Monthly Archives: July 2010

Breaking: Phil Jones got to endorse papers for Oxburgh inquiry

Posted on July 19, 2010 by

Previously I have said this about the lack of integrity regarding the recent Climategate investigations: The investigations thus far are much like having a trial with judge, jury, reporters, spectators, and defendant, but no plaintiff. The plaintiff is locked outside … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 204 Comments

Cooler white roofs – no complaints there

Posted on July 19, 2010 by

Maybe now NOAA will get rid of all remaining rooftop climate monitoring stations or stations sited over asphalt, like this one. As for the carbon emissions issue, that remains to be seen. Global Model Confirms: Cool Roofs Can Offset Carbon … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI | 181 Comments

Climate change reframed as health issue

Posted on July 19, 2010 by

From George Mason University, shifting the message. Note that this is the same university that was shocked at the outcome of their poll on TV weathercasters. Look for this message in the media soon. Confusing weather and climate maybe? People … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism | 147 Comments

Bonus Quote of the Week: The New Scientist rocks our world

Posted on July 19, 2010 by

This is a week of extremes in quotes about climate. On one end of the scale we have professor Steven Schneider with a set of quotes so beyond the absurd, that he now has his own “jumping the shark” TV … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Week | 77 Comments

Quote of the week: Stephen Schneider jumps the shark

Posted on July 18, 2010 by

UPDATE: This morning (Monday) brings sad news that Dr. Schneider has died, due to complications of cancer, apparently a heart attack. I was unaware that he was ill. While I strongly disagree with Dr. Schneider’s viewpoints, I am saddened by … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Week | 133 Comments

Sea Ice News #14 – an inconvenient July

Posted on July 18, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard We are seeing a number of interesting polar ice milestones this month. First, WUWT now has a new permanent Sea Ice Page, where you can find all of the live graphs and images in one place. Details … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Ice News | 240 Comments

DOE Funding For CRU Placed On Hold

Posted on July 18, 2010 by

Jonathan Leake, The Sunday Times The American government has suspended its funding of the University of East Anglia’s climate research unit (CRU), citing the scientific doubts raised by last November’s leak of hundreds of stolen emails. The US Department of … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 128 Comments

Why I’ll never take my kids to the Chicago Field Museum

Posted on July 18, 2010 by

From the Chicago Field Museum Climate Exhibit: CO2 makes Poison Ivy grow. Yes, but what about the millions of other plants in the biosphere that is booming? What about agriculture? I really resent this sort of one sided presentation foisted … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, ridiculae | 187 Comments

Hear Joe Romm speak in the Bay Area Monday

Posted on July 17, 2010 by

I was honored on my speaking tour in Australia to have two women drive 11 hours to hear David Archibald and me speak. People in the Bay Area don’t have to drive that far, or they can hop on BART. … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 39 Comments

GISS land and sea ratios revisited

Posted on July 17, 2010 by

Notes On The GISTEMP Ratio Of Land To Sea Surface Temperature Data Guest post by BobTisdale Over the past few days there has been some blogosphere buzz about the apparent ratio of Land Surface Temperature (LST) Data used in the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 71 Comments

Tipping point at GISS? Land and sea weight out of balance

Posted on July 17, 2010 by

While Alan mulls over big red dots in NOAA’s graph where no data exists, Frank Lanser finds that GISS global temperature trend is warmed up by weighting land data more. Guest post by Frank Lansner http://hidethedecline.eu/ The simple task of … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 92 Comments

Get your ice here! New WUWT Sea Ice Machine

Posted on July 17, 2010 by

Tired of surfing the net to get all the widely spread sea ice graphs and images? I got your back. Introducing the WUWT Sea Ice Machine. Given the intense interest in Arctic Sea Ice this year, since it appears we … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, sea ice, Sea Ice News | 94 Comments

NOAA’s Jan-Jun 2010 Warmest Ever: Missing Data, False Impressions

Posted on July 17, 2010 by

From Alan at Appinsys, who emails that he was inspired by this story on WUWT: A spot check on NOAA’s “hottest so far” presser “NOAA: June, April to June, and Year-to-Date Global Temperatures are Warmest on Record” The following figure from … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, climate data | 118 Comments

Botanist claims to overturn established ocean phytoplankton theory – cites global warming as a concern for new theory

Posted on July 17, 2010 by

Via Eurekalert: “A new study concludes that an old, fundamental and widely accepted theory of how and why phytoplankton bloom in the oceans is incorrect. The findings challenge more than 50 years of conventional wisdom about the growth of phytoplankton, … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans | 71 Comments

Climatic collision on the National/Financial Post website

Posted on July 17, 2010 by

There now seems to be a trenchcoat war brewing between journalists over the Climategate whitewashes and the recent “blacklist”. For example, the WSJ recently ran a story on the folly of the Muir-Russell inquiry, and is being lambasted for taking … Continue reading →

Posted in media, Opinion | 89 Comments

CO2 Optical Illusion

Posted on July 16, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard People see what they want or expect to see. A great example is in today’s NASA Earth Observatory image of the day article. A heat wave scorched the eastern United States in early July 2010, straining power … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, records, weather | 120 Comments

Friday Funny

Posted on July 16, 2010 by

Albuquerque has reached a tipping point!

Posted in Uncategorized | 56 Comments

A spot check on NOAA’s “hottest so far” presser

Posted on July 16, 2010 by

From the story:  The Australian’s overheated time warp misses half of 2010 which had a NOAA press release in it below the fold, Dr. Richard Keen weighs in and does a spot check of the data from his own NOAA station … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, records, weather | 142 Comments

NOAA: behind the curve

Posted on July 16, 2010 by

Sol and NOAA predictions have a gap. Here are some other graphs. The Ap magnetic index is up at least, but radio flux lags just like the spot count.

Posted in solar | 216 Comments

From DMSP munching microbes to global climate

Posted on July 16, 2010 by

From the University of Technology Sydney press release (Note: unfortunately the actual paper was not provided with the press release) Tiny marine microbes exert influence on global climate 16 Jul 2010 Observations show that microorganisms display a behaviour characteristic of … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans, Science | 43 Comments

The Australian’s overheated time warp misses half of 2010

Posted on July 15, 2010 by

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

Posted on July 15, 2010 by

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

Posted on July 15, 2010 by

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

Posted on July 15, 2010 by

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

Posted on July 15, 2010 by

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