Monthly Archives: June 2010

WUWT at the top of the heap?

Posted on June 4, 2010 by

UPDATE: 6/5/10 All of the tech issues from yesterday have been resolved. WUWT is now listed as the Top blog in the Sciences category by Wikio. My thanks to everyone who helps make WUWT a success. ======================================================= From Greg Laden’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 61 Comments

May UAH Global Temperature Anomaly – holding steady

Posted on June 4, 2010 by

May 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.53 deg. C. By Dr. Roy Spencer The global-average lower tropospheric temperature remains warm: +0.53 deg. C for May, 2010. The linear trend since 1979 is now +0.14 deg. C per decade.Tropics picked up … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 58 Comments

Noctilucent clouds may be more visible during this summer

Posted on June 4, 2010 by

From SpaceWeather.com Every summer since the late 19th century, Earth’s polar skies have lit up with gossamer, electric-blue clouds, twisting and rippling in the twilight sky. They’re called noctilucent (“night-shining”) because they can be seen after dark. The origin of … Continue reading →

Posted in clouds, solar, weather | 15 Comments

Deep Purple Haze – the orginal sunscreen

Posted on June 4, 2010 by

Early Earth haze likely provided ultraviolet shield for planet, says CU-Boulder study. See press release here. Earth’s thick organic haze 3 billion years ago likely similar to haze hovering over Saturn moon Titan today A new study shows a thick … Continue reading →

Posted in earth, paleoclimatology, Science | 81 Comments

The Irony, It Burns …

Posted on June 3, 2010 by

Anthony commented yesterday on the question of atolls and sea level rise here, and I had previously written on the subject in my post “Floating Islands“. However, Anthony referenced a paper which was incorrectly linked by New Scientist. So I thought … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 120 Comments

Is 2010 Heading For A Record?

Posted on June 3, 2010 by

By Dr. David Whitehouse, the Global Warming Policy Foundation Today’s Times says, “Nasa analysis showing record global warming undermines the skeptics.” However, a closer look at the information which the Times bases its headline on shows that a combination of … Continue reading →

Posted in records, weather | 159 Comments

Wasted watts: Are we heating the Earth too much – with heat?

Posted on June 3, 2010 by

Guest post by Ron House As readers will know, I have been thinking about the hullabaloo about CO2 and global warming and I quickly concluded that CO2 is no threat, won’t do any significant warming (which would be good anyway), … Continue reading →

Posted in earth, energy, Technology | 155 Comments

Icy consensus: least ice “at least the last few thousand years”

Posted on June 2, 2010 by

From Ohio State, alarming news about ice, sediments, proxy algae, and other worrisome stuff. It has a familiar ring to it, plus some luck. ARCTIC ICE AT LOW POINT COMPARED TO RECENT GEOLOGIC HISTORY COLUMBUS, Ohio — Less ice covers … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 173 Comments

Tuvalu and many other South Pacific Islands are not sinking, claims they are due to global warming driven sea level rise are opportunistic

Posted on June 2, 2010 by

Nils Axel Morner and Don Easterbrook told them so. So did Willis, who had some very similar ideas. We’ve mentioned several times here on WUWT that the claims about sea level rise and sinking islands are overblown. For example, this … Continue reading →

Posted in sea level | 116 Comments

The undeath spiral

Posted on June 2, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard Over the last three years, Arctic Ice has gained significantly in thickness. The graph above was generated by image processing and analysis of PIPS maps, and shows the thickness histogram for June 1 of each year since … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 163 Comments

The chasm between Apollo and the Gulf

Posted on June 1, 2010 by

There is no valid analogy between the Gulf spill and Apollo 13 I am honored to present this guest post by Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist Dr. H. Harrison Schmitt – Anthony President Obama’s Administration and its supportive media repeatedly … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster, Opinion, politics | 215 Comments

PIOMAS (non) Verification II

Posted on June 1, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard In my previous PIOMAS verification piece I noted that PIOMAS volume trends don’t correlate with extent trends over the last three years. PIOMAS has gone down since 2007, while extents have increased. The diverging trends themselves prove … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 90 Comments

Greenhouse emissions lawsuit dismissed

Posted on June 1, 2010 by

From the SPPI blog Fifth Circuit Dismisses Comer v. Murphy Oil Source:  Troutman/Sanders Advisory Fifth Circuit Dismisses Comer v. Murphy Oil — A Victory for Industry In Climate Change Tort Litigation? On May 28, 2010, in a startling decision in … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | 49 Comments

Hot Air in Washington DC- More ASOS Failures?

Posted on June 1, 2010 by

WUWT readers may recall last summer when the ASOS weather station at the Honolulu Airport malfunctioned, giving a whole series of shonky readings that resulted in a string of new record high temperatures being set. What was even worse, is … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, weather_stations | 56 Comments

The Ice Who Came In From The Cold

Posted on June 1, 2010 by

Guest post by Willis Eschenbach A few days ago, Steve Goddard put up a post called “Does PIOMAS Verify?” In it, he compared the PIOMAS computer model estimate of the Arctic ice volume with the SIDADS satellite measured Arctic ice … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 187 Comments