Monthly Archives: August 2010

CO2 heats the atmosphere…a counter view

Posted on August 5, 2010 by

Guest post By Tom Vonk (Tom is a physicist and long time poster at many climate blogs. Note also I’ll have another essay coming soon supporting the role of CO2 – For a another view on the CO2 issue, please … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide | 343 Comments

Surprise: Fish tolerate 2.5°C temperature shift in 3 years

Posted on August 5, 2010 by

Tiny fish evolved to tolerate colder temperature in three years: UBC study University of British Columbia researchers have observed one of the fastest evolutionary responses ever recorded in wild populations. In as little as three years, stickleback fish developed tolerance … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Environment | 49 Comments

Space researchers illuminate ‘one of the most perplexing puzzles in planetary science’

Posted on August 4, 2010 by

Discovery of Saturn’s auroral heartbeat An international team of scientists led by Dr Jonathan Nichols of the University of Leicester has discovered that Saturn’s aurora, an ethereal ultraviolet glow which illuminates Saturn’s upper atmosphere near the poles, pulses roughly once … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, space | 126 Comments

Discrepancies In Sea Ice Measurements

Posted on August 4, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard Over the last few weeks I have been tracking what is becoming a large discrepancy between various Arctic sea ice measurements. NSIDC graphs show almost no difference between 2010 and 2007. http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png By contrast, DMI graphs show … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic | 160 Comments

We enter the age of “…or else”

Posted on August 4, 2010 by

Excerpts from: EPA left to pick up climate change where Congress dropped the debate By David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin The Obama administration told Congress to find a way to regulate greenhouse gases — or else. Last month, Congress … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, politics | 154 Comments

Generating energy from ocean waters off Hawaii

Posted on August 4, 2010 by

This seems like an interesting idea, the feasibility may drop with scale though. College Park, MD (August 3, 2010) — Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa say that the Leeward side of Hawaiian Islands may be ideal for … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, oceans | 120 Comments

A color scheme change for the SST map

Posted on August 4, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard WUWT reader “Roy” astutely noted that the NOAA SST map shows a lot of hot yellow, in regions which are just barely above normal temperatures. So I tried an experiment to remove all colors between  -0.5C and … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Surface Temperature | 92 Comments

Morphed Climate/Energy Bill is DOA in the Senate

Posted on August 4, 2010 by

From:  The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com Senate Democrats on Tuesday abandoned all hopes of passing even a slimmed-down energy bill before they adjourn for the summer recess, saying that they did not have sufficient votes even for legislation tailored narrowly … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, energy, politics | 125 Comments

Earth Braces for Solar Storm Tonite

Posted on August 3, 2010 by

NASA announced that a massive solar flare that erupted Sunday should strike Earth some time tonite in the early AM hours (Correction, has struck Earth, details follow). “This eruption is directed right at us and is expected to get here … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 86 Comments

New carbon dioxide emissions model: “carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced to around zero by the end of the century”

Posted on August 3, 2010 by

Via press release from the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science New carbon dioxide emissions model Meteorologists have determined exactly how much carbon dioxide humans can emit into the atmosphere while ensuring that the earth does not heat … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, modeling | 220 Comments

Open Water At The North Pole

Posted on August 3, 2010 by

by Steven Goddard, We have been watching temperatures and webcam images closely at the NOAA North Pole drifting weather station this year. Except for a few days in early July, they have looked like the series of images below – … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 165 Comments

UAH Global Temperature – still in a holding pattern

Posted on August 3, 2010 by

While Sea Surface Temperatures are cooling sharply as shown here, global surface temperature is still oscillating around 0.40 to 0.50C for the last four months. This is not surprising as the air temperature is strongly correlated with the SST but … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Climate News | 76 Comments

Global Sea Surface Temperature Cooling Continues

Posted on August 3, 2010 by

Above: Sea Surface Temperature anomaly map from NOAA/NESDIS.  Note the La Nina building in the Pacific. By Dr. Roy Spencer Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) measured by the AMSR-E instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite continue the fall which began several months … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Surface Temperature | 110 Comments

A new must read paper: McKitrick on GHCN and the quality of climate data

Posted on August 3, 2010 by

This new paper by Dr. Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph is a comprehensive review of the GHCN surface and sea temperature data set. Unlike many papers (such as the phytoplankton paper in Nature, complete code is made available … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, GHCN | 164 Comments

July average maxima in San Francisco coolest since 1971

Posted on August 2, 2010 by

Supposedly Mark Twain once asserted: “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” This July was cold, and Twain’s quote? Well, read on. My friend Jan Null, former lead forecaster for the NWS in California, is … Continue reading →

Posted in records, weather | 69 Comments

Climatologists consensus on global warming: poll sample size 79

Posted on August 2, 2010 by

From the Hockey Schtick: The 97% “Consensus” is only 76 Self-Selected Climatologists The graphic [directly above] comes via our friends at skepticalscience, assuring us that while 97% of “climate scientists think that global warming is ‘significantly’ due to human activity,” a … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Opinion | 116 Comments

NOAA to Issue Updated Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook

Posted on August 2, 2010 by

Here’s the last NOAA release on hurricane season:  NOAA Expects Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season from May 27, 2010. Now an update is coming. Still busy? We’ll see. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Susan Buchanan 301-713-0622 August 2, 2010 MEDIA ADVISORY NOAA to … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting, hurricanes, weather | 68 Comments

25 years ago today: an event that changed meteorology and aviation

Posted on August 2, 2010 by

The 25th Anniversary of the Crash of Delta 191 By Mike Smith of Meteorological Musings. ( a video and reconstruction follows – Anthony) At 9:30am this morning, a long-overdue memorial to the victims of Delta Flight 191 was dedicated at … Continue reading →

Posted in thunderstorms, weather | 43 Comments

Mallory and Irvine on Everest: Did extreme weather cause their disappearance?

Posted on August 2, 2010 by

Via Eurekalert and the “climate doesn’t kill people, weather does” department Research considers role of weather in historic Everest tragedy Their legend has inspired generations of mountaineers since their ill-fated attempt to climb Everest over 80 years ago, and now … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 64 Comments

NOAA graphs: 62% Of Continental US Below Normal In 2010

Posted on August 2, 2010 by

By Steve Goddard This map below is from the NOAA High Plains Regional Climate Center and shows the continental USA as “departure from normal for Jan1st, 2010 to July 31, 2010: Source: http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/products/maps/acis/YearTDeptUS.png We keep hearing from NOAA and in … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 205 Comments

Heidi Cullen doomcasts in new stemwinding sci-fi thriller

Posted on August 1, 2010 by

Dr. Heidi Cullen of Weather Channel fame but now CEO of Climate Central outfit is publishing a new book on August 3, so far #138,256 on Amazon’s bestsellers but sure to rocket up the listings when the book publicity tour … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, weather | 118 Comments

A primer for disproving IPCC’s theory of man made global warming using observed temperature data

Posted on August 1, 2010 by

Guest post By Girma Orssengo, MASc, PhD Comparison of the claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of 1) “Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely” man made, and … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 209 Comments

Sea Ice News #16

Posted on August 1, 2010 by

By Steven Goddard, http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php Summer is rapidly winding down in the Arctic, and (based on DMI graphs) the region north of 80N appears set to finish the summer as the coldest on record. So far, there have only been a … Continue reading →

Posted in sea ice, Sea Ice News | 216 Comments

Kold in Kazakhstan

Posted on August 1, 2010 by

By Steven Goddard, There has been a lot of talk about the hot weather in Moscow over the last couple of weeks. This normally gets reported as the “hot weather in Russia.” But Russia is a big country, and much … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 67 Comments

The phenomena of disinvitation and the brotherhood of silence

Posted on August 1, 2010 by

Closing out dissent By Professor Bob Carter August 1, 2010, originally published at Quadrant Online, portions republished here with permission. The phenomena of disinvitation and the brotherhood of silence Scientists who venture to make independent statements in public about environmental … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, post-normal science | 125 Comments