Monthly Archives: March 2009

Using old NASA imagery to look at Antarctic Ice in the 1960′s

Posted on March 31, 2009 by

From Space.com: Old Moon Images Get Modern Makeover WOODLANDS, Texas — Think of it as a space age twist to that adage: Something old, something new…something borrowed, something blue. Back in 1966 and 1967, NASA hurled a series of Lunar … Continue reading →

Posted in sea ice, space, Uncategorized | 114 Comments

Tipping Point In The Media

Posted on March 31, 2009 by

Guest Post by Steven Goddard Over the last year or so I have been taking an informal survey of a key news metric – Google news searches for the term “global warming.”  A year ago, the ratio of alarmist/skeptical articles … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, media | 133 Comments

Electric Utility sues New York over CO2 regulation

Posted on March 31, 2009 by

“Of course you realize, this means war!” – Bugs War has been declared in the New York court system over global warming regulation. Indeck Corinth L.P., which operates the Corinth Generating Station, an electric power plant in Corinth, NY, sued … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, energy | 70 Comments

Another record month at WUWT

Posted on March 31, 2009 by

Love it or hate it, WUWT gets traffic. This month was 1,478,801 page views. This is up significantly from both January (1,324,097) and February (1,168,852). As always, my sincere thanks to the many readers, commenters (even the angry ones, you … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 65 Comments

Dr. Roger Pielke Senior: support for CATO letter and advertisement

Posted on March 31, 2009 by

From Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. Climate Science Weblog There is a letter to the President published by the Cato Institute that headlines [thanks to ICECAPand Dr. Patrick J. Michaels to alerting us to it]; “Few challenges facing America and the world … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics | 252 Comments

Lindzen on negative climate feedback

Posted on March 30, 2009 by

NEW 4/10/09: There is an update to this post, see below the “read the rest of this entry” – Anthony Guest Post by Richard Lindzen, PhD. Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, MIT … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, modeling, Science | 487 Comments

Earth Hour in California – Success or Bust? The CAISO Power graph tells the story.

Posted on March 29, 2009 by

Earth Hour in California – Success or Bust? Guest post by Russ Steele, NCWatch At our house we set the timer to remind us to turn on all the visible out side lights.  We have multiple security lights on the … Continue reading →

Posted in energy | 227 Comments

Dr. Roy Spencer on publishing and climate sensitivity

Posted on March 29, 2009 by

Set Phasers on Stun March 29th, 2009 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. I’ve been receiving a steady stream of e-mails asking when our latest work on feedbacks in the climate system will be published. Since I’ve been trying to … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, modeling, Science | 113 Comments

Al Gore snubs Earth Hour

Posted on March 29, 2009 by

Al Gore Leaves The Light On For Ya From Nashvillepost.com By Kleinheider Even during Earth Hour. President of the Tennessee Center For Policy Research Drew Johnson takes a Saturday drive by Al Gore’s during the time most environmentalists went dark: … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, politics, ridiculae | 139 Comments

New feature: Quote of the Week#1

Posted on March 29, 2009 by

Given the thousands of comments made here weekly, I’ve decided to add a new feature to WUWT: Quote of the Week. It will be posted on Sundays. A commenter on WUWT summed up Earth Hour in a succinct way: I … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Quote of the Week | 60 Comments

North Dakota Floods Aggravated By “Global Warming”

Posted on March 29, 2009 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard Global warming has predictably struck again. White said climate change caused by global warming likely is changing ice conditions and adding to the unpredictability. Kate White is a civil engineer at the Army Cold Regions Research … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, ridiculae, weather | 184 Comments

How not to measure temperature, part 86: when in Rome, don’t do as the Romans do.

Posted on March 28, 2009 by

This is a preliminary post to a much more detailed one coming from my friend Paolo Mezzasalma. who is doing a tour of Italy’s weather stations. While there are significant and systemic problems with USHCN stations in the United States, … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI, weather_stations | 59 Comments

CA Academy of Science AGW display apparently not very popular

Posted on March 28, 2009 by

What are we teaching our children? Guest post by Russ Steele, NCwatch Ellen and I spent the day at the new California Academy of Science building yesterday and really enjoyed the experience, except for the crowds. I break out in … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, fun_stuff, Science | 77 Comments

Another volcano in Alaska erupts?

Posted on March 28, 2009 by

(h/t to Ron de Haan) This time it appears to be Mount Gareloi, something big is going on there seismically. The webicorder is going nuts. Update: I double checked the webicorder to see if it was still operating,  and it … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized, vulcanism | 26 Comments

Catlin Expedition: Impaired Judgment?

Posted on March 28, 2009 by

Guest post by Steve Goddard Reading through the recent blog posts of the Catlin expedition, it has become apparent that they have made errors in judgment.  Team member Martin Hartley is suffering from frostbite, and hasn’t been able to sleep … Continue reading →

Posted in sea ice | 195 Comments

WUWT Poll: What are you going to do for “Earth Hour”?:

Posted on March 27, 2009 by

Earth Hour hopes to shed light on climate By James Bruggers, USA TODAY New York City’s Empire State Building is scheduled to go dark for one hour Saturday night. So are the St. Louis Gateway Arch, the Golden Gate Bridge, … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, fun_stuff | 277 Comments

Ocean iron fertilization CO2 sequestration experiment a blooming failure

Posted on March 27, 2009 by

Ocean iron fertilization. Source: Woods Hole From the best laid plans of mice and men department. In the late 1980′s, the late John Martin advanced the idea that carbon uptake during plankton photosynthesis in many regions of the world’s surface … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, oceans | 255 Comments

Dust study suggests only 30% of Atlantic temp increase due to warming climate

Posted on March 26, 2009 by

(From PhysOrg.com h/t to Leif Svalgaard) — The recent warming trend in the Atlantic Ocean is largely due to reductions in airborne dust and volcanic emissions during the past 30 years, according to a new study. A new study by … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, hurricanes, oceans | 95 Comments

Admiration For The Catlin Explorers

Posted on March 26, 2009 by

Guest post by Steve Goddard Polar Bear On Thin Ice It is easy to become cynical about the motivations of some prominent figures in the global warming movement, but there are a few people who feel passionately enough about their … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, ridiculae | 159 Comments

Galactic Cosmic Rays May Be Responsible For The Antarctic Ozone Hole

Posted on March 26, 2009 by

NOTE: It has been pointed out to me by an email from a regular WUWT reader that some people get a different conclusion from the headline other than what I was thinking of.  So, for those who didn’t read the … Continue reading →

Posted in ozone, Science, space | 114 Comments

New Sun-Watching Instrument to Monitor Sunlight Fluctuations

Posted on March 26, 2009 by

From Physorg.com March 23rd, 2009 in Space & Earth / Space Exploration Enlarge During periods of peak activity (front three images) sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections are more common, and the sun emits slightly more energy than during … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 72 Comments

Freeman Dyson: speaking out on “global warming”

Posted on March 25, 2009 by

This is a well written essay by the New York times on Freeman Dyson. Dyson is one of the world’s most eminent physicists. As many WUWT readers know he is a skeptic of AGW aka “global warming”, even going so … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 159 Comments

Compared to the Sun’s power, we are a fly speck on an elephant’s butt

Posted on March 25, 2009 by

Note: A number of people sent this to me. This is a fictional account of what might happen if we get a large solar event, such as a Coronal Mass Ejection, pointed directly at earth. Given that we are truly … Continue reading →

Posted in earth, energy, Science, solar, space | 169 Comments

UV-Resistant Bacteria Discovered In the Stratosphere

Posted on March 25, 2009 by

I have no idea what if anything this might mean, but it would be interesting to find out what these bacteria consume and respire. It just goes to show you that we don’t yet know everything about the atmosphere. – … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 50 Comments

Study of hemispheric CO2 timing suggests that annual increases may be coming from a global or equatorial source

Posted on March 24, 2009 by

Reposted from Jennifer Marohasy The Available Evidence Does Not Support Fossil Fuels as the Source of Increasing Concentrations of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (Part 1) Because the increase in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has correlated with an increase in … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide | 260 Comments