Daily Archives: May 6, 2009

Sun blasts a CME, the question though: will we see a Cycle 24 spot?

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From Spaceweather.com NASA’s STEREO-B spacecraft is monitoring an active region hidden behind the sun’s eastern limb. On May 5th, it produced an impressive coronal mass ejection (movie) and a burst of Type II radio emissions caused by a shock wave … Continue reading →

Posted in solar | 113 Comments

The Global Warming Hypothesis and Ocean Heat

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Guest Post By William DiPuccio Albert Einstein once said, “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”  Einstein’s words express a foundational principle of science intoned by the logician, Karl Popper:  Falsifiability.  … Continue reading →

Posted in modeling, oceans | 286 Comments

A note to WUWT readers; an experiment

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Given the traffic that has put WUWT in the top WordPress blogs on a semi-regular basis (see below) I have been given a unique opportunity by the kind people that run the WordPress.com free hosting service. This wasn’t just a … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 153 Comments

Dealing with climate change in the context of other, more urgent threats to human and environmental well-being

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Guest post by: Indur M. Goklany In a series of posts (collected here) we saw that no matter how significant climate change may seem when viewed in isolation, it pales in significance when compared with other global problems, at least … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, economy-health | 58 Comments

Jim Hansen calls Cap and Trade the “Temple of Doom”

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Note: this letter from Dr. Jim Hansen of NASA GISS is reprinted below unedited, exactly in email as it was received by me, including the title below. You can reference a PDF version on his Columbia U page here I’ll … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, carbon credits | 253 Comments

Founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change: ‘Time to ditch consensus’

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Top British boffin: Time to ditch the climate consensus Don’t use science to get round politics, says Hulme By Stuart Blackman the UK Register EXCERPTS: Interview Just two years ago, Mike Hulme would have been about the last person you’d … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics | 80 Comments

Eco Sailors Rescued by “Big Oil” Tanker:

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from: Eco-sailors rescued by oil tanker An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a 5,000-mile carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker. Raoul Surcouf, Richard Spink and skipper Ben Stoddart sent a mayday … Continue reading →

Posted in ridiculae | 84 Comments