Monthly Archives: December 2009

Climategate reaches the British House of Lords

Posted on December 10, 2009 by

There is the issue of the science, which I had previously taken as given; but many people’s faith is being tested. We are often told that the science is settled. I suppose that is what the Inquisition said to Galileo. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 175 Comments

Spencer on solar geomagnetic to earth climate connections

Posted on December 10, 2009 by

Geomagnetic Forcing of Earth’s Cloud Cover During 2000-2008? Guest post  by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. I’ll admit to being a skeptic when it comes to other skeptics’ opinions on the potential effects of sunspot activity on climate. Oh, it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 292 Comments

The Met Office: making a list – tries to prop up the image of the CRU

Posted on December 10, 2009 by

Next time some irrationalist complains about a skeptic sponsored list, that includes scientists that are not climatologists, saying such lists are irrelevant, show them this. Show them also the unspoken pressure that some signers have worried about. From The Times … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 204 Comments

John Coleman on the “six legged monster”

Posted on December 10, 2009 by

Guest post by John Coleman – KUSI-TV, Weather Channel Founder December 7, 2009 David and Goliath The 21st century Goliath is Global Warming. It is a powerful six-legged monster. In no order of strength, those legs are: (1) The big … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | 141 Comments

Gavin Schmidt -vs- John Christy on CNN

Posted on December 9, 2009 by

NASA GISS Gavin Schmidt vs UAH’s John Christy debate on CNN’s Situation Room an hour ago: from Eyeblast.tv Posted using ShareThis h/t to WUWT reader Chris

Posted in Climategate | 268 Comments

Hockey stick observed in NOAA ice core data

Posted on December 9, 2009 by

At the Foresight Institute, J. Storrs Hall had some interesting graphs made from NOAA ice core data (Alley, R.B. 2000. The Younger Dryas cold interval as viewed from central Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews 19:213-226.) It sure seems to mirror other … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 259 Comments

Picking out the UHI in climatic temperature records – so easy a 6th grader can do it!

Posted on December 9, 2009 by

The Urban Heat Island effect on temperature records is real, despite what some people wish you to believe. Peter, a sixth grader, and his dad, thought so too, and take the data from NASA GISS and show in a simple … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, UHI | 219 Comments

Solar geomagnetic activity is at an all time low – what does this mean for climate?

Posted on December 9, 2009 by

I’ve mentioned this solar data on WUWT several times, it bears repeating again. Yesterday, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center released their latest data and graph of the interplanetary geomagnetic index (Ap) which is a proxy for the activity of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 225 Comments

More bad siting in Australian weather stations

Posted on December 9, 2009 by

WUWT Commenter “Boy on a Bike” was inspired by Willis article on Darwin (See: The Smoking Gun At Darwin Zero) to have a look at stations in his part of the world, he didn’t have to look far. He’s found what … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, weather_stations | 88 Comments

Al Gore can’t tell time – thinks most recent Climategate email is more than 10 years old

Posted on December 8, 2009 by

Al Gore apparently has no command of the most basic details of anything related to Earth and climate. His last idiotic gaff in the media was that the temperature of the Earth 2 kilometers or so down was millions of … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Climategate | 218 Comments

New Climate Audit Server Migration Completed

Posted on December 8, 2009 by

If some of you have noticed I’ve been a bit absent from WUWT it is because I’ve been working the last two weeks with Mr. Pete and JohnA to get the climateaudit.org server migrated to a new home. We wanted … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 70 Comments

McIntyre on CNN

Posted on December 8, 2009 by

CNN’s Campbell Brown & John Roberts with Chris Horner, Stephen McIntyre, Michael Oppenheimer. Part 1 Part 2 below:

Posted in Climategate, media | 235 Comments

Citizens buying advertising against climate change politics

Posted on December 8, 2009 by

This is rather unique, and it shows the conviction that some individuals have. I’ve often thought that a full page ad in the NYT might get some action, but I really think volume is the answer now on an individual … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Copenhagen Climate Conference, media, Opinion | 50 Comments

More Leaks – Copenhagen in disarray

Posted on December 8, 2009 by

Leaking, again? These aren’t the CRUTape documents, but secret docs from “the Circle of Commitment”  describing the way some manipulators wanted Copenhagen’s agreement to pan out. See it here This quote (from the Guardian article) sums it up pretty well: … Continue reading →

Posted in Copenhagen Climate Conference | 195 Comments

The Smoking Gun At Darwin Zero

Posted on December 8, 2009 by

by Willis Eschenbach People keep saying “Yes, the Climategate scientists behaved badly. But that doesn’t mean the data is bad. That doesn’t mean the earth is not warming.” Let me start with the second objection first. The earth has generally … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, weather_stations | 909 Comments

American’s belief of global warming sinking – below 50% for the first time in 2 years

Posted on December 7, 2009 by

From the CNN Ticker Blog: CNN Poll: Skepticism on global warming heating up? Washington (CNN) – A rise in skepticism among Americans over global warming is mostly due to changes among Republicans, according to new national poll. The CNN/Opinion Research … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, politics | 74 Comments

NOAA Paper: North American 2008 Cooling Attributed to Natural Causes

Posted on December 7, 2009 by

Cool sea surface temperatures overrode warming December 4, 2009 Left side: 1970-2007 trend in annual surface air temperature. Right sid: 2008 annual surface air temperature, shown as a departure from the 1971-2000 climatology. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) Cooler North American … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, oceans | 145 Comments

The EPA CO2 regulation – Dec 7th 2009, a day we will not soon forget

Posted on December 7, 2009 by

EPA’ s Lisa Jackson panders to Copenhagen on opening day. Planned for months of course, with public comment ignored. It is now the people -vs- the EPA, coming to a courtroom near you. From the EPA press release: EPA: Greenhouse … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, politics | 310 Comments

Dissenting members ask APS to put their policy statement on ice due to Climategate

Posted on December 7, 2009 by

While Copenhagen and its excesses rage, a quiet revolution is starting. I’d show you the APS logo, but they are so [insert your own adjective here] that they demanded (in writing) the last time I used it that I not … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, Science | 86 Comments

Monday Funny

Posted on December 7, 2009 by

The science is “robust”. Credit to: Nate Beeler from the Washington Examiner

Posted in Climategate, fun_stuff, Opinion | 109 Comments

Comprehensive network analysis shows Climategate likely to be a leak

Posted on December 7, 2009 by

This lends cred to WUWT’s previous analysis done by our own Charles the moderator: The CRUtape Letters™, an Alternative Explanation, Climate-Gate: Leaked by Lance Levsen, Network Analyst – courtesy of Small Dead Animals Introduction Some time starting in mid November 2009, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 257 Comments

December 7th, 2009…a day that will live in hypocrisy

Posted on December 7, 2009 by

It will be remembered as the day the greens bombed Copenhagen with limousines. Picture updated at 12:30PM – Anthony From the Telegraph, the tale of elitist excess begins: On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest … Continue reading →

Posted in Copenhagen Climate Conference, GLOC | 253 Comments

Send a greeting to Copenhagen Conference

Posted on December 7, 2009 by

Russ Steele writes: During the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15), the Danish government invites the entire world to send their greetings to the conference. Greetings are submitted through www.greetings.cop15.dk and are composed of 150 characters of text. Here is … Continue reading →

Posted in Copenhagen Climate Conference | 300 Comments

EPA about to declare CO2 dangerous – ssshhh! – Don’t tell the trees

Posted on December 6, 2009 by

I can’t find the words to describe the illogic behind the EPA with this ruling. Perhaps it is best to say that bureaucrats don’t understand anything but regulations and leave it at that. WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, GLOC | 193 Comments

Media now blaming Russians for Climategate leak

Posted on December 6, 2009 by

Personally I don’t think Russian spies had anything to do with it. A our own Charles The Moderator recently explained in The CRUtape Letters™, an Alternative Explanation, it is looking more and more like a leak than a hack. I’ll have … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 123 Comments