Monthly Archives: August 2010

Iceberg calving: the movie

Posted on August 9, 2010 by

ESA has a short movie of the calving – worth a look, Anthony From the European Space Agency: Greenland glacier gives birth to giant iceberg Envisat has been observing a rare event in the Arctic since early August – a … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, glaciers | 60 Comments

Bastardi’s Monday Sea Ice Report, plus new analysis of 2010 ice distribution

Posted on August 9, 2010 by

Our one stop shopping Sea Ice Page has quickly become a world wide favorite, and Joe Bastardi of AccuWeather uses some of the graphics offered there.

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 187 Comments

Global Tropical Cyclone Activity still at 30 year low

Posted on August 8, 2010 by

From: Ryan N. Maue’s 2010 Global Tropical Cyclone Activity Update Figure: Global and Northern Hemisphere Accumulated Cyclone Energy: 24 month running sum through July 31, 2010. Note that the year indicated represents the value of ACE through the previous 24-months … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting, hurricanes, Sea Surface Temperature | 74 Comments

Congressman Markey suggests “global warming deniers to start their own country”

Posted on August 8, 2010 by

And in an unbelievable gaffe, he’s told a whole group of people exactly where they can go: It is probably the most ugly statement I’ve ever seen from a politician regarding a group of people with ideas that disagree with … Continue reading →

Posted in GLOC, Government idiocy, politics | 290 Comments

Sea Ice News #17

Posted on August 8, 2010 by

by Steve Goddard In April, I pointed out that PIOMAS forecasts for the summer didn’t make much sense. The computer model is predicting that 3+ year old ice (which is probably in excess of 10 feet thick) is going to … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Ice News | 270 Comments

Rebuttal to NOAA’s “State of the Climate” sales brochure

Posted on August 8, 2010 by

The NOAA State of the Climate Report (PDF “at a glance” highlights version 10.5 MB, full version here 110 MB, 218 pages) was published by NCDC at the end of July. It’s another glossy compendium of issues, mostly qualitative, some … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy, NOAA | 48 Comments

WUWT operational note

Posted on August 8, 2010 by

I and other moderators get tired of fixing this in comments daily, so I’m going to make a simple post on how to put links into your comment messages here. It’s dirt simple.

Posted in Announcements | 70 Comments

McKitrick: gridded climate data over land are likely not “climatically real” but result from data quality problems

Posted on August 7, 2010 by

Atmospheric Oscillations do not Explain the Temperature-Industrialization Correlation (PDF) (Statistics, Politics, and Policy, Volume 1, Issue 1, July 2010) Ross McKitrick, University of Guelph1 Abstract Gridded land surface temperature data products are used in climatology on the assumption that contaminating … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 57 Comments

World Weather Roundup

Posted on August 7, 2010 by

From the “weather is not climate department” Lots of odd weather events going on worldwide. Snow in Brazil Freeze in Boliva kills wildlfe Heatwave and fires in Russia – but it is not global warming

Posted in Uncategorized | 72 Comments

Russian Kola data refutes the Mann hockey stick

Posted on August 7, 2010 by

compare to this: I had mentioned this new dendro paper to Steve McIntyre, who wrote a short note about it while pointing out that: A news release on a new tree ring study here (h/t Anthony Watts) reported a reconstruction … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 90 Comments

Another climate cartoon by Josh

Posted on August 7, 2010 by

Recently there seems to be a certain amount of unjustified criticism of Judith Curry – H/t Bishop Hill – which, tho’ it amounts to not much than hot air, is still worth cartooning.

Posted in fun_stuff | 23 Comments

Thanks to John Cook for boosting the “Our Climate” app

Posted on August 7, 2010 by

WUWT readers may recall last week that the “Our Climate” iPhone app was released and announced here. It has quickly become a best seller on the iTunes store. It has also quickly become a target. John Cook, a generally reasonable … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Technology | 89 Comments

Himalayan warming – pulling another thread from IPCC’s fragile tapestry.

Posted on August 7, 2010 by

Guest post by Marc Hendrickx The case for dangerous man made global warming hangs on the wall like a frayed medieval tapestry. By pulling just one loose thread the whole thing starts to unravel. We pulled one of those threads … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 156 Comments

Mosher: Who’s on first?

Posted on August 6, 2010 by

There’s a riotously funny bit of inside “Climate Math” humor over at Climate Audit from Steve Mosher that is well worth your time. I’m reminded of this famous sketch, but with enough players to actually make a baseball team: See … Continue reading →

Posted in fun_stuff | 56 Comments

Friday Funny: New car is the “poop de grâce”

Posted on August 6, 2010 by

Well, at least you don’t have to shovel it in…but I wonder…what sort of “new car smell” does this car have when it is fresh from the factory?

Posted in fun_stuff | 77 Comments

Oh no! Greenland glacier calves island 4 times the size of Manhattan

Posted on August 6, 2010 by

Greenland glacier calves island 4 times the size of Manhattan, UD scientist reports it last happened at this scale in 1962. Must have been climate change back then too. Watch the media now as this story is only about an … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Arctic | 139 Comments

A reply to Vonk: Radiative Physics Simplified II

Posted on August 6, 2010 by

Radiative Physics Simplified II A guest post by Jeff Id Radiative physics of CO2 is a contentious issue at WUWT’s crowd but to someone like myself, this is not where the argument against AGW exists.  I’m going to take a crack … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Science | 346 Comments

Climate Craziness of the Week: NW Passage open “first time in history” and all that…

Posted on August 6, 2010 by

2007: Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History 2010: Ship find shows Arctic Sea Ice conditions similar to 1853 The international news media are hailing the archaeological find of a British naval ship the HMS Investigator on July … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week | 96 Comments

Quote of the Week

Posted on August 6, 2010 by

I’m glad Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. said this, because it is long overdue.

Posted in Quote of the Week | 63 Comments

Glacier loss in Hawaii tied to change in North Atlantic AMOC current

Posted on August 6, 2010 by

From an Oregon State University press release: Ancient Hawaiian glaciers reveal clues to global climate impacts CORVALLIS, Ore. – Boulders deposited by an ancient glacier that once covered the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii have provided … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans, paleoclimatology | 58 Comments

Expert Embarrassment in Climate Change

Posted on August 5, 2010 by

Guest post by Thomas Fuller The paper ‘Expert Credibility in Climate Change,’ published in PNAS by Anderegg, the late Stephen Schneider, James Prall and Jacob Harold attempts to measure the credibility of climate scientists by counting how many papers they … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Opinion, Science | 79 Comments

Analysis of NSIDC August 4 News

Posted on August 5, 2010 by

By Steven Goddard, NSIDC published their sea ice news yesterday, and this one is definitely worth a read. Yesterday I pointed out that the graph below seems to be inconsistent with other data, including NSIDC maps. http://nsidc.org/images/arcticseaicenews/20100804_Figure2.png The problem is … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic | 218 Comments

DMI polar data shows cooler Arctic temperature since 1958

Posted on August 5, 2010 by

From Frank Lansner at Hide the Decline From DMI (Danish Meteorological Institute) we learn, that Arctic 80N-90N temperatures in the melt season this year is colder than average. This was the case last year too, while earlier years in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, climate data | 87 Comments

NOAA Still Expects Active Atlantic Hurricane Season; La Niña Develops

Posted on August 5, 2010 by

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  Chris Vaccaro 202-482-6093 August 5, 2010 NOAA Still Expects Active Atlantic Hurricane Season; La Niña Develops The Atlantic Basin remains on track for an active hurricane season, according to the scheduled seasonal outlook update issued today … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting, hurricanes, weather | 83 Comments

Why the CO2 increase is man made (part 1)

Posted on August 5, 2010 by

For a another view on the CO2 issue, please see also the guest post by Tom Vonk: CO2 heats the atmosphere…a counter view -Anthony Guest Post by Ferdinand Engelbeen There have been hundreds of reactions to the previous post by Willis … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide | 613 Comments