Monthly Archives: February 2010

Gore on the Arctic (again)

Posted on February 17, 2010 by

ANOTHER BOLD PREDICTION OF AN ICE-FREE ARCTIC Guest post by Mark Johnson Al Gore trumpets the latest conclusions of Climate Change Advocate David Barber. “Sea ice in Canada’s fragile Arctic is melting more quickly than anyone expected,” says University of … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Alarmism, Arctic, sea ice | 190 Comments

Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent Second Highest on Record

Posted on February 17, 2010 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard According to Rutgers University Global Snow Lab, last week’s Northern Hemisphere winter snow extent was the second highest on record, at 52,166,840 km2.  This was only topped by the second week in February, 1978 at 53,647,305 … Continue reading →

Posted in records, snowfall, weather | 263 Comments

IPCC gate Du Jour – Antarctic Sea Ice Increase Underestimated by 50%

Posted on February 17, 2010 by

From World Climate Report: Another IPCC Error: Antarctic Sea Ice Increase Underestimated by 50% Figure 1. Trend in Antarctic ice extent, November 1978 through December 2006 (source: Comiso and Nishio, 2008). Several errors have been recently uncovered in the 4th … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, sea ice | 188 Comments

Want to see Solar Cycle 24 develop in realtime? There’s an app for that…

Posted on February 17, 2010 by

Thanks to John A for this noteworthy news item. Ok, this is for iPhone fanboys (and girls) in the main but NASA has just announced a new app for the iPhone called “3D Sun” which allows you to see the … Continue reading →

Posted in fun_stuff, solar, space | 8 Comments

Greenland glaciers – melt due to sea current change, not air temperature

Posted on February 16, 2010 by

From a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution News Release : Team finds subtropical waters flushing through Greenland fjord Waters from warmer latitudes — or subtropical waters — are reaching Greenland’s glaciers, driving melting and likely triggering an acceleration of ice loss, … Continue reading →

Posted in glaciers, oceans | 170 Comments

One more thing to worry about – fog shortage

Posted on February 16, 2010 by

UPDATE: Roger Pielke Jr. alerts us to this: Last summer the San Francisco Chronicle carried a story about research on fog and climate with a different conclusion: The Bay Area just had its foggiest May in 50 years. And thanks … Continue reading →

Posted in fog, weather | 242 Comments

Jones may submit a correction to his 1990 paper – Keenan responds

Posted on February 16, 2010 by

Excerpt from the Nature article here Central to the Russell investigation is the issue of whether he or his CRU colleagues ever published data that they knew were potentially flawed, in order to bolster the evidence for man-made global warming. … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, weather_stations | 117 Comments

Global Warming in Texas

Posted on February 16, 2010 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard http://www.dontmesswithtexas.org/ Dallas, Texas broke their all time record snowfall record this week.  How does this compare with earlier Februaries in Texas?  February can be a very warm month in Texas.  San Antonio hit 100 degrees … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 139 Comments

IPCC Gate Du Jour – now IPCC hurricane data questioned

Posted on February 16, 2010 by

Now IPCC hurricane data is questioned Open science: Got Excel? Debunk this By Andrew Orlowski The Register Above: Hurricane ACE data from Ryan Maue. Note where 2009 is in the scheme of things. More here. More trouble looms for the IPCC. … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, IPCC | 130 Comments

Paleo tagging past climate sensitivity

Posted on February 15, 2010 by

I find this paper (PDF) interesting, but it still does not address the temperature/CO2 800 year time lag seen in ice core records. h/t to Leif Svalgaard – Anthony Fossil soils constrain ancient climate sensitivity Dana L. Royer 1 Department … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, paleoclimatology | 128 Comments

Dalton Minimum Repeat goes mainstream

Posted on February 15, 2010 by

David Archibald writes in an email to WUWT: The AGU Fall meeting has a session entitled “Aspects and consequences of an unusually deep and long solar minimum”.  Two hours of video of this session can be accessed: http://eventcg.com/clients/agu/fm09/U34A.html Two of … Continue reading →

Posted in presentations, Science, solar | 362 Comments

The Snow Line is Moving South

Posted on February 15, 2010 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard As we have been discussing on WUWT, three of the last four months have seen top ten Northern Hemisphere snow extents and the decadal trend has been towards increasing (and above normal) snow extent during … Continue reading →

Posted in snowfall, weather | 261 Comments

Quote of the week #28

Posted on February 14, 2010 by

There’s so much climate news going on I’ve been derelict in keeping this feature up. This QOTW is from our friend and WUWT contributor Willis Eschenbach who writes: I just got my 29 January 2010 copy of Science Magazine, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Week | 127 Comments

Christy and McKittrick in the UK Times: doubts on station data

Posted on February 14, 2010 by

A new story by Jonathan Leake in the Sunday Times puts the spotlight on surface temperature data. Above: Rome’s airport weather station. Here is the interactive view “The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Climate News | 137 Comments

New paper on mathematical analysis of GHG

Posted on February 14, 2010 by

Polynomial Cointegration Tests of the Anthropogenic Theory of Global Warming Michael Beenstock and Yaniv Reingewertz – Department of Economics, The Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Israel. Abstract: We use statistical methods designed for nonstationary time series to test the anthropogenic theory … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Science | 281 Comments

Phil Jones momentous Q&A with BBC reopens the “science is settled” issues

Posted on February 14, 2010 by

Professor Phil Jones unwittingly(?) reveals that the global warming emperor is, if not naked, scantily clad, vindicating key skeptic arguments Annotated Version of the Phil & Roger Show – Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Readers of WUWT are already … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 338 Comments

Daily Mail: The Jones U-turn

Posted on February 14, 2010 by

This headline in the Sunday Daily Mail is quite something: People often note strange ad placement from the Google adwords at WUWT. Seems it’s a global problem. WUWT readers may recall another prominent climate scientist who mentions “no statistically significant … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 192 Comments

Tisdale on the importance of El Nino’s little sister – recharging ocean heat content

Posted on February 13, 2010 by

La Nina – The Underappreciated Portion Of ENSO Guest post by Bob Tisdale Perform a Google Scholar search for documents including “El Nino” in quotes and there will be more than 200,000 results. On the other hand, “La Nina” will … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Sea Surface Temperature | 131 Comments

Scripps: Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Possibly Triggered by Ocean Waves

Posted on February 13, 2010 by

WUWT readers may remember this article: Watch the Wilkins ice shelf collapse in time lapse animation – looks like ‘current’ events to me where mechanisms other than melt were discussed. It was pointed out that this photo appeared to be showing … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, sea ice | 77 Comments

49 states with snow, 1180 new snowfall records set in the USA this past week – is February Headed For Record Snowfall?

Posted on February 13, 2010 by

AP’s Seth Borenstein is running a story titled “49 states dusted with snow; Hawaii’s the holdout“. As shown in the map below, every state in the Continental US has snow someplace. As pointed out in the article, this is a … Continue reading →

Posted in records, snowfall, weather | 92 Comments

Congenital Climate Abnormalities

Posted on February 13, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [see Updates at the end of this post] Science is what we use to explain anomalies, to elucidate mysteries, to shed light on unexplained occurrences. For example, once we understand how the earth rotates, there … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 299 Comments

Are Scientists Always Smart?

Posted on February 12, 2010 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard There is no question that some of the greatest minds have been scientists.  Da Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Edison, Einstein, Fermi, Feynman are a few names that come to mind. But how about the consensus? … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | 254 Comments

CRU’s Jones: Climate data ‘not well organised’ and MWP debate ‘not settled’

Posted on February 12, 2010 by

From the BBC By Roger Harrabin, Environment analyst, BBC News Phil Jones, the professor behind the “Climategate” affair, has admitted some of his decades-old weather data was not well enough organised. He said this contributed to his refusal to share … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 249 Comments

Breaking News: Shooting at UAH

Posted on February 12, 2010 by

UPDATE: I just got word from Dr. Christy, see below This just happened late today and details are still sketchy and I know many are concerned about Dr. John Christy and Dr. Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama in … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 60 Comments

NOAA langoliers eat another 1/3 of stations from GHCN database

Posted on February 12, 2010 by

Dallas Fort Worth airport is one of hundreds of GHCN reporting stations gone missing. GHCN stations are becoming an endangered species.   2010 Thermometer Langoliers Hit List Guest post by E.M.Smith Well, They Are At It Again UPDATE 12 Feb 2010: … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction, weather_stations | 200 Comments