Monthly Archives: September 2009

Busting the science paywall – support for public access to research swells – you can get involved

Posted on September 23, 2009 by

As many WUWT readers are aware, I have often complained about the issues surrounding access to research papers, especially when they are accompanied by a broad press release campaign but there is no access given to the scientific paper itself. … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Science | 48 Comments

World leaders kick climate policy into the long grass

Posted on September 23, 2009 by

A summary of opinion related to the UN conference on climate in NYC Collated by Benny Peiser. Copenhagen was essentially sidelined yesterday at another event, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s Climate Change Summit in New York. There, along with Chinese leader … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, media | 81 Comments

The Sun perks up some real spots

Posted on September 22, 2009 by

There’s no guessing about these. They aren’t anemic sunspecks that may or may not have been visible a couple of centuries ago. They are the real deal.  Sunspot group 1026 on the lower left edge and newly formed group 1027 … Continue reading →

Posted in solar | 203 Comments

Global warming = more tornadoes | Not happening this year

Posted on September 22, 2009 by

With the onset of the Autumnal Equinox today at 21:18 UTC, the severe weather season winds down. I reported earlier on the finding of Ryan Maue, who showed that we’ve reached a 30 year low in Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) … Continue reading →

Posted in tornadoes, weather | 41 Comments

Obama’s disconnect with America on the climate issue

Posted on September 22, 2009 by

Here’s the latest poll from Bloomberg on most important issues facing the country: Climate change ranks dead last in importance. Source: PollingReport.com Now compare what the American People think to what Obama thinks in his UN speech today. The following … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics | 196 Comments

Global Warming = more hurricanes | Still not happening

Posted on September 22, 2009 by

So far the hurricane season for the Atlantic has been pretty quiet for 2009. Ryan Maue from Florida State University explains why. In related news, Al Gore has dropped the [hurricane frequency] related slide in his traveling PowerPoint show. – … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, weather | 96 Comments

Global ozone layer depletion leveling off – rising slightly

Posted on September 21, 2009 by

From the European Space Agency. By merging more than a decade of atmospheric data from European satellites, scientists have compiled a homogeneous long-term ozone record that allows them to monitor total ozone trends on a global scale – and the … Continue reading →

Posted in earth, measurement, ozone | 60 Comments

MIT develops a plan for carbon sequestration coal fired power plant

Posted on September 21, 2009 by

Prediction – greens still won’t be able to get past the word “coal”. From MIT News: David L. Chandler, MIT News Office, September 17, 2009 Researchers at MIT have shown the benefits of a new approach toward eliminating carbon-dioxide (CO2) … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, energy | 91 Comments

Climate Alarmists stoop to new low – create “fake” newspaper and website to push climate agenda

Posted on September 21, 2009 by

UPDATE: From Daily Finance Activists behind NY Post parody detained by police The New York Post does not have a sense of humor about itself, it would seem. Early this morning, some 2,000 activists affiliated with a group called The … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, media, politics, ridiculae | 115 Comments

JPL’s Patzert: “It’s actually eroding the credibility of long-range forecasters and climatologists”

Posted on September 21, 2009 by

The 2009 “super El Nino” predicted by some may be a “fizzle” according reports attributed to NASA JPL’s Climatologist Bill Patzert. I wonder who he might be referring to when he says “eroding the credibility”? Hansen’s prediction perhaps? Excerpts from … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, forecasting, oceans | 95 Comments

2009 Arctic Sea Ice Extent exceeds 2005 for this date

Posted on September 21, 2009 by

Those that have been watching the IARC-JAXA Arctic sea ice plot, and noting the slope of gain, rather expected this to happen. Today it did. Here’s the current IARC-JAXA Sea Ice Extent plot: source:  http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm And here is the plot … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 180 Comments

Quote of the Week #19

Posted on September 20, 2009 by

I’ll leave this one in the hands of Australian Climate Madness who gets credit for spotting this unbelievable quote from a supposed journalistic enterprise of integrity known as “The Age”. – Anthony Astonishing quote from “The Age” The Age reports … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Week | 126 Comments

Antarctica – warming, ice melting – not yet

Posted on September 20, 2009 by

I thought it might be time for an update on this. Earlier this year we had the big news that even though everything else says otherwise, the statistical wizards of Steig et al (with a cameo appearance by stat-stickster Michael … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, sea ice, weather | 121 Comments

California hoses its energy future – again

Posted on September 19, 2009 by

According to the New York Times, a major solar power project in California has been canceled. It seems that even creating solar power in the middle of nowhere in a desert can’t get past California environmentalists these days. If not … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, ridiculae | 169 Comments

Climate Alarmists rush to judgment on dead walruses, ignore other possibilities

Posted on September 19, 2009 by

All over the web today, there’s the theme of: “dead walrus = caused by climate change”. On the Climate Progress blog they have this picture of the dead walruses (seen at left) which have been circulated by the Associated Press. … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, climate_change, media, sea ice | 134 Comments

Carbon offsets lose 20% of their value in the last week at CCX

Posted on September 19, 2009 by

It appears that the carbon offset market is dying in the USA. You may recall the WUWT story from 9/9/09 on the Chicago Climate Exchange trading price dropping to 25 cents per metric ton. See Market Confidence Low: Carbon Credits … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon credits | 59 Comments

Treasury Department Releases Documents Showing Cap-and-Trade Costs Could Hit $300 Billion Annually

Posted on September 19, 2009 by

This passage from page 7 “justifying” the tax is telling: “Domestic policies to address climate change and the related issues of energy security and affordability will involve significant costs and potential revenues, possibly np to several percentage points of annual … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health, politics | 48 Comments

Chinese Climate Wisdom

Posted on September 18, 2009 by

The Chinese civilization has existed survived intact far longer than any other in human history, and they have records of that civilization that span 2-3 thousand years BC. They’ve seen more climate change than any other civilization. The Guardian recently … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, forecasting, Science | 142 Comments

Carbon offset kiosk at SFO sells carbon credits at 60 times the market rate

Posted on September 18, 2009 by

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the SFO airport has now installed carbon offset purchase kiosks so that you can remove the guilt from your flight. Only one problem. The carbon offsets sold by kiosk sell at a rate that … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, carbon credits, ridiculae | 154 Comments

NCAR: “number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun’s impact on Earth”

Posted on September 17, 2009 by

Solar Cycle Driven by More than Sunspots; Sun Also Bombards Earth with High-Speed Streams of Wind From an NCAR press release September 17, 2009 BOULDER—Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of … Continue reading →

Posted in earth, Science, solar | 344 Comments

NSIDC still pushing “ice-free Arctic summers”

Posted on September 17, 2009 by

This is the press release sent out by NSIDC today (sans image below). Instead of celebrating a two year recovery, they push the “ice free” theme started last year by Marc Serreze. There’s no joy in mudville apparently. My prediction … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 247 Comments

NOAA’s August global SST record is the result of one data set

Posted on September 17, 2009 by

Yesterday NOAA announced with much fanfare that: The world’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest for any August on record, and the warmest on record averaged for any June-August (Northern Hemisphere summer/Southern Hemisphere winter) season according to NOAA’s National Climatic … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans, Sea Surface Temperature | 111 Comments

Man to walk 350 miles to highlight climate change – no mention of how he’s getting there and back

Posted on September 16, 2009 by

This is a 350.org effort to highlight the perceived need to get below 350 ppm of atmospheric CO2. At left is the list of luminaries that make up the 350.org messengers. With a team like that, especially with Van Jones, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, ridiculae | 153 Comments

NOAA: Warmest Global Sea-Surface Temperatures for August and Summer

Posted on September 16, 2009 by

From the NOAA press release, just in time for Copenhagen. Of course the satellite record for August tells another story that is not quite so alarming as NCDC’s take on it. AMS Fellow and CCM, Joe D’Aleo of ICECAP has … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans, Sea Surface Temperature, weather | 100 Comments

Mapping the Greenland ice cap thickness

Posted on September 16, 2009 by

From the University of Copenhagen press release. IMAGE: This is a map of the ice core drilling locations discussed in the article. Click for larger image. Will all of the ice on Greenland melt and flow out into the sea, … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, glaciers, measurement, paleoclimatology | 27 Comments