quotes and commentary. 5/4/2008 Added "Quotes & Comments" page. 11/3/2008 Combined "More Coincidences" into "Coincidence?" page and added another example, this time geomagnetic field intensity in Toronto overlaying Global Temperature Anomaly. Also, some additions and clarity to the "Predictions" page. 30/1/2008 Added "More Coincidences?" section. 29/1/2008 Added more references to "Global Warming" section. Also made some minor revisions to the text. 28/1/2008 Added "Coincidence?" section. Is it coincidence that the change in the Earth's magnetic field correlates well with changes in global temperatures? 29/1/2007 I have made a few predictions and recorded them here. They are not exactly profound, nor necessarily unique, but I feel they are worth recording. Afterall, if they are not recorded then how can you be sure that they were predicted? 30/10/2006 Added analysis showing rates of change for each month over entire data set. 29/10/2006 Initial analysis of monthly CET climate data was added. 26/9/2006 Mean CET climate data analysis added.