Monthly Archives: May 2009

PDO — ENSO, Aleutian Low, or some of each?

Posted on May 12, 2009 by

PDO — ENSO, Aleutian Low, or some of each? Guest Post by Basil Copeland Introduction In a recent post here at WUWT, as well as on his own blog, Bob Tisdale challenged the popular view that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, oceans, PDO | 61 Comments

Another “weather is not climate” story

Posted on May 11, 2009 by

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOAA: April Temperatures Slightly Cooler Than Average for U.S. May 8, 2009 The April 2009 temperature for the contiguous United States was below the long-term average, based on records going back to 1895, according to an analysis … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 212 Comments

Catlin Arctic Ice Survey Packing It Up – What Have They Accomplished?

Posted on May 11, 2009 by

Guest Post by Steven Goddard http://www.surfersvillage.com/gal/pictures/ArcticSunbathe-Francois_Len.jpg According to the Catlin website, the team plans to leave the Arctic later this week.  I believe that they have done a fantastic job educating the public about the Arctic.  Their mission has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, ridiculae | 129 Comments

Quote of the week #7

Posted on May 11, 2009 by

Image from WUWT reader “Boudu” WUWT commenter “philincalifornia” writes about Lockwood’s comment in National Geographic about the state of our sun and predictions of a quiet period and possibly a cooling trend, but adds an interesting twist:

Posted in fun_stuff, Quote of the Week | 46 Comments

A report on the Surfacestations Project with 70% of the USHCN surveyed.

Posted on May 10, 2009 by

I know many of you have wondered when I would post an update about the www.surfacestations.org project. That wait is over. You can now download the PDF of the publication reporting on what the project has found with 70% of … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, weather_stations | 158 Comments

Solar Scientist Ken Tapping: “No sign of the new cycle yet”

Posted on May 10, 2009 by

Ken Tapping: One year on into the minimum From John A’s  solarscience.auditblogs.com I’ve just been in e-mail correspondance with Dr Kenneth Tapping, asking him to comment on the progress of the solar minimum and his opinion on the likely size … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 166 Comments

Post an Opinion, Go To Jail

Posted on May 9, 2009 by

There are times when I really don’t enjoy living in California, this is one of them. The idea for a law, by  Rep. Linda Sanchez, Democrat, of California is sheer lunacy. She has proposed a bill that would make it … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, ridiculae | 148 Comments

The “precarious state of the U.S. polar bear population”

Posted on May 9, 2009 by

Today’s MSM is woefully inept at catching mistakes. Worse, reporters are often woefully inadequate at getting facts straight in the first place. And, with instant electronic distribution, it is much like the imaginary Roman vomitorium; eat, regurgitate, rinse, and repeat. … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, media, ridiculae | 54 Comments

Global Warming clause won’t be used to protect polar bears, ecos plan to sue

Posted on May 8, 2009 by

On one hand, we have a sensible decision, on the other, no good deed goes unpunished. – Anthony From the Los Angeles Times U.S. global warming rules won’t change to help polar bears Excerpts from the LA Times story The … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, politics | 74 Comments

Our Current Minimum is More Maunder than Dalton

Posted on May 8, 2009 by

Guest Post by David Archibald This is a plot of three year windows on the Maunder and Dalton Minimum and the current minimum: What it is showing is how the start of the current minimum compares with the starts of … Continue reading →

Posted in solar | 235 Comments

NOAA SWPC Solar Cycle 24 Prediction: “weakest since 1928″

Posted on May 8, 2009 by

The new cycle 24 solar forecast is hot off the press from noon today, published at 12:03 PM from the Space Weather Prediction Center.  It looks like a peak of 90 spots/month in May of 2013 now. SWPC has dropped … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting, solar | 265 Comments

A note on ICECAP

Posted on May 8, 2009 by

Many have inquired in comments what’s happened to the ICECAP website. My query to Joe D’Aleo was answered this morning, looks like servicide. I noticed the outage yesterday, AM.  I had emailed and spoke to the hosting customer at [my] … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 35 Comments

April Global Temperature Anomalies: RSS Steady, UAH dropped over 50%

Posted on May 7, 2009 by

The data is out for both RSS and UAH, and I’m presenting them both here. Click for full sized graphs. RSS from Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA. RSS data here (RSS Data Version 3.2) UAH from Dr. Roy … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 114 Comments

WUWT Poll: Do we need a “National Climate Service”?

Posted on May 7, 2009 by

From Slashdot and Networkworld I suppose it’s natural for Washington to try and wrap issues up in a tidy legislative package for bureaucratic purposes (or perhaps other things more nefarious). But one has to wonder if we really need another … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 99 Comments

NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center – News Conference Friday

Posted on May 7, 2009 by

UPDATE: SEE THE UPDATED SWPC FORECAST HERE Leif Svalgaard writes: NOAA/SWPC will be releasing an update to the Solar Cycle 24 Prediction on Friday, May 8, 2009 at noon Eastern Daylight Time (1600 UT) at a joint ESA/NASA/NOAA press conference. … Continue reading →

Posted in solar | 170 Comments

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

Posted on May 6, 2009 by

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

Posted on May 6, 2009 by

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

Posted on May 6, 2009 by

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

Posted on May 6, 2009 by

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”

Posted on May 6, 2009 by

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’

Posted on May 6, 2009 by

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:

Posted on May 6, 2009 by

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

Downbursts and the Dallas Cowboys training facility collapse

Posted on May 5, 2009 by

Many of you have already seen this footage below, but I thought it would be interesting for WUWT readers to get a look at the cause behind it. Meteorologist Mike Smith, from WeatherData,  sent an interesting picture and description of … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 56 Comments

Unprecedented Incoherence In The Ice Message

Posted on May 5, 2009 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard Last week, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon warned that “polar ice caps were melting far faster than expected just two years ago“ This was based on a number of widely publicized scientific studies released this … Continue reading →

Posted in sea ice | 199 Comments

NatGeo: Sun Oddly Quiet – Hints at Next “Little Ice Age”?

Posted on May 4, 2009 by

Excerpts printed below, see full story here (h/t to David Archibald) Anne Minard for National Geographic News May 4, 2009 A prolonged lull in solar activity has astrophysicists glued to their telescopes waiting to see what the sun will do … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science, solar | 338 Comments