Monthly Archives: December 2009

No statistically significant warming since 1995: a quick mathematical proof

Posted on December 26, 2009 by

Physicist Luboš Motl of The Reference Frame demonstrates how easy it is to show that there is: No statistically significant warming since 1995 First, since it wasn’t in his original post, here is the UAH data plotted: By: Luboš Motl … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 300 Comments

Voyager tells us we live in a “fluffy” interstellar cloud

Posted on December 26, 2009 by

December 23, 2009: The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA’s Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery. “Using data … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, space | 224 Comments

Satellite measurements show our quiet sun is cooling the upper thermosphere

Posted on December 26, 2009 by

From NASA News. New measurements from a NASA satellite show a dramatic cooling in the upper atmosphere that correlates with the declining phase of the current solar cycle. For the first time, researchers can show a timely link between the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, earth, Science | 169 Comments

G. P. Bear goes to Washington: The true story of a freedom-loving carnivore

Posted on December 25, 2009 by

A writer friend of mine, Bill Steigerwald, has created an interesting serial story, a Christmasy “docu-fable” as he calls it. I’ll be running this over the next 12 days. Here’s the foreword on it. While I’ve had a bit of … Continue reading →

Posted in satire | 35 Comments

Three Cheers for Holiday Lighting

Posted on December 25, 2009 by

Guest post by Robert Bradley of Master Resource House in Boston with 250,000 lights – see Boston Globe story here -Photo by Paul Keleher Environmentalists critical of electrified America must have mixed emotions this time of the year. It may … Continue reading →

Posted in energy | 49 Comments

Steam train rescues stranded passengers in Britain where electric trains failed

Posted on December 25, 2009 by

Both my father and grandfather, both of whom had connections to steam locomotives in their life are undoubtedly cheering this story(wherever they are) from the BBC. So am I. Inconveniently, it runs on coal. Steam train’s snow rescue ‘glory’ Excerpts: … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | 138 Comments

Nearly two thirds of the continental USA gets a white Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2009 by

I don’t know if this is a record or not for Christmas coverage, but it is certainly reminiscent of the winter of 1977-78 where we had similar bouts of cold and snow. About 99% of Canada has snow cover also, … Continue reading →

Posted in snowfall, weather | 125 Comments

“Global Warming” Cancels Christmas for Many Travelers – Breaks Records

Posted on December 25, 2009 by

From the “weather is not climate” department, inconvenient travel: Here’s a sample of headlines related to difficult if not impossible holiday travel:

Posted in records, snowfall, weather | 110 Comments

Seasons Greetings

Posted on December 25, 2009 by

And for our readers worldwide:

Posted in Announcements | 181 Comments

Choose a winner for the caption contest

Posted on December 24, 2009 by

This post, showing a photograph from Doug Mills of The New York Times generated over 1000 comments. To pick the best caption for this, I have a voting poll below. May the best caption win. Here are the top ten … Continue reading →

Posted in fun_stuff | 131 Comments

BBC botches grade school CO2 science experiment on live TV – with indepedent lab results to prove it

Posted on December 24, 2009 by

WUWT readers may recall this story from November 3rd NOAA deletes an “inconvenient” kids science web page where NOAA took down a web page called “It’s a gas, man” that talked about a tabletop science demonstration that kids could do themselves … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Climategate, media, Science | 344 Comments

Climate Craziness of the Week – Why I’m a Pepsi* tea drinker now

Posted on December 23, 2009 by

I used to love the Coca-Cola Polar bear TV ads at Christmastime. I marveled at the quality of the CGI animations when they first came out, like this one: They were fun and entertaining to watch, even though not reality … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week | 201 Comments

The Climategate Timeline: 30 years visualized

Posted on December 23, 2009 by

The always sharp Jo Nova tips us to this: Here’s a Spectacular Poster of ClimateGate covering 3 decades You have to see this to believe it. Look up close and admire the detail while you despair at how long science … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 144 Comments

Von Storch op-ed in the WSJ: ‘Climategate reveals a concerted effort to emphasize scientific results useful to a political agenda’

Posted on December 23, 2009 by

Some excerpts: We—society and climate researchers—need to discuss now what constitutes “good science.” Some think good science is a societal institution that produces results that serve an ideology. Take, for instance, the counsel that then-Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Opinion | 120 Comments

Unbearable Global Warming Hype Threatens the North Pole at Christmas

Posted on December 23, 2009 by

It’s one thing when you are bombarded daily by news articles, it’s quite another when you want to buy a custom teddy bear and are treated to a video lecture on global warming. That’s why I’ll never buy anything from … Continue reading →

Posted in ridiculae | 150 Comments

Met Office and CRU bow to public pressure: publish data subset and code

Posted on December 22, 2009 by

Just over a month after Climategate started, we have breaking news from Climate Audit Steve McIntyre writes: The UK Met Office has released a large tranche of station data, together with code. Only last summer, the Met Office had turned … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Climategate | 170 Comments

Texas State Climatologist: “IPCC AR4 was flat out wrong” – relied on flawed WWF report

Posted on December 22, 2009 by

Even though these clean cut dudes (by today’s standards) may be favorite sons of 60′s alarmism, at least they can add years correctly. Their signature song telling tales of doom in future years is pretty close to this issue, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, glaciers, IPCC | 152 Comments

A story of conversion: Global Warming Believer To Skeptic

Posted on December 22, 2009 by

Bradley Fikes writes in the NCtimes.com A few years ago, I accepted global warming theory with few doubts. I wrote several columns for this paper condemning what I thought were unfair attacks by skeptics and defending the climate scientists. Boy, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 244 Comments

Study shows CFCs, cosmic rays major culprits for global warming

Posted on December 22, 2009 by

From the University of Waterloo press release. WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, Dec. 21, 2009) – Cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), both already implicated in depleting the Earth’s ozone layer, are also responsible for changes in the global climate, a University of … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays, ozone, Science | 269 Comments

William Connolley and Wikipedia: Turborevisionism

Posted on December 22, 2009 by

UPDATE2: There’s now some question about who is who regarding the editing of the Connolley page at Wikipedia.One of the problems with Wikipedia is the use of handles. In the messages sent to me seen below, it appears that they … Continue reading →

Posted in media | 146 Comments

See sunspots run

Posted on December 21, 2009 by

From Spaceweather.com The sun is showing signs of life. There are no fewer than five active regions on the sun’s surface, shown here in an extreme ultraviolet photo taken this morning by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO):

Posted in Science, solar | 214 Comments

Hansen on the surface temperature record, Climategate, solar, and El Nino

Posted on December 21, 2009 by

The Temperature of Science (PDF available here) James Hansen My experience with global temperature data over 30 years provides insight about how the science and its public perception have changed. In the late 1970s I became curious about well known … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Climategate, ENSO, Sea Surface Temperature, solar | 380 Comments

Global warming on blogs outshines MSM in interest

Posted on December 21, 2009 by

From the Pew Research Center No Denying the Heat of Global Warming Debate in the Blogosphere Global warming has of late been a very hot topic in social media, and last week it was hotter than ever. Much of the … Continue reading →

Posted in media | 54 Comments

Gaming the peer review system: IPCC scientists behaving badly

Posted on December 21, 2009 by

How IPCC scientists interfere with publication of inconvenient scientific results By David H. Douglass, Professor of Physics, University of Rochester, New York, and John R. Christy, Distinguished Professor, Atmospheric Science, University of Alabama at Huntsville In this article, reprinted from … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 182 Comments

Over 50% of the USA is now covered in snow

Posted on December 21, 2009 by

UPDATE: The East coast snowstorm seen from space The Mid-Atlantic states were completely white on Sunday, December 20, 2009, in the wake of a record-breaking snow storm. The storm deposited between 12 and 30 inches of snow in Virginia, Maryland, … Continue reading →

Posted in snowfall, weather | 160 Comments