Monthly Archives: January 2010

Amazon flavor “gate du jour” leaves a bad taste

Posted on January 26, 2010 by

I reported yesterday on Dr. Richard Norths findings on what he coined “amazongate” related to yet another WWF reference in the IPCC AR4. Yesterday I sent him a comment from WUWT reader “Icarus” that made a very valid point. However … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 158 Comments

Pew Poll: global warming dead last, down from last year

Posted on January 25, 2010 by

It seems that the public just doesn’t share the worry some of the activists have. From the Pew Research Center Global Warming and the Environment Dealing with global warming ranks at the bottom of the public’s list of priorities; just … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Opinion, politics | 157 Comments

Du Jour-gate flavor: Amazon

Posted on January 25, 2010 by

The IPCC “Flavor of the day”-gate is now the Amazon Rain Forest. What will tomorrow’s flavor be? James Delingpole of the Telegraph says this better than I ever could, so I’ll provide his summary here. Note that there are plenty … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 240 Comments

The IPCC: More Sins of Omission – Telling the Truth but Not the Whole Truth

Posted on January 25, 2010 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany In an earlier post, The IPCC: Hiding the Decline…, I argued that even more egregious than the IPCC’s mistaken claim that Himalayan glaciers would be mainly gone by 2035, was the willful omission in … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 163 Comments

Loophole in UK FOIA law will apparently allow CRU to avoid prosecution

Posted on January 25, 2010 by

It appears that poorly crafted law is going to mean no prosecutions for any of the CRU collaborators in the now famous leaked emails and documents. This from The Bishop Hill blog: I’ve  just come off the phone to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 109 Comments

“Pachauri must resign – his position is untenable”

Posted on January 24, 2010 by

Here in the USA, WUWT readers probably don’t have a true handle on the firestorm that is going on in India over Pachauri’s “glaciergate”.  It is making headlines and the people there are quite angry, because they’ve been led to … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 191 Comments

The scandal deepens – IPCC AR4 riddled with non peer reviewed WWF papers

Posted on January 24, 2010 by

All the years I’ve been in TV news, I’ve observed that every story has a tipping point. In news, we know when it has reached that point when we say it “has legs” and the story takes on a life … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 323 Comments

The purge continues

Posted on January 24, 2010 by

Last night I pointed out how NASA had quietly purged IPCC AR4 referenced glacier melting claims from its climate.nasa.gov website, especially since they upped the year from 2035 to 2030 on their own. Now Roger Pielke Jr. points out that … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 204 Comments

For the IPCC AR4, “weather events are climate” – looks like another retraction is needed

Posted on January 24, 2010 by

We’ve been admonished by others in the blogosphere when we report on record cold weather or record snow stories of interest by hurling the maxim: “weather is not climate“. Yet when the IPCC does that, linking specific weather events in … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 61 Comments

Well, at least they didn’t use a lizard

Posted on January 24, 2010 by

Now that Dr. Rajenda Pachauri has blown all his (and the IPCC’s) credibility with denouncing complaints about the flawed glaciers melt date as “voodoo science”, the pundits, both serious and silly, are getting to work. On the serious side we … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC, satire | 112 Comments

“The Science is Scuttled” – NASA climate page, suckered by IPCC, deletes their own ‘moved up’ glacier melting date reference

Posted on January 23, 2010 by

And the purge begins. Here’s the NASA Climate Change “evidence” page where they list a series of visual earth topics that support AGW as factual. In the sidebar they have heavy reference on IPCC AR4. Scrolling down through the page … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 203 Comments

BREAKING NEWS: scientist admits IPCC used fake data to pressure policy makers

Posted on January 23, 2010 by

The IPCC is now damaged goods. Pachauri is toast, and nobody will be able to cite the IPCC AR4 again without this being brought up. The Daily Mail’s David Rose in the UK broke this story, it is mind boggling … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 238 Comments

HIGHNOON for Pachauri

Posted on January 23, 2010 by

UPDATE: links to new information posted at the bottom of this article, including a new story from the Times UPDATE2: Jonathan Leake’s story at the Time is Online, linking Pauchari’s TERI organization to government funding grants that were solicited using … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, IPCC | 181 Comments

Quote of the week #27

Posted on January 23, 2010 by

Since we missed a few weeks on this feature while climategate roiled, I’m treating readers to a double feature this week. This QOTW is from our friends at NASA GISS, who never excel in their quest to provided enlightenment and … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Week | 43 Comments

Sanity check: 2008 & 2009 Were The Coolest Years Since 1998 in the USA

Posted on January 23, 2010 by

While the press is hyperventilating over NASA GISS recent announcement of the “Hottest Decade Ever“, it pays to keep in mind what happened the last two years of the past decade. According to NCDC, 2009 temperatures in the US (53.13F) … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Climate News | 240 Comments

Arctic temperatures above 80°N are the lowest in six years

Posted on January 23, 2010 by

UPDATE: Easy come, easy go, the sharp decline has popped back up to near normal in the space of a couple days. See the end of the story for update. According to the Danish Meteorological Institute, Arctic temperatures are currently … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, climate data | 114 Comments

New tool for solar flare prediction

Posted on January 23, 2010 by

From NOAA news: NOAA Scientist Finds Clue to Predicting Solar Flares Forecasters at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) For decades, experts have searched for signs in the sun that could lead to more … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 242 Comments

American Thinker on CRU, GISS, and Climategate

Posted on January 22, 2010 by

Climategate: CRU Was But the Tip of the Iceberg By Marc Sheppard Not surprisingly, the blatant corruption exposed at Britain’s premiere climate institute was not contained within the nation’s borders. Just months after the Climategate scandal broke, a new study … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Climategate | 158 Comments

Statistics expert Briggs: Actually, Weather Is Climate

Posted on January 22, 2010 by

Guest post by William M. Briggs professional  statistician It is statistically appropriate to point to this year’s frigidity as evidence that the theory of man-made global warming is suspect. Sure is cold out there, unusually so. By “unusual,” I mean … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, weather | 125 Comments

UK Parliament to investigate Climategate and CRU data issues

Posted on January 22, 2010 by

From the Science and Technology committee of the UK Paliament press release here. The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia Terms of Reference The Science and Technology Committee today announces an … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 138 Comments

Flashback – Bob Tisdale’s November prediction on GISS exploiting the “warmest decade on record”

Posted on January 22, 2010 by

To help understand the context of the NASA GISS announcement, I’m reposting Bob Tisdales’s excellent analysis from 2009 which ran on WUWT on November 10th Global Temperatures This Decade Will Be The Warmest On Record… …And It Will Be Exploited … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 87 Comments

Polar bear forecast

Posted on January 22, 2010 by

From Ontario, evidence that above freezing weather may affect polar bear populations.

Posted in fun_stuff | 43 Comments

Warmest decade on record*

Posted on January 22, 2010 by

From NASA’s press release NASA Research Finds Last Decade was Warmest on Record, 2009 One of Warmest Years From NASA GISTEMP- Click image for original source WASHINGTON — A new analysis of global surface temperatures by NASA scientists finds the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 221 Comments

EPA’s CO2 endangerment finding challenged today in the U.S. Senate

Posted on January 21, 2010 by

Excerpts from the: Murkowski tries anew to block EPA regulators By ERIKA BOLSTAD WASHINGTON — Sen. Lisa Murkowski took her battle with the Environmental Protection Agency to the floor of the Senate today, saying she was left with no choice … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, politics | 170 Comments

Tiny bubbles…in the brine…affects the climate…all the time

Posted on January 21, 2010 by

URI bubble physicist counts bubbles in the ocean to answer questions about climate, sound, light From a University of Rhode Island press release NARRAGANSETT, R.I. – January 21, 2010 – The bubbles in your champagne that appear to jump out … Continue reading →

Posted in modeling, oceans | 105 Comments