Daily Archives: July 15, 2010

The Australian’s overheated time warp misses half of 2010

Crickey! The year ain’t over yet mates. (h/t to Australian reader “Michael”) Heh, you gotta love the headline.  Of course when we keep finding climate stations like this one, which reads 5 degrees high and set new records, no wonder … Continue reading

Posted in Alarmism, records, weather | 79 Comments

Video: Guardian Climategate Debate

Sceencaps of the video follow, link to the video below the “Continue reading” line. Last night in London, to a packed room, a panel of people convened to talk about Climategate. Steve McIntyre (L) and Doug Keenan(R)  represented the skeptical … Continue reading

Posted in Climategate | 73 Comments

Peer reviewed science: Polar bears of the past survived warmth

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick to death of hearing about the polar bears as a proxy for Arctic ice issues. Yesterday, Steve Goddard pointed out the ramifications related to polar bears of NSIDC’s Dr. Walt Meier’s part … Continue reading

Posted in Arctic, paleoclimatology | 50 Comments

BP says Gulf oil spill has been stopped in test

Good news, more here From Reuters BP said on Thursday no oil was leaking into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since its huge spill began in April as it conducted pressure tests on its blown-out deep-sea well. … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 51 Comments

Earth’s thermosphere collapses – film at 11

Well, not quite that bad, but if I was still on TV, that would probably be the tease during prime time. It appears that solar influences are mostly at work here. By Dr.  Dr. Tony Phillips NASA NASA-funded researchers are … Continue reading

Posted in Science, solar, space | 142 Comments

A shift of wind

Where I live on the outskirts of Chico, I have an almost constant supply of wind. I’ve considered a wind turbine as a way of getting closer to being “off-grid” so that I don’t have to pay PG&E the exorbitant … Continue reading

Posted in Current News, energy, local_issues, Technology | 144 Comments

Comment of the week

UPDATE: As is typical with alarmism, some people with a dislike for me and WUWT are spreading rumors on other blogs that these are my words, not of a commenter. And that I’m calling people on those blogs “cockroaches”. Not … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 130 Comments

Reports from the Guardian Climategate Debate

Here are a excerpts and links to reports about the debate that Steve McIntyre was originally shut out of. The Guardian just put up the audio: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/audio/2010/jul/15/guardian-climategate-hacked-emails-debate Via Maurizio Morabito Report From Climategate Guardian Debate with Monbiot, McIntyre, Pearce, Watson, … Continue reading

Posted in Climate News, Climategate | 46 Comments

Research suggests that hurricane forecasts on intensity could never be feasible

Quick- somebody tell Mike Mann: Surprisingly regular patterns in hurricane energy discovered Research suggests that hurricane forecasts on intensity could never be feasible Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona via Eurekalert Researchers at Mathematics Research Centre and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have … Continue reading

Posted in forecasting, hurricanes | 31 Comments

Polar Bears Survived the Ice Free Arctic

UPDATE BELOW: Peer reviewed science supports the title! By Steve Goddard In part two of Dr. Meier’s post , he mentioned : “Examination of several proxy records (e.g., sediment cores) of sea ice indicate ice-free or near ice-free summer conditions … Continue reading

Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, paleoclimatology | 105 Comments