Monthly Archives: July 2010

Bad News For Holland

Posted on July 12, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard The World Cup was bad news for Holland, but that isn’t what I am talking about. The world’s preeminent climatologist Dr. James Hansen (who is well known for quiet understatement) has forecast that Holland will drown in … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, sea level | 133 Comments

84 year old lowest daytime high temperature record broken at LAX, 98 year record tied at San Diego, plus a string of records at many other cities

Posted on July 11, 2010 by

From the “weather is not climate department”, while the east gets a heat wave, southern California sets chilly records in July over several days. Both Los Angeles and San Diego NWS offices made a number of record event reports, which … Continue reading →

Posted in records, weather | 47 Comments

Giving the IPCC a Pass on Errors of Omission, and Errors of Willful Omission:

Posted on July 11, 2010 by

The Dutch analysis of IPCC statements on regional impacts in the 2007 report Guest post by: Indur M. Goklany What with the numerous panel reports on Climategate and the IPCC’s veracity, warmists may have solved our global warming problems: lots … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 47 Comments

Sea Ice News #13

Posted on July 11, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard This summer we have had confirmation that Arctic ice behaviour has everything to do with wind. During June, winds were circulating clockwise in an inwards spiral, which caused ice extent to diminish and ice concentration to remain … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Ice News | 209 Comments

Rocky Mountain Highs

Posted on July 11, 2010 by

Guest post by Dr. Richard Alan Keen Oh my God, I’m going to fry!!! Watts Up With That posted a prediction by Noah Diffenbaugh at Stanford that heat waves will increase across the U.S. over the next few decades, with … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 48 Comments

Philly to the Max

Posted on July 11, 2010 by

Guest post by Dr. Richard Alan Keen Although I’ve lived in Colorado for 40+ years, Philadelphia is my ancestral home and I keep track of the weather there.  Of course, I’m excited about any event that sets records there, and … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 52 Comments

Dr. Fred Singer on the Muir-Russell report

Posted on July 10, 2010 by

SEPP SCIENCE EDITORIAL #21-2010 (July 10, 2010) By S. Fred Singer, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project Climategate: The Muir-Russell report: Some initial comments http://www.cce-review.org/pdf/FINAL%20REPORT.pdf In contrast to the Oxburgh report, the Muir-Russell (MR) report is quite substantive (160 pp, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Opinion | 92 Comments

Amazongate proven: IPCC based their claim of rainforest sensitivity on a “probably” sentence in a now defunct activist website

Posted on July 10, 2010 by

There’s been lots of whooping and celebrating by the warmist crowd lately over the retraction by the Sunday Times Jonathan Leake story about Amazongate. The claim was that the sensitivity to rainfall reduction was based on peer reviewed literature. I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, IPCC, media, post-normal science | 118 Comments

Parliament misled over Climategate report, says MP

Posted on July 10, 2010 by

Via the SPPI blog [Note: The original picture of the parliament build has been replaced by this excellent cartoon by Josh via his email invitation] Source:  The Register (please visit as they are online advertiser supported only) Russell report is … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 75 Comments

Skiing in July in California

Posted on July 10, 2010 by

From the Sacramento Bee: Boreal open for skiiing this weekend By Debbie Arrington Published: Friday, Jul. 9, 2010 – 4:44 pm Want to escape the valley heat? Boreal Mountain Resort will offer a Northern California rarity: Snow skiing in July. … Continue reading →

Posted in fun_stuff | 20 Comments

Raising Arizona

Posted on July 10, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard and Anthony Watts Wikipedia Image NCDC has done an first rate job raising Arizona summer temperatures, as seen in the graph below. How did they accomplish this? – by magic! My favorite Arizona station is Ajo, near … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, weather_stations | 121 Comments

Katla making noise

Posted on July 10, 2010 by

Katla volcano in iceland sees 14 earthquakes in 48 hours. This may mean nothing, or it may be a prelude to an eruption. Either way it bears watching. Via Ice Age Now: Fourteen earthquakes have occurred below Iceland’s Mýrdalsjökull glacier … Continue reading →

Posted in vulcanism | 54 Comments

Archibald on our Australian Tour, plus other tidbits

Posted on July 9, 2010 by

Plus a bonus extra below the fold, “Bulldust, Oz Blogger Hero” (he should be beet red by now). The Australian Lectures by David Archibald David Archibald, July 8, 2010 Anthony Watts runs the world’s most popular science blog with three … Continue reading →

Posted in fun_stuff | 26 Comments

Colorado Summer Trends

Posted on July 9, 2010 by

by Steve Goddard Summer 2009 in Breckenridge Colorado Earlier, Anthony reported on a Stanford University report which forecast very hot summers for the four corner states. I found this particularly amusing, because we are having our second cold, rainy July … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 79 Comments

Aliens Cause Global Warming: A Caltech Lecture by Michael Crichton

Posted on July 9, 2010 by

The “exoneration” by Climategate investigations (like Muir Russell) that never bother to talk to skeptics, create an impossible conundrum of having essentially a trial with judge, jury, reporters, spectators, and defendant, but no plaintiff. The plaintiff is locked outside the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Opinion, Science | 298 Comments

Climate Craziness of the Week – Shake and Bake

Posted on July 9, 2010 by

SEE UPDATE below the “Continue reading” line. In my town we have a contingent of crazies, just like most towns. I didn’t realize just how crazy some are until I read this letter to the editor in the Chico Enterprise … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week | 149 Comments

Modeling the big toasty

Posted on July 9, 2010 by

Just in time for summer heat waves in the USA, worrisome model outputs from Stanford with the all important could qualifier. No mention of UHI, asphalt, or heat waves of the past. No mention of weather stations that read hot … Continue reading →

Posted in modeling | 112 Comments

Heatwave In Philadelphia

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard New high temperature records have been set for Philadelphia: RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 805 AM EDT THU JUL 8 2010 …RECORD TEMPERATURES AT PHILADELPHIA PA WEDNESDAY JULY 7 2010… A RECORD HIGH … Continue reading →

Posted in records, weather | 45 Comments

New Facebook page for WUWT

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

After seeing a Steve McIntyre Facebook page created by a well meaning fan, and Steve having no control over it or what was said on it, I decided that I should get my own for WUWT before somebody did something … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 26 Comments

Stinky environmental politics

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

From Jo Nova: Tyranny: How to destroy a business with environmental red tape [Note: I visited with the Thompsons at their farm during my visit to Narrogin. While time did not permit me to do the full scale story that … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Government idiocy | 72 Comments

Mann’s Grinning Cheshire Cat Commentary

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

Gosh, what does one do to become a “professional climate change denier”? Does Penn State offer that course? Heh. He does look happy though. Plus, he has an interesting choice of wall art, I thought sure he’d frame his famous … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, satire | 140 Comments

Shocker: Heat wave story from Associated Press – no mention of global warming

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

Some supporting research conducted at New York City follows the news item below.  h/t to WUWT reader Phil (not the grouchy one) -A Heat islands: Cities heat quickly, cool slowly By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI | 104 Comments

A Climategate poll that might go terribly wrong

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

I never thought I’d see this from MSNBC. But, here it is, your chance to weigh in. Of course the choices are rather weird, but then so is MSNBC. Make some noise, maybe Olberman will label me as the “worst … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 111 Comments

Now it’s CO2 killing “Nemo”

Posted on July 7, 2010 by

From the “CO2 is the most deadly omnipotent force in the Universe department”, comes this tragic story of poor Nemo the clownfish, so disoriented by CO2 that he can’t choose the right path to swim. Rebuttal(s) follow in subsequent posts, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, oceans | 131 Comments

Road surface purifies air by removing nitrogen oxides (NOx)

Posted on July 7, 2010 by

From the Eindhoven University of Technology. This is a neat idea that helps to solve a real pollution problem by automobiles. Cost of course is a factor, but considering some other schemes this may be a bargain. Now if they … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | 48 Comments