Monthly Archives: October 2010

Discovery: more than just water in moon’s craters

Posted on October 23, 2010 by

From Science@NASA: Nearly a year after announcing the discovery of water molecules on the moon, scientists have revealed new data uncovered by NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO—and it’s more than … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, space | 28 Comments

A Strange Problem with the IPCC Numbers

Posted on October 23, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach ABSTRACT The IPCC says that the expected change in temperature arising from a change in forcing is equal to the change in forcing times the climate sensitivity. The IPCC provides values we can use to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 104 Comments

Mike Mann’s “secret” meeting on the Medieval Warm Period

Posted on October 22, 2010 by

While not really “secret”, one might describe it that way because unlike the many things Dr. Mann has been doing lately, there wasn’t one peep of press coverage about it. He helped organize this conference, and as we know Dr. … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 165 Comments

Plants Play Larger Role Than Thought in Cleaning up Air Pollution

Posted on October 22, 2010 by

From the National Science Foundation: “Plants clean our air to a greater extent than we had realized,” says NCAR scientist Thomas Karl, the lead author. The National Arbor Day foundation has been saying the same things for years. About.com has … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols | 50 Comments

Friday Funnies: Global Rounding

Posted on October 22, 2010 by

Since we all enjoy some some humor at Al Gore’s expanse, I bring you the comedy of my weird and wacky  libertarian friend, Will Franken. No he’s not related to Al and yes he’s libertarian.

Posted in Alarmism, Humor, Uncategorized | 28 Comments

How do Climate Models Gain and Exercise Authority?

Posted on October 22, 2010 by

Bishop Hill writes:

Posted in modeling, presentations | 60 Comments

Climatism: That Climate Change Chameleon

Posted on October 22, 2010 by

Guest post by Steve Goreham Climatism, the belief that man-made greenhouse gases are destroying Earth’s climate, is a remarkably flexible ideology. Calling it “global warming” for many years, advocates then renamed the crisis “climate change” after the unexpected cooling of … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | 110 Comments

Eight tenths of a degree? Think of the Grandchildren!

Posted on October 22, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach James Hansen and others say that we owe it to our Grandchildren to get this climate question right. Hansen says “Grandchildren” with a capital G when he speaks of them so I will continue the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 172 Comments

Spencer on the Lacis-NASA GISS CO2 paper

Posted on October 21, 2010 by

    Does CO2 Drive the Earth’s Climate System? Comments on the Latest NASA GISS Paper by Dr. Roy Spencer There was a very clever paper published in Science this past week by Lacis, Schmidt, Rind, and Ruedy that uses … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Opinion, post-normal science | 127 Comments

On Bradley: Blackmail or Let’s Make a Deal.

Posted on October 21, 2010 by

Guest Post by Steven Mosher Not the funniest Monty Python sketch, but for me it illustrates what the climate wars have finally come down to: blackmail. The examples range from the benign–pressuring journalists not listen to skeptics– to the professional– … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Opinion, paleoclimatology, politics, satire | 45 Comments

China halts rare earth minerals to US – Hi-tech affected

Posted on October 21, 2010 by

China Halts Shipments to U.S. of Tech-Crucial Minerals From LiveScience by Jeremy Hsu A nasty trade dispute appears to have prompted Chinese customs officials to block shipments of rare earth minerals to the U.S. The move underscores a deepening U.S. … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | 119 Comments

Summer 2010 in the Arctic and Other Sea Ice Topics

Posted on October 21, 2010 by

Guest post by Dr. Walt Meier Now that the summer is over, I thought people might be interested in a bit of retrospective of the sea ice melt season in 2010 and in the longer-term context. NSIDC provided a brief … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Ice News | 163 Comments

Planes, Trains, Automobiles – all bad, some less than others

Posted on October 21, 2010 by

From the American Chemical Society, a robust model of planes trains and automobiles heating the Earth. So much for Fahrvergnügen. Traveling by car increases global temperatures more than by plane, but only in long term Driving a car increases global … Continue reading →

Posted in modeling, post-normal science, Technology | 75 Comments

Climate Model Deception – See It for Yourself

Posted on October 21, 2010 by

Guest post by Robert E. Levine, PhD The two principal claims of climate alarmism are human attribution, which is the assertion that human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide are warming the planet significantly, and climate danger prediction (or projection), which is … Continue reading →

Posted in modeling | 110 Comments

Livetoon pencil sketches of the GWPF Klaus lecture by Josh

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

WUWT carried the Vaclav Klaus – The Climate Change Doctrine – The Inaugural Annual GWPF Lecture here. Now Josh has summed it up in a series of cartoons.

Posted in Humor, Opinion | 15 Comments

Bad News (Polar) Bears?

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

Famous photoshopped polar bear image: Ursus Bogus – click the bear for the story behind this faked image Update/background story: From the Port of Churchill Polar Bear Watchers/Excursion outfit: October 12, 2010 If the summer season is any indication of … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism | 82 Comments

Wind power mirages

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

Would generating more electricity from wind really help poor families or the environment? By Pastor Jay Dennis From CanadaFreePress.com We Americans are often told we must end our “addiction” to oil and coal, because they harm the environment and Earth’s … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, politics | 112 Comments

The League of 2.5

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

Guest post by Thomas Fuller Before I start, I’d like to remind readers that as a guest poster, the opinions I voice here are not those of Anthony Watts, and should not be taken as having been endorsed by Watts … Continue reading →

Posted in climate sensitivity, climate_change | 393 Comments

President Vaclav Klaus: Climate Control or Freedom?

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

Guest post by John A. Last night in London, I had the privilege to listen to and meet the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus at a meeting of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. (I even got to practice … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News | 105 Comments

Vegans are not from Vegas

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In response to my recent post about whether we could feed more people if everyone were vegetarians (I say no), a poster named Marissa wrote a heartfelt paean  to Veganism. Figure 1. Perhaps the world’s best-known … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 265 Comments

What Happened to All the Hurricanes, Al?

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

From Pajamas Media, After Hurricane Katrina and the amazing season of 2005, we were supposed to see year after year of terrible hurricanes. Where are they? Where is all the death and destruction? We were told global warming was here, … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes | 59 Comments

Because Nothing Ever Happens In November…

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

Guest post by Thomas Fuller The past month has been by turns eventful, maddening and hilarious. What it has not been, for 2010, is unusual. This year has been packed with news, opinion and stories regarding climate science, climate politics, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Climate News Roundup | 58 Comments

Middlesboro Kentucky: Pitch Black?

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

By Steven Mosher. In his august draft of Hansen2010, Dr. Hansen makes the following claim: “We present evidence here that the urban warming has little effect on our standard global temperature analysis.  However, in the Appendix we carry out an … Continue reading →

Posted in GHCN, NOAA, weather_stations | 63 Comments

Typhoon Megi and SST anomaly in East Asia

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

Guest Post by Nonoy Oplas, Typhoon MEGI (local name “Juan”) has crossed the Philippines’ landmass but still on the western side of the country’s area of responsibility as I write this. Megi is the 10th typhoon of the year in … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, Sea Surface Temperature | 29 Comments

Spain’s Solar Deals on Edge of Bankruptcy as Subsidies Founder

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

From Bloomberg German Vilimelis heard about Spain’s solar gold rush from his brother-in-law in 2007. Across the plains around Lerida, the northeastern Spanish town where they spent weekends, farmers were turning over their fields to photovoltaic panels to capitalize on … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, politics | 85 Comments