Monthly Archives: September 2010

Study: worst climate threat machines still to be built

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

Main climate threat from CO2 sources yet to be built From press release Stanford, CA— Scientists have warned that avoiding dangerous climate change this century will require steep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. New energy-efficient or carbon-free technologies can help, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, IPCC | 69 Comments

Friday Funny – Lord Oxburgh’s CRU Pie

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

One of our always sharp WUWT commenters made this excellent Oxburgh pie in response to the story: Lord Oxburgh’s whirlwind whitewash tour ====================================================== stevenlibby says: September 10, 2010 at 10:31 am The way I read the schedule, it looks like most … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Humor, satire | 20 Comments

[Climate] War, what is it good for?

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

Climate Change Not Linked To African Wars Excerpts from: Quirin Schiermeier, Nature News, 6 September 2010 In his popular 2008 book Climate Wars, the US journalist and military historian Gwynne Dyer laid out a daunting scenario. Climate change would put growing … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, politics | 88 Comments

Sea Level Rise: Hype and Reality

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

UPDATE: The feckless gold digger weighs in here with a chorus of usual suspects. It is quite humorous to watch. Guest post by Thomas Fuller At the conclusion of the last ice age, there was a surplus of ice on … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, sea level | 173 Comments

Study: “Arctic was 5C warmer during the (LIG) Last InterGlaciation than at present”

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

Wikipedia says: The Eemian was an interglacial period which began about 130,000 years ago and ended about 114,000 years ago. It was the second-to-latest interglacial period of the current Ice Age, the most recent being the Holocene which extends to … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 109 Comments

Nature uses the D-word

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

From an editorial from nature.com, and published in the journal, they seem to think the d-word is proper vernacular. Science scorned Volume: 467, Page: 133 Date published: (09 September 2010) DOI: doi:10.1038/467133a The anti-science strain pervading the right wing in … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, Science | 194 Comments

Another hockey stick – meanwhile, the death of light bulbs

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

Kate at SmallDeadAnimals.com points out that there’s a new hockey stick afoot. With some homogenization and principal components analysis, I’m sure the past can be smoothed out. From: United States Unemployment rate, Aug. 2010 Meanwhile, light bulb workers of America … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, Technology | 159 Comments

Lord Oxburgh’s whirlwind whitewash tour

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

When Oxburgh produced a 5 page report on the UEA/CRU Climategate issue, we immediately say it as “spartan”, while some called it “efficient”. We wondered how such a small report could be done with a team of people and 2-3 … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, satire | 83 Comments

Deconstructing the Icons

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

Guest post by Thomas Fuller I wrote earlier that a series of symbolic images have been stamped on the professional communications sent out by those most interested in very active measures to combat global warming. I mentioned several, and I … Continue reading →

Posted in media, Opinion | 93 Comments

NAS report: “There is an apparent plateau in our ability to make accurate seasonal forecasts”

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

I have not had time to read this report, but I have gathered both the short form and long form version of the report and placed links in the University of Miami press release for WUWT readers to have a … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting | 42 Comments

I Am So Tired of Malthus

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Daily we are deluged with gloom about how we are overwhelming the Earth’s ability to sustain and support our growing numbers. Increasing population is again being hailed as the catastrophe of the century. In addition, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 440 Comments

New irrigation effects study counter to what Christy discovered

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

This press release below from Columbia University shown below suggests that irrigation cools the region undergoing irrigation. However, a study published three years ago of California’s central valley by Dr. John Christy suggests exactly the opposite. See this WUWT post … Continue reading →

Posted in Land use land cover change | 82 Comments

Inconvenient Ice Study: Less ice in the Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 years ago

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

Since there is so much worry about the Arctic Sea Ice extent this time of year, it is always good to get some historical perspective. According to this study, our current low Arctic ice extents are not unprecedented. From a … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, paleoclimatology, sea ice | 132 Comments

Watch recent hurricanes cool the Atlantic

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

The Atlantic has been running warm lately, but that’s because there’s been little happening with Nature’s natural heat transporters. WUWT commenter SteveM pointed out something interesting in the latest SST image from NESDIS, but before we have a look at … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, Sea Surface Temperature | 88 Comments

Working 9,25 What a way to make a livin (at AGW)

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

9,25 – a factor that could close the global warming debate Guest post by Frank Lansner (hidethedecline) The CO2-sensitivity describes the warming effect induced by a doubling of the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, and is thus the epicentre of … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, climate sensitivity | 196 Comments

Arctic in the Holocene, narwhals, and all that

Posted on September 7, 2010 by

UPDATE: Apparently Joe Romm can’t handle this information. Ecotretas records the action here. Readers may have seen this BBC story: BBC – Earth News – Climate change threatens slow swimming narwhals “That places them at high risk from climate change, … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, paleoclimatology | 41 Comments

Penn State’s greenhouse gas solution: cow beano

Posted on September 7, 2010 by

Now if they could only provide a solution for Mannian emissions, they’d really have something. It does seem better though than the Bovine Fish Oil Methane Cure and certainly less ridiculous than Climate idiocy at the Monterey Bay Aquarium – cow … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 96 Comments

Climate Craziness of the Week: Global scale nanosphere nuttiness

Posted on September 7, 2010 by

Let’s see, what would we make those nano-disks out of? He says (see PNAS paper below): Silica-alumina ceramic hollow microspheres with diameters of 1 μm. (aka 1 micron) Do you think putting nano-sized silicon based pollutants into the atmosphere will … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, Climate Craziness of the Week | 93 Comments

Atlantic hurricane season halfway point

Posted on September 7, 2010 by

Tropical Storm Hermine rapidly developed and has moved into South Texas soaking rather moist ground from previous Hurricane Alex and TD2.  Scattered areas of interest in the Atlantic include the remnants of Gaston and a couple African Easterly Waves about … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, weather | Tagged , | 19 Comments

The Unbroken Record of Broken Icons

Posted on September 7, 2010 by

Guest post by Thomas Fuller and Tony Brown When we separate what scientists have actually said from what messages are carefully prepared and communicated to us through the media, one thing jumps out to the most casual of readers. Some … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, sea level | 184 Comments

Climate Change = Erratic Rainfall= ‘big dam dilemma’

Posted on September 7, 2010 by

Hmm. Since all weather and hence climate on a longer scale is essentially chaotic, isn’t rainfall generally erratic as a consequence of that chaos?. Isn’t that why we have some areas that get droughts in one season and floods the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 124 Comments

UEA/CRU responds to Climategate “inquiries”

Posted on September 6, 2010 by

h/t to Bishop Hill who writes: UEA has issued a response to the various inquiries. The timing is odd, to say the least. Perhaps they’ve all been on holiday. See it here. What he’s alluding to is unspoken rule number … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 115 Comments

GRACE under fire

Posted on September 6, 2010 by

Guest post by Thomas Fuller It is hard to understand many of those who are convinced that climate change will destroy civilization. Previous ideas about massive sea level rise or tipping points leading to unending temperature increases have been debunked. … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, sea level | 143 Comments

Reminder: Labor Day – Fly our flag

Posted on September 6, 2010 by

From the Washington Post: Things you should know about Labor Day Labor Day is the perfect day to explain to kids complaining about going back to school just how much worse things could be for them.

Posted in Uncategorized | 26 Comments

Sea Ice News #21

Posted on September 6, 2010 by

This week was a true roller coaster ride with Arctic Sea Ice. It is best summed up by looking at the JAXA graph for extent, shown below: Below, see the area of interest magnified.

Posted in Sea Ice News | 313 Comments