Monthly Archives: March 2010

NSIDC Reports That Antarctica is Cooling and Sea Ice is Increasing

Posted on March 8, 2010 by

By Steven Goddard Last month we discussed how NASA continues to spread worries about the Antarctic warming and melting. A January 12, 2010 Earth Observatory article warns that Antarctica “has been losing more than a hundred cubic kilometers (24 cubic … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, sea ice | 348 Comments

Social Networking Search Request

Posted on March 8, 2010 by

CEI’s Chris Horner asks WUWT readers for some help in locating “Phil Jones’s Aspirations” So, I’m leafing through another 1,500 pages of emails dumped on me by NASA in an apparent attempt to forestall litigation we informed them was coming … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 150 Comments

IPCC AR4 Commenter: “I do not understand why this trend is insignificant – it is more than three times the quoted error estimates”

Posted on March 8, 2010 by

Yet Another Incorrect IPCC Assessment: Antarctic Sea Ice Increase by Chip Knappenberger March 8, 2010 Another error in the influential reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports has been identified. This one concerns the rate of expansion … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, sea ice | 90 Comments

The Logarithmic Effect of Carbon Dioxide

Posted on March 8, 2010 by

Guest post by David Archibald The greenhouse gasses keep the Earth 30° C warmer than it would otherwise be without them in the atmosphere, so instead of the average surface temperature being -15° C, it is 15° C. Carbon dioxide … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide | 436 Comments

On the “march of the thermometers”

Posted on March 8, 2010 by

I’ve been away from WUWT this weekend for recovery from a cold plus family time as we have visitors, so I’m just now getting back to regular posting.  Recently on the web there has been a lot of activity and … Continue reading →

Posted in GHCN, weather_stations | 239 Comments

Emails from “attack ad” science group posted

Posted on March 7, 2010 by

Readers may recall this story last week: Ad hoc group wants to run attack ads Here’s an update from GlobalWarming.org by Myron Ebell According to recently disclosed e-mails from a National Academies of Science listserv, prominent climate scientists affiliated with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 104 Comments

Methane, The Panic Du Jour

Posted on March 7, 2010 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard The climate panic headline this week has been that the warming Arctic is burping out dangerous quantities of greenhouse gas Methane. Published on Friday, March 5, 2010 by Agence France Presse Huge Methane Leak in … Continue reading →

Posted in Methane | 208 Comments

Global Warming not to blame for toad extinction

Posted on March 6, 2010 by

From a Columbia University press release, here’s a case where the early speculation of science was wrong. Originally global warming was blamed, but it turns out to be El Niño helping along an already established pathogen. El Niño and a … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction, Science | 189 Comments

Grasping at Straws

Posted on March 6, 2010 by

If you try really really hard to ask questions a certain way, then you’ll get the answers you want. ~ charles the moderator Scientists misread data on global warming controversy By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY “If you can keep your … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Climategate, economy-health | 206 Comments

Open Thread Weekend

Posted on March 6, 2010 by

I’ve decided to step away from WUWT this weekend. Both my wife and I are sick with a cold. I’m very tired, and I need to do something else for awhile besides moderate squabbles; like work on my paper which … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 244 Comments

Yowzer! “sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago”

Posted on March 5, 2010 by

From Harvard University Science: Scientists find signs of ‘snowball Earth’ Research suggests global glaciation 716.5 million years ago Steve Bradt Harvard Staff Writer Geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, bringing new … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, earth, paleoclimatology | 172 Comments

February UAH global temperature anomaly – little change

Posted on March 5, 2010 by

February 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: Version 5.3 Unveiled by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The global-average lower tropospheric temperature remained high, at +0.61 deg. C for February, 2010. This is about the same as January, which in our new … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 192 Comments

Swedes call out Jones on data availability

Posted on March 5, 2010 by

PRESS RELEASE Stockholm March 5, 2010 Climate scientist delivers false statement in parliament enquiry It has come to our attention, that last Monday (March 1), Dr. Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 315 Comments

Ultimate WMD: laser mosquito zapper

Posted on March 5, 2010 by

Who doesn’t hate mosquitoes? For centuries humans have had to endure this pest, and we started to win the war when DDT came out. Of course DDT isn’t allowed any more, but now you can kill these little buggers with … Continue reading →

Posted in fun_stuff, Technology | 128 Comments

Met Office ends season forecasts – no more “BBQ summers”

Posted on March 5, 2010 by

The Met Office is to stop publishing seasonal forecasts, after it came in for criticism for failing to predict extreme weather. It was berated for not foreseeing that the UK would suffer this cold winter or the last three wet … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting | 163 Comments

Baltic sea ice traps ships

Posted on March 5, 2010 by

There’s a lot of buzz about this in the blogosphere because of the constant barrage of alarming reports being fed by the media on Arctic sea ice melt. As we pointed out yesterday, the WUWT forecast is that sea ice … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 53 Comments

Ad hoc group wants to run attack ads

Posted on March 4, 2010 by

These guys again? Excerpts from: Climate scientists plot to hit back at skeptics Donations to buy ad on climate change by Stephen Dinan Undaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, media, satire, Science | 412 Comments

Scientists Locate Apparent Hydrothermal Vents off Antarctica

Posted on March 4, 2010 by

The title is from Columbia, and I should point out that this discovery on the Pacific Antarctic Ridge is 2800 miles from tip of the Antarctic peninsula, where volcanic activity is already well known. Examples are found at Deception Island … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, vulcanism | 86 Comments

Joanne Simpson (1923-2010)

Posted on March 4, 2010 by

WUWT Readers may remember this essay: Now THIS is interesting: Pielke on Dr. Joanne Simpson in which she said: No one seems to have properly factored in population growth and land use, particularly in tropical and coastal areas. … But as … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 33 Comments

Spencer’s UHI -vs- population project – an update

Posted on March 4, 2010 by

In case you missed it, Roy Spencer performed a unique and valuable analysis comparing International Hourly Surface data to population density to provide a simple gauge for the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. It was presented at WUWT yesterday with … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI | 107 Comments

NSIDC Confirms WUWT Ice Forecast

Posted on March 4, 2010 by

by Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts In late 2009, Anthony forecast that Arctic sea ice would continue to recover in 2010. Last month Steve Goddard did an analysis explaining why that was likely to happen and yesterday NSIDC confirmed the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 262 Comments

CRUTEM3 “…code did not adhere to standards one might find in professional software engineering”

Posted on March 4, 2010 by

Those of us who have looked at GISS and CRU code have been saying this for months. Now John Graham-Cumming has posted a statement with the UK Parliament about the quality and veracity of CRU code that has been posted, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 163 Comments

Doctor Gore: a good idea? – poll disagrees

Posted on March 3, 2010 by

From a University of Tennessee press release: Former VP Gore to Receive Honorary Doctorate from UT Knoxville KNOXVILLE — Former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore will be honored by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with only … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Uncategorized | 296 Comments

Spencer: Using hourly surface data to gauge UHI by population density

Posted on March 3, 2010 by

I believe this is a truly important piece of work. I hope Dr. Spencer will submit it to a journal. I’m grateful to Dr. Spencer for his email suggesting I post it here. Consider this early peer review. Beat it … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, UHI, weather_stations | 248 Comments

A question to the USGS and NPR

Posted on March 3, 2010 by

Which of these states is closest to 20,000 square kilometers in area? UPDATE: USGS has issued a statement, see below. WUWT reader “DC” points us to this Gore-esque pronouncement from a USGS scientist about “Antarctic ice loss”. Jane Ferrigno of … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, media, ridiculae | 236 Comments