Monthly Archives: May 2010

Climate Craziness of the Week – New Scientist: The Denial Depot Edition

Posted on May 14, 2010 by

New Scientist has a barrage of articles on “denialism”, including one from DeSmog Blog misinformer Richard Littlemore, who runs with the tired old comparisons of today’s skeptical public to tobacco industry campaigns. He bashes what he calls “manufactured doubt” while … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week | 222 Comments

Now it’s more CO2 that will threaten crops

Posted on May 14, 2010 by

Sometimes I wonder if science hasn’t been infected with some sort of mass delusion about CO2. Watch this amazing video on CO2 and plant growth from CO2Science.org, then read below the claims made in this UC Davis press release. Rising … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alarmism, Carbon dioxide | 205 Comments

R.I.P. El Niño

Posted on May 13, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard El Niño made it’s last gasp this week. Note that SST’s in the equatorial Pacific went from above normal to below normal during the past few days. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/sst/plots.php Is there a La Niña on the way? Most … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Sea Surface Temperature | 157 Comments

Now it’s lizards going extinct due to climate change

Posted on May 13, 2010 by

From a press release from Villanova University, more worry. I don’t know about the researchers experiences, but my property is overrun with the Western Fence Lizard. I can hardly avoid stepping on them there are so many around the house. … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Extinction, Science | 182 Comments

October Through March Was the Snowiest On Record In The Northern Hemisphere

Posted on May 13, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard Guardian Photo The experts at East Anglia and CRU told us in 2000 that : (March, 2000) According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East … Continue reading →

Posted in records, snowfall, weather | 257 Comments

Where the !@#$% is Svalbard’s Weather Station?

Posted on May 13, 2010 by

In the previous WUWT entry, Willis posted his data on the Svalbard weather station, noting that it is spliced data and that the station data has been merged in nearby station history: 0 km (*) Svalbard Luft 78.2 N 15.5 … Continue reading →

Posted in GHCN, weather_stations | 120 Comments

Where the !@#$% is Svalbard?

Posted on May 12, 2010 by

Anthony has suggested that I post a paper of mine that was written in 2006 about unusual temperatures in Svalbard. It was published as a peer-reviewed submission in Energy and Environment, the journal that AGW supporters love to hate. First, where the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 88 Comments

New bear species discovered: Ursus Bogus

Posted on May 12, 2010 by

I had been avoiding this photo issue, because well, the whole thing is stupid no matter how you look at it and it’s been been heavily covered elsewhere. But when Tim Blair coined the clever headline “Ursus Bogus“, in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, ridiculae, Science | 147 Comments

Seven Months of Winter at NCAR

Posted on May 12, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard View from NCAR’s roof this morning (NCAR – National Center for Atmospheric Research) From the “climate models are not climate” department. It was seven months ago today that the NCAR scientist sent out this infamous E-mail shown … Continue reading →

Posted in snowfall, weather | 133 Comments

Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud

Posted on May 12, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I noted on the news that there is a new plan afoot to cool down the planet. This one supposedly has been given big money by none other than Bill Gates. The plan involves a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 394 Comments

IPCC’s Chairman Pachauri Conflicted

Posted on May 11, 2010 by

A new paper by the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) explores recent revelations of the commercial links and associations of IPCC Chair Dr Pachauri, including his direct involvement with carbon trading as advisor to the Chicago Climate Exchange and … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 56 Comments

Preview of Kerry-Lieberman climate bill

Posted on May 11, 2010 by

Steve Milloy’s Green Hell blog has the scoop. A poll follows. Leak of the day! Kerry-Lieberman cap-and-trade bill

Posted in politics | 141 Comments

Spencer on Earth’s missing energy

Posted on May 11, 2010 by

Earths Missing Energy: Trenberth’s Plot Proves My Point By Dr. Roy Spencer The plot that is included in Kevin Trenberth’s most recent post on Roger Pielke, Sr.’s blog actually proves the point I have been making: The trend in the … Continue reading →

Posted in earth | 96 Comments

Kerry-(Graham)-Lieberman: a monstrous collection of payoffs to big business

Posted on May 11, 2010 by

By Myron Ebell, via Globalwarming.org The chance that the Senate will pass a comprehensive energy-rationing (a k a climate) bill this year remains close to zero.  BP’s big oil spill in the Gulf changes very little. The global warming movement … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon credits, politics | 53 Comments

The Climate Crash of 2009

Posted on May 11, 2010 by

Frequent WUWT commenter and tips contributor Pierre Gosselin has a new blog titled NoTricksZone Climate News from Germany in English Be sure to add it to your bookmarks. Here’s an entry that I found interesting. Crash Of 2009 – Scientists … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide | 44 Comments

The Union of Concerned Scientists tackles gardening to save the planet

Posted on May 10, 2010 by

From a press release from the Union of Concerned Scientists, we learn that you don’t need to worry anymore about global warming, we can just garden our way to carbon nirvana, that is, if the bugs don’t eat it. -Anthony … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration, Land use land cover change, ridiculae | 184 Comments

Iceland, soon to be Ashland

Posted on May 10, 2010 by

Another eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano in Iceland, another round of air traffic closures. download large image (3 MB, JPEG) After more than a week of relatively subdued activity in late April, Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull Volcano began a fresh round of … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, vulcanism | 72 Comments

Taiwan sinking: Subsidence or Global Warming Induced Sea Level Rise?

Posted on May 10, 2010 by

This news story about Taiwan has been making the rounds with the usual alarming news outlets. My view is clearly on subsidence, caused by poor land use practice. See below the Continue Reading line for the easily found reasons. Excerpts: … Continue reading →

Posted in Land use land cover change, media, sea level | 82 Comments

Lessons from the Gulf blowout

Posted on May 9, 2010 by

Learning (the right lessons, hopefully) from the Gulf of Mexico disaster. Also, a transcript of an radio call in of an eyewitness account (provided by geologist Jimmy Haigh) follows this article. Guest post by Paul Driessen Transocean’s semi-submersible drilling vessel … Continue reading →

Posted in energy | 144 Comments

WUWT Arctic Sea Ice News #4

Posted on May 9, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard The Catlin Expedition is Now only 45 miles away from the North Pole. They have traveled 265 miles (as the crow flies) since March 3, for an average of about four miles per day.  They only have … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Ice News | 189 Comments

Add your own ‘Radar Channel’ to your TV

Posted on May 8, 2010 by

I’ve mentioned in the past that my weather technology business has been hit hard by the current economy and that from time to time I would be using WUWT to announce new products or product reviews that might interest readers. … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology, weather | 46 Comments

Venus Envy

Posted on May 8, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard ESA’s Venus Express mission has been studying the planet and a basic atmospheric model is emerging. Venus has long been the CO2 bogeyman of climate science.  In my last piece about Venus I laid out arguments against … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, space | 475 Comments

Climate Actually Changes! Film at 11:00!

Posted on May 8, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Last month (April 2010), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) put out a study called “Climate Change Indicators in the United States” (13 Mb PDF). I read through it … depressingly bad science. To start … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 135 Comments

Friday funny: I scream, you scream, we all scream for global warming

Posted on May 7, 2010 by

It was really hot out… More:

Posted in fun_stuff | 39 Comments

Spencer: strong negative feedback found in radiation budget

Posted on May 7, 2010 by

Strong Negative Feedback from the Latest CERES Radiation Budget Measurements Over the Global Oceans By Dr. Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Arguably the single most important scientific issue – and unresolved question – in the global warming debate is climate … Continue reading →

Posted in earth | 160 Comments