Monthly Archives: November 2009

Climate Craziness of the Week: What’s more idiotic than holding a cylinder of CO2 for a photo op in the snow? – Calling it “art”.

Posted on November 18, 2009 by

People email me stuff. Sometimes its just too bizarre to ignore. We have another person on an “expedition” with a camera and artistic license to foist upon the world:   From Francesca Galeazzi of the disko.bay expedition, whatever the hell … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week | 120 Comments

CO2 still going up, but temperature not following the same trend

Posted on November 17, 2009 by

Here’s the latest global temperature plot from UAH: From Eurekalert: Human emissions rise 2 percent despite global financial crisis IMAGE: Human emissions rise 2 percent despite the global financial crisis. Click here for more information. Despite the economic effects of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 133 Comments

AMS TV weathercaster survey on climate raises eyebrows

Posted on November 17, 2009 by

From Alabamawx.com by Bill Murray A survey of weathercasters’ feelings on global warming was published in this month’s edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. It had some interesting findings. There were 121 respondents. 94% of the respondents … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC, media | 70 Comments

The Steel Greenhouse

Posted on November 17, 2009 by

Guest post by Willis Eschenbach There is a lot of misinformation floating around the web about the greenhouse effect works. It is variously described as a “blanket” that keeps the Earth warm, or a “mirror” that reflects part of the … Continue reading →

Posted in earth, energy | 482 Comments

Gore has no clue – a few million degrees here and there and pretty soon we’re talking about real temperature

Posted on November 16, 2009 by

This is mind blowing ignorance on the part of Al Gore. Gore in an 11/12/09 interview on NBC’s tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, speaking on geothermal energy, champion of slide show science, can’t even get the temperature of earth’s mantle … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, media, ridiculae, satire | 331 Comments

Monckton climate change video goes viral

Posted on November 16, 2009 by

Video of Lord Monckton Warning of Copenhagen Climate Treaty Exceeds 3.5 Million Views in a Single Month Lord Monckton giving a presentation – photo by Derek Warnecke   Minneapolis – A video of Lord Christopher Monckton warning of the impending … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, media | 126 Comments

Hall of record ratios

Posted on November 16, 2009 by

A Critique of the October 2009 NCAR Study Regarding Record Maximum to Minimum Ratios Guest post by Bruce Hall, Hall of Record This is a critique of the October 2009 NCAR publication regarding increasing ratio of new daily maximum temperatures … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 24 Comments

Why NCAR’s Meehl paper on high/low temperature records is bunk

Posted on November 16, 2009 by

One wonders why the story of a new paper covered on WUWT:  NCAR: Number of record highs beat record lows – if you believe the quality of data from the weather stations did not include the 1930′s and 1940′s and earlier, … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 47 Comments

More on the record high-low temperature debacle

Posted on November 15, 2009 by

U.S. Record Temperatures—A Closer Look From World Climate Report: A new paper that is soon to appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds that across the U.S. daily record high temperatures are being set at about twice the frequency … Continue reading →

Posted in records, weather | 42 Comments

Northern Sierra Trees Falsify Claim of ‘Unprecedented’ Global Warming

Posted on November 15, 2009 by

Guest post by Larry Fields The last Ice Age razed all of the coniferous forests in Finland. After the ice sheet retreated, trees from elsewhere–like the Scots Pine–gradually colonized the vacant niches. On a smaller scale, the same thing happened … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 31 Comments

The Delayer in Chief? – Obama backs Copenhagen postponement

Posted on November 15, 2009 by

I always have to chuckle when somebody uses the phrase denier/delayer to label somebody for even the slightest transgression on climate /action/justice/activism/alarmism/pick a word. Briefly, this appeared on Google News: That was the original title of the piece. Somebody must … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, media, politics | 189 Comments

Winds of change – Gore gets booed – maybe they shouldn’t have billed him as “president of the planet”

Posted on November 15, 2009 by

Gore’s presentation on climate change draws 800 as 200 protestors gather outside By George Bennett Palm Beach Post Staff Writer   Confused Palm Beach County voters helped thwart Al Gore’s 2000 bid to become president of the United States, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Climate News | 63 Comments

Reference: 450 skeptical peer reviewed papers

Posted on November 15, 2009 by

Andrew at Popular Technology has taken the time (quite a bit of it) to compile a list of papers that have skeptical views. It is reproduced in full here. My thanks to him for doing this. – Anthony 450 Peer-Reviewed … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science | 333 Comments

Unbelievable pollution in China – yet the US is the baddie at Copenhagen

Posted on November 14, 2009 by

We’ve made so much progress in the USA. 75 years ago, we may have witnessed some scenes like this in today’s China. Unfortunately, the de-industrialization of the west just moved the western problems of the past to a country that … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 95 Comments

Little Ice Age thermometers – History and Reliability

Posted on November 14, 2009 by

Little Ice Age thermometers – History and Reliability

Guest post by TonyB

How reliable are The Little Ice Age thermometers ?

The Little Ice age thermometers project is an attempt to compile instrumental readings from 1660 that predate the era of modern ‘global temperatures’ as recorded by Hadley (1850) and Giss (1880). These datasets are accessed from a graphic through this link;

http://climatereason.com/LittleIceAgeThermometers/

LIA Thermometers Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, measurement, records, weather, weather_stations | 68 Comments

Every cloud has a silver lining – Antarctic glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store

Posted on November 14, 2009 by

From a British Antarctic Survey Press Release. Next time some alarmist wails about ice melt in Antarctica, point them to this story that shows nature has self regulating features for our planet. (h/t to Hu McCullough) Antarctica glacier retreat creates … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Carbon dioxide, glaciers, oceans | 73 Comments

Open Thread #3

Posted on November 14, 2009 by

I’m off this weekend and part of next week– talk quietly and politely amongst yourselves. Don’t make me come back here. If you have something worth posting on the front page, flag a moderator.  Those that want to do guest … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 205 Comments

Pielke Sr. on the Record Highs -vs- Record Lows story

Posted on November 14, 2009 by

From Roger Pielke Senior: Bias In News Reporting There is a press release on a paper yesterday from NCAR titled Record High Temperatures Far Outpace Record Lows Across U.S. I plan to post on the paper on which this news article … Continue reading →

Posted in media | 27 Comments

Water confirmed on the moon

Posted on November 13, 2009 by

LCROSS Impact Finds Water on the Moon Enlarge   The visible camera image showing the ejecta plume at about 20 seconds after impact. Credit: NASA (PhysOrg.com) — The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds … Continue reading →

Posted in space | 38 Comments

American Physical Society rejects climate policy plea from 160 physicists

Posted on November 13, 2009 by

From Physics World: APS rejects plea to alter stance on climate change The American Physical Society (APS) has “overwhelmingly rejected” a proposal from a group of 160 physicists to alter its official position on climate change. The physicists, who include … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 161 Comments

El Niño gaining strength

Posted on November 13, 2009 by

From the “WUWT never reports on anything warm department”, JPL reports El Niño looks like it is on schedule to make a Christmas appearance as “The Boy”. The good news is that it will likely help California’s water situation this … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO | 137 Comments

Sea sponges soak up carbon …like a sponge

Posted on November 13, 2009 by

From Eurekalert Sponges recycle carbon to give life to coral reefs Coral reefs support some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, yet they thrive in a marine desert. So how do reefs sustain their thriving populations? Marine biologist … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans | 52 Comments

Another parallel with the Maunder Minimum

Posted on November 12, 2009 by

Guest post by David Archibald In a presentation dated 22nd September, 2009, Dr Svalgaard produced a graphic which can be interpreted to predict the timing of the Solar Cycle 24 maximum. That presentation is available here: http://www.leif.org/research/Predicting%20the%20Solar%20Cycle.ppt That graphic is … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 137 Comments

NCAR: Number of record highs beat record lows – if you believe the quality of data from the weather stations

Posted on November 12, 2009 by

I’ll have a lot more on this study later, but for now just a short rebuttal. I believe this study is hopelessly flawed due to the fact that the authors take the data from the weather stations at face value … Continue reading →

Posted in records, weather, weather_stations | 121 Comments

Democrats throw in the towel on climate bill

Posted on November 12, 2009 by

Excerpts of: Climate Bill Likely on the Shelf For Rest of the Year By IAN TALLEY WASHINGTON — Key Senate Democrats Tuesday said it is unlikely there will be any more major committee action on climate-change legislation this year, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 139 Comments