Monthly Archives: May 2009

Arctic Sea Ice Time Lapse from 1978 to 2009 using NSIDC data

Posted on May 31, 2009 by

Jeff Id at the Air Vent has been doing some interesting work lately. Before the NSIDC Arctic Sea Ice anomaly plot went kaput due to failure of the satellite sensor channel they have been using, they had created a vast … Continue reading →

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Posted in Arctic, Oceans, Sea ice | 191 Comments

Divining images in the clouds

Posted on May 31, 2009 by

Everyone see things in the clouds. People, animals, Christ on the cross,  UFO’s, angels, and even schizophrenically imagined chemical attacks by contrails. You name it, somebody has seen it. So when I was prodded with a news item that said … Continue reading →

Posted in Earth, Fun_stuff, Weather | 86 Comments

New Cycle 24 spots emerging

Posted on May 31, 2009 by

Michael Ronayne writes: To the right of the burned out pixel, a second Sunspot group, with two spots, is forming which can be seen in this image: The burned out pixel between the two groups is a fairly common issue … Continue reading →

Posted in Solar | 117 Comments

Scientists Issue Unprecedented Forecast of Next Sunspot Cycle

Posted on May 30, 2009 by

This is an official NCAR News Release (National Center for Atmospheric Research) Apparently, they have solar forecasting techniques down to a “science”, as boldly demonstrated in this press release. – Anthony Scientists Issue Unprecedented Forecast of Next Sunspot Cycle BOULDER—The … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, Solar | 213 Comments

U.N.’s ‘Global Warming=300,000 Deaths a Year’ Report – Kofi Annan implies: “close enough for government work”

Posted on May 30, 2009 by

Many of you have probably heard by now of  the UN. Report saying that “global warming is killing 300,000 people a year”. There’s a Times Online Story (h/t to Gary Boden) about it today that has some startling admissions. Here … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate_change, Economy-health, Politics, Ridiculae | 124 Comments

Geothermal Ice Circles in Russia’s Lake Baikal?

Posted on May 30, 2009 by

In the “Steig et al – falsified” thread, since we have been discussing geothermal activity along the Antarctic peninsula, I thought I’d pass along these images that show other parts of the planet where geothermal heat seems capable of melting … Continue reading →

Posted in Earth, Vulcanism | 68 Comments

Steig et al – falsified

Posted on May 29, 2009 by

Jeff Id of The Air Vent emailed me today inviting me to repost Ryan O’s latest work on statistical evaluation of the Steig et al “Antarctica is warming” paper ( Nature, Jan 22, 2009) I thought long and hard about … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Science, Weather_stations | 225 Comments

How not to measure temperature, part 87: Grilling in the cornhusker state

Posted on May 28, 2009 by

One of the common themes seen with the surfacestations.org project has been the proximity of BBQ grills to official NOAA thermometers used in the United States Historical Climate Network (USHCN). Despite now having surveyed over 77% of the 1221 station … Continue reading →

Posted in Weather_stations | 77 Comments

The ‘Baby Grand’ has arrived

Posted on May 27, 2009 by

No we aren’t talking pianos, but Grand Solar Minimums. Today a new milestone was reached. As you can see below, we’ve been leading up to it for a few years. (Update: based on comments, I’ve updated the graph above to … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, Solar | 286 Comments

Tornado Season So Far Not as Bad as 2008

Posted on May 27, 2009 by

WUWT readers may remember last year that we had an early outbreak of Tornado season, and media opportunist Senator John Kerry immediately jumped at the chance to blame the weather event on “global warming” as we reported here on WUWT: … Continue reading →

Posted in Weather | 24 Comments

Canada Has a Frigid May after a Cold Winter

Posted on May 27, 2009 by

By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, ICECAP May has been frigid slowing the planting and emergence of the summer crops in Canada. Late freezes and even snows are still occurring regularly and can be expected the rest of the month. See larger … Continue reading →

Posted in Weather | 119 Comments

How not to make a climate photo op

Posted on May 26, 2009 by

You have to wonder- what were these guys thinking? The only media visual they could have chosen that would send a worse message of forecast certainty was a dart board…or maybe something else? From Popular Science: The Greenhouse Gamble: Ronald … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 250 Comments

NSIDC pulls the plug on Arctic Sea Ice Graphs

Posted on May 26, 2009 by

During the the last week, NSIDC graphs of arctic sea ice extent have been dropping so steeply that many have called them into question. Finally NSIDC ended the daily updates and have left the last “good” image of May 21st … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, Sea ice | 115 Comments

Guess the Weather Station City and Country

Posted on May 25, 2009 by

You may have noticed that I have been absent from WUWT for a few days. The stories have been on scheduled automated posting, and the WUWT team of moderators has held down the fort (thank you). The reason is that … Continue reading →

Posted in Fun_stuff, Weather_stations | 90 Comments

MIT: Global Warming of 7°C ‘Could Kill Billions This Century’

Posted on May 25, 2009 by

By Steven Goddard Some readers may remember the 1961 film “The Day the Earth Caught Fire”. It could be viewed as the original “climate alarmist” film as it contains all of the plot elements of our current climate alarmism scenarios: … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Earth, media, Modeling, Ridiculae | 290 Comments

Renewable energy – our downfall?

Posted on May 25, 2009 by

This essay below from Ralph Ellis was posted in comments a couple of days ago, and I decided to promote it to a full post. For the record, let me say that I support some of the renewable energy ideas, … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy | 382 Comments

Disproving The Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) Problem

Posted on May 24, 2009 by

Reposted from The Air Vent Disproving The Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) Problem Leonard Weinstein, ScD April 25, 2009 A theory has been proposed that human activity over about the last 150 years has caused a significant rise in Earth’s average … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Climate data, Climate_change | 256 Comments

Energy Availability Is Almost Infinite

Posted on May 24, 2009 by

By Steven Goddard Energy Shortage? A favorite excuse to push the AGW agenda is that “energy is limited, so we have to preserve it for future generations.”  But nothing could be further from the truth.  As that clever fellow Albert … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, Technology | 140 Comments

Evidence of a Lunisolar Influence on Decadal and Bidecadal Oscillations In Globally Averaged Temperature Trends

Posted on May 23, 2009 by

Basil Copeland and Anthony Watts Image from NASA GSFC Many WUWT readers will remember that last year we presented evidence of what we thought was a “solar imprint” in globally averaged temperature trends.  Not surprisingly, given the strong interest  and … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, Solar | 233 Comments

Limitations on Anthropogenic Global Warming

Posted on May 22, 2009 by

by Leonard Weinstein, ScD March 1, 2009 reposted from The Air Vent It is not obvious what the ideal temperature and CO2 level should be for mankind. We tend to assume that the average of whatever has occurred in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Climate_change | 109 Comments