Monthly Archives: September 2009

“This is barking mad. We’re an island – how else are we going to leave it from time to time? By rowing boat?”

Posted on September 8, 2009 by

The title was from a comment in the London Times on this story about Carbon Taxes on air travel to/from Britain. h/t to Leif Svalgaard. Passengers face new tax to halt rise in air travel Tens of billions of pounds … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon credits, politics, ridiculae | 115 Comments

2nd Atlantic hurricane of the season: Fred, plus free update service

Posted on September 8, 2009 by

Fred has become a Cat1 hurricane about 445 miles WSW of the Cape Verde Islands. The Cape Verde Islands are a breeding ground for tropical storms. This is where hot tropical waves from the Sahara collide with moist air and … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, weather | 17 Comments

NASA video tour of the Cryosphere 2009

Posted on September 8, 2009 by

WUWT commenter Ray tips us to a new video from NASA “The Tour of the Cryosphere 2009″. With all the interest in sea ice right now, it seems like a good item to review. I found one thing about it … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, media, sea ice, vulcanism | 80 Comments

Global Oceanic Climate Update for August 2009

Posted on September 8, 2009 by

Global Oceanic Climate Update for August 2009 Dr. Roy Spencer September 1st, 2009 This is the first of what might turn into a series of monthly updates of some maritime climate parameters monitored by the AMSR-E instrument on NASA’s Aqua … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, earth | 85 Comments

Guardian: Global warming to trigger “earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches and volcanic eruptions.”

Posted on September 7, 2009 by

You can’t make this stuff up. It’s worse than we thought. Related: Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing Climate change: melting ice will trigger wave of natural disasters Scientists at a London conference next week will warn … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, climate_change, ridiculae | 271 Comments

How have the scientists done on Arctic sea ice forecasts this year? – Maybe not so good.

Posted on September 7, 2009 by

Steve McIntyre on Climate Audit brings our attention to an interesting sea ice extent forecasting “contest” conducted by the Study of Environmental ARctic CHange (SEARCH). With the end of the Arctic melt season likely just a few days away, it … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 138 Comments

Quote of the Week #18 – “fait accompli”

Posted on September 7, 2009 by

It seems more and more, people are questioning the supposed consensus on climate change. Now we see some journalists asking questions too. It is said that science is self correcting, politics, not so much, but it has been known to … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Week | 46 Comments

German Climate Adviser who says “the West’s carbon quotas are used up” once co-authored a paper saying climate models are flawed and that “global warming is also overestimated by the models”

Posted on September 7, 2009 by

Yesterday on WUWT,  a post from Luboš Motl told us how climate science has been proposed as a vehicle for wealth redistribution by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber who is the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, modeling, politics | 71 Comments

German Climate Adviser: “industrialized nations have already exceeded their [carbon] quotas” – Pay Up

Posted on September 6, 2009 by

Luboš Motl writes about the alarming opinion from the German Climate Adviser published in the Spiegel. If you’ve ever doubted that Climate Science has become politicized, this should end any doubt. – Anthony By Luboš Motl In his previous life, … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | 152 Comments

More rubbish from 60 Minutes tonight. “The Age of Megafires”

Posted on September 6, 2009 by

Right on cue, CBS news 60 minutes is expected link the recent California fires to “global warming”. Never mind that the fire was caused by arson, or that the area hadn’t burned in 40-60 years, leading up to a collection … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 87 Comments

Sea Ice Open Thread

Posted on September 6, 2009 by

It looks like we’ll see the 2009 Arctic sea ice melt season bottom out in a few days and it won’t be a record setter. Even NSIDC admits this. Here is a magnified graph of the IARC-JAXA AMSRE sea ice … Continue reading →

Posted in sea ice | 180 Comments

The Ap Solar Magnetic Index remains low, going on 4 years

Posted on September 6, 2009 by

It has been awhile since I’ve looked at the Ap Index. The last time was April of 2009. From the data provided by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) you can see just how little Ap magnetic activity there has … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 213 Comments

ENSO Dominates NODC Ocean Heat Content Data

Posted on September 5, 2009 by

ENSO Dominates NODC Ocean Heat Content Data Guest post by Bob Tisdale, BTW here is the current SST map. – Anthony The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) recently added the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) Ocean Heat Content (OHC) dataset … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, oceans | 72 Comments

Pielke Senior: Arctic Temperature Reporting In The News Needs A Reality Check

Posted on September 5, 2009 by

Arctic Temperature Reporting In The News Needs A Reality Check Their new articles that claim the Arctic is rapidly warming. These articles are an excellent examples of the cherrypicking of particular published papers to promote the very narrow perspective of the journalists. … Continue reading →

Posted in media, politics | 181 Comments

Twitter Added

Posted on September 5, 2009 by

I’ve gotten some requests for Twitter to be added to WUWT, and I’ve done so. See it on the right sidebar. The name to follow is wattsupwiththat Just click the FOLLOW TWITTER ON WUWT link. I’ll see how it goes.

Posted in Announcements | 25 Comments

I wonder why Greenpeace never protests in Qatar?

Posted on September 5, 2009 by

This is the sort of political image of CO2 emissions that you usually see presented. The Big Bad USA and Australia get most of the blame for CO2 emissions. Image above from myclimatechange.net. Note that the artist could not have … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, politics | 142 Comments

UAH: global temperature down in August by .181°C, SH sees biggest drop of 0.4°C

Posted on September 4, 2009 by

August 2009 Global Temperature Update: +0.23 deg. C Dr. Roy Spencer September 4th, 2009 August 2009 saw a modest fall in the global average tropospheric temperature anomaly, from +0.41 deg. C in July to +0.23 deg. C in August. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 135 Comments

National Association of Wheat Growers reverses policy on climate change – opposes EPA regulation

Posted on September 4, 2009 by

From DTN News: NAWG Reverses Policy on Climate Change (story link here) A statement Friday from Karl Scronce, National Association of Wheat Growers president and a wheat producer from Klamath Falls, Ore.: “The NAWG Board of Directors met this morning … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, carbon credits, Carbon dioxide | 146 Comments

DMI arctic temperature data animation doesn’t support claims of recent Arctic warming

Posted on September 4, 2009 by

UPDATE: 9/8/09 The University of Colorado made a serious mistake in the press release that I cited. This press release was issued well before the paper was available, and of course the paper itself was not made available to journalists. … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, climate_change, Science, sea ice | 127 Comments

NOAA Internal Newsletter Reveals NOAA’s Arctic Plans

Posted on September 3, 2009 by

People send me stuff. Sometimes it is stuff I’m not expected to see. It seems NOAA is getting hot and bothered about the Arctic. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke recently approved a plan to prohibit the expansion of commercial fishing in … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, Science | 128 Comments

NASA: Are Sunspots Disappearing?

Posted on September 3, 2009 by

From NASA News: Are Sunspots Disappearing? September 3, 2009: The sun is in the pits of the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century. Weeks and sometimes whole months go by without even a single tiny sunspot. The quiet has … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 191 Comments

Satellite imagery gauges economic growth and land use change

Posted on September 3, 2009 by

I got an email tip on this article from voxeu.org which has some relevance to the work done by the surfacestations.org project in that it shows clearly the impact of urbanization. While Hansen et al (GISS) uses “nightlights” in the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Land use land cover change | 48 Comments

California Wildfires caused by cooler Pacific, La Niña

Posted on September 3, 2009 by

California’s Fires Result of a Cooling Pacific, Two Years of La Niña and Environmental Mismanagement Guest Post By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, ICECAP While environmentalists and clueless politicans like CA Representative Linda Sanchez and not surprisingly Climate Progress’ Joe Romm sought … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, oceans, PDO | 85 Comments

Time lapse pyrocumulus for the LA “station” wildfire

Posted on September 2, 2009 by

Like volcanic eruptions, some fires grow large enough to make their own weather with the heat being released acting like convection. Witness this neat time lapse in HD showing the “Station” fire in the Angeles National Forest. This video was … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 44 Comments

More imagery from WWF

Posted on September 2, 2009 by

WWF is on a roll lately. Guess what this is? So schnell kann’s gehen… © Rosa Merk / WWF (Image from a WWF press release) Answer below.

Posted in ridiculae | 60 Comments