Monthly Archives: July 2010

Walking the Plank-ton

Posted on July 31, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Following on from Anthony’s article, here are my thoughts about the phytoplankton paper “Global phytoplankton decline over the past century”, by Daniel G. Boyce, Marlon R. Lewis & Boris Worm. I started to write about … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 174 Comments

Climate proposals threaten pursuit of happiness and justice

Posted on July 31, 2010 by

New study documents harmful effects of “cap-and-trade” and “endangerment” schemes Guest post by Paul Driessen Environmental justice demands that the United States address global warming, the gravest threat facing minority Americans, insist the EPA, Congressional Black Caucus and White House. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 89 Comments

“Our Climate” iPhone app is rising fast, plus new link widget

Posted on July 31, 2010 by

I am delighted to report that “Our Climate” made it to the Number 1 paid weather App position in the Canadian iTunes store (out of 570 paid weather apps)!  It took only 40 hours to get there. See screen shot … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Technology | 26 Comments

Gore cleared in masseuse case

Posted on July 31, 2010 by

Portland police say the masseuse failed a polygraph and the DNA didn’t match (because there was none). Gore’s aides made a statement: “Mr. Gore unequivocally and emphatically denied this accusation when he first learned of its existence three years ago,” … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Climate News, politics | 68 Comments

I’m honored…I think

Posted on July 31, 2010 by

In the New York Times: For science that’s accessible but credible, steer clear of polarizing hatefests like atheist or eco-apocalypse blogs. Instead, check out scientificamerican.com, discovermagazine.com and Anthony Watts’s blog, Watts Up With That? Of course, we can’t have that, … Continue reading →

Posted in media, post-normal science | 143 Comments

Graphing Lesson Part 2 – “Crest to Crest”

Posted on July 31, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard Earlier in the month I wrote an article showing the trend in Arctic ice since 2002. I took a lot of criticism from people for not measuring “crest to crest or trough to trough.“ Any one schooled … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 153 Comments

IceCube spies unexplained pattern of cosmic rays

Posted on July 30, 2010 by

by Jill Sakai, University of Wisconsin Though still under construction, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole is already delivering scientific results — including an early finding about a phenomenon the telescope was not even designed to study. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, cosmic rays, space | 61 Comments

Friday Funny Bonus: Surreal Climate #3

Posted on July 30, 2010 by

Josh of Cartoons by Josh writes: Another in the Surreal Climate series – in response the WUWT story about the EPA rejecting CO2 petitions I think we all know what the decent thing to do would be…

Posted in Humor | 23 Comments

Sunspots at high detail now available from SDO – what will this do to the sunspot count?

Posted on July 30, 2010 by

Readers may recall a story on WUWT from April titled: Solar Dynamics Observatory – STUNNING first images and movies Now, SDO imagery of the sun is online. This week spaceweather.com has started using SDO sunspot imagery in place of the familiar … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar, space, Technology | 110 Comments

Now it’s a Phytoplanktonic panic

Posted on July 30, 2010 by

Borrowing a phrase from NSIDC’s Dr. Mark Serreze, Phytoplankton are now apparently in a “Death Spiral”. See Death spiral of the oceans and the original press release about an article in Nature from a PhD candidate at Dalhousie University, which … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans, Science | 144 Comments

Friday Funny #1 – 7 of 11 10 must be bad

Posted on July 30, 2010 by

Josh of cartoons by Josh writes to go along with his newest cartoons: Paragraph Updated: This week we had stories about how climate indicators show that the globe is warming. (7 or 11 depending on how confused you get by … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor | 46 Comments

Frozen Tropics as La Niña takes hold

Posted on July 30, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard As La Niña takes hold in South America, we are seeing something I’m not sure I have ever seen before. Temperatures in some parts of the Andes Mountains of Bolivia are forecast to average below -5C this … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Sea Surface Temperature, weather | 186 Comments

A cool 50 million

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

WUWT reached a new milestone with 50 million unique hits on the WordPress hit counter (in the right sidebar) early this morning. I’ve been thinking for days about what I might write when this event happened. Point is I’m just … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Opinion | 179 Comments

EPA Rejects Petitions to Scuttle CO2 Rules

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

Today the EPA rejected petitions from citizens, groups, and states to reverse its 2009 decision to regulate CO2 as a pollutant. The states of Virginia and Texas, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, coal giant Peabody Energy … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide | 165 Comments

Oh, soot!

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

Also, see below the “Continue reading” line for an impressive scientific visualization video of black carbon being transported around the globe. University of Iowa News Release July 27, 2010 UI researcher finds black carbon implicated in global warming Increasing the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, carbon soot | 131 Comments

New “Our Climate” iPhone app released

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

Great news, and a present for the many readers of WUWT.  The “Our Climate” iPhone App has made it through Apple’s review process unscathed and the App is now available for download on the iTunes Store worldwide. Here’s what the … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Climate News, Technology | 76 Comments

Science says…!

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

Science Turns Authoritarian From The American, by Kenneth P. Green and Hiwa Alaghebandian Science is losing its credibility because it has adopted an authoritarian tone, and has let itself be co-opted by politics. In a Wired article published at the end … Continue reading →

Posted in media, Science | 166 Comments

Reviewing Last Month’s Forecasts of Doom

Posted on July 29, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard Doomsday clock – Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists Way back in June, The Guardian wrote up an excellent summary of the official forecasts of doom. Scientists at the US National Snow and Ice Centre Data Centre (NSIDC) … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, forecasting | 110 Comments

“The Greenhouse Effect – Part II”

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

Guest post by Ben Herman and Roger Pielke Sr. We have received a further question on our post:“The Greenhouse Effect” by Ben Herman and Roger Pielke Sr. The question is summarized by the following text Anyway my question refers to the common … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 112 Comments

GISS Arctic -vs- DMI Arctic: differences in method

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

We’ve all seen this graph below of Arctic Temperature above 80°N from DMI. But, there’s something surprising about how it is created. In this guest post by Harold Ambler, he finds that DMI actually goes to the trouble of applying … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, climate data, modeling | 75 Comments

Border Transgressions

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is a new paper out in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences called Linkages among climate change, crop yields and Mexico–US cross-border migration (hereinafter L2010). It has Supplementary Online Information (SOI) here. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, politics | 145 Comments

HadCrut Is Hotting Up – adjustments over a few months

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard During May I wrote about a growing discrepancy between HadCrut and GISTEMP. Dr. Hansen discusses it here. Excerpt and comparison below:

Posted in climate data | 95 Comments

GISS Polar Interpolation

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard There has been an active discussion going on about the validity of GISS interpolations. This post compares GISS Arctic interpolation vs. DMI measured/modeled data. All data uses a baseline of 1958-2002. The first map shows GISS June … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, modeling | 155 Comments

Anatomy of a Microburst

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

From Mike Smith @ Meteorological Musings A central Oklahoma microburst descends from the parent cloud to the ground. Photo from National Severe Storms Lab At 6:46pm yesterday (Sunday) evening, a strong microburst (likely strong enough to bring down a commercial … Continue reading →

Posted in thunderstorms, weather | 33 Comments

Two-dimensional wetting technique gives room temperature ice

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

Now if we can just apply this treatment to all the glaciers and the Arctic… Artificially controlling water condensation leads to ‘room-temperature ice’ Via Eurekalert. College Park, MD (July 27, 2010) — Earth’s climate is strongly influenced by the presence … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, snow | 41 Comments