Monthly Archives: April 2010

Volcanoes and Water

Posted on April 18, 2010 by

Guest Post by Steven Goddard The Guardian image below taken this week near Iceland has the caption “Smoke and ash billows from a volcano in Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland Photograph: Ingolfur Juliusson/Reuters” The Guardian caption is for the most part incorrect.  Note … Continue reading →

Posted in vulcanism | 174 Comments

New weekly feature: WUWT Sea Ice News

Posted on April 18, 2010 by

There’s a lot of interest in the blogosphere in sea ice, and the leading authority, NSIDC, only updates one a month. Yet when we reach things like peak ice, or minimum ice, we often find those occur at times when … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Ice News | 177 Comments

Come Rain or Come Shine

Posted on April 18, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [Updated, see end of article] One of the claimed dangers of a few degrees warming of the Earth is increasing drought. Drought is a very difficult thing to fight, because it is hard to manufacture … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 160 Comments

GISS & METAR – dial “M” for missing minus signs: it’s worse than we thought

Posted on April 17, 2010 by

Here’s a story about how one missing letter, an M, can wreck a whole month’s worth of climate data. It is one of the longest posts ever made on WUWT, I spent almost my entire Saturday on it. I think … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, GHCN, weather_stations | 296 Comments

Volcanoes Cause Climate Change

Posted on April 17, 2010 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard Scientific American recently reported on the dodgy concept that climate change causes volcanoes, when in fact it is quite the opposite. Wikipedia : An early 19th-century illustration of Krakatoa In 1883, Krakatoa produced massive amounts … Continue reading →

Posted in vulcanism | 179 Comments

Which NASA climate data to believe?

Posted on April 17, 2010 by

Over on Climate Audit, Jean S points out a curious anomaly in the March GISS Temperature data for Finland. Maybe that’s where all of Trenberth’s “missing heat” went. Note the deep red anomaly is in a sea of blue that … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 109 Comments

Reply to: “Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes”

Posted on April 16, 2010 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard Scientific American has reported that global warming may cause an increase in volcanic eruptions, due to increased magma formation at lower pressures as glaciers melt. This caught my attention because I used to work as a volcano researcher and igneous … Continue reading →

Posted in vulcanism | 164 Comments

NCAR’s missing heat – they could not find it any-where

Posted on April 16, 2010 by

From Dr. Roger Pielke Senior’s Climate Sci blog, a discussion on the “missing heat” in Earth’s climate system gives me a motivation to write some silly prose: The heat is gone, oh where, oh where? Maybe in the oceans? Maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 368 Comments

We knew, it was only a matter of time…

Posted on April 16, 2010 by

From “Scientific” American via Reuters, proof positive that global warming is omnipotent and is intertwined into anything you choose it to be. Why, even the inner Earth bends to its will. And we all know that once the inner Earth … Continue reading →

Posted in satire, vulcanism | 281 Comments

Where’s the Climate Beef?

Posted on April 16, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A while back in the US there was an ad for a hamburger chain. It featured an old lady who bought a competitor’s hamburger with a great big hamburger bun. But when she opened it … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 184 Comments

A House bill aiming to make research and data open to the public

Posted on April 15, 2010 by

Climategate demonstrated what can go wrong when a few misguided scientists take control of data and keep it from the public. Now there’s a movement afoot to make open access to data and research papers a law. Congress takes another … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | 37 Comments

NOAA says – Hottest (Warmest) March on Record

Posted on April 15, 2010 by

I’m sure the press will make this into a much bigger story. This today from NOAA News. The choice of “hottest” in the title is interesting. We should ask our Canadian friends if it was “hot” during March, since Canada … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 206 Comments

Ash Thursday – the day the UK was planeless

Posted on April 15, 2010 by

The eruption of a volcano in Iceland has the skies over the UK and Europe filled with ash. Like what happened on 9/11 in the USA, planes are landing everywhere and staying out of the skies. Volcanic ash eats scours … Continue reading →

Posted in vulcanism | 121 Comments

Iceland’s volcanic ash cloud – airports closed in UK, Europe

Posted on April 15, 2010 by

This image, acquired on 15 April 2010 by Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS), shows the vast cloud of volcanic ash sweeping across the UK from the eruption in Iceland, more than 1000 km away. The ash, which can be … Continue reading →

Posted in vulcanism | 173 Comments

Large fireball in the Midwest

Posted on April 15, 2010 by

From various sources. From the NWS in Milwaukee, video links and radar images follow. MANY REPORTS OF A BRIGHT FIREBALL HAVE BEEN FLOODING COUNTY SHERIFF DISPATCH CENTERS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF WISCONSIN THROUGH THE NIGHT. THE FIREBALL WAS VISIBLE … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 80 Comments

‘Hockey stick’ graph was exaggerated – McIntyre gets props

Posted on April 15, 2010 by

From the Telegraph: The ‘hockey stick’ that became emblematic of the threat posed by climate change exaggerated the rise in temperature because it was created using ‘inappropriate’ methods, according to the head of the Royal Statistical Society. By Louise Gray, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 120 Comments

Lockwood demonstrates link between low sun and low temps

Posted on April 14, 2010 by

Solar Science Bipolar Disorder Guest post by Steven Goddard About once every 11 years, the sun’s magnetic poles reverse.  However some high profile solar scientists reverse their own polarity more frequently. The BBC reported Wednesday that Mike Lockwood at the University of Reading … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science, solar | 274 Comments

It’s us against phlegm – global warming makes you sneeze

Posted on April 14, 2010 by

Allergies Worse Than Ever? Blame Global Warming By Bryan Walsh Allergy sufferers like to claim — in between sniffles — that each spring’s allergy season is worse than the last. But this year, they might actually be right. Thanks to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, ridiculae | 83 Comments

From Bonn with Love

Posted on April 14, 2010 by

The intolerability of tolerance From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Bonn via the SPPI blog The UN’s international climate conference here in Bonn has decided that the wealthier nations among the 192 States Parties to the UN Convention on … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 106 Comments

IPCC AR4 also gets a failing grade on 21 chapters

Posted on April 14, 2010 by

While Oxburgh writes a 5 page book report that most college professors would likely reject due to incompleteness, we have this report from Donna Laframboise of Toronto and a team of citizen auditors. The mission? Determine how much of AR4 … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 165 Comments

Oxburgh’s 5 page Climategate book report gets a failing grade

Posted on April 14, 2010 by

I’ve read blog posts longer than this report. The Global Warming Policy Foundation of London has this to say about it: Another Unsatisfactory Rushed Job Press release LONDON, 14 April 2010 – The Global Warming Policy Foundation regrets that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 96 Comments

IPCC sea level prediction – not scary enough

Posted on April 13, 2010 by

From the Niels Bohr Institute – Studies agree on a 1 meter rise in sea levels New research from several international research groups, including the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen provides independent consensus that IPCC predictions of … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC, sea level | 183 Comments

The insanity of greenery

Posted on April 13, 2010 by

First, let me say I’m a fan of solar power when done correctly and without financial carrots hung out for electricity generation that entice abuse of the system. I put solar on my own home. Bishop Hill points out that … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, ridiculae, satire, solar | 150 Comments

See Gore Run: “I’m having lunch!”

Posted on April 13, 2010 by

UPDATE: Some commenters seem to think Al is being treated unfairly. Gore press policy might be the reason we see this sort of thing happening. See the update below the “read more” line. Seems that former Vice President Al Gore … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, media | 159 Comments

More Wisdom via Solomon: Global Warming Has Passed The Point Of No Return

Posted on April 13, 2010 by

Guest Post by Steven Goddard Steve McIntyre points out that NOAA’s Susan Solomon saw fit to exclude a statement of measurements from IPCC WG1. With such certainty then, it’s no wonder she’s certain that our current situation is “irreversible”. Well … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, satire | 286 Comments