Walking the Plank-ton

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…

Climate proposals threaten pursuit of happiness and justice

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…

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

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…

Gore cleared in masseuse case

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…

I'm honored…I think

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,…

Graphing Lesson Part 2 – "Crest to Crest"

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…

IceCube spies unexplained pattern of cosmic rays

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…

Friday Funny Bonus: Surreal Climate #3

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…

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

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…

Now it's a Phytoplanktonic panic

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…

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

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.…

Frozen Tropics as La Niña takes hold

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…

A cool 50 million

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…

EPA Rejects Petitions to Scuttle CO2 Rules

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…

Oh, soot!

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…

New "Our Climate" iPhone app released

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…

Science says…!

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…

Reviewing Last Month's Forecasts of Doom

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 Greenhouse Effect – Part II”

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…

GISS Arctic -vs- DMI Arctic: differences in method

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…

Border Transgressions

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…

HadCrut Is Hotting Up – adjustments over a few months

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

GISS Polar Interpolation

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…

Anatomy of a Microburst

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…