Daily Archives: February 2, 2010

Solar Cycle 24 Update

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Guest post by David Archibald Solar Cycle 24 is now over a year old, so it is appropriate to see how it is ramping up. Solar Cycle 24 was a late starter, about three and a half years later than … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 282 Comments

Jo Nova’s ClimateGate Timeline: 30 years in the making (Edition 1.1)

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Mohib Ebrahim, who has created timelines for professional exhibitions, has now produced one of the ClimateGate scandal, providing graphs, e-mails, history, and analysis of events. This is the second edition, thoroughly edited and revised. Click to see a larger version … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 30 Comments

Forests in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have in the past 225 years

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From the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center blog: “The chief culprit appears to be climate change, more specifically, the rising levels of atmospheric CO2, higher temperatures and longer growing seasons.” This jibes well with what NASA has been seeing globally via … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide | 173 Comments

Still better than the Met Office

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Six more weeks of winter, Phil says Tuesday, February 02, 2010 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press Punxsutawney Phil is held by Ben Hughes after emerging this morning from his burrow on Gobblers Knob in Punxsutawney. Phil saw his shadow … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting, fun_stuff | 102 Comments

The single server theory

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Jeff Id at the Air vent writes about the recent UEA/CRU announcement that the Climategate files were all left on a single server. Gathering them into one zip file and posting on a Russian FTP: “not so sophisticated”. That and … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 96 Comments

Gate Du Jour: IPCC AR4 references NYT story

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“Cold Showers, Rotting Food, the Lights, Then Dancing” – Title of Pachauri’s next novel maybe? WUWT commenter “Galileonardo” writes: I found this reference to the New York Times in WGII 14.4.6. Just thought it should be part of the growing … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 162 Comments