Monthly Archives: October 2010

Super Typhoon Megi

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

From NASA Super Typhoon Megi Posted October 19, 2010 download large image (4 MB, JPEG)acquired October 18, 2010 download Google Earth file (3 KB, KMZ)acquired October 18, 2010 Share this image On October 18, 2010, Typhoon Megi approached and made … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes | 24 Comments

Exonerated? Not.

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The official report of the Pennsylvania State University Inquiry Committee into the actions of Dr. Michael Mann is available here. It is the Report of the Inquiry that Mann says exonerated him completely of the three … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 120 Comments

Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

Was it warmer in Virginia in 1781 than it is today, or has our capacity to cope been enhanced? In fact, climate does not determine our well-being.  Unfortunately, climate change policies might, and for the worse. H/T and comment above: … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health | 99 Comments

Sea ice extent – answer to skepticalscience.com

Posted on October 18, 2010 by

Guest Post by Frank Lansner (frank), Answer to the Skepticalscience.com article: http://www.skepticalscience.com/DMI-data-on-Arctic-temperatures-Intermediate.html regarding the article: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/05/dmi-polar-data-shows-cooler-arctic-temperature-since-1958/ I can see that skepticalscience appears satisfied with the DMI data when you use the full year data – so what causes the summer temperature … Continue reading →

Posted in sea ice | 87 Comments

Bradley Copies Fritts

Posted on October 18, 2010 by

A remarkable bit of digging by our man McIntyre finds out more about certain people who live in glass houses. From Climate Audit (reposted with explicit permission from the author for the plagiarism police,) In the original Deep Climate post … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | 85 Comments

How Wicked Is This Problem?

Posted on October 18, 2010 by

by Tom Fuller, Let’s start with proper attribution of Wikipedia’s definition: ““Wicked problem” is a phrase originally used in social planning to describe a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health, politics | 63 Comments

Update And Changes To NODC Ocean Heat Content Data

Posted on October 18, 2010 by

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale, As noted in the post October 2010 Update to NODC Ocean Heat Content Data, the National Oceanographic Data Center has updated itsOCEAN HEAT CONTENT (OHC) data. This is the dataset based on the Levitus et al (2009) … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, ENSO, oceans, PDO | 105 Comments

Announcement

Posted on October 18, 2010 by

Readers may recall a few weeks back where I mentioned that there was a major health challenge in my family. It remains, but we do have a plan of attack. That will occur this Tuesday, and a 5.5 hour surgery … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 383 Comments

El Niño Modoki: The big shifter?

Posted on October 18, 2010 by

UNISYS Current Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Plot – click to enlarge From the Georgia Institute of Technology Climate change may alter natural climate cycles of Pacific While it’s still hotly debated among scientists whether climate change causes a shift from … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO | 86 Comments

Sea Ice News #27

Posted on October 17, 2010 by

This week we continue to see strong gains in Arctic Sea Ice. JAXA’s extent paused briefly, but has resumed a strong upwards climb, now exceeding 2005 for this date. JAXA AMSR-E Sea Ice Extent -15% or greater – click to … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Ice News | 84 Comments

The Three Chinas

Posted on October 17, 2010 by

Guest Post by Thomas Fuller The choices we make about energy, the environment and climate will be limited by The Three Chinas. The Real China 1. One of the Chinas is very real and familiar. It has a population of … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, Opinion | 152 Comments

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on October 17, 2010 by

By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) On Tuesday, the Obama administration lifted its controversial ban on deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico while demanding that the oil industry must meet new, complex … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | 53 Comments

Help Climate Audit in Canada

Posted on October 17, 2010 by

Steve McIntyre is too modest to ask for any help on this, so I’ll do it for him. While some of his countrymen have told me they would like to give him the Order of Canada, and that may well … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 111 Comments

Michael Mann and Donald Kennedy

Posted on October 16, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach With Dr. Michael Mann out on the hustings selling his innocence, as I discussed a few days ago, I was pleased when I came across this clear explanation of some major issues in the so-called … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, satire | 147 Comments

The Wisdom of Three Dog Night

Posted on October 16, 2010 by

    Guest post by Thomas Fuller (Okay. Based on the assumption that overly cryptic titles of blog posts need to be explained early: Old Testament prophets predicting doom gave rise to the term ‘Jeremiahs’ after one prominent example, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | 101 Comments

Hal Lewis: My Resignation From The American Physical Society – an important moment in science history

Posted on October 16, 2010 by

UPDATE5: (Saturday 10/16/10) It has been a week, and I think this piece has been well distributed, so I’m putting it in regular queue now and it will gradually scroll off the page. UPDATE4: (Friday 10/15/10) APS member Roger Cohen … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 671 Comments

Arctic Ice Rebound Predicted

Posted on October 16, 2010 by

Guest post by Verity Jones Man is not the primary cause of change in the Arctic says book by Russian scientists Forget the orthodox view of Arctic climate change – this book has a very different message. (h/t to WUWT … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, Book Review, sea ice | 129 Comments

How to solve attribution conflicts in climate science

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

Readers may recall this post: More dirty pool by NCDC’s Karl, Menne, and Peterson …where I take NCDC to task for not given proper attribution to the surfacestations.org and volunteer Russ Steele for use of a photo on the cover page … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, politics, presentations | 43 Comments

Friday Funnies – triple quadruple the hilarity

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

Oh, we have a wide selection today. Tamino provides a chuckle extraordinaire, plus we have two cartoons from Josh. [Plus, I've added something from Steve McIntyre.] Happy Friday everybody!

Posted in Humor | 27 Comments

My answer to Tamino’s question

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

Tamino (Grant Foster) writes: I have a question for Anthony Watts: We have over 30 years of satellite data for arctic sea ice. Why do you consistently display the only data source I know of that covers less than 6 … Continue reading →

Posted in ridiculae, sea ice | 194 Comments

Another prominent Wikipedia editor has been climate topic banned

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

I hadn’t noticed this yesterday, but the second most prolific climate revisionist at Wikipedia has also been banned from posting on the climate topic. By a vote of 4-3 Kim Dabelstein Petersen has been topic banned, just like RealClimate founder … Continue reading →

Posted in Wiki Wars | 39 Comments

Cohen comments on the Revkin Dot Earth op/ed

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

Dr. Roger Cohen, APS member, sends this via email commenting on this Dot Earth article. Where do I start? Well, maybe the most offensive part of this column is the use of psychobabble to distract and divert attention from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | 166 Comments

MIT op/ed says do “very little, if anything at all” on global warming

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

From MIT’s campus newspaper, The Tech: Not worth the fight huh? Them’s fightin’ words to some people.

Posted in Climate News | 58 Comments

Met Office turns to crowdsourcing climate data

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

Gee, where have we seen this pioneered for gathering data before? Of course, Professor Stott saw fit to not invite Dr. Roger Pielke Sr., myself or anyone who has any experience  with this sort of thing to the Exeter meeting … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 61 Comments

BOM disappears rainfall data, “no trend” becomes “downtrend”

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

UPDATE: Thanks to a reader who pointed out where to find the 2008 version of BOM rainfall data, I’m able to plot the two data sets. There are differences. See addendum below. – Anthony BOM loses rainfall by Tom Quirk … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | 133 Comments