Monthly Archives: October 2010

Pew Poll: Belief in global warming as a serious problem continues to decline

Posted on October 27, 2010 by

From the Pew Research Center: Views about the existence and causes of global warming have changed little over the past year. A new Pew Research Center poll finds that 59% of adults say there is solid evidence that the earth’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Opinion | 120 Comments

Peas, thimbles, deletions, FOI, UEA, CRU, and all that

Posted on October 27, 2010 by

Note: I felt Steve’s essay deserved the wider audience that WUWT could provide. Be sure to go to this thread at CA to post comments. – Anthony Did Jones Delete Emails? By Steve McIntyre, Climate Audit It turns out that Muir … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, FOI, satire | 43 Comments

The climate monitoring ‘A-Train’

Posted on October 27, 2010 by

Not to be confused with the “A-Team” of climate scientists, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center announces: Introducing the ‘A-Train’ Artist’s Concept of the A-Train constellation of satellites. Credit: NASA Mention the “A-Train” and most people probably think of the jazz legend … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, space, Technology | 38 Comments

Climate Craziness of the Week: Save the planet, combine your emails into longer messages

Posted on October 27, 2010 by

From Warren Meyer at climate-skeptic.com From the Thin Green Line, a reliable source for any absurd science that supports environmental alarmism: Sending and receiving email makes up a full percent of a relatively green person’s annual carbon emissions, the equivalent … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week, ridiculae | 115 Comments

Today is Climate Fools Day

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

via email: Statement by Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition Today, 27th October 2010, is Climate Fools Day. For the last 20 years politicians, jets setting bureaucrats and vested interests have been plotting how to make Climate Fools of … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, satire | 66 Comments

Take the Scientific American poll on Judith Curry

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

Scientific American writes: As a profile of Judith Curry in the November 2010 issue of Scientific American makes clear, the University of Georgia climate scientist has become an increasingly polarizing figure IN the past year or so. … Yet Curry … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, Science | 191 Comments

Inconvenient hurricane facts

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. had this great set of factoids up on his blog, and I just can’t resist sharing. He writes: Adam Lea, of University College London, shares these interesting hurricane factoids related the the remarkable dearth of US … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, records, weather | 53 Comments

Mega storm in the midwest

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

Of course, it will only be a matter of time before some pundit blames this storm on “global warming”. Readers feel free to post links to such stories in the comments. click images to enlarge. Loop the radar image here … Continue reading →

Posted in thunderstorms, tornadoes, weather | 89 Comments

US Carbon trading – not worth a plug nickel

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

I wrote a few weeks ago that The only lower price than today’s closing price on a ton of carbon is ZERO. That’s true now more than ever. See the chart below from yesterday’s close of the Chicago Climate Exchange: … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon credits, Carbon dioxide | 84 Comments

Climate mitigation built on eggshells

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

No word in yet from the Easter Bunny… Scrambling for climate change solutions Eggshell membrane can absorb 7 times its weight in carbon dioxide The food industry generates a lot of waste products, but one of these, eggshells, could help … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration, Climate News | 74 Comments

Quote of the Week – Judith Curry asks warmists: “How are Things Going for You Lately”?

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

Dr. Judith Curry was recently called a heretic by  Scientific American due to her views on climate science and public policy. Here, in a post at he new blog,  she shows her resolve to maintain her independence from consensus thinking … Continue reading →

Posted in Quote of the Week | 204 Comments

Soot ahoy! Ship traffic in the Arctic

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

From the University of Delaware – As the ice-capped Arctic Ocean warms, ship traffic will increase at the top of the world. And if the sea ice continues to decline, a new route connecting international trading partners may emerge — … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic | 97 Comments

Antarctic Ocean: The Big Kahuna of glacial period carbon sinks

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

UF research gives clues about carbon dioxide patterns at end of Ice Age GAINESVILLE, Fla. — New University of Florida research puts to rest the mystery of where old carbon was stored during the last glacial period. It turns out … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, paleoclimatology | 108 Comments

What Will the Climate Climb-Down Look Like?

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

Guest post by Harold Ambler of “Talking about the weather“ Climbing down is seldom anything less than complicated. Here’s something that you can bring to the bank: With regard to global warming, the major purveyors of news in the industrialized … Continue reading →

Posted in media, Opinion | 183 Comments

Sensitivity Training: Determining the Correct Climate Sensitivity

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

Guest post by John Kehr from: The Inconvenient skeptic There are many times when I am putting together articles that I need to compare the results of my research to the models of the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW).  … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, climate sensitivity | 185 Comments

Nature hates straight lines

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Yeah, I know Nature doesn’t have human emotions, give me a break. I’m aware it is unscientific and dare I call it atavistic and perhaps even socially unseemly to say Nature “hates” straight lines, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 186 Comments

The age of “civilization in peril”

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

Warren Meyer runs the website climate-skeptic.com and has been one of our early surfacestations project volunteers, getting that famous photo of the climate monitoring weather station in the hot parking lot at the University of Arizona’s Atmospheric Sciences Department. He’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | 66 Comments

Pielke Sr. defends Judith Curry in SA “heretic” characterization

Posted on October 24, 2010 by

Misleading Text In A Scientific American Article That Judy Curry Is A “Climate Heretic” I was very disappointed to read erroneous information, in an otherwise very informative article, in the Scientific American by Michael D. Lemonick titled Climate Heretic: Judith Curry Turns on Her Colleagues which … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, media | 46 Comments

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on October 24, 2010 by

By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) On Monday President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic gave the inaugural lecture of the Global Warming Policy Foundation entitled “The Climate Change Doctrine is Part of Environmentalism, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | 8 Comments

Errors in global precipitation measurement

Posted on October 24, 2010 by

Mother Jones news has an “alarming” article called “Our Coming Mega-Drought” in which they say “…virtually all of the world except for China and Russia will experience increased drought by 2030 and severe drought by 2060” and they cite these … Continue reading →

Posted in measurement, modeling, weather_stations | 70 Comments

The stupefying pace of glacier melt in the 1940s

Posted on October 24, 2010 by

Here’s a bit of research that you don’t normally see in the MSM stories about glacier melt. It is backed up by a second and very interesting article (below) from 1947 in Geographical Review which says “Most of the worlds … Continue reading →

Posted in glaciers | 64 Comments

NPR weighs in on climate change policy, predictably

Posted on October 23, 2010 by

NPR helpfully weighs in on climate change and the upcoming election.  Even though a certain party has had super-majority control of the Congress and the Executive branch for the past 2-years (and done nothing on energy/climate policy),  NPR blames the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics | Tagged , , , | 173 Comments

Major Winter Storm headed for the US West Coast

Posted on October 23, 2010 by

Snow will come to California’s Sierra Nevada a bit earlier than usual. Animate this image >>> Ryan Maue adds:  “as this storm pulls eastward, it will “bomb” out or explosively deepen over the Great Plains and move into the upper-Midwest.  … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 106 Comments

More Oddities with the IPCC Numbers

Posted on October 23, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A number of people have said Hey, in your previous post, the missing forcing is going into the ocean, so it’s still “in the pipeline”. I had considered that, but it didn’t make sense. I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 123 Comments

Breakthrough at Scientific American

Posted on October 23, 2010 by

Vincent Gray advises me via email: Dear Folks I have been a subscriber to the “Scientific American” for as long as I can remember. I have been bitterly disappointed at there persistent embrace of the climate change fraud and the … Continue reading →

Posted in media | 140 Comments