Monthly Archives: November 2009

NCDC: October USA – temperature 3rd coldest on record, wettest ever on record

Posted on November 11, 2009 by

From the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), State of the Climate, National Overview, October 2009: Temperature Highlights – October The average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average and ranked as the 3rd coolest based … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, records, weather | 128 Comments

Christy: attention brought by climate change views “almost a drug”

Posted on November 11, 2009 by

Global warming skeptic tells group that cure is worse than problem. By Lee Roop, special to The Huntsville Times HUNTSVILLE, AL – Science doesn’t support current global warming alarms and, even if it did, current proposals to fix things won’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 78 Comments

Lightning: a new tool for accurately measuring the sun’s rotation when sunspots are not present

Posted on November 11, 2009 by

This is one big surprise. Moments of serendipity are some of the best quotes of science: “Hmmm, that’s odd”. As an amateur radio operator myself, I find this study fascinating. If you want to know more about VLF radio, see … Continue reading →

Posted in lightning, Science, solar | 114 Comments

Georgia Tech: “50 percent of the [USA] warming that has occurred since 1950 is due to land use changes rather than greenhouse gases”

Posted on November 11, 2009 by

From a Georgia Tech Press Release: Reducing Greenhouse Gases May Not Be Enough to Slow Climate Change Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone publishes a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Land use land cover change | 106 Comments

Pachauri claims Indian scientific position “arrogant”

Posted on November 11, 2009 by

From the : India ‘arrogant’ to deny global warming link to melting glaciers IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri accuses Indian environment ministry of ‘arrogance’ for its report claiming there is no evidence that climate change has shrunk Himalayan glaciers The Himalayas. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, politics | 93 Comments

Bombshell from Bristol: Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions increasing? – study says “no”

Posted on November 10, 2009 by

Controversial new climate change results University of Bristol Press release issued 9 November 2009 New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, paleoclimatology | 354 Comments

New geologic evidence of past periods of oscillating, abrupt warming, and cooling

Posted on November 10, 2009 by

Guest post by Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University Two hundred years ago, Charles Lyell coined the phrase “The present is the key to the past.” In today’s highly contentious issues of global climate change, we … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 33 Comments

Countdown to an “unprecedented warm decade” – 2 months to go

Posted on November 10, 2009 by

Global Temperatures This Decade Will Be The Warmest On Record… …And It Will Be Exploited By Those Who Fail To Understand The Reasons For The Rise Guest post by Bob Tisdale INITIAL NOTES For some visitors to this blog, this … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, ENSO | 78 Comments

Lindzen and McIntyre’s Finnish TV interview – issues that US journalists fail to investigate

Posted on November 10, 2009 by

The video showing the climate research work of Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT and Steven McIntyre of Climate Audit is now up on YouTube. One of the most compelling portions of the program has to do with the erroneous reversal … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, media | 61 Comments

2009 shaping up to be a “normal” temperature year in the USA

Posted on November 9, 2009 by

While we find cooling trends now in RSS and UAH global data from 2002, the US contiguous temperature record for 2009 seems to be returning to very near the normal baseline for temperature in the last century. From World Climate … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 82 Comments

A statistically significant cooling trend in RSS and UAH satellite data

Posted on November 9, 2009 by

Statistical Significance in Satellite Data Guest post by Jeff Id of The Air Vent If you’ve been following along here you probably suspected the difference between UAH and RSS are substantial enough to reach 95% significance. In this short post, you … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 39 Comments

Shindell, Methane, and Uncertainty

Posted on November 9, 2009 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A recent study by Shindell et. al, entitled Improved Attribution of Climate Forcing to Emissions, (Science Magazine, 30 October 2009, Vol. 326) reports on interactions between aerosols and methane and other greenhouse gases. It has … Continue reading →

Posted in Methane | 105 Comments

McIntyre and Lindzen to appear on Finnish TV documentary – transcript

Posted on November 9, 2009 by

Transcript in English from the TV network website here (h/t to Goran Frojdh) MOT: Climate catastrophe cancelled Finnish Broadcasting Co. YLE, TV1, Nov 11th 2009 at 8.00 pm. Voiceover (VO), reporter Martti Backman: Governments around the world are preparing for … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, media | 135 Comments

No longer the ENVI of the green revolution, Chrysler drops electric vehicle plan

Posted on November 9, 2009 by

The ENVI line can be seen here. This is rather sad really, I like electric cars. I drive one myself. From Reuters: Chrysler dismantles electric car plans under Fiat By Kevin Krolicki DETROIT (Reuters) – Chrysler has disbanded a team … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | 57 Comments

EPA sends CO2 endangerment finding to the White House

Posted on November 9, 2009 by

Excerpts from Reuters story: EPA C02 endangerment finding to White House By Tom Doggett WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has sent its final proposal on whether carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide | 81 Comments

The climate engine

Posted on November 9, 2009 by

Guest post by Erl Happ What follows is a general theory of natural climate variation supported by observation of the changing temperature of the atmosphere and the sea between 1948 and September 2009. This work suggests that strong warming after … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change | 113 Comments

RSS Global Temperature out for October – down, nearly identical to UAH

Posted on November 8, 2009 by

Here’s the plot from RSS – October is 0.282°C The RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA) Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data for March 2009 was published yesterday and has dropped after peaking in … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 75 Comments

MIT takes on the politics of climate fixes

Posted on November 8, 2009 by

Judith Layzer says there’s no easy way out when it comes to climate change — but that geo-engineering might be a last-ditch solution. From David Chandler, MIT News Office In the middle of a day filled with a stream of … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 101 Comments

USA Today: Expanding cities contribute to global warming

Posted on November 8, 2009 by

From Roger Pielke Sr. A very good news article titled Expanding cities contribute to global warming by Doyle Rice has been published on USA Today. The article is based on our paper Fall, S., D. Niyogi, A. Gluhovsky, R. A. … Continue reading →

Posted in Land use land cover change | 41 Comments

Watching Ida – back to a tropical storm

Posted on November 8, 2009 by

BUMPED, UPDATED: TS Ida, once hurricane Ida and a Cat 2 storm last night, has now fallen apart. To help you keep an eye on it, I have the satellite imagery here along with animated loops. Animate this image: Loop … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, weather | 39 Comments

Jan Janssen’s presentation on Solar Cycle 24 hints at Dalton or Maunder type minimum ahead

Posted on November 8, 2009 by

David Archibald forwarded me this PowerPoint presentation from Jan Janssens which he presented on October 22nd. It has some very interesting slides and is a good summary of the current debate over solar cycle 24. I’ve put the entire slide … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 152 Comments

Antimatter signature spotted in Earth’s lightning

Posted on November 8, 2009 by

Personally, I think this has to do with thunderstorms being essentially linear accelerators, vertical SLAC’s if you will. Huge charge differentials from top of cloud to bottom makes for a nice particle slingshot. There’s plenty of opportunity for antimatter (positrons) … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | 66 Comments

A tale of two overkills

Posted on November 7, 2009 by

The pyramid of aluminum shown in the photograph figures greatly in our nation’s history. This once rare metal was so prized that it was placed into a national monument by a grateful nation. Can you guess where? Now, aluminum is … Continue reading →

Posted in energy | 192 Comments

Chilled Kiwi’s: Coldest October since 1945

Posted on November 7, 2009 by

From the weather is not climate department, it seems that the USA is not the only country experiencing an October cold snap. Coldest October in 64 years LATEST: It will come as little surprise to most New Zealanders that the … Continue reading →

Posted in records, weather | 47 Comments

Quote of the week #22 – Experts say that fears surrounding climate change are overblown

Posted on November 7, 2009 by

The Times posted a surprising story this weekend that has skeptics cheering and alarmists hopping mad. It’s deja vu all over again. (See QOTW#21) Roger Pielke Sr. will be happy, because land use change is prominently mentioned. Here’s the line: … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Land use land cover change | 69 Comments