Monthly Archives: August 2010

Congratulations (finally) to Spencer and Braswell on getting their new paper published

Posted on August 28, 2010 by

WUWT provided a primer on cloud feedbacks on June 12th, 2009, followed by Willis Eschenbach’s “thermostat hypothesis” also recently published. This new paper by Spencer and Braswell is in the same theme as these. On the diagnosis of radiative feedback … Continue reading →

Posted in climate sensitivity | 97 Comments

Weather versus climate: sine of the times

Posted on August 28, 2010 by

Finally, this vexatious question has been settled with a meteorological time series analysis. I’m sure the media and all who support their important work in factual climate reporting will approve.

Posted in satire | 42 Comments

Nature notices the SH cold: global warming blamed

Posted on August 28, 2010 by

The money quote: “With such extreme climatic events potentially becoming more common due to climate change…” Maybe next week Nature will notice La Nina: Cold empties Bolivian rivers of fish Antarctic cold snap kills millions of aquatic animals in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, oceans, records, weather | 90 Comments

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on August 28, 2010 by

The Week That Was 2010-08-28 (August 28, 2010) Brought to you by The Science and Environmental Policy Project Don’t forget to attend the SEPP-SEEE Climate-Energy Forum at 10:30 am on Sept 25 in the Ernst Community Center at the Annandale … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | 14 Comments

New El Niño type: worse than we thought

Posted on August 28, 2010 by

From the Jet Propulsion Lab: NASA/NOAA Study Finds El Niños are Growing Stronger A relatively new type of El Niño, which has its warmest waters in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, rather than in the eastern-equatorial Pacific, is becoming more common … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO | 122 Comments

‘Tornado of fire’ in Brazil

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

This is an interesting video of a fire vortex that has been making the rounds on the web. I’ve seen this phenomenon before in wildfires here in California, but this one is rather dramatic in color, intensity, and longevity. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in media, Technology | 50 Comments

EPA says no to lead ammo ban

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

In a moment of clarity, the EPA doesn’t ban something. But wait, bigger craziness still looks to be on the horizon. See the end of the story. ========================================== EPA PRESS RELEASE Brendan Gilfillan giflfillan.brendan@epa.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 27, 2010 … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment | 132 Comments

Global Warming Special on Fox News Tonight

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

From Fox News: Sean Hannity will have a special report: Controlling your carbon footprint has become a global fad, but is it all just a con job? And how much green is it costing you? Sean investigates the truth behind … Continue reading →

Posted in media | 102 Comments

Death of an old friend – KHSL radio tower demolition today

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

On August 27th, 2010, the old KHSL AM radio towers were taken down by a demolition company. The towers were constructed around 1947. After 63 years of continuously serving the Chico area with radio communications of one kind or another the towers … Continue reading →

Posted in media | 29 Comments

Tisdale on comparing global climate data with SST

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

The Global Coverage of NCDC Merged Land + Sea Surface Temperature Data Guest post by Bob Tisdale There are a numerous blogosphere posts about the global coverage, or lack thereof, of the GISS and Hadley Centre land plus sea surface … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Sea Surface Temperature | 34 Comments

Found: solar cycles on another star

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

Distant Star’s Sound Waves Reveal Cycle Similar to Sun – but the cycle is fast, less than 1 year Star known as HD49933 is located 100 light years away from Earth View a video on the monitoring of the magnetic … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar, space | 52 Comments

Follow up on the solar-neutrinos-radioactive decay story

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

Via slashdot: A couple of days ago, WUWT carried a story that was rather shocking: some physicists published claims they have detected a variation in earthly radioactive decay rates, big news by itself, but the shocker is they attributed it … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 110 Comments

Pre-empting on the solar curve fit

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

Guest post by David Archibald We return to Dr Svalgaard’s plot of four solar parameters, updated daily at: http://www.leif.org/research/TSI-SORCE-2008-now.png There are a couple of things to note. Firstly, the solar Mean Field, which is the top line, went into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 193 Comments

Hurricane Danielle reaches Cat4, Earl forecast strengthing

Posted on August 26, 2010 by

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…135 MPH…215 KM/HR, path projected to be away from the East coast of the USA. See the latest bulletin and satellite image and animation below:

Posted in hurricanes, weather | 41 Comments

Cherry picking is easy

Posted on August 26, 2010 by

by Steve Goddard Tamino has named me “Mr. Cherry” for picking start dates of graphs which are different from the ones he chooses to cherry pick. For instance, he considers 1975 to be the start of “the modern global warming … Continue reading →

Posted in ridiculae, satire | 148 Comments

Solar UV linkage to earth’s atmosphere confirmed

Posted on August 26, 2010 by

From the “you don’t know everything about the sun and earth yet so stop telling us the sun doesn’t matter” department and National Science Foundation: Shrinking atmospheric layer linked to low levels of solar radiation Large changes in the sun’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 104 Comments

UHI study of the UK Armagh Observatory

Posted on August 26, 2010 by

Via Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. and with a h/t to Erik, I found this most interesting, because it demonstrates the even small things like hedges can influence temperature readings. This paper originally had only 1 diagram, but I’ve added photography … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI, weather_stations | 33 Comments

Obama SG urges tossing CO2 ruling, greens howl

Posted on August 26, 2010 by

Obama Admin Urges Supreme Court to Vacate Greenhouse Gas ‘Nuisance’ Ruling By GABRIEL NELSON of Greenwire The Obama administration has urged the Supreme Court to toss out an appeals court decision that would allow lawsuits against major emitters for their … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, politics | 89 Comments

Attention codgers! Get with the program!

Posted on August 26, 2010 by

I wouldn’t have believed this if I hadn’t read it for myself. This is an actual study and press release from the University of York.  I’m surprised they didn’t issue this press release IN ALL UPPER CASE. Those darn whippersnappers. … Continue reading →

Posted in post-normal science, ridiculae | 270 Comments

Ecological Footprints – a good idea gone bad

Posted on August 26, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In “Another day, overshot to hell” Anthony Watts commented on the “Overshoot Day” promoted by Mathis Wackernagel and the Global Footprint Network (GFN). This is based on the idea of the “ecological footprint”. Your “ecological … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 113 Comments

Pielke Senior on the surfacetemperatures.org effort

Posted on August 26, 2010 by

Like me, Dr. Pielke was queried for this article in the Economist, and like me, he responded. Like Dr. Pielke, I documented some of the responses that were not printed in the Economist here. Additionally, Dr. Pielke documents below how … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, media, politics | 87 Comments

Hurricane Danielle back to Cat 2, Earl disintegrating

Posted on August 25, 2010 by

Note the eye forming on Danielle, Earl is disorganized: Latest bulletins:

Posted in hurricanes, weather | 23 Comments

Fizzing out with Rutgers

Posted on August 25, 2010 by

From a Rutegers press release Rutgers researchers find a ‘great fizz’ of carbon dioxide at the end of the last ice age Relevance for geo-engineers: What fizzed once, can fizz again Imagine loosening the screw-top of a soda bottle and … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide | 60 Comments

Be a closet climate modeler with Climate@home

Posted on August 25, 2010 by

First there was SETI@home where you could use spare CPU cycles to look for extraterrestrial signals. Now we have Climate@Home, running NASA GISS modeling software in distributed computing, but no release date yet. Oxford has already created climateprediction.net running BOINC. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, modeling, Technology | Tagged , , | 81 Comments

Nothing runs like a Deere – company bails on cap and trade

Posted on August 25, 2010 by

By Bob Tita Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- Deere & Co. (DE) has quietly dropped out of a coalition of large companies that has supported a cap-and-trade program for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Deere, the world’s largest manufacturer … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon credits | 51 Comments