Monthly Archives: April 2010

A New And Effective Climate Model

Posted on April 6, 2010 by

The problem with existing climate models: Guest post by Stephen Wilde Even those who aver that man’s activity affects climate on a global scale rather than just locally or regionally appear to accept that the existing climate models are incomplete. … Continue reading →

Posted in modeling | 382 Comments

Sediments Show Pattern in Earth’s Long-Term Climate Record

Posted on April 6, 2010 by

From UCSB News: (h/t to David Schnare) UCSB Geologist Discovers Pattern in Earth’s Long-Term Climate Record Lorraine Lisiecki (Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– In an analysis of the past 1.2 million years, UC Santa Barbara geologist Lorraine Lisiecki discovered a pattern … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 197 Comments

Damage control: Greenpeace removes threats

Posted on April 6, 2010 by

WUWT readers may recall this weekend our feature “Climate Craziness of the Week – Greenpeace posts threats” that appeared on the Greenpeace “Climate Rescue” blog with the punchline: We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week | 216 Comments

More “hiding the decline”

Posted on April 6, 2010 by

Steve McIntyre points out some inconvenient data from Law Dome. ================================== Re-reading Climategate and AR4 Review Comments, I noticed an interesting discussion about handling the Law Dome O18 record – a series used in Mann and Jones (2003) and Jones … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 60 Comments

Global Warming and “The Early Spring” Part II

Posted on April 6, 2010 by

Guest post by Steven Goddard Photo Credit : BBC News Last April, I wrote an article titled Global Warming and “The Early Spring” which highlighted one of the favorite AGW myths, that CO2 is making winter warmer and spring arrive … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change | 182 Comments

March Global Sea Surface Temperatures

Posted on April 5, 2010 by

“Hot” on the heels (ahem) of the March UAH global temperature anomaly, we have the likely primary driver of that number, a persistent El Nino in the Pacific. WUWT contributor Bob (you want graphs with that?) Tisdale explains. – Anthony … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, oceans, Sea Surface Temperature | 142 Comments

March UAH Global Temperature Update

Posted on April 5, 2010 by

by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The global-average lower tropospheric temperature continues to be quite warm: +0.65 deg. C for March, 2010. This is about the same as January. Global average sea surface temperatures (not shown) remain high.

Posted in climate data | 82 Comments

Spaceweather alert – first “red alert” in 6 years

Posted on April 5, 2010 by

From the Rice University Spaceweather listserver: The listserver moderator writes in a separate email: =================================== WOW – a real honest substorm coming! As those in our “spacalrt” email listserver have just heard, the ACE spacecraft is measuring a high speed … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar, space | 88 Comments

IPCC – How not to compare temperatures

Posted on April 4, 2010 by

Guest post by Frank Lansner IPCC – How not to compare temperatures – if you seek the truth. There are numerous issues discussed intensely when it comes to IPCC-illustrations of historic temperatures, here for example the illustration from IPCC Third … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 136 Comments

The great imaginary ice barrier

Posted on April 4, 2010 by

Back on April 2nd, it looked like Arctic Sea ice extent at NSIDC would cross the “normal” line. See: Arctic Sea Ice Extent Update: still growing The image then looked like this: The line hit an “imaginary barrier” it seems, because … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 433 Comments

Measure UHI in your town with this easy to use temperature datalogger kit

Posted on April 4, 2010 by

Readers may remember a couple of weeks back when I lamented that the downward economy had finally caught up to me and my little weather business. I asked readers if they’d mind if I’d showcase a weather station or two … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, Technology, UHI | 107 Comments

Quote of the week #33: What, no death spiral?

Posted on April 3, 2010 by

I was reminded by Richard North via email today of this grouchy wordplay from NSIDC when Joe Romm wrote up a piece last year on this subject: Exclusive: New NSIDC director Serreze explains the “death spiral” of Arctic ice, brushes … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Week | 89 Comments

Climate Craziness of the Week – Greenpeace posts threats

Posted on April 3, 2010 by

This is the face on environmentalism today – publicly issued threats from Greenpeace I find this sort of thing slightly troubling, but mostly I see it as just behind the scenes business as usual, only written down instead of part … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week | 302 Comments

Singer on Climategate Parliamentary Inquiry

Posted on April 3, 2010 by

Editorial by S. Fred Singer, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project ClimateGate Whitewash There is now a desperate effort afoot by assorted climate alarmists to explain away the revelations of the incriminating e-mails leaked last year from the University of … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | 83 Comments

Big Bird meets Big Green

Posted on April 3, 2010 by

Ecotretas writes in with this sad video. =========================== First time I’ve seen an image of a big bird going down due to wind energy: The important part is at 1:57 This occurred in Creta.

Posted in Extinction | 168 Comments

Spiegel does 8 part series on current state of climate research

Posted on April 2, 2010 by

The intro reads: Plagued by reports of sloppy work, falsifications and exaggerations, climate research is facing a crisis of confidence. How reliable are the predictions about global warming and its consequences? And would it really be the end of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 130 Comments

March Modeling Madness

Posted on April 2, 2010 by

Is March In The Upper Midwest Losing It’s Freeze? The actual data doesn’t seem to support Climate Central’s recent claim. Guest post by Steven Goddard Yesterday, WUWT discussed an article on future regional temperature modeling from Heidi Cullen et. al … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, forecasting, modeling | 138 Comments

Arctic Sea Ice Extent Update: still growing

Posted on April 2, 2010 by

The April 1st National Snow and Ice Data Center Arctic Sea Ice Extent plot continues its unusual upwards trend and is almost intersecting the “normal” line. Given the slope of the current trend it seems highly likely it will intersect … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 271 Comments

Modeling the big melt

Posted on April 1, 2010 by

Via Eurekalert, a press release about projections of “Melting Marches” from the Heidi Cullen frozone team who says loss of freezing zones is “worse than we thought”. Minnesotans for Global Warming say “YES!”. New Climate Central projection map shows local … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 189 Comments

Congressional Tipping Point: Not an April Fools Joke

Posted on April 1, 2010 by

From the “you just can’t make this stuff up department“, something so outrageously stupid, you wonder how the Navy Admiral being interviewed by congressman Hank Johnson (D) GA kept himself from busting out laughing. It should be an April fools … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, ridiculae | 256 Comments

If Global Warming Kills Us, Blame the Weatherman?

Posted on April 1, 2010 by

I thought this might be an April fools joke. It isn’t. I therefore preface it with this maxim: Climate doesn’t kill people, weather does. – Anthony from BNET By Chris Morrison | Apr 1, 2010 If Global Warming Kills Us, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism | 62 Comments

Chico’s new sustainable firefighting idea

Posted on April 1, 2010 by

I’m going to take a diversion to write about a local story that’s been brewing for months. It’s long and a bit like a Sherlock Holmes mystery, bear with me. Some WUWT readers have noted that my town Chico, CA … Continue reading →

Posted in satire | 142 Comments