Monthly Archives: September 2010

Loehle: Vindication

Posted on September 28, 2010 by

Guest Post by Craig Loehle (cloehle -at- ncasi.org) When I published my 2000 year reconstruction (Loehle, C. 2007. A 2000 Year Global Temperature Reconstruction based on Non-Treering Proxy Data. Energy & Environment 18:1049-1058) and the subsequent correction with better confidence … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 270 Comments

Cancel all your European travel and vacation plans – carbon trading extortion is here

Posted on September 27, 2010 by

This is idiotic. The EU carbon trading cabal has decided to extort the rest of the air travel world starting in 2012. In a nutshell, they’ll ban flights from landing if the airlines don’t engage in carbon trading. It’s yet … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon credits, Government idiocy | 143 Comments

Rebuild California! Vote for your favorite Jerry Brown commercial idea

Posted on September 27, 2010 by

The California governor’s race is heating up with former governor Jerry Brown (D) running against former EBay CEO Meg Whitman (R).  Brown, after decades in government has apparently run out of ideas for campaign commercials and is looking for people … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | Tagged , , | 44 Comments

Los Angeles laughs at recent “invisible summer” AP article

Posted on September 27, 2010 by

Downtown Los Angeles scorches with temperatures 110+ F … NWS Current temp at USC [UPDATE: 2:30 PM Pacific: USC station no longer reporting?- Ryan  2:52 FIXED LINK - Anthony]   WUWT:  oh little sensor: why did you stop reporting the temperature … Continue reading →

Posted in heat wave, weather | Tagged , , | 69 Comments

Examining Trenberth’s ‘The heat will come back to haunt us sooner or later’ statement

Posted on September 27, 2010 by

Inspired by a WUWT comment from Bill Illis in the Maybe they’ve found Trenberth’s missing heat thread, I’ve elevated this to full post status and provided the relevant graphics from the links Bill provided. From a National Science Foundation article on … Continue reading →

Posted in earth, oceans | 160 Comments

Skeptical Science? John Cook – embarrassing himself

Posted on September 27, 2010 by

Another fall from grace.

Posted in Opinion | 120 Comments

New discovery may lead to a malaria vaccine

Posted on September 27, 2010 by

WUWT recently carried a guest post from Indur Goklany titled Smacking Down Malaria Misconceptions which generated a lot of contentious comments, inflammatory rebuttal posts, and even a permanent ban of Ed Darrell from WUWT because he claims I’ve called Rachel Carson … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health | 56 Comments

Wasted Opportunities

Posted on September 27, 2010 by

Guest post by Thomas Fuller Although I’m a big fan of solar power and think it has a bright future, I must admit that our focus on the Big Three renewable energy sources–solar, wind and biofuels–has been a wasted opportunity, … Continue reading →

Posted in energy | 86 Comments

More follow up on the solar-neutrinos-radioactive decay story – experimental falsification

Posted on September 27, 2010 by

Getting out of the solar core, neutrinos are speed demons, photons are slugs. h/t to Leif Svalgaard for the graphical annotation inspiration. Solar core image from NASA. In August, WUWT carried a story that was rather shocking: some physicists published … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | 90 Comments

Bilderberg Group discusses “Global Cooling” at 2010 meeting

Posted on September 26, 2010 by

James Delingpole has found something interesting: He writes: Bilderberg. Whether you believe it’s part of a sinister conspiracy which will lead inexorably to one world government or whether you think it’s just an innocent high-level talking shop, there’s one thing … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | 79 Comments

A MUST READ: European climate, Alpine glaciers and Arctic ice in relation to North Atlantic SST record

Posted on September 26, 2010 by

In my opinion, this essay is a must read because it clearly illustrates correlation between ocean cycles to; Arctic ice loss and gain, glacier advance and retreat, and land surface temperature rise and fall. As I said graphically in a … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Arctic, glaciers, oceans, Sea Surface Temperature | 74 Comments

An update on the plight of the Thompsons

Posted on September 26, 2010 by

Just one week after the A Call To Action for the WUWT Community the latest tally is: $ 30,017 USD On behalf of the Thompsons, thank you WUWT readers for your generous help. I know that many of you have … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 29 Comments

Sea Ice News #24

Posted on September 26, 2010 by

After a false start that fooled even the experts, it appears that sea ice has turned the corner, for real this time. NSIDC issued an update this week: Update: 21 September 2010 Although ice extent appeared to reach a minimum … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Ice News | 92 Comments

Maybe they’ve found Trenberth’s missing heat

Posted on September 26, 2010 by

NOAA: Scientists Find 20 Years of Deep Water Warming Leading to Sea Level Rise Sea-level rise has the potential to reshape the coastal environment. Credit: NOAA) Scientists analyzing measurements taken in the deep ocean around the globe over the past … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans | 143 Comments

Where Consensus Fails – The Science Cannot Be Called ‘Settled’

Posted on September 25, 2010 by

Guest Post by Thomas Fuller Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch have just published the findings of a survey conducted with practicing climate scientists. The survey was conducted in 2008 with 379 climate scientists who had published papers or were … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Opinion | 129 Comments

Enviro and Media Agenda on Extreme Weather – State Climatologist Invited, then Uninvited to Rally

Posted on September 25, 2010 by

As we’ve previously seen with Professor Bob Carter in “The phenomena of disinvitation and the brotherhood of silence“, the surfacetemperatures.org meeting in Exeter, where the people that raised the issues about metadata and siting  were not invited, but their work was … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | 64 Comments

New paper in Nature on ocean cycles finally causes recognition in media

Posted on September 25, 2010 by

Our sceptical connection in Germany, Pierre Gosselin, has taken notice of an article in Der Spiegel that speaks of the link to ocean cycles for climate. Of course we’ve known this for some time, but like with the New Scientist … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans | 92 Comments

Climate science solar shock and awe

Posted on September 24, 2010 by

I saw this yesterday, but I decided to wait a day just in case it disappeared. It’s quite the surprise to see the New Scientist dedicate a story, much less an editorial saying that the sun has a role in … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays, Opinion, solar | 196 Comments

Igor cool ocean

Posted on September 24, 2010 by

As I’ve written before, hurricanes are natural heat engines. They transport surface heat to the upper atmosphere for dissipation to space. They do a splendid job of cooling the ocean surface over which they travel.

Posted in hurricanes, Sea Surface Temperature | 36 Comments

Wood fired power plants help reduce climate change

Posted on September 24, 2010 by

A retro idea in the UK is already in the US, I’d say it is a better method than some traditional power plant operations, but only works if you have an unlimited supply of trees nearby. From the University of … Continue reading →

Posted in energy | 111 Comments

Google Earth leads to spectacular meteor crater find

Posted on September 24, 2010 by

From the European Space Agency via press release, the modern meteorite enthusiast’s dream – finding a crater on Google Earth and seeing it through to full discovery. As more and more hi-res images find their way in Google Earth, we … Continue reading →

Posted in space | 61 Comments

Engelbeen on why he thinks the CO2 increase is man made (part 4).

Posted on September 24, 2010 by

Foreword: This is the final entry in a four part series by Fedinand Engelbeen. While the narrative is contrary to the views of many of our readers, it is within the framework of WUWT’s goal of providing discussion on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide | 164 Comments

NASA discovery: solar storms don’t always travel in straight lines

Posted on September 24, 2010 by

Once again, Nature surprises us with a “curve ball”. It makes sense to think that a flare/CME off the sun would head in a straight line outward. But as we see, Nature doesn’t always follow preconceived notions or our “common … Continue reading →

Posted in solar, space | 32 Comments

Where the particulates are (and aren’t)

Posted on September 24, 2010 by

This press release from NASA has the usual FUD in it, particularly with the “health-sapping” title. But what I find most interesting is the lack of 2.5 μm particulates in the USA and Australia. Yet another USA map further down … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols | 53 Comments

Bad news for green technology

Posted on September 23, 2010 by

From Slashdot: The NY Times reports that the Chinese government has placed a trade embargo on all exports to Japan of a crucial category of minerals used in products like hybrid cars, wind turbines and guided missiles. China mines 93 … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health, Technology | 188 Comments