Monthly Archives: May 2009

Comparing the Four Global Temperature Data Sets

Posted on May 19, 2009 by

Reposted from Jennifer Marohasy’s website. THERE are four official global temperature data sets and there has been much debate and discussion as to which best represents change in global temperature. Tom Quirk has analysed variations within and between these data … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 172 Comments

New Honda Hybrid: “to get an idea of how awful it is, you’d have to sit a dog on a ham slicer”

Posted on May 19, 2009 by

Don’t get me wrong, I like new technology, and improved fuel economy too, but I just had to show this auto review excerpt from the Sunday Times because, well, it’s just so darn funny. BTW to the potential hate mail … Continue reading →

Posted in fun_stuff, Technology | 214 Comments

Recent Differences Between GISS and NCDC SST Anomaly Data And A Look At The Multiple NCDC SST Datasets

Posted on May 18, 2009 by

OR…. There are Increases in Trend with Each Update While The Causes of Downward Biases Are Deleted Guest Essay by Bob Tisdale: In the recent WUWT post Something hinky this way comes: NCDC data starts diverging from GISS, the differences … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 97 Comments

Why the SWPC F10.7 radio flux graph is wrong

Posted on May 18, 2009 by

Leif Svalgaard writes: “Several people asked why I said that the SWPC F10.7 graph was ‘just wrong’. And I promised a follow up on that. Here it is.” Happy to oblige! For reference, here is the original graph from SWPC. … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 82 Comments

Glasgow Looking To Freeze In The Dark

Posted on May 18, 2009 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard What Is Wrong With This Picture? The Telegraph has an article today about the latest addition to the UK wind energy grid, described as “Europe’s largest onshore wind farm at Whitelee.” The article says : … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, weather | 284 Comments

Something hinky this way comes: NCDC data starts diverging from GISS

Posted on May 18, 2009 by

I got an email today from Barry Hearn asking me if I knew what was going on with the NCDC data set. It seems that it has started to diverge from GISS, and now is significantly warmer in April 2009. … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 129 Comments

Catlin Artic Ice Survey: An Annie Hall Moment

Posted on May 17, 2009 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080424/annie-hall_l.jpg In Woody Allen’s classic 1977 movie “Annie Hall,” there is a wonderful scene in a theatre queue where he is having a heated argument with a Columbia University academic about the meaning of Marshall … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, ridiculae, sea ice | 152 Comments

Quote of the week #8 – Monbiot: “looks like I’ve boobed”

Posted on May 17, 2009 by

Image from WUWT reader “Boudu” The Guardian’s George Monbiot suffers (at his own expense) from excessive zeal in trying to disprove a statement by Telegraph Columnist, Christopher Booker, in his post: How to disprove Christopher Booker in 26 seconds I … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, media, Quote of the Week, ridiculae | 171 Comments

The Guardian Relocates The North Pole By 500km

Posted on May 16, 2009 by

By Steven Goddard The Catlin crew was picked up this week, after completing less than 50% of their planned journey to the North Pole and coming up about 500km short.  Immediately upon their return, The Guardian reported : After 73 … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic | 197 Comments

The rubbish is coming! One if by land, two if by sea

Posted on May 16, 2009 by

This post on sea level reality came up in comments, posted by the author of the Climate Sanity website, Tom Moriarty. Tom did an excellent job of visually illustrating the history of Boston Harbor and man’s plight in dealing with … Continue reading →

Posted in sea level | 149 Comments

Scientific Jargon – “Would” “Will” “Could” “Might” “Maybe”

Posted on May 15, 2009 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard http://gothamist.com/attachments/jake/2006_1_bigwave1.jpg The BBC has perfected the use of weasel words to create alarm.  They have a lead story today : The collapse of a major polar ice sheet will not raise global sea levels as … Continue reading →

Posted in media | 134 Comments

Audio from the NOAA/SWPC press teleconference

Posted on May 15, 2009 by

Well, it took me a week to get it, and finally here it is. Last Friday, May 9th as you may recall NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center had a teleconference which I was not invited to listen in on. But, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 36 Comments

Uh, oh. 50 year old ocean thermohaline model sinking fast, climate models may be disrupted

Posted on May 15, 2009 by

Another “observations are not models” story is emerging. For more on the status quo of thermohaline circulation, see this Wiki  article – Anthony Deep Ocean Conveyor Belt Reconsidered From Peter Etnoyer on Deep Sea News (h/t to Jason) Science Daily … Continue reading →

Posted in measurement, modeling, oceans, Science | 139 Comments

Natural petroleum seeps release equivalent of eight to 80 Exxon Valdez oil spills

Posted on May 15, 2009 by

Public release date: 13-May-2009 (from EurekAlert) Contact: Stephanie Murphy media@whoi.edu 508-289-3340 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Natural petroleum seeps release equivalent of eight to 80 Exxon Valdez oil spills Study off Santa Barbara is first to quantify oil in sediments A … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans | 145 Comments

The Solar Radio Microwave Flux

Posted on May 14, 2009 by

UPDATE: The SWPC press conference audio is now available, hear it here Shortly after SWPC dropped on their website their still invisible “press conference” ( I have yet to get the link to audio, even though requested twice from Doug … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 138 Comments

Now THAT’S a commencement speech

Posted on May 14, 2009 by

This speech at the 22nd Annual UVU Symposium on Environmental Ethics, held April 1st and 2nd at Utah Valley University is one of the most sensible and pragmatic ones I have ever read. It would have made a better commencement … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, presentations | 166 Comments

Your chance to tell NOAA/NWS what you think about “climate services”.

Posted on May 14, 2009 by

A letter from the NWS: Greetings, You are invited to take part in the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Climate Services Customer Satisfaction Survey open until Wednesday,  June 10^th 2009. The NWS Climate Services Program is committed to meeting the … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, climate data | 37 Comments

Arctic (Non) Warming Since 1958

Posted on May 13, 2009 by

Guest Post by Steven Goddard From time to time we hear that various places on earth have been “warming much faster than the rest of the planet – as predicted by “the models.”  One of the places commonly mentioned in … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic | 193 Comments

Leaked OMB CO2 memo: “no demonstrated direct health effects”

Posted on May 13, 2009 by

All is not well in CO2 regulation land. You may have heard about a leaked memo from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that questions the EPA findings on CO2 being a “threat to human health”. BTW there is … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, economy-health, politics | 185 Comments

La Niña fading, El Niño may soon return

Posted on May 13, 2009 by

Source: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data/anomnight.5.11.2009.gif Bill Illis writes in comments: The newest Ocean SST map shows the La Nina conditions have gone away and we are in slightly positive ENSO conditions. Also interesting is that the negative PDO seems to be moving back … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, oceans, PDO | 113 Comments

’90% of the last million years, the normal state of the Earth’s climate has been an ice age’

Posted on May 13, 2009 by

From the American Thinker The Coming Ice Age By David Deming Those who ignore the geologic perspective do so at great risk.  In fall of 1985, geologists warned that a Columbian volcano, Nevado del Ruiz, was getting ready to erupt.  … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, climate_change, earth | 129 Comments

Snow in Saudi Arabia in May?

Posted on May 12, 2009 by

From the Saudi Gazette In one of the rare occasions, Saudis enjoy the snowfall in Al-Baha city south-west of Riyadh, Tuesday. Torrential rains pouring down on Al-Baha accompanied by gusty winds were accompanied by snow capping the mountains and covering … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 66 Comments

NCDC’s USHCN2 paper: some progress, some duck and cover

Posted on May 12, 2009 by

The fact that my work is mentioned by NCDC at all is a small miracle, even if it is “muted”, as Roger says. However, I’m pleased to get a mention and I express my thanks to Matt Menne for doing … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, UHI, weather_stations | 62 Comments

Caption this photo

Posted on May 12, 2009 by

WUWT reader David Summers sends this photo along taken a few days ago in 2007 in Australia from a colleague that “returned there for the summer”. I thought it might make a fun photo caption exercise.

Posted in fun_stuff | 220 Comments

Spencer on an alternate view of CO2 increases

Posted on May 12, 2009 by

This interesting essay by Dr. Spencer is reposted from his blog, link here: Global Warming Causing Carbon Dioxide Increases: A Simple Model May 11th, 2009 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Global warming theory assumes that the increasing carbon dioxide … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, modeling, oceans | 282 Comments