Monthly Archives: August 2010

Picking Carbonated Cherries In 1975

Posted on August 22, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard My friend Tamino says that “the modern global warming era starts in 1975.” He goes on : “It’s an estimate of the time at which the trend in global temperature took its modern value.” As you can … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, climate data | 152 Comments

Satellite Study: slowing plant growth, 2000-2009

Posted on August 22, 2010 by

From NASA: download large image (700 KB, JPEG) acquired January 1, 2000 – December 31, 2009 download large Hemispheric Trends image (81 KB, PDF) Conventional wisdom holds that plants should thrive when temperatures warm and the growing season lengthens under … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, earth | 99 Comments

Tropical Storm Danielle forms

Posted on August 22, 2010 by

From the National Hurricane Center, word of the fourth tropical storm of the season forming. It’s a Cape Verde storm. Right now the wind forecast has it heading NW. WTNT31 KNHC 222043 TCPAT1 BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM DANIELLE ADVISORY NUMBER   5 … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes | 37 Comments

Sea Ice News #19

Posted on August 22, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard Barrow, AK early this morning Darkness is returning to the Arctic as the sun moves towards the horizon. In four weeks, the sun will disappear completely at the North Pole. Solar Energy as a function of latitude … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Ice News | 224 Comments

Pielke Senior on tree and thermometer divergence

Posted on August 21, 2010 by

by Dr Roger Pielke, Sr. With the McShane and Wyler paper examining and questioning the method, this look at the proxy data and its problems seems like a relevant issue to review. Comment On Tree Ring Proxy Data and Thermometer … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 136 Comments

Another day, overshot to hell

Posted on August 21, 2010 by

This reminds me of tax freedom day, except the numbers are a lot fuzzier. Carsten Arnholm of Norway tips us to this website peddling this worrisome calculation. I fear and visualize there will be no more food, air, water, or … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week | 111 Comments

World’s Worst Heatwave – The Marble Bar heatwave, 1923-24

Posted on August 21, 2010 by

With all the caterwauling over the record heat in Moscow over a few days due to a blocking high pressure zone, it would seem valuable to revisit a truly exceptional historical heatwave that occurred long before “global warming” became a … Continue reading →

Posted in heat wave, records, weather | 84 Comments

Modeling predicts “ocean acidification mitigation”

Posted on August 21, 2010 by

From the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the University of Southampton, we have what looks to be a another Willis igniter. Limiting ocean acidification under global change Emissions of carbon dioxide are causing ocean acidification … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, oceans | 105 Comments

Weekend levity: Heisenberg’s uncertainty principal components

Posted on August 21, 2010 by

I didn’t have a “Friday Funny”, (though I suppose you could count the Mann UVA protest) so here’s the latest from Josh at cartoonsbyjosh.com

Posted in Humor, satire | 33 Comments

Jack Horkheimer (1938-2010)

Posted on August 21, 2010 by

Jack Horkheimer, Public Television’s “Star Gazer” and the director of Miami’s Space Transit Planetarium,’ died Friday, August 20th, at the age of 72. WUWT readers may fondly remember him at sign off time on PBS-TV, impishly sitting on the ring, … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 37 Comments

Engelbeen on why he thinks the CO2 increase is man made (part 2)

Posted on August 20, 2010 by

About the reliability of ice cores… Guest Post by Ferdinand Engelbeen There have been hundreds of reactions to part 1 about the mass balance (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/05/why-the-co2-increase-is-man-made-part-1 ). Many respondents still are not convinced that the mass balance is a firm proof … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, paleoclimatology | 249 Comments

Defenders of Mann stage protest rally at UVA

Posted on August 20, 2010 by

From NBC29: Protestors, angry with the way Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has tried to make his case, rallied on grounds at the University of Virginia Friday afternoon. Only one small problem…..

Posted in Climate News, politics | 121 Comments

Judith Curry Q&A: RealClimate has “damaged their brand”

Posted on August 20, 2010 by

Dr. Curry is a lightning rod, but she does have the courage to speak her mind: Via Tom Nelson [Q] Yes, you’ve certainly been raked over pretty good by certain sites like Real Climate and Climate Progress. [Curry] Oh yes. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Opinion | 89 Comments

Wegener Institute continues Arctic Sea Ice flyovers to gauge thickness

Posted on August 20, 2010 by

Via press release. Is the ice in the Arctic Ocean getting thinner and thinner? Research aircraft Polar 5 measures thickness of sea ice north of Greenland Bremerhaven, 20th August 2010. The extent of the sea ice in the Arctic will … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 74 Comments

GISS Shaping Up To Claim 2010 as #1

Posted on August 20, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard GISS appears to be working hard to make 2010 the hottest year ever. As you can see in the graph above, they show 2010 with much more area above the 1998 line than below. I did a … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 284 Comments

NOAA on the Russian heat wave: blocking high, not global warming

Posted on August 19, 2010 by

The Russian Heat Wave of 2010 Draft Report by NOAA CSI The extreme surface warmth over western Russia during July and early August is mostly a product of the strong and persistent blocking high. … The indications are that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster, weather | 71 Comments

Global Sea Surface Temps still headed down

Posted on August 19, 2010 by

Still Cooling: Sea Surface Temperatures thru August 18, 2010 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) measured by the AMSR-E instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite continue the fall which began several months ago. The following plot, updated … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Surface Temperature | 105 Comments

Tisdale on Liu and Curry’s ‘Accelerated Warming’ paper

Posted on August 19, 2010 by

On Liu and Curry (2010) “Accelerated Warming of the Southern Ocean and Its Impacts on the Hydrological Cycle and Sea Ice” Image above courtesy Dr. Judith Curry The Liu and Curry (2010) paper has been the subject of a number … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans, Sea Surface Temperature | 91 Comments

Cryosphere Today imagery back online

Posted on August 19, 2010 by

They seems to have fixed their data problems.The comparison image to 2007 remains interesting. There also has been a shift in the wind.

Posted in sea ice | 10 Comments

The Big Valley: Altitude Bias in GHCN

Posted on August 19, 2010 by

Foreword: The focus of this essay is strictly altitude placement/change of GHCN stations. While challenge and debate of the topic is encouraged, please don’t let the discussion drift into other side issues. As noted in the conclusion, there remain two … Continue reading →

Posted in GHCN, Land use land cover change, NOAA, UHI, Uncategorized, weather_stations | 161 Comments

NCAR’s new 2010 climate model for the next IPCC report

Posted on August 19, 2010 by

New computer model advances climate change research From an NCAR/UCAR press release BOULDER—Scientists can now study climate change in far more detail with powerful new computer software released by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Modeling climate’s complexity. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, IPCC, Technology | Tagged | 160 Comments

Solar-Terrestrial Coincidence?

Posted on August 18, 2010 by

Guest post by Paul Vaughan, M.Sc. – August 18, 2010 Scientists characterize Earth rotation velocity using a variable they call length of day (LOD). The rate of change of LOD (LOD’) is related to global average wind patterns. Changes in … Continue reading →

Posted in earth, Science, solar | 89 Comments

Hump day hilarity

Posted on August 18, 2010 by

From the Fail Blog, a reminder that some people think CO2 is lighter than air:

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Humor | 70 Comments

Arctic Toolbox: Did 300,000 km2 of ice suddenly melt?

Posted on August 18, 2010 by

By Steve  Goddard August 16, 2010 offered a great opportunity to put all the Arctic data together in a coherent picture. DMI showed a large drop in extent. http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php

Posted in Arctic | 256 Comments

Geography is hard

Posted on August 18, 2010 by

My local alternate weekly in Chico has a “Green Guide”. This week’s lead story was “Scientists break ice in Greenland”. There’s only one problem.

Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Humor, media | 81 Comments