Monthly Archives: June 2010

Quote of the Week: Sen. Lindsey Graham’s 180° view of climate science

Posted on June 10, 2010 by

Wow. This one is really something. Graham goes from supporter to skeptic in the space of a few weeks. Here’s the quote:

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Climate Craziness of the Week – cool (E)motional Icebergs

Posted on June 10, 2010 by

A group called http://www.coolemotion.org/ got funding from WWF to build a giant sculpture on an iceberg. As of May 6th the iceberg was still trapped in pack ice; http://coolemotion.blogspot.com/2010/05/iceberg-still-stuck.html But now they claim that the iceberg sunk/melted after just a … Continue reading →

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That solar sinking feeling

Posted on June 10, 2010 by

When I last wrote about the solar activity situation, things were (as Jack Horkheimer used to say) “looking up”. Now, well, the news is a downer. From the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) all solar indices are down, across the … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 216 Comments

NOAA GOES weather satellite communications at risk due to proposed FCC spectrum auction

Posted on June 10, 2010 by

The FCC (like many Federal agencies) has gone looking for available frequencies and money as part of this: Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan, Recommendation 5.8, p.86 (FCC, 2010). The National Broadband Plan is available at http://www.broadband.gov/plan/ The rub? They … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy, Technology, weather | 32 Comments

IPCC review: friend or foe?

Posted on June 10, 2010 by

From the BBC By Richard Black. This is a fine opportunity for WUWT readers to make comments to the committee reviewing the IPCC. My suggestion: be polite; be constructive. “Now that we’re in the kitchen, we have to take the … Continue reading →

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When you don’t like the poll numbers, make up your own poll

Posted on June 10, 2010 by

Stanford and Woods Institute didn’t like the recent polls like these: Pew poll: 2 of 3 Americans think Congressional action on climate change is not a priority Gallup: Americans’ Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop Pew Poll: global warming dead last, down … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | 111 Comments

Climate change: have we reached the irreversible stage?

Posted on June 9, 2010 by

The earth is in a crisis. Al Gore says so. From Abs-Cbn news: By Karen Galarpe, abs-cbnNEWS.com MANILA, Philippines – Planet earth is in a crisis. The earth’s temperature is rising, the icecaps are melting, the ecosystem is in distress, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, ridiculae | 99 Comments

2007 Sea Ice Post Mortem

Posted on June 9, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard “In everyone’s life, there is a summer of ’42 + 65″ By now, we have all been bludgeoned senseless with talk of how Arctic Ice dramatically declined in 2007 – “much faster than the models.” We were … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 139 Comments

A study: The temperature rise has caused the CO2 Increase, not the other way around

Posted on June 9, 2010 by

Guest post by Lon Hocker Abstract Differentiating the CO2 measurements over the last thirty years produces a pattern that matches the temperature anomaly measured by satellites in extreme detail.    That this correlation includes El Niño years, and shows that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, modeling | 399 Comments

More on the Beeville, TX weather station

Posted on June 9, 2010 by

More about Beeville by Ecotretas The Beeville story just keeps getting better. In the comments section of yesterday’s WUWT post, I got a couple of ideas. First, there is a very interesting site where we can graph adjusted vs. non-adjusted … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, weather_stations | 65 Comments

Legal beagle says: Manmade global warming science doesn’t withstand scrutiny

Posted on June 8, 2010 by

From Lawrence Solomon at the Financial Post: A cross examination of global warming science conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics has concluded that virtually every claim advanced by global warming proponents fail to stand up … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 226 Comments

The Beeville Science Fair Hoax – but look at the story the data tells

Posted on June 8, 2010 by

This really is a low, why would anyone mess with kids on something like this? There is madness about. Ecotretas looks at the Beeville, TX station data, and I’ve visited the site personally but deferred the survey to surfacestations volunteer … Continue reading →

Posted in ridiculae, weather_stations | 89 Comments

EPA’s action Jackson on the “resolution of disapproval”

Posted on June 8, 2010 by

EPA Press Office press@epa.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 8, 2010 Administrator Jackson: Keep Moving America Forward Into Energy Independence Addresses upcoming “resolution of disapproval” vote in remarks before small business owners

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The day TV weather grew up

Posted on June 8, 2010 by

This essay by Mike Smith hits home for me, because it parallels my experience in the midwest in 1974. That was a banner year for tornado outbreaks. The April 3rd and 4th super outbreak was a big influence on me. … Continue reading →

Posted in tornadoes, weather | 49 Comments

Minority report: 50 year warming due to natural causes

Posted on June 7, 2010 by

Warming in Last 50 Years Predicted by Natural Climate Cycles by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. One of the main conclusions of the 2007 IPCC report was that the warming over the last 50 years was most likely due to … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, modeling | 191 Comments

A note about boundaries

Posted on June 7, 2010 by

See UPDATE below. Thanks Tamino This is a personal note. I’m not accepting comments. Today my life and my office was disrupted by the unannounced and uninvited presence of a person who seems to be convinced that I’m in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements

AGW=dead lizards? Maybe it’s not the heat, but the handbags and herpetology aficionados?

Posted on June 7, 2010 by

I covered this story Mid May on WUWT. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/05/13/now-its-lizards-going-extinct-due-to-climate-change/ An email today asking if this is real science or just hype prompted me to do some research. First, below, the tragic story from the lizard specialist at BYU, whose rediscovery … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction, ridiculae, Science | 133 Comments

Senate to Vote on Ceding Congressional Authority to EPA

Posted on June 7, 2010 by

Via press release from: Senators to Vote on Whether to Cede Congressional Authority to the EPA Washington, D.C. – Senators will soon consider a resolution to pare back an Environmental Protection Agency plan to regulate greenhouse gases – a plan … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, politics | 82 Comments

Some people claim, that there’s a human to blame …

Posted on June 7, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There seem to be a host of people out there who want to discuss whether humanoids are responsible for the post ~1850 rise in the amount of CO2. People seem madly passionate about this question. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 611 Comments

An idea for discussion: Using Ham Radio as a Climate Data Network

Posted on June 6, 2010 by

APRS coverage in the USA: Frank Perdicaro says in comments: Urban heat island measurement via APRS. Today I finished off my ham radio General license, and one of the topics covered was APRS. The APRS system lets one communicate identity, … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Technology, weather_stations | 40 Comments

WUWT Arctic Sea Ice News #8

Posted on June 6, 2010 by

By Steven Goddard The quest for the Holy Grail. I have been looking for a reliable early predictor of September area/extent based on June ice data, and have found it – almost. Previously I established that current extent is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice, Sea Ice News | 273 Comments

Spencer on climate sensitivity and solar irradiance

Posted on June 5, 2010 by

Updated: Low Climate Sensitivity Estimated from the 11-Year Cycle in Total Solar Irradiance By Dr. Roy W. Spencer NOTE: This has been revised since finding an error in my analysis, so it replaces what was first published about an hour … Continue reading →

Posted in climate sensitivity, solar | 121 Comments

Western Snowpack Update, June 2010

Posted on June 5, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard From the Declining Spring Snowpack Department: Mammoth Mountain, California June 2, 2010 This week’s leaderboard:

Posted in climate data, snowfall | 86 Comments

Under the Volcano, Over the Volcano

Posted on June 4, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In 2006, I lived for a year in Waimea, on the Big Island of Hawaii. From my house I could see the Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO). This observatory is the home of the longest continuous … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide | 263 Comments

New Scafetta paper – his celestial model outperforms GISS

Posted on June 4, 2010 by

Dr. Nicola Scafetta writes: Anthony,   I believe that you may be interested in my last published work. This paper suggests that climate is characterized by oscillations that are predictable. These oscillations appear to be linked to planetary motion. A … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, modeling, Science, space | 347 Comments