Monthly Archives: August 2009

Scafetta: New paper on TSI, surface temperature, and modeling

Posted on August 18, 2009 by

Nicola Scaffetta sent several people a copy of his latest paper today, which address the various solar TSI reconstructions such as from Lean and Rind 2008 and shows contrasts from that paper. While he suggests that TSI has a role … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 437 Comments

Global Wining: French wine “in danger”, climate change “must be tackled”

Posted on August 18, 2009 by

Hmmm, maybe there’s something to that “Wines grown in England during the Medieval Warm Period” after all. I think maybe the French are upset that Scottish wine might be served with kippers rather than truffles. Oh the horror! From the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, fun_stuff | 101 Comments

Study: Ocean net heat flow is connected with climate shifts – CO2 not correlated – no “warming in the pipeline”

Posted on August 17, 2009 by

Related to this story: The Pacific Decadal Oscillation Time Series from the University of Washington, seen below. Emphasis points mine. h/t to WUWT reader Richard Heg. – Anthony Monthly Values for the PDO Index, January 1900 to September 2008. Positive … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans, PDO | 112 Comments

A new video from CEI: Policy Peril

Posted on August 17, 2009 by

Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis explains why we have more to fear from global warming policies than from global warming itself. I thought this video might be a complement to Richard Courtney’s post below. It is almost 40  … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics | 23 Comments

Stopping Climate Change

Posted on August 17, 2009 by

Guest post by Richard S. Courtney There is need for a new policy on climate change to replace the rush to reduce emissions. The attempts at emissions reduction have failed but there is a ‘Climate Change Policy’ that would work. … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics | 109 Comments

Burt Rutan: engineer, aviation/space pioneer, and now, active climate skeptic

Posted on August 16, 2009 by

Recently after some conversations with a former chemical engineer who provided me with some insight, I’ve come to the conclusion that many engineers have difficulty with many of the premises of AGW theory because in their “this has to work … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, fun_stuff, space, Technology | 347 Comments

Quote of the week #16

Posted on August 16, 2009 by

It has been a couple of weeks since I posted a QOTW. This is mainly due to me being somewhat disengaged from the normal blogging pace due to some travel I’ve been doing and working on my upcoming papers. – … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Week | 50 Comments

Getting “Steamed” about Global Warming – not coming to a theater near you

Posted on August 15, 2009 by

Whooda thunk it?  A movie with a plot line that is reminiscent of Dr. James Hansen’s testimony before congress in June 1988. If any of you have ever been in Washington DC during the summertime, you’ll be able to relate … Continue reading →

Posted in media, ridiculae | 55 Comments

Livingston and Penn in EOS: Are Sunspots Different During This Solar Minimum?

Posted on August 15, 2009 by

Leif Svalgaard writes to inform me that Livingston and Penn have published their article recently in EOS, TRANSACTIONS, AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION. As WUWT readers may recall, we had a preview of that EOS article here. L&P write in the EOS … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 194 Comments

Wyoming set for Late Summer Mountain Snowstorm

Posted on August 15, 2009 by

Roger Pielke Sr. passes this on to me with the note: Hi Anthony, This is quite unusual! Source: NWS, Riverton, WY URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 309 AM MDT SAT AUG 15 2009 …LATE SUMMER … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 60 Comments

Another UK climate data withholding scandal is emerging

Posted on August 14, 2009 by

As many WUWT readers know, Steve McIntyre’s tireless quest to get the raw data that makes up the gridded Hadley Climate Research Unit HadCRUT dataset has been fraught with delays, FOI denials, and obvious obfuscation. In some cases the “dog … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI, paleoclimatology | 109 Comments

Pielke Sr. on warm bias in the surface temperature trend – “provides evidence of the significant error in the global surface temperature trend analyses of NCDC”

Posted on August 13, 2009 by

New Paper Documents A Warm Bias In The Calculation Of A Multi-Decadal Global Average Surface Temperature Trend – Klotzbach Et Al (2009) Guest post by  — Roger Pielke Sr. When I served on the committee that resulted in the CCSP (2006) … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 149 Comments

Mann hockey-sticks hurricanes: Hurricanes in the Atlantic are more frequent than at any time in the last 1,000 years

Posted on August 13, 2009 by

Just when you think it couldn’t get any more bizarre in Mann-world, out comes a new paper in Nature hawking hurricane frequency by proxy analysis. I guess Dr. Mann missed seeing the work of National Hurricane Center’s lead scientist, Chris … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, modeling, Science | 219 Comments

Evidence that Global Temperature Trends Have Been Overstated

Posted on August 13, 2009 by

Evidence that Global Temperature Trends Have Been Overstated Dr. Pielke has a new paper, and asked if I’d help “get the word out” I’m happy to oblige – Anthony Guest post by Dr. Roger Pielke Jr I am a co-author … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, modeling | 90 Comments

Australia Rejects Climate Cap-and-Trade Bill

Posted on August 12, 2009 by

Australia Rejects Climate Cap-and-Trade Bill — Senators voted 42 to 30 against it: “It is a dog of a plan” Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) — Australia’s Senate rejected the government’s climate-change legislation, forcing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to amend the bill … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics | 144 Comments

Is Global Temperature a Random Walk?

Posted on August 12, 2009 by

Guest Post by Basil Copeland Figure 1 Each month, readers here at Watt’s Up With That, over at lucia’s The Blackboard, and elsewhere, anxiously await the latest global temperature estimates, as if just one more month of data will determine … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 156 Comments

Ocean heat content and Earth’s radiation imbalance

Posted on August 11, 2009 by

This paper is to be published on-line on Friday in Physics Letters A Dr. Douglas graciously sent me an advance copy, of which I’m printing some excerpts. Douglas and Knox show some correlations between Top-of-atmosphere radiation imbalance and the Pacific … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, earth, PDO, Science | 436 Comments

NOAA: More tropical storms counted due to better observational tools, wider reporting. Greenhouse warming not involved.

Posted on August 11, 2009 by

As I’ve been saying for some time when it comes to the imagined link between AGW and  more tornadoes – there is none. I blame Super Mega Doppler StormTracker 7000 HD. It seems the lead scientist at NHC agrees that … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, tornadoes, weather | 57 Comments

“Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I’m flying”

Posted on August 11, 2009 by

From Planet Gore: Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Energy Leader [Henry Payne] from http://stabenow.senate.gov/ Detroit, Mich. — Michigan just experienced its coldest July on record; global temperatures haven’t risen in more than a decade; Great Lakes water levels have resumed their 30-year … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, ridiculae | 152 Comments

SOHO and Solar update

Posted on August 11, 2009 by

A couple of interesting tidbits from NASA’s Spaceweather.com First: Spotless Days Current Stretch: 31 days 2009 total: 173 days (78%) Since 2004: 684 days Typical Solar Min: 485 days Second: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory is passing through a telemetry … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar, space | 50 Comments

NHC gets work

Posted on August 11, 2009 by

BULLETIN TROPICAL DEPRESSION TWO ADVISORY NUMBER   2 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL   AL022009 1100 AM AST TUE AUG 11 2009 …DEPRESSION MOVING WESTWARD…NO CHANGE IN INTENSITY… AT 1100 AM AST…1500 UTC…THE CENTER OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION TWO WAS LOCATED NEAR … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 27 Comments

NOAA: July Temperature Below-Average for the U.S.

Posted on August 10, 2009 by

From NOAA/NCDC The July 2009 temperature for the contiguous United States was below the long-term average, based on records going back to 1895, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The average July … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 145 Comments

Open hardware handheld computing platform for custom applications

Posted on August 10, 2009 by

I haven’t blogged on technology in quite awhile, so this is past due. My friend and regular WUWT and Climate Audit commenter Steve Mosher has started out on an open-source/open hardware project that is pretty impressive. I thought it would … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | 80 Comments

New Study Casts Doubt on Cause of Himalayan Glaciers Melting

Posted on August 10, 2009 by

Weather variations, not global warming cause glacier melt From the The Hindu, 9 August 2009 excerpts: New Delhi (PTI): Himalayan glaciers, including the world’s highest battlefield Siachen, are melting due to variations in weather and not because of global warming, … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, earth | 148 Comments

NOAA Lowers Hurricane Season Outlook

Posted on August 9, 2009 by

While NOAA is lowering forecasts, the Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) from FSU COAPS is also quite low. Ryan Maue’s Tropical web page at Florida State University has this graph that shows accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) : Sorted monthly data: Text … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, forecasting, hurricanes | 90 Comments