Daily Archives: September 12, 2010

Christy on irrigation and regional temperature effects

In this recent post I discussed a paper on regional temperature divergence issues related to irrigation from Dr. John Christy saying: New irrigation effects study counter to what Christy discovered This press release below from Columbia University shown below suggests that … Continue reading

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Posted in Agriculture, Climate data, Land use land cover change | 55 Comments

Hurricane Igor explodes to Category 4+

Update 11:00 PM EDT: Igor still intensifying, now at 130 knots (Cat 4) and now forecast to become a Category 5 within the next 12-hours. See NHC bulletin at the end of this post. Hurricane Igor has rapidly intensified into … Continue reading

Posted in hurricanes, Uncategorized, Weather | Tagged , , | 53 Comments

Sea Ice News #22 – melt season may have turned the corner

UPDATE: 8AM PST 9/13/10 JAXA has updated with their final Sept 12th data, up for the second straight day there’s been a gain: The latest value : The latest value : 5,005,000 km2 (September 12, 2010 final data) While the vagaries of wind … Continue reading

Posted in Sea Ice News | 292 Comments

Judith enters the foray fray

After a she made a contentious comment about WUWT and me personally on another blog, I reached out and had a nice exchange a few weeks back with Georgia Tech’s Dr. Judith Curry. In that exchange she discussed the possibility … Continue reading

Posted in Announcements | 73 Comments

Pacing the Glacial

Guest post by Tom Fuller How glaciers have responded to the warming of the past 130 years is a complicated story, although many millions of words have been written to try and explain it. How glaciers have been used to … Continue reading

Posted in Glaciers, IPCC | 91 Comments

Oh, that’s gotta hurt – Obama denies solar panels

From the Guardian: It has been said that Obama is the worst president since Jimmy Carter, perhaps now in the eyes of 350.org supporters, he’s “worse than we thought”. Carter was the first to put solar panels on the White … Continue reading

Posted in Politics, Solar, Technology | 120 Comments