Monthly Archives: May 2010

GISS Deletes Arctic And Southern Ocean Sea Surface Temperature Data

Posted on May 31, 2010 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale There are numerous blog posts and discussions about how the GISS global temperature anomaly product GISTEMP differs from the Hadley Centre and NCDC datasets. The repeated reasons presented for this are, GISS uses 1200km radius … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Sea Surface Temperature | 115 Comments

SST update

Posted on May 31, 2010 by

Steve Goddard writes: Below are animations for the entire year (150 days) so far, based on NOAA SST maps. The videos are presented with minimal commentary. As they say, “150 pictures are worth 150,000 words.” El Niño has faded and … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Surface Temperature | 54 Comments

Americans: Fly your flag

Posted on May 31, 2010 by

I’ve been proverbially “sick as a dog” this weekend either from stomach flu, or some food poisoning, not sure which. Spending so much time in bed, I almost forgot to put up my flag today. My neighbors must have wondered … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 93 Comments

WUWT Arctic Sea Ice News #7

Posted on May 31, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard The last piece of ice remaining in the Arctic The death spiral continues, with Arctic ice extent and thickness nearly identical to what it was 10 years ago.

Posted in Sea Ice News | 124 Comments

What happens if a hurricane hits the Gulf Oil Slick?

Posted on May 30, 2010 by

There’s been a lot of worry and speculation over what will happen if a hurricane and the gulf oil spill collide. In response, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has prepared a document answering some of the questions. There’s of course, … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, hurricanes, oceans | 89 Comments

Ken Cuccinelli versus 810 academics

Posted on May 30, 2010 by

Guest Commentary by Paul Driessen “Scientific debates should be played out in the academic arena,” insists University of Virginia environmental sciences professor David Carr. “If Michael Mann’s conclusions are unsupported by his data, his scientific critics will eventually demonstrate this.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | 164 Comments

The fix is in

Posted on May 30, 2010 by

Engineering a cooler Earth Researchers brainstorm radical ways to counter climate change By Erika Engelhaupt None of the scientists in the room so much as blinked when David Keith suggested saving the world with spy planes spraying sulfuric acid. Keith, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 157 Comments

You cursed brat! Look what you’ve done! I’m melting! Melting!

Posted on May 30, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Yesterday, I discussed the Shepherd et al. paper, “Recent loss of floating ice and the consequent sea level contribution” (which I will call S2010). I also posted up a spreadsheet of their Table 1, showing … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 202 Comments

Leif Svalgaard on the experience of peer review

Posted on May 29, 2010 by

I’m remiss in getting this up until now, as Leif sent it back on May 12th. Prep, travel and recovery for ICCC4 took up quite a bit of my time, but I’m pleased to be able to offer this from … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | 79 Comments

Arctic Ice Volume Has Increased 25% Since May, 2008

Posted on May 29, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard and Anthony Watts The Navy requires accurate sea ice information for their operations, and has spent a lot of effort over the years studying, measuring, and operating in Arctic ice both above and below, such as they … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 179 Comments

Throwing the polar bears under the bus

Posted on May 29, 2010 by

From a Eurekalert press release, it seems the polar bears just aren’t doing the job anymore: “Communicators need to move away from the traditional images of polar bears or fear-laden imagery to find new, inspirational motifs to engage people with … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism | 146 Comments

Where’s the ice for my drink?

Posted on May 28, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I don’t know what to make of this one. I was wandering the web when I came across a Reuters article about a scientific study called “Global Floating Ice In “Constant Retreat”: Study“. The Reuters … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 164 Comments

Volcanic Smoke Ring

Posted on May 28, 2010 by

Via NASA’s spaceweather.com Here’s something you don’t see every day, in fact it has only been seen once before by the volcano researchers that got the photo. The diameter of the ring must be huge to be visible at the … Continue reading →

Posted in vulcanism | 39 Comments

Does PIOMASS verify?

Posted on May 28, 2010 by

Pursuant to the previous post on The great 2007 ice crunch – it wasn’t just melt this is a follow up post for questions raised there. By Steve Goddard One of the favourite web sites quoted by the AGW faithful, is … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 74 Comments

Study concludes: “major hurricane could devastate the Houston/Galveston region”

Posted on May 28, 2010 by

A major hurricane could devastate the Houston/Galveston region? Whooda thunk? Thank goodness they consulted the all knowing supercomputer model to figure this fact out: “it could easily have caused $100 billion in damage“. Or, they could have simply consulted history … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy, hurricanes, modeling | 90 Comments

The great 2007 ice crunch – it wasn’t just melt

Posted on May 28, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard CIRES photo of an Arctic ice pressure ridge I generated an animation of 2007 sea ice thickness from the US Navy’s PIP database, and noticed something remarkable. Watch the video below, particularly inside the red square – … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 171 Comments

Royal Society to review climate consensus position

Posted on May 27, 2010 by

“I don’t think they were very pleased. I don’t think this sort of thing has been done before in the history of the society.” Society to review climate message By Roger Harrabin Environment analyst, BBC News There is debate over … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, Science | 192 Comments

Anthropogenic Decline in Natural Gas

Posted on May 27, 2010 by

Well, Nature Geoscience is on a roll. Their latest “scientific study” makes an old claim in a new way. After ascribing the temperature changes in Lake Tanganyika to human actions, in a new paper they are now ascribing the changes … Continue reading →

Posted in Methane, paleoclimatology | 175 Comments

CEI files suit on GISS regarding FOIA delays

Posted on May 27, 2010 by

From The American Spectator: CEI Suing NASA Over Climate Stonewall By Chris Horner on 5.27.10 @ 10:57AM This morning in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Competitive Enterprise Institute is filing suit against NASA, calling the erstwhile space … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI | 92 Comments

NOAA Expects Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season

Posted on May 27, 2010 by

UPDATE: NOAA on the same day predicts a below normal east Pacific hurricane season, see below for addeddum. Contact:          Chris Vaccaro, 202-536-8911            FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Susan Buchanan, 301-713-0622        May 27, 2010 NOAA Expects Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season An “active to … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes | 85 Comments

Shear Ice Decline

Posted on May 27, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard JAXA shows the area immediately west of Barrow, Alaska as ice free. And it appears to be melting away from the shore. The animation below shows the month of May so far.

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 146 Comments

Australia’s Victorian government creates seminar to “deal with denialism”

Posted on May 26, 2010 by

Whoo boy. It must be rough out there when CSIRO has to have seminars on how to deal with us rowdy ruffian “deniers”. I’m surprised though, a 15 million budget, and they ask you to bring a sack lunch? Here’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Government idiocy | 127 Comments

In Which I Go Spelunking …

Posted on May 26, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my usual peripatetic wandering around the web, I came across an interesting paper called “Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years”, in Nature Magazine (subscription required), 28 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 164 Comments

Live Video of BP “Top Kill” Procedure

Posted on May 26, 2010 by

BP MC252 well gushing oil – environmental disaster video courtesy of British Petroleum Later today, BP is expected to try to reduce the flow of oil from their MC252 well by pumping heavy drilling fluids into the pipe. Throughout the … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News | 201 Comments

The Western Snowpack is 137% of normal

Posted on May 25, 2010 by

From The Declining Spring Snowcover Department Experts tell us that spring snowcover has seen rapid declines in the Northern Hemisphere over the last 20 years. As of today, western US snowpack averaged by state  is 137 percent of normal.

Posted in records, snowfall, weather | 205 Comments