Monthly Archives: August 2009

Climate bill delayed and in “disarray”

Posted on August 31, 2009 by

From the U.S. Senate Committe on Environment and Public Works Democrats Delay Global Warming Bill – Again Obama Agenda In “Disarray” Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment & Public Works Committee, today said … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics | 118 Comments

An odd day in solar science, it’s mostly a waiting game

Posted on August 31, 2009 by

It has been a strange day. Fires have evacuated the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California, and SOHO images have not been updating all day. Power is down at the mountain and the webcam has gone offline. See status here. Mt. … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 95 Comments

Spencer: Always question your results

Posted on August 31, 2009 by

Spurious SST Warming Revisited Dr. Roy Spencer August 31st, 2009 My previous post described what I called “smoking gun” evidence of a spurious drift in the NOAA sea surface temperature (SST) product when compared to SSTs from the TRMM satellite … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 59 Comments

Royal Society wants man-made volcanoes to fight climate change

Posted on August 31, 2009 by

Here’s an interesting story from the Times. One wonders if the Royal Society is ready to deal with all the unintended and unmodeled consequences of such actions? The last man-made volcano didn’t go over so well. – Anthony From The … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, climate_change, vulcanism | 135 Comments

New Ice Core Project in Greenland looks at Eemian period

Posted on August 31, 2009 by

From EurekAlert International Greenland ice coring effort sets new drilling record in 2009 Ancient ice cores expected to help scientists assess risks of abrupt climate change in future IMAGE: Atmospheric gases trapped in ancient ice recovered during the international North … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | 118 Comments

Slump shows up in USA CO2 output for 2008 and 2009 – economy driven?

Posted on August 31, 2009 by

The Monthly Energy Review for August 2009 has been published by the US Energy Information Administration and it has some interesting CO2 production data which you can see here in tabular form. I’ve graphed the data of interest in two … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, energy | 81 Comments

Quote of the week #17

Posted on August 30, 2009 by

Sometimes, seemingly innocuous posts can bring in some oddball commenters. Such is the case this week with a  post I did about a cloud (or lack thereof) spotted by former NWS Lead Forecaster for northern California, Jan Null. That post … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Week | 78 Comments

A Hurricane in Los Angeles?

Posted on August 30, 2009 by

Here is the current Pacific satellite image, note the lower right. I might add that the likelihood of a hurricane strength storm striking Southern California is low. Since 1900, only four tropical cyclones have brought gale-force winds to the Southwestern … Continue reading →

Posted in fun_stuff, hurricanes | 69 Comments

Gavin Schmidt responds to criticism of his climate change picture book

Posted on August 30, 2009 by

A few months back, I posted a critique titled: Gavin Schmidt’s new climate picture book: Anti-Science? I found it ironic that Dr. Schmidt used photos to depict climate change, while at the same time promoting open criticism of my surfacestations.org … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, media | 83 Comments

Global dimming and brightening in the context of solar radiation

Posted on August 30, 2009 by

From the abstract of the lead paper by Martin Wild: Recent evidence suggests that solar radiation reaching the Earth’s surface has not been constant over time but has undergone substantial variations on decadal timescales. The available observations suggest a widespread … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, climate_change, Science, solar | 75 Comments

Study: Glaciers defied hotter temperatures 9000 years ago

Posted on August 29, 2009 by

From BYU News Ice, when heated, is supposed to melt. That’s why a collection of glaciers in the Southeast Himalayas stymies those who know what they did 9,000 years ago. While most other Central Asian glaciers retreated under hotter summer … Continue reading →

Posted in earth, glaciers, paleoclimatology, Science | 50 Comments

Testing my solar power

Posted on August 28, 2009 by

Many commenters have mentioned “The Watts Effect”, whereby within a short period of time after I do a post about the sun on WUWT mentioning the lack of sunspots, one appears. I figured it was time to settle the issue … Continue reading →

Posted in solar | 262 Comments

Met Office supercomputer: A megawatt, here, a megawatt there, and pretty soon we’re talking real carbon pollution

Posted on August 28, 2009 by

Weather supercomputer used to predict climate change is one of Britain’s worst polluters Excerpts from the story by the Daily Mail See WUWT’s original story on this The Met Office has caused a storm of controversy after it was revealed … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, forecasting, Technology | 160 Comments

When airplanes attack

Posted on August 27, 2009 by

My friend Jan Null from the Bay Area was lead forecaster for the NWS in Northern California for many years. He emailed me today with this interesting photo. – Anthony ======= Looking west from the South Bay this afternoon it looked … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 73 Comments

Spencer: NOAA’s official sea surface temperature product ERSST has spurious warming error, July 2009 SST likely not a record after all.

Posted on August 27, 2009 by

We should all thank AP’s Seth Borenstein for this, IMHO. Without his article on July SST’s being the hottest ever and it not making much sense, people such as Dr. Spencer may not have been immediately motivated to figure out … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Surface Temperature | 186 Comments

NCAR spots the “transistor effect” – Small solar activity fluctuations amplify to larger climate influences

Posted on August 27, 2009 by

Some months back, I mentioned that I felt the sun-earth connection was much like a transistor. This new NCAR study suggests this may be the case where small solar variances are amplified in the earth atmosphere-ocean system. From EurekAlert Small … Continue reading →

Posted in earth, Science, solar | 186 Comments

Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing

Posted on August 27, 2009 by

Cliff Ollier School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia. Colin Pain Canberra City ACT 2601, Australia. Global warming alarmists have suggested that the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica may collapse, causing … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, earth, sea level | 103 Comments

Atlantic Tropical Update – TS Danny looks to follow in Bill’s “cold track” footsteps

Posted on August 27, 2009 by

Updated 8AM PST Thursday 8/27 Danny continues.  It now has 60 mph sustained winds. TS Danny is visible in the center of the image below. This satellite image will update every 30 minutes. Animate this image: >>> OR Switch to … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, weather | 43 Comments

Opportunity knocks

Posted on August 27, 2009 by

As many WUWT readers may have noticed, there’s a small advertising box on the sidebar for the journal “Energy & Environment”. This represents a first for WUWT, in that I’ve decided to accept a dedicated advertisement for a journal on … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 55 Comments

The Great Windfarm -vs- Lesser Prairie Chicken Fight

Posted on August 26, 2009 by

Just when the green energy movement thinks they have it all worked out, along comes a snail-darteresque moment that throws a monkey wrench in green plans. These are the big fanboys in the panhandle, which I snapped a photo of … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, Technology | 132 Comments

The Earth is on Fire! Gosh, who knew?

Posted on August 26, 2009 by

Title of new report from the Institute of Food and Resource Economics of the University of Copenhagen: Earth on Fire Hmmm. “E a r t h  o n  f i r e”. Should be easy to prove. Let’s have a … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, ridiculae | 87 Comments

Reader poll results: Chamber of Commerce -vs- EPA on CO2

Posted on August 26, 2009 by

Related to our story on the US Chamber of Commerce challenging the EPA on CO2, we asked this question: Do you support the idea of putting “global warming” on trial with the EPA? After getting over 2200 responses over two … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 92 Comments

Spencer: analysing alternate satellite data suggests July 2009 was not a record for sea temperature

Posted on August 26, 2009 by

TRMM Satellite Suggests July 2009 Not a Record for Sea Surface Temperatures August 26th, 2009 By Dr. Roy Spencer UPDATE ADDED: 8/26/09 13:30 CDT  see below NOAA/NCDC recently announced that July 2009 set a new record high global sea surface … Continue reading →

Posted in measurement, Sea Surface Temperature | 86 Comments

Satellite Imagery Shows Typhoon Vamco Has a Huge 45-mile Wide Eye

Posted on August 26, 2009 by

From NASA’s hurricane/tropical cyclone page Typhoon Vamco is being as stubborn in its quest to live in the Pacific Ocean as Bill is in the Atlantic Ocean this past week, and NASA satellite data confirmed that the large storm has … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 28 Comments

Antarctica to get surface based space weather monitoring network

Posted on August 25, 2009 by

Of course the big question is, will they be able to keep the stations from becoming buried in snow like weather stations in the flawed Steig et al paper that determined that “Antarctica is warming”? From EurekaAlert and Virginia Tech … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar, space, Technology | 12 Comments