Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach One of the arguments frequently applied to the climate debate is that the “Precautionary Principle” requires that we take action to reduce CO2. However, this…
Month: December 2009
G. P. Bear goes to Washington: part 7
By Bill Steigerwald “Abraham, Martin & Grandpa” WASHINGTON, D.C. Grandpa was afraid their special glasses weren’t working properly and the police officers could tell they were polar bears, so he…
NASA -vs- NASA: which temperature anomaly map to believe?
Readers may recall yesterday where I posted this stunning image of cold for Europe and Russia for mid December 2009 from the NASA NEO MODIS satellite imager. Deadly Cold Across…
Ultimate irony: Snowstorm squelches "screaming" climate change protest
And yet…it was claimed to be a “success”. Note to organizers: the media is laughing at you. Snowstorm squelches climate change protest By Judy Fahys, The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 12/30/2009…
Hubble's snowglobe
Since we’ve been talking about snow quite a bit recently, this seems fitting. WUWT reader Tom in Texas tips us to this image: A composite of archival Hubble data taken…
Satellite visualization of December's deadly cold in Europe and Russia
Earlier I wrote about the Arctic Oscillation Index going strongly negative in December and what new cold to expect in January. From NASA’s Earth observatory, we have a high resolution…
G. P. Bear goes to Washington: part 6
By Bill Steigerwald “Grandpa does Washington” JEFFERSON MEMORIAL, WASHINGTON, D.C. It would have been an odd sight if any humans had been around to see three polar bears walking across…
Major Philippine volcanic eruption seems imminent
Mayon – Shades of Pinatubo Here’s a recent AP report and bulletin from local authorities. Meanwhile, fools rush in as 2400 tourists a day flock to the area.
December sunspots on the rise
The sun has seen a resurgence of activity in December, with a number of cycle 24 sunspots being seen. The latest is group 1039 seen below: 2009 is ending with…
Major northern hemisphere cold snap coming
Cold event setups in atmospheric circulation patterns are aligning. Two days ago I brought to your attention that there was a strong downspike in the Arctic Oscillation Index and that…
French Revolution! Carbon tax ruled unconstitutional just two days before taking effect
This new French carbon tax was scheduled to go into law on Jan1, 2010. The tax was steep: 17 euros per ton of carbon dioxide (USD $24.40). In a stunning…
G. P. Bear goes to Washington: part 5
By Bill Steigerwald “Voyage of the Polar Bears” Of all the animals the Inuit traditionally hunted, Nanuk, the polar bear, was the most prized. Native hunters considered Nanuk to be…
Climategate on Finnish TV – with English subtitles
You may recall that Finnish TV interviewed Steve McIntyre last month. They did a superb job with that. Now they have a new 3 part YouTube series out on Climategate,…
USGS: Arctic sea too warm for sea ice 3 million years ago
This is a paleoclimatology finding, with current spin added. I guess they haven’t seen the latest on the NAO and AO. USGS Press Release: Arctic Could Face Warmer and Ice-Free…
EcoSpy -vs- EcoSpy
UPDATE: EcoSnoop responds – see below. Now, you can rat on your neighbors, your company, even your friends and family. Thanks to EcoSnoop, there’s an app for that. This can…
Yikes!
September 25th, 2009 WUWT hit the 20 million mark. I was shocked then, because we’d gone from 10 million just six months prior. I wrote then in Another small milestone…
CRU's forecast: UK winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event"
Richard North from the EU Referendum writes of a curious juxtaposition of forecasts, then and now. I thought it worth sharing here since it highlights the chutzpah with which CRU…
G. P. Bear goes to Washington: part 4
By Bill Steigerwald “Polar bear democracy” Of all the animals the Inuit traditionally hunted, Nanuk, the polar bear, was the most prized. Native hunters considered Nanuk to be wise, powerful,…
The Arctic Oscillation Index goes strongly negative
In the last month, the Arctic Oscillation Index (AO) has gone strongly negative. You can see that it headed to its negative peak right about the time the Copenhagen Climate…
Glacier melt discovered to have an upside
From Virginia Tech, a surprising study showing some biological benefit of melting glaciers. Glacier melt adds ancient edibles to marine buffet Glaciers along the Gulf of Alaska are enriching stream…
The Unbearable Complexity of Climate
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Figure 1. The Experimental Setup I keep reading statements in various places about how it is indisputable “simple physics” that if we increase the amount…
G. P. Bear goes to Washington: part 3
By Bill Steigerwald “Act of Endangerment” TASIILAQ, EAST GREENLAND Grandpa, Mother and Junior were at Erik the Red’s Sports Den. The place was crowded for the big Monday Night Football…
Our current weather: A test for forecast models – December shaping up to be one of the coldest on record in the USA
It has often been said that “Weather is not climate”, but ultimately it provides the only meaningful way to verify climate models. Did the climate models predict the cold, snowy…
877 new snowfall records set or tied in the USA in the last week
And that’s not all, for the week ending Dec 13th, there were 815 new snowfall records set. December 2009 is shaping up to be quite the snowmaker. Here’s a map…
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