Monthly Archives: February 2010

Penn State report on Mann: new investigation to convene.

Posted on February 3, 2010 by

The report is out, and further investigation is forthcoming. Excerpts from the report are below, where they considered 4 allegations. They say only one had merit. That will be the subject of the upcoming investigation. Excerpts: “It is clear to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 156 Comments

BBC asks WUWT for help

Posted on February 3, 2010 by

I received this email this morning from Roger Harribin, the BBC’s environmental analyst. It’s interesting because I received an email from the Guardian yesterday asking if I’d like to write a 200 word guest piece. Unfortunately it somehow ended up … Continue reading →

Posted in media | 384 Comments

NASA Still Spreading Antarctic Worries

Posted on February 3, 2010 by

Steven Goddard looks at trends in Antarctica and compares to NASA’s recent article. A January 12, 2010 Earth Observatory article warns that Antarctica “has been losing more than a hundred cubic kilometers (24 cubic miles) of ice each year since … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic | 229 Comments

Guardian: Climategate “…exposes the real process of science, its jealousies and tribalism”

Posted on February 3, 2010 by

For the Guardian, it has been a week of finally coming to terms with what we’ve known here at WUWT for months now. The issues of Climategate are finally getting full sunlight in the UK, and it’s white hot light. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 91 Comments

Solar Cycle 24 Update

Posted on February 2, 2010 by

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)

Posted on February 2, 2010 by

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

Posted on February 2, 2010 by

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

Posted on February 2, 2010 by

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

Posted on February 2, 2010 by

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

Posted on February 2, 2010 by

“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

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

Posted on February 1, 2010 by

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 vindicated tonight. See more about Doug’s long road here in … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, UHI | 211 Comments

Gate Du Jour: IPCC gets the boot (cleaned)

Posted on February 1, 2010 by

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 do with Antarctic climate at all and seems more than … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 73 Comments

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

Posted on February 1, 2010 by

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”. Yes you’d think that. I’d think that, reasonable people everywhere … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 142 Comments

Chiefio asks: why does GISS make us see red?

Posted on February 1, 2010 by

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 of THIS bizarre anomaly map? What Have I Done? I … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 161 Comments

Spencer: Natural variability unexplained in IPCC models

Posted on February 1, 2010 by

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 upon their ability to reconstruct the global average surface temperature … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC, modeling | 138 Comments

Record cold in Florida kills reef coral

Posted on February 1, 2010 by

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 even greater concern. Excerpts from Physorg.com: Coral in Florida Keys … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans | 94 Comments

Micro satellite to study atmospheric gamma ray flashes

Posted on February 1, 2010 by

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 phenomena. So imagine scientists’ surprise in the mid-1990s when they … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, space | 71 Comments