Monthly Archives: August 2010

First images from deformable mirror telescope at Big Bear

Posted on August 25, 2010 by

See amazing new sun images from NJIT’s Big Bear Solar Observatory Caption: The most detailed sunspot ever obtained in visible light was seen by new telescope at NJIT’s Big Bear Solar Observatory. Credit: Big Bear Solar Observatory NJIT Distinguished Professor … Continue reading →

Posted in solar, space, Technology | 102 Comments

Union of Concerned Scientists start media watch program

Posted on August 25, 2010 by

I guess Media Matters wasn’t enough? Interesting that they specifically target Fox News via the “Rupert Murdoch” mention. But I’d take their advice and send them alerts, there’s plenty of misrepresentations in the media daily: Monitor the print and broadcast … Continue reading →

Posted in media, Science | 142 Comments

Read this about Mars, pass it on, stop the hoax

Posted on August 25, 2010 by

I get questions about Mars every summer, and they are always related to this same silly chain email. So this year, I felt that being proactive by placing a story on WUWT might help a bit.  I had to chuckle … Continue reading →

Posted in ridiculae, space | 52 Comments

Surfacetemperatures.org

Posted on August 25, 2010 by

Readers may recall some months ago that the Met Office planned to “do over” the surface temperature data sets: Met office pushes a surface temperature data “do over” The effort has started, and a website has been setup at http://www.surfacetemperatures.org They … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 102 Comments

Climate Craziness of the Week: Study shows carnivore species shrank during global warming

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

Any number of factors 50 million years ago could cause an animal to change, but surely CO2 must be the culprit according to these folks. They don’t even have a picture of the darn thing I can find. But read … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 114 Comments

Danielle a Hurricane again

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

But just barely…see Danielle in lower right of image Latest news:

Posted in hurricanes, weather | 28 Comments

The biggest environmental scandal in history

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

A UN board could rein in $2.7 billion carbon market to prevent the double dipping of CFC manufacturing incentives and carbon credit sales, as discovered to be happening in China. Guest post by Ric Werme Excerpts from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100821/ap_on_bi_ge/un_un_carbon_cutting_scheme# reports UNITED … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon credits, CFC's, ozone | 75 Comments

Danielle now downgraded to tropical storm

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

From the “no headlines for you!” department, Danielle loses definition. It goes from TS to Hurricane Cat1, Cat2, and back to TS in less than 24 hours…see the image below of Danielle in the lower right: Latest bulletin from NHC:

Posted in hurricanes, weather | 33 Comments

Connolley may be out at Wikipedia

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

For those who don’t know, William Connolley, a Real Climate founding contributor, has been the most prolific climate information gatekeeper at Wikipedia, and was the subject of this Lawrence Solomon article: Wikibullies at work. The National Post exposes broad trust … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, politics, post-normal science | 87 Comments

WUWT adminstrative note

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

I’m pleased to announce that with a new WordPress.com upgrade now available, sharing of WUWT posts is now much easier. I’d like to ask WUWT readers to take a moment to familiarize themselves with this new feature. Using it will … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 19 Comments

Fireball on Jupiter

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

From Spaceweather.com On August 20th at 18:22 UT, two amateur astronomers in Japan independently recorded an apparent impact on Jupiter. Masayuki Tachikawa of Kumamoto city was first to report the event. His movie of the fireball shows the fireball scintillating … Continue reading →

Posted in space | 51 Comments

Easy Come Easy Go: Danielle back to Cat 1

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

Well, that was quick. Watch this animation from my radio station web page to see Hurricane Danielle start to disorganize:

Posted in hurricanes, weather | 35 Comments

Sea Ice News Arctic mid week update

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard NCEP has changed their forecast, and it now appears there will be above normal temperatures over the Beaufort Sea for the next few days. This will cause continued melt of the low concentration ice, and a downwards … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Ice News | 259 Comments

Danielle now a Category 2 hurricane

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

From NASA via press release Caption: This high-resolution image from the MODIS instrument that flies about NASA’s Terra satellite was taken shortly after the AIRS image from the Aqua satellite on Aug. 23, and also shows a compact, rounded tropical … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, weather | 10 Comments

Early Snow in Russia

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

By Steven Goddard Russia has seen it’s first snow accumulation of the season. http://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/europe/last3days/snow According to Rutgers Global Snow Lab, Russia doesn’t normally receive snow until the second week in September.

Posted in snowfall, weather | 96 Comments

MIT Professor Kerry Emanuel bothered by on-air meteorologists’ lack of climate science knowledge

Posted on August 23, 2010 by

Journeyman Pictures has created a little 10-minute documentary that describes the perceived disconnect between the beliefs of on-air meteorologists and climatologists.  Of specific note are the comments of MIT professor Dr. Kerry Emanuel who sets up the premise of the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, weather | Tagged , | 128 Comments

Solar flares are teleconnected to earthly radioactive decay

Posted on August 23, 2010 by

From Stanford University News a really wild must read science discovery. h/t to Leif Svalgaard and WUWT reader “carbon-based-life-form”. The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements When researchers found an unusual linkage between solar flares and the inner … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 320 Comments

Danielle now a hurricane

Posted on August 23, 2010 by

Max winds 75MPH, Category 1. Bulletin:

Posted in hurricanes | 47 Comments

Government report: Canadian climate data quality ‘disturbing’

Posted on August 23, 2010 by

From the “we told you so time and again department”, Canadian weather data is a mess. It took an FOIA to get the “fess up” out in the open. Anybody got a copy of the EC report? So far all … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, FOI, Government idiocy | 104 Comments

James Cameron’s folly: ‘Titanic Chicken of the Sea’

Posted on August 23, 2010 by

Cameron backs out. So much for that attempt to sink skeptical arguments. From King of the World to Chicken of the Sea: Director James Cameron challenges climate skeptics to debate and then bails out at last minute Via the SPPI … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, satire | 212 Comments

Signs of the times

Posted on August 23, 2010 by

People send me stuff. Sometimes the Google adwords at WUWT yield interesting things, like this plea to not abandon what has already been abandoned. From the National Resources Defense Council: Tell your senators not to abandon comprehensive climate and energy … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | 21 Comments

TS Danielle Strengthening

Posted on August 23, 2010 by

Now up to 65mph, not far from Cat 1 Hurricane category winds. Seems almost sure to be a Hurricane soon. The good news is that the path seems away from the Gulf, and it will help transport some of that … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes | 25 Comments

Quote of the Week- you first, Dr. Thompson

Posted on August 23, 2010 by

Some days I think it can’t get any crazier out there, and then I’m surprised yet again. From Dr. Loonie Lonnie Thompson, of Ohio State University:

Posted in Quote of the Week | 92 Comments

R expert replicates McShane and Wyner hockey stick analysis

Posted on August 23, 2010 by

Unlike what we’ve seen previously in climate science, where it takes years of complaints, demands, taunts, FOI’s and other assorted embarrassments to finally pry code and data out of scientists, McShane and Wyner made all their data and code available … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 21 Comments

Pachy’s book review

Posted on August 23, 2010 by

WUWT readers may recall this article and photo from earlier this year: IPCC now in Bizarroland: Pachauri releases “smutty” romance novel Click for more photos from his book release. Well at least one person bought his book Return to Almora, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review | 43 Comments