Climategate intensifies: Jones and Wang apparently hid Chinese station data issues

UPDATE: UEA/CRU has responded! http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/CRUstatements/guardianstatement Looks like a homogenized data comparison. h/t to WUWT reader “splice” ============================== It looks like Doug Keenan has been right all along. He must feel…

Gate Du Jour: IPCC gets the boot (cleaned)

WUWT reader “ClimateQuoter” brings this latest IPCC AR 4 reference to our attention. It seems the issue is about preventing footwear borne biological contamination. It appears this has nothing to…

Looks like Penn State's Mann inquiry will be without the tough questions

You’d think, being academics and all, that Penn State’s internal investigation of Dr. Michael Mann would contact the people who raised questions about the MBH98 paper and the “hockey stick”.…

Chiefio asks: why does GISS make us see red?

Is the NULL default infinite hot? January 31, 2010 by E.M.Smith see his website “Musings from the Chiefio” The empty ocean goes infinite hot on a null anomaly What to make…

Spencer: Natural variability unexplained in IPCC models

Evidence for Natural Climate Cycles in the IPCC Climate Models’ 20th Century Temperature Reconstructions by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. What can we learn from the IPCC climate models based…

Record cold in Florida kills reef coral

Never mind predictions of catastrophic bleaching from global warming, cold is the culprit of this story. With ocean heat content now shown to be dropping slightly since 2005, there is…

Micro satellite to study atmospheric gamma ray flashes

From NASA Science News: Firefly Mission to Study Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes High-energy bursts of gamma rays typically occur far out in space, perhaps near black holes or other high-energy cosmic…