Monthly Archives: March 2010

Corned grief: biofuels may increase CO2

Posted on March 15, 2010 by

From the “damned if you do, damned if you don’t department”. More Maize Ethanol May Boost Greenhouse Gas Emissions From the American Institute of Biological Sciences Read the full article (PDF) In the March 2010 issue of BioScience, researchers present … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Carbon dioxide, Land use land cover change | 263 Comments

McIntyre accused by University of Queensland Prof of CRU break in

Posted on March 15, 2010 by

Image source here From Andrew Bolt’s blog at the Herald Sun: Professor John Quiggin complains of smears by sceptics: In recent years, science and scientific institutions have come under increasingly vociferous attack, with accusations of fraud, incompetence and even aspirations … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, ridiculae | 439 Comments

Academics fight back on climate issues

Posted on March 15, 2010 by

Readers may recall this story last week: Ad hoc group wants to run attack ads Here’s their formal response. I’m providing this from: http://www.openletterfromscientists.com for all to see here and to discuss. – Anthony An Open Letter from Scientists in the … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC, politics | 177 Comments

Gliese’s Pieces

Posted on March 15, 2010 by

Forget global warming and 2012, the real worry is a solar system gravity death match between Sol and Gliese 710. From Russia’s RT News Star on course to meet Solar system identified Movement of an orange dwarf star with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, space | 90 Comments

Dr. Nicola Scafetta summarizes “why the anthropogenic theory proposed by the IPCC should be questioned”

Posted on March 14, 2010 by

Dr. Nicola Scafetta has written an extensive summary of the state of climate science today. He’s done some very extensive analysis of the solar contribution that bears examination. Pay particular attention to this graph from page 49: WUWT readers may … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC, Science, solar | 494 Comments

Hockey Stick Illusion: “Shut-eyed Denial”

Posted on March 14, 2010 by

By John A A shout-out for a review of Andrew Montford’s “The Hockey Stick Illusion” by Matt Ridley in Prospect Magazine. Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion is one of the best science books in years. It exposes in delicious … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review | 116 Comments

UK ads banned for overstating climate change

Posted on March 13, 2010 by

From The Times Ed Miliband’s adverts banned for overstating climate change by Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor TWO government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, media | 163 Comments

IOP fires back over criticism of their submission to Parliament

Posted on March 13, 2010 by

WUWT reported on Feb 27th of the IOP submission here:Institute of Physics on Climategate IOP issued a no holds barred statement on Climategate to the UK Parliamentary Committee. Some criticism ensued. Now IOP fires back: Concerns raised over Institute of Physics … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 153 Comments

Quote of the week #30

Posted on March 13, 2010 by

From an AP story interview, we have a what I’ll call a “Lubchencoism”. “There is a well-orchestrated and fairly successful effort under way to confuse and sometimes cherry-pick information,” Lubchenco said. Heh. Apparently she’s never reviewed how USHCN and GHCN … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Week | 91 Comments

Hathaway on the solar conveyor belt and deep solar minimum

Posted on March 12, 2010 by

From NASA News: Solar ‘Current of Fire’ Speeds Up What in the world is the sun up to now? In today’s issue of Science, NASA solar physicist David Hathaway reports that the top of the sun’s Great Conveyor Belt has … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 255 Comments

Aquatic ‘dead zones’ contributing to climate change

Posted on March 12, 2010 by

This alarming missive just in from the: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science As oxygen-deprived waters increase, they emit more greenhouse gasses into atmosphere Above graphic from NOLA.COM click for details. Cambridge, Md. (March 11, 2010) – The increased … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 175 Comments

Climategate.com shuts down

Posted on March 12, 2010 by

From the Facebook page of the Climategate.com operator: Climategate is closing down I am very sorry to bring you the news today that climategate.com is shutting down. It started out as a minor little “hour a day” hobby last December … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 130 Comments

Gallup: Americans’ Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop

Posted on March 12, 2010 by

Multiple indicators show less concern, more feelings that global warming is exaggerated by Frank Newport, Gallup News PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup’s annual update on Americans’ attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years has become … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Opinion | 138 Comments

Another WWF assisted IPCC claim debunked: Amazon more drought resistant than claimed

Posted on March 11, 2010 by

Via Eurekalert – New study debunks myths about Amazon rain forests – They may be more tolerant of droughts than previously thought (Boston) — A new NASA-funded study has concluded that Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, IPCC | 141 Comments

A UHI Tale of Two Cities

Posted on March 11, 2010 by

By Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts Fort Collins, Colorado is most famous for Balloon Boy, and Boulder, Colorado is most famous for Jon Benet and Ward Churchill. Both are hotbeds of Climate Science, with familiar names like Roger Pielke (Jr. … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI, weather_stations | 283 Comments

Big G panics

Posted on March 11, 2010 by

By Harold Ambler A new editorial in Nature is startling for what it reveals, especially the fact Paul Ehrlich is a go-to figure about how hard scientists have it when it comes to media access. Ehrlich is an individual who … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Opinion | 182 Comments

The global economy carbon yin yang

Posted on March 11, 2010 by

Anybody who has watched the march of jobs overseas already knows this, but it is nice to see science has finally caught up with what we already knew years ago. Look for more of this if a Cap and Trade … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, economy-health | 97 Comments

Paleo-clamatology

Posted on March 10, 2010 by

There’s a new article at Nature News where they report on an amazing new paleoclimatology breakthrough with temperature reconstructions using clamshells. The Nature article reports on a  new paper in PNAS from William Patterson at the University of Saskachewan. Here’s … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 323 Comments

Spencer: Global Urban Heat Island Effect Study – An Update

Posted on March 10, 2010 by

by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. This is an update to my previous posts [here and here on WUWT] describing a new technique for estimating the average amount of urban heat island (UHI) warming accompanying an increase in population density. … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI | 127 Comments

IPCC announces “independent” review

Posted on March 10, 2010 by

A formal announcement was made in a  press conference made at 12:30PM EST by the IPCC, which is getting press,  for example here. But at the time of this writing, there’s no mention of it whatsoever on the main IPCC … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC, politics | 103 Comments

When the IPCC ‘disappeared’ the Medieval Warm Period

Posted on March 10, 2010 by

IPCC changed viewpoint on the MWP in 2001 – did this have effect on scientific results? Guest post by Frank Lansner Latest News (hidethedecline) A brief check indicates a “warm MWP-consensus” before IPCC published the Mann hockey stick graph in … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC, paleoclimatology, politics | 181 Comments

Himalayan Hijinks

Posted on March 9, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach According to an article in the Hindustan Times by someone for whom English is a second language, I find: Senior scientists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WITG) has rejected the Global Warming Theory … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 157 Comments

Wrong way econometricians

Posted on March 9, 2010 by

People send me stuff. This one reminds me of a famous wrong way: Hi Anthony Today we had some rumour in the Dutch media due to a paper by a couple of econometricians which projected dramatic warming. Ross McKitrick discovered … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, fun_stuff | 94 Comments

Former Apartheid Spy Appointed to Head UN Climate Change Effort

Posted on March 9, 2010 by

From the You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up Department. [update, yeah the headline is inaccurate, it is simply reflecting the original story headline from BIGGOVERNMENT.com ~ ctm] Former Apartheid Spy Appointed to Head UN Climate Change Effort by Joel … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC, politics | 94 Comments

Accuracy of climate station electronic sensors – not the best

Posted on March 9, 2010 by

Given all of the discussions recently on issues with the surface network, I thought it would be a good idea to present this excellent paper by Lin and Hubbard and what they discovered about the accuracy, calibration and maintenance of … Continue reading →

Posted in weather_stations | 119 Comments