Monthly Archives: October 2009

Take Examiner.com’s First Annual Survey on Global Warming

Posted on October 31, 2009 by

This is an interesting survey that cuts across a number of lines and held beliefs. I believe it to be worthwhile to participate in this survey. – Anthony Guest post by Tom Fuller If you are tired of having everybody … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | 104 Comments

A real hockey stick

Posted on October 31, 2009 by

In the past decade, since the release of the flawed 1998 study by Michael Mann, now known as MBH 98, the phrase “hockey stick” has been used to describe a certain shape of a graph. It has also become synonymous … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health | 75 Comments

An idea I can get behind – regulate [as in capture waste gas and recycle] methane first

Posted on October 31, 2009 by

UPDATE: Some readers took exception to my title, and I can see why now. I regret my choice of wording for the title. “Regulate its escape into the atmosphere” is where I was going. “Regulate” from my perspective in engineering … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Methane | 151 Comments

Previously Unknown Volcanic Eruption Helped Trigger Cold Decade

Posted on October 30, 2009 by

From the University of California, San Diego Press Release A team of chemists from the U.S. and France has found compelling evidence of a previously undocumented large volcanic eruption that occurred exactly 200 years ago, in 1809. The discovery, published … Continue reading →

Posted in vulcanism | 109 Comments

Monckton on Glenn Beck video now available

Posted on October 30, 2009 by

In case you missed it live, Christopher Monckton spent an entire hour on the Glenn Beck program today on the topic of global warming, skepticism, and the Copenhagen Treaty. The video is now available. Watch it below.

Posted in Alarmism, media | 248 Comments

Met Office Climate Official on Arctic Ice Forecasts: “The danger is they can be accused of scaremongering.”

Posted on October 30, 2009 by

I’ve been very critical of statements made by Dr. Mark Serreze of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. It seems that I’m not the only one critical of his statements to the press. – Anthony Excerpts from The Times, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Arctic | 84 Comments

Monckton on Glenn Beck Today

Posted on October 30, 2009 by

You won’t want to miss Lord Christopher Monckton (Former advisor to UK Prime Minister Thatcher) on Glenn Beck  – Today Friday, October 30th! Monckton as many WUWT readers know, is a prominent skeptic and has been making presentations around the … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 179 Comments

Yamal treering proxy temperature reconstructions don’t match local thermometer records

Posted on October 30, 2009 by

Circling Yamal 3 – facing the thermometers Guest post by Lucy Skywalker Let’s look closely and compare local thermometer records (GISS) with the Twelve Trees, upon whose treerings depend all the IPCC claims of “unprecedented recent temperature rise”. For my … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 167 Comments

Minnesota Public Radio can’t handle comments on climate change

Posted on October 29, 2009 by

Like Others Of Its Ilk, The Minnesota Public Radio Censors Comments On Its Climate Blog Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This morning while checking blogs with the phrase “sea surface temperature” I happened on the Minnesota Public Radio Updraft © … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, media | 74 Comments

Al Gore still addicted to nonexistent hurricane-climate link in new book

Posted on October 29, 2009 by

Gore 2.0, now with Pacific Hurricanes, coming to a book store near you. Gore plans to hawk it on David Letterman next Tuesday night. One more reason not to watch Dave anymore. One can always hope though. Maybe he’ll feature … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Climate News | 79 Comments

Arizona gets some interesting new minimum high records

Posted on October 29, 2009 by

From the “weather is not climate department”….whether it is cold or snow, long lived records keep falling, and recently in large numbers. Today, new “minimum high” records fell in a traditionally warm southwest state. Flagstaff, and Prescott, Williams, and Winslow … Continue reading →

Posted in records, weather | 72 Comments

Vaclav Klaus gets opt-out, EU clears hurdle to Lisbon treaty

Posted on October 29, 2009 by

from EU clears hurdle to Lisbon treaty EU leaders meeting in Brussels have agreed a deal designed to win Czech backing of the Lisbon Treaty, clearing a major hurdle to its ratification. The Czechs were granted an opt-out from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 67 Comments

Live Feed: Senate EPW Committee Climate Hearings

Posted on October 29, 2009 by

Click video window below to Watch Live: Senate EPW Committee Climate Hearings — All Day Thursday

Posted in Climate News | 31 Comments

IPCC Climatologist: “It would ruin the US economy and it wouldn’t save the climate either”

Posted on October 29, 2009 by

From Northern Broadcasting System: BILLINGS-  As debate over climate change legislation heats up on Capitol Hill, the Director of the University of Montana’s Climate Change Studies Program, and a co-author of a Nobel Prize winning report, says cap and trade … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 71 Comments

North Carolina sea levels rising 3mm a year? UC sea level data says differently

Posted on October 29, 2009 by

Below: North Carolina’s Albemarle Sound. Note marker at 36N -76W. First the Press Release from the University of Pennsylvania: North Carolina Sea Levels Rising Three Times Faster Than in Previous 500 Years, Penn Study Says October 28, 2009 PHILADELPHIA –- … Continue reading →

Posted in sea level | 132 Comments

Asteroid explosion over Indonesia

Posted on October 28, 2009 by

From NASA’s Spaceweather.com INDONESIAN ASTEROID: Picture this: A 10-meter wide asteroid hits Earth and explodes in the atmosphere with the energy of a small atomic bomb. Frightened by thunderous sounds and shaking walls, people rush out of their homes, thinking … Continue reading →

Posted in space | 75 Comments

Tornados and global warming link – “just not there”

Posted on October 28, 2009 by

We’ve contended many times before that severe weather and global warming are not linked. Here’s a new essay on the issue. From CO2 Science Tornados — Summary Climate alarmists typically claim that global warming will lead to both more frequent … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, tornadoes, weather | 34 Comments

The “Statisticians: ‘Global Cooling’ a Myth” story

Posted on October 28, 2009 by

By William M. Briggs, professional statistician “J’accuse! A statistician may prove anything with his nefarious methods. He may even say a negative number is positive! You cannot trust anything he says.” Sigh. Unfortunately, this oft-hurled charge is all too true. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 132 Comments

The Sun Defines the Climate – an essay from Russia

Posted on October 28, 2009 by

Habibullo Abdussamatov, Dr. Sc. – Head of Space research laboratory of the Pulkovo Observatory, Head of the Russian/Ukrainian joint project Astrometria – has a few things to say about solar activity and climate. Thanks to Russ Steele of NCWatch Key … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 210 Comments

UK Met Office backpedals on Arctic Ice – “…unlikely that the Arctic will experience ice-free summers by 2020.”

Posted on October 28, 2009 by

But they do say that “first ice-free summer expected to occur between 2060 and 2080″. By then there will be nobody that remembers this forecast. Yet on the same day, bumbling Arctic explorer Pen Hadow says in a UK Telegraph … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 97 Comments

Lindzen: Deconstructing global warming

Posted on October 27, 2009 by

From Globalwarming.org Yesterday the Cooler Heads Coalition hosted Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Video of Dr. Lindzen’s presentation, “Deconstructing Global Warming,” will be available shortly, but his power … Continue reading →

Posted in presentations | 138 Comments

Copenhagen hits the brakes – announcement of “scaling back expectations”

Posted on October 27, 2009 by

UN signals delay in climate change treaty By EDITH M. LEDERER (AP) Excerpts below. UNITED NATIONS — Just weeks before an international conference on climate change, the United Nations signaled it was scaling back expectations of reaching agreement on a … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 70 Comments

Climate Craziness of the Week #2: Steak Watch

Posted on October 27, 2009 by

Last week we had a people in New Zealand saying we need edible pets. This week we have England’s “premier climatologist” saying we need to give up meat.  You first, me Lord. However, this sort of tactic risks marginalization of … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week | 230 Comments

Pielke Senior on the Borenstein AP statistics article

Posted on October 27, 2009 by

Comments On AP Story “Statistics Experts Reject Global Cooling Claims” There is a news report titled “Statistics experts reject global cooling claims” by Seth Borenstein which appeared today. The article reads “WASHINGTON — The Earth is still warming, not cooling as some … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 193 Comments

How not to measure temperature, part 91: find the official climate thermometer in this photo

Posted on October 26, 2009 by

It has been awhile since we’ve looked at stations in the United States Historical Climatology Network. Last night I was doing quality control and updates to the database and came across this photo by Surfacestations.org volunteer John W. Slayton. He’s … Continue reading →

Posted in weather_stations | 75 Comments