Monthly Archives: July 2008

Nutty Story of the Day #2: whitewashing the ocean

Posted on July 21, 2008 by

How much lime does it take to treat the whole ocean? Where have we heard this before? Oh yes, dump powdered iron into the ocean. That one didn’t happen yet. Sure, let’s just toss a bunch of lime into the ocean and … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, ridiculae, Science | 82 Comments

Nutty Story of the Day: “Global Warming” is Killing the Penguins in Antarctica

Posted on July 20, 2008 by

This picture is my own choice – it is not related to the UK Mirror story You have to wonder how the press allows stories like these to get published without some basic fact checking. I’m reminded of the recent … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science, weather | 79 Comments

Why Does NASA GISS Oppose Satellites?

Posted on July 20, 2008 by

A Modest Proposal For A Better Data Set Reposted from Warren Meyers website: Climate Skeptic. One of the ironies of climate science is that perhaps the most prominent opponent of satellite measurement of global temperature is James Hansen, head of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 79 Comments

Shifting of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from its warm mode to cool mode assures global cooling for the next three decades.

Posted on July 20, 2008 by

Foreword: Don J. Easterbrook sent me this essay on Friday for publication here, but with the dustup over Monckton’s paper and the APS, I decided to hold off publishing it for a bit. For background, see Easterbrook’s web page here. … Continue reading →

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American Physical Society and Monckton at odds over paper

Posted on July 19, 2008 by

Two days ago I posted on this story in this blog related to APS opening up debate on climate change. It appears Lord Monckton did in fact have his paper, Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered,  reviewed by APS, and he drafted revisions … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 257 Comments

Cedarville Sausage

Posted on July 18, 2008 by

A guest post by John Goetz [Update: I cross-posted this on CA and in the process added the brief discussion of night lights as well as made some minor text changes. I have reflected all of those changes here] In … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 29 Comments

Fabricating Temperatures on the DEW Line

Posted on July 17, 2008 by

Would you want to do this every day? Stevenson Screen placement in relation to heated buildings- click for larger image Today I received an email that contained some startling revelations about the Weather Stations that were put in place on … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science, weather_stations | 83 Comments

APS Editor Reverses Position on Global Warming- cites “Considerable presence” of skeptics

Posted on July 17, 2008 by

Viscount Monckton gives a presentation during the 2007 Conference on Climate Change From Mike Asher at the DailyTech: The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science | 333 Comments

Latest NOAA Press Release in Total Disagreement with NASA Satellite

Posted on July 16, 2008 by

Joe D’Aleo, CCM, Fellow of the AMS It was the eighth warmest June on record for the globe, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Wednesday in the 129 years since records began in 1880. And the first six months … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science | 74 Comments

Kidney Stones and Global Warming – Again

Posted on July 16, 2008 by

This bizarre story is once again in the news, thanks to pillars of journalism like Time Magazine covering it, it is now a wide topic of discussion. I’ll point out that I covered this story when it was a “nobody”, on May … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 19 Comments

Sun in deep slumber: 10.7 solar flux hits record low value

Posted on July 16, 2008 by

NRC Canada’s FTP site which logs the daily 10.7 centimeter (2800 megahertz) radio flux from the sun just reported what appears to be a new record low in the observed data. 64.2 at 1700 UTC Source data is here The … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 119 Comments

The importance of measuring temperature away from human influence

Posted on July 15, 2008 by

Many of you have followed my “how not to measure temperature” series showing many examples of the folly of thermometer placement in the USHCN network. But what about the rest of the world? One of the most important things we … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, fun_stuff, Science, Uncategorized, weather_stations | 50 Comments

How not to measure temperature, part 67

Posted on July 15, 2008 by

Guest Post by Russ Steele After a two day search for the Buffalo Bill Dam Stevenson Screen listed in the NCDC Data base as COOP 4871175, Ellen and I found this surface station at the old power plant in a … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, weather_stations | 25 Comments

When Graphs Attack!

Posted on July 14, 2008 by

Yesterday I showed satellite imagery of the North Pole and areas into northern Canada. It was still quite icebound. Today I offer this graph from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, which was oft cited back in early June … Continue reading →

Posted in sea ice | 208 Comments

Satellite Imagery Shows Arctic Ice Still Unmelted

Posted on July 13, 2008 by

There has been a great deal of speculation about the possibility that the arctic sea ice could, at the worst case, melt entirely, or more realistic, possibly break the record sea ice melt set last year. Judge for yourself. This photo … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 162 Comments

Four scientists: Global Warming Out, Global Cooling In

Posted on July 12, 2008 by

Alan Lammey, Texas Energy Analyst, Houston Four scientists, four scenarios, four more or less similar conclusions without actually saying it outright — the global warming trend is done, and a cooling trend is about to kick in. The implication: Future … Continue reading →

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Hansen: “not interested”

Posted on July 10, 2008 by

I was stunned by Dr. James Hansen’s response in this article in the Virgina Informer Excerpt: “For this fall,” the organizer wrote in his e-mail to Mr. Hansen, “we are hoping to host a debate on global climate change and its implications. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 327 Comments

Life in California: not fun at the moment

Posted on July 10, 2008 by

This has been one of the roughest years I can remember living here. We’ve had two massive wind storms (one of which damaged my Stevenson Screens used for the paint test), and lightning induced fires on a massive scale. Life … Continue reading →

Posted in local_issues, weather | 50 Comments

Brookings Oregon hits record high of 108, but official USHCN climate station says otherwise.

Posted on July 9, 2008 by

The Oregonian posted this news story below of a new high temperature of 108 being set in Brookings, OR under “breaking news”. The town newspaper, the Curry Coastal Pilot, had this breathless front page story along with a picture of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 53 Comments

Psychiatrists have detected the first case of “climate change delusion”

Posted on July 9, 2008 by

From Andrew Bolt at the Herald Sun: PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of “climate change delusion” – and they haven’t even yet got to Kevin Rudd and his global warming guru. Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 68 Comments

GISS Ts+dSST Numbers Are In

Posted on July 9, 2008 by

by John Goetz The GISS Ts+dSST numbers are in. June comes in at 26, continuing the downward trend at GISS and making it the seventh lowest anomaly this decade. Lots of history was rewritten by the June temperature, with 89 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 80 Comments

From South Dakota: two more of NCDC’s “high quality” surface stations today

Posted on July 8, 2008 by

A Guest Post by: Russ Steele As one of Anthony Watts’ Surfaces Station Survey volunteers, I visited the stations at Hot Springs, SD and New Castle, WY today and was not impressed with the quality of these stations. And one … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 24 Comments

California Wildfires: not global warming, but “business as usual” for nature

Posted on July 8, 2008 by

There has been the usual blame game tossed about in some news stories and letters to the editor about the fires in California being caused by “global warming”. To that I say, “bunk”. The main reason is a shift in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 26 Comments

Climate Change – Who is allowed to opine?

Posted on July 8, 2008 by

Guest post by John Goetz A story appeared briefly yesterday on the CNN homepage titled Ruthless drought in West Timor puts children in crisis. There is no doubt that this particular drought – like so many throughout history – is … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, Science, Uncategorized | 75 Comments

How not to measure temperature, part 66

Posted on July 7, 2008 by

The MMTS system introduced by the National Weather Service in the mid 1980′s continues to be the Achilles heel of the surface observation network. Intrepid surfacestations volunteer Don Kostuch finds another poorly sited USHCN station in America’s midwest. Click for … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science, weather_stations | 55 Comments