Monthly Archives: January 2010

This WUWT article from 2008 was on Fox News tonight

Posted on January 6, 2010 by

From WUWT on March 16, 2008, we found this article and it is now just getting national news exposure. I’m bringing it forward again since there has been a lot of activity in search engine traffic that has found its … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, Climate News, media | 129 Comments

Winter kills: Excess Deaths in the Winter Months

Posted on January 6, 2010 by

108,500 Deaths in the US in 2008; 36,700 in England and Wales Last Winter; 5,600 in Canada (2006); 7,000 in Australia (1997-2006 Average); Thousands in Other Developed Countries Indur M. Goklany Since extreme cold has gripped much of the Northern … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health | 74 Comments

Cold Killing Iguanas

Posted on January 6, 2010 by

Extended cold could kill invasive iguanas Dropping temperatures slow down lizards Photo credit Bjørn Christian Tørrissen This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Official license From Sunsentinel.com With this week’s evening temperatures falling toward the upper 30s, strange fruit … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 119 Comments

Climategate: Michael Mann’s very unhappy New Year

Posted on January 6, 2010 by

By James Delingpole Read original story here with comments. As I said yesterday, one of our jobs this year is to wipe the complacent smiles off the smug faces of the lobbyists, “experts”, “scientists”, politicians and activists pushing AGW. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Uncategorized | 192 Comments

Stat Model Predicts Flat Temperatures Through 2050

Posted on January 6, 2010 by

Doug L. Hoffman The Resilient Earth Friday, Dec 18th, 2009 While climate skeptics have gleefully pointed to the past decade’s lack of temperature rise as proof that global warming is not happening as predicted, climate change activists have claimed that … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, forecasting | 121 Comments

Gore’s a bust – a frozen one

Posted on January 6, 2010 by

‘Frozen Gore’ sculpture returns in Fairbanks to fuel climate change debate Fairbanks Daily Miner  | January 5, 2010 | Jeff Richardson FAIRBANKS – In what might become an annual tradition, an ice sculpture of former Vice President Al Gore has … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, satire | 75 Comments

Socioeconomic Impacts of Global Warming are Systematically Overestimated–Part II

Posted on January 6, 2010 by

Socioeconomic Impacts of Global Warming are Systematically Overestimated Part II:  How Large Might be the Overestimation? Indur M. Goklany A major argument advanced for drastic GHG emission reductions is that, otherwise, we are told, global warming will exacerbate the problems … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, economy-health, forecasting, IPCC | 46 Comments

London Times forced to recant ads touting NE passage

Posted on January 6, 2010 by

From WUWT on October 7th:  The surprising real story about this year’s Northeast passage transit: The media botched it One newspaper is making the most of this “first ever event”, according to a story in the UK Register: The Times has … Continue reading →

Posted in media | 124 Comments

The frigid hit parade – over 1200 new cold and snow records set in the last week in the USA, more in progress

Posted on January 6, 2010 by

From the “weather is not c..c..cl..climate” department, cold and snow hits hard. Meanwhile, Hot Weather Convinces Media of Climate Change; Cold Weather Ignored. And it heads far south too. A hard freeze warning has been issued for the Miami and … Continue reading →

Posted in records, weather | 178 Comments

G.P. Bear goes to Washington – Final Part 12

Posted on January 5, 2010 by

By Bill Steigerwald “G.P. Bear for president” Of all the animals the Inuit traditionally hunted, Nanuk, the polar bear, was the most prized. Native hunters considered Nanuk to be wise, powerful, and “almost a man.” Some called the bear “the … Continue reading →

Posted in satire | 16 Comments

Socioeconomic Impacts of Global Warming are Systematically Overestimated

Posted on January 5, 2010 by

Socioeconomic Impacts of Global Warming are Systematically Overestimated Part I: Why are Impacts Overestimated? Indur M. Goklany [Note to the Reader: For the sake of argument, in this post I will accept the IPCC’s estimates of global warming. I will … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, economy-health, IPCC, modeling | 73 Comments

December UAH global temperature anomaly – down by almost half

Posted on January 5, 2010 by

December 2009 UAH Global Temperature Update +0.28 Deg. C by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The global-average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly fell back to the October level of +0.28 deg. C in December.

Posted in climate data | 246 Comments

Shades of Fahrenheit 451 – British retirees burning books to stay warm

Posted on January 5, 2010 by

Remember these chaps? This time they’ll be putting out the book fires rather than starting them. From Benny Peiser’s daily newsletter, it appears to be time for a revolt in Britain: GREEN BRITAIN: PENSIONERS BURN BOOKS TO STAY WARM Metro … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health, energy | 200 Comments

G.P. Bear goes to Washington – Part 11

Posted on January 4, 2010 by

By Bill Steigerwald “Polar Bear Manifesto” U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING With a bang the Senate hearing room’s double-doors suddenly flew open. A SWAT team of 12 Navy SEALs in full riot gear and body armor stormed in, knelt down and aimed … Continue reading →

Posted in satire | 50 Comments

Coal Creek Redux

Posted on January 4, 2010 by

Guest post by Richard Keen, Ph.D. To paraphrase Led Zeppelin, “It’s been cooling, I ain’t fooing…” December was a chilly month across much of the U.S., and at my site (the NWS co-op station for Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado, NW … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, weather_stations | 148 Comments

Where Are The Corpses?

Posted on January 4, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Abstract The record of continental (as opposed to island) bird and mammal extinctions in the last five centuries was analyzed to determine if the “species-area” relationship actually works to predict extinctions. Very few continental birds … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction, Science | 249 Comments

Christopher Monckton of Brenchley replies to readers

Posted on January 4, 2010 by

Note: I posted this originally early this morning, something happened with wordpress.com hosting (I’m not sure what) and it disappeared, here it is again. – Anthony Christopher Monckton of Brenchley replies to readers I am most grateful to the many … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 210 Comments

The 2009 weblog awards – zilched

Posted on January 4, 2010 by

Kevin Aylward makes a surprising announcement. Guess I’ll have to settle for “nominee with a boatload of nominations“. Update – The 2009 Weblog Awards are off 4 Jan 2010 It is with a great deal of regret that I must … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 69 Comments

BBC swaps “coldest December since 1981″ headline

Posted on January 4, 2010 by

BBC reported: Coldest December since 1981 (BBC, January 3, 2010) It is still showing up in Google, but changes are afoot, odd that a headline like that can’t stand on its own:

Posted in media | 228 Comments

G.P. Bear goes to Washington – Part 10

Posted on January 3, 2010 by

By Bill Steigerwald “Junior saves the day” U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING Senator Boxer had to bang her gavel 15 times before she could stop the riotous laughter and regain order in the hearing room. “Have that disrespectful boy in the baseball … Continue reading →

Posted in satire | 34 Comments

Aviation pioneer and master engineer Burt Rutan on Global Warming

Posted on January 3, 2010 by

Jeff Id of the Air Vent reminds me with a video recently made available that that Burt Rutan has been giving active lectures on his view of global warming. WUWT covered Rutan’s Oshkosh EAA presentation last summer, but we didn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in presentations | 174 Comments

Climate change: proposed personal briefing

Posted on January 3, 2010 by

A letter sent from: The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley 1 January 2010 His Excellency Mr. Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister, Commonwealth of Australia. Prime Minister, Climate change: proposed personal briefing Your speech on 6 November 2009 to the Lowy Institute, in … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Copenhagen Climate Conference, economy-health, politics | 306 Comments

Dr. Neil Frank on Climategate: “you should be steamed”

Posted on January 3, 2010 by

Climategate: You should be steamed By NEIL FRANK, HOUSTON CHRONICLE Jan. 2, 2010 Now that Copenhagen is past history, what is the next step in the man-made global warming controversy? Without question, there should be an immediate and thorough investigation … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Opinion | 184 Comments

Swiss ETH: Glaciers melted in the 1940′s faster than today

Posted on January 3, 2010 by

From ETH Zurich: The stupefying pace of glacier melt in the 1940s The most recent studies by researchers at ETH Zurich show that in the 1940s Swiss glaciers were melting at an even-faster pace than at present. This is despite … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, glaciers, Science, solar | 140 Comments

G.P. Bear goes to Washington – part 9

Posted on January 2, 2010 by

By Bill Steigerwald “Boxer blows her top” U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING “Senator Boxer,” Grandpa began, his powerful voice shaking the room, “I want to thank you for this opportunity to tell the American people the truth about polar bears.” Senator Arlen … Continue reading →

Posted in satire | 17 Comments