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…
Month: February 2010
There's no business like snow business
Headlines yesterday mentioned yet another new snowfall record: Moscow Covered by More Than Half Meter of Snow, Most Since 1966 Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — Moscow’s streets were covered by 53…
Climate craziness of the week
“Art” is in the eye of the beholder. Global warming “art” is often lodged in another place in the body. From AOL News:, this artistic project is described as: “…off…
Bill O'Reilly hosts Bill Nye The Science Guy and AccuWeather's Joe Bastardi in Fox News Debate
Heh, this is entertaining. While Bill Nye argues for “in whose best interest is denial?” and brings up the ridiculous CO2 on Venus argument, Joe Bastardi runs circles around him…
NWS to adopt new snow forecasting techniques
Since we’ve discussed recent heavy snowfall, this seemed like a good story to cover. via Eurekalert: Better snowfall forecasting National Weather Service adopts U of Utah powder prediction method IMAGE:…
Jerry Ravetz part 2 – Answer and explanation to my critics
Dr. Ravetz’s first posting on WUWT created quite a controversey. You can read it here: Climategate: Plausibility and the blogosphere in the post-normal age. Answer and explanation to my critics –…
The most slimy essay ever from the Guardian and Columbia University
Opinion by Anthony Watts There has never been a time at WUWT that I’ve used the word “slimy” in a headline. This is a special case. I thought of about…
2009 paper confirming IPCC sea level conclusions withdrawn, mistakes cited
From the Guardian, finally some refreshing honesty in Science: Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels Study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to…
Fudged Fevers in the Frozen North
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [see Update at the end of this post] I got to thinking about the (non) adjustment of the GISS temperature data for the Urban Heat…
Bringing Skillful Observation Back To Science
Guest post by Steve Goddard Archimedes had his eureka moment while sitting in the bathtub. Newton made a great discovery sitting under an apple tree. Szilárd discovered nuclear fission while…
Pachauri's TERI institute golf course – water hog in a city desperate for fresh water
Richard North of the EU Referendum reports on this bizarre twist with IPCC Chairman Rajenda Pachauri’s use of land that was designated for public use, now runs afoul of the…
Must see: John Coleman's Global Warming Special #2 – now online at YouTube
I’m proud to be a part of this second one hour long special report done by KUSI-TV and veteran TV meteorologist John Coleman. John is, in my opinion, the “Walter…
Quote of the week #29
This QOTW is from an article in the Toronto Globe and Mail which focuses on the rise of skeptic blogs including CA and WUWT. The article contained this nugget from…
Setting the Record Straight on the IPCC WG II Fourth Assessment Report
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Nature News is carrying an interview with Professor Martin Parry, co-chair of IPCC WG II during the preparation of its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4),…
Spencer: developing a new satellite based surface temperature set
New Work on the Recent Warming of Northern Hemispheric Land Areas by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. INTRODUCTION Arguably the most important data used for documenting global warming are surface…
SDO whacks sundog
From NASA science news: Last week, on Feb. 11th, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) lifted off from Cape Canaveral on a five-year mission to study the sun. Researchers have called…
JPL: Missing ice in 2007 drained out the Nares strait – pushed south by wind where it melted far away from the Arctic
This fits right in to what I’ve been blogging about for two years. the 2007 record minimum ice extent was wind driven not melt driven. A significant portion of the…
Lindzen on climate science advocacy and modeling – "at this point, the models seem to be failing"
This is a letter professor Richard Lindzen of MIT sent to the Boston Globe and was published today. It is well worth the read. KERRY EMANUEL’S Feb. 15 op-ed “Climate…
North American snow models miss the mark – observed trend opposite of the predictions
While some other bloggers and journalists insist that recent winter snows are proof of global warming effects, they miss the fact that models have been predicting less snow in the…
Caveats Regarding Dr. Phil Jones’ Phenological Arguments for Global Warming
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany The latest Science magazine has an extended interview with Dr. Phil Jones. In this post, I’ll keep away from issues related to Climategate, whether…
Former KNMI director and skeptic Henk Tennekes gets vindication from Netherlands De Telegraaf
Here’s a bit of interesting news from a Dutch newspaper. WUWT readers may recall this story: Scientist quits: ‘I don’t want to remain a member of an organization that …screws…
Why Is Winter Snow Extent Interesting?
Guest post by Steven Goddard Several people keep asking why am I focused on winter snow extent. This seems fairly obvious, but I will review here: Snow falls in the…
U.N. Climate Chief Resigns
From the New York Times By JOHN M. BRODER WASHINGTON — Yvo de Boer, the stolid Dutch bureaucrat who led the international climate change negotiations over four tumultuous years, is…
John Coleman's next TV special airs tonight
Press release: NEW KUSI-TV SPECIAL REPORT DOCUMENTS THE GLOBAL WARMING MELTDOWN In a follow-up to the hit KUSI show “Global Warming: The Other Side”, iconic weatherman John Coleman documents the…
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