Monthly Archives: February 2010

Sense and Sensitivity

Posted on February 28, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach This is an extension of the ideas I laid out as the Thunderstorm Thermostat Hypothesis on WUWT. For those who have not read it, I’ll wait here while you go there and read it … … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 233 Comments

BWI snow record rescinded: Another reason why airports aren’t the best place to measure climate data

Posted on February 28, 2010 by

I’ve mentioned problems with airports as climate stations in the past, mostly that they are pockets of UHI that have grown with the 20th century aviation boom. A good example is Chicago O’Hare airport. I’ll bet that many of you … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, records, snowfall, weather, weather_stations | 89 Comments

Un-bearable news

Posted on February 28, 2010 by

Excerpts: from the Sunday Times: Polar bear is a ‘new’ species by Jonathan Leake Polar bears may have come into existence only 150,000 years ago, when trapped brown bears had to adapt to an ice age Polar bears may have … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 156 Comments

Spencer: Spurious warming demonstrated in CRU surface data

Posted on February 27, 2010 by

Spurious Warming in the Jones U.S. Temperatures Since 1973 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. INTRODUCTION As I discussed in my last post, I’m exploring the International Surface Hourly (ISH) weather data archived by NOAA to see how a simple … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 259 Comments

Archibald on stellar to climate linkage

Posted on February 27, 2010 by

The Warning in the Stars By David Archibald If climate is not a random walk, then we can predict climate if we understand what drives it.  The energy that stops the Earth from looking like Pluto comes from the Sun, … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays, solar | 277 Comments

Tsunami threat for the Pacific

Posted on February 27, 2010 by

Of course the big news today is the 8.8 earthquake in Chile and the Tsunami warning stemming from it. There’s not much I could add that’s not already being covered, but I thought this image from the American West Coast … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans, tsunami | 143 Comments

Luxemberg

Posted on February 27, 2010 by

From the BBC: ‘Iceberg the size of Luxembourg threat‘ – click image for video and watch the collision of two giant ice masses. Of course 50 years ago, such things would likely go unnoticed without satellite imagery. They write:

Posted in sea ice | 67 Comments

The Times: “University ‘tried to mislead MPs on climate change e-mails’”

Posted on February 27, 2010 by

Reposted from Climate Audit: A savage article in the Times today by Ben Webster about the UEA submission to the UK Parliamentary Inquiry – the letter in which they tried to “trick” the Committee about the contents of the letter … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 76 Comments

Institute of Physics on Climategate

Posted on February 27, 2010 by

Here’s something rather astonishing. The Institute of Physics, has made a statement about climate science. The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of over … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 151 Comments

Contribution of USHCN and GISS bias in long-term temperature records for a well-sited rural weather station

Posted on February 26, 2010 by

Guest post by David W. Schnare, Esq. Ph.D. When Phil Jones suggested that if folks didn’t like his surface temperature reconstructions, then perhaps they should do their own, he was right. The SPPI analysis of rural versus urban trends demonstrates … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, measurement, weather_stations | 196 Comments

Breaking News: IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri to face independent inquiry

Posted on February 26, 2010 by

Excerpts from the Telegraph article By Geoffrey Lean, in Bali Rajendra Pachauri, the controversial Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to face an international inquiry into the performance of his organisation. Environment and Climate ministers meeting … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 179 Comments

A new paper comparing NCDC rural and urban US surface temperature data

Posted on February 26, 2010 by

Note: See update below, new graph added. There’s a new paper out by Dr. Edward Long that does some interesting comparisons to NCDC’s raw data (prior to adjustments) that compares rural and urban station data, both raw and adjusted in … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, UHI | 297 Comments

Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. on Fox Business News

Posted on February 25, 2010 by

UPDATE: Bumped, video of this interview is now available below. I got late word tonight that Dr. Roger Pielke Senior, of the University of Colorado, will be a guest on the FoxBusiness News Channel Friday morning at 10AM EST (7AM … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 103 Comments

CTM is Contacted by the Norfolk Constabulary and Responds

Posted on February 25, 2010 by

by charles the moderator I received the following this morning, Dear Mr Rotter I am part of the enquiry team who are investigating the theft of data from the UEA in Norwich last year. As part of the investigation we … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 232 Comments

UEA – the new crimestoppers

Posted on February 25, 2010 by

Sometimes I wonder what sort of logical thinking skills are employed over at UEA and CRU. Surely, they have little skill with public relations, that has been demonstrated time and again. Climategate itself is a direct result of “failure to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 61 Comments

CRUTEM3 error getting attention by Met Office

Posted on February 25, 2010 by

This is a repost of two articles from John Graham-Cumming’s blog. I watched with interest earlier this month where he and a colleague identified what they thought to be a math error related to error calculation when applied to grid … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 182 Comments

Judith, I love ya, but you’re way wrong …

Posted on February 25, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Judith Curry posted here on WUWT regarding rebuilding the lost trust we used to have in climate science and climate scientists. This is my response to her post, an expansion and revision of what I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 789 Comments

The great filament

Posted on February 24, 2010 by

From Spaceweather.com with apologies to Linus and Charles Schulz The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is tracking an enormous magnetic filament on the sun. It stretches more than one million kilometers from end to end, which makes it an easy … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 334 Comments

WMO: “. . . we cannot at this time conclusively identify anthropogenic signals in past tropical cyclone data.”

Posted on February 24, 2010 by

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a stunning statement in a  recent report. Roger Pielke Jr. has the details on his blog. Just to remind folks that we’ve been saying much the same thing for months on WUWT: Global Warming … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes | 176 Comments

New All-in-one Space Weather Tool from NASA

Posted on February 24, 2010 by

The press release doesn’t contain any pictures, and really doesn’t do this new web tool justice, so I’ve added some screencaps. In a nutshell, the new iSWA site lets you arrange graphical packages of solar images and plots oncsreen for … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 28 Comments

On the Credibility of Climate Research, Part II: Towards Rebuilding Trust

Posted on February 24, 2010 by

Foreword – Below is  a guest post (by request) from Dr. Judith Curry on the issues we deal with every day here. While I and other like minded bloggers were given the opportunity to have some early input into this, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Opinion | 617 Comments

Blog note

Posted on February 23, 2010 by

I’m having to do a personal computer upgrade. My Windows 7 RC1 (release candidate 1 for you non-geeks) that I installed last year is about to expire, and I have to update my system with the full version tonight. Thus … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 135 Comments

The Goracle Forecast: AGW=More snow

Posted on February 23, 2010 by

Sure looks like a heat wave, doesn’t it? Repower America Reports His View By Al Gore from his blog @ algore.com With all the climate deniers spreading lies about the climate crisis in the media, it’s vital we arm ourselves … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Uncategorized | 229 Comments

Climategate Minority Report

Posted on February 23, 2010 by

While the Met Office announces a “do over”, the much anticipated report from Environment and Public Works (EPW) minority leader Senator Jim Inhofe has been announced in the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works” hearing. SENATE EPW MINORITY RELEASES … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, politics | 166 Comments

Met office pushes a surface temperature data “do over”

Posted on February 23, 2010 by

From Fox News, word that the Met Office has circulated a proposal that intends to completely start over with raw surface temperature data in a transparent process. Here’s the proposal from the Met Office metoffice_proposal_022410 (PDF). Unfortunately it is not … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Climategate | 150 Comments