Monthly Archives: October 2010

Delivering Messages Is Not Communicating

Posted on October 3, 2010 by

Guest post by Thomas Fuller It should be clear to all who are following climate issues that the establishment is flailing a bit in regards to how they should be dealing with a pesky public. Ever since Climategate, Copenhagen, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | 112 Comments

Watts Up With Nuuk?

Posted on October 3, 2010 by

NEW UPDATES POSTED BELOW As regular readers know, I have more photographs and charts of weather stations on my computer than I have pictures of my family. A sad commentary to be sure, but necessary for what I do here. … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, GHCN, Technology, weather_stations | 144 Comments

Wasted food a huge energy gobbler

Posted on October 3, 2010 by

I’ll have to admit, Professor Webster has a point. Food is so abundant in the western world that household trashbins are routinely stuffed with uneaten food. Now If I can just get my mind around eating more leftovers. – Anthony … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, economy-health, energy | 97 Comments

New Scientist’s Fred Pearce calls for Pachauri to resign

Posted on October 3, 2010 by

Pearce writes:

Posted in IPCC, media | 45 Comments

Booker: “anomalies” in Pachauri’s accounting

Posted on October 3, 2010 by

Christopher Booker writes in the Telegraph: Next weekend, as delegates from 194 countries gather in South Korea for a crucial meeting of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, their big talking point will be whether the IPCC’s chairman Dr … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, IPCC | 37 Comments

Shackling national security – and renewable energy

Posted on October 2, 2010 by

Now environmentalists say we need the minerals that they’ve been locking up for decades Guest post by Paul Driessen “China’s control of a key minerals market has US military thinkers and policy makers worried about access to materials that are … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, Technology | 133 Comments

The other embarrassing AGW story this week

Posted on October 2, 2010 by

Of course, the big news this week had to do with the unbelievably vile and stupid video produced by the carbon reduction activist group 10:10 this week. But in its shadow, was another embarrassing news item the you’d think the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Climate News | 124 Comments

GISS on: How Warm Was This Summer?

Posted on October 2, 2010 by

We’ve already told you that the Russian heatwave had everything to do with weather, and not climate. NOAA agrees: NOAA on the Russian heat wave: blocking high, not global warming At least NASA Goddard agrees with this, sort of. – Anthony … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, records, weather | 90 Comments

Watching lightning jets hit the ionosphere

Posted on October 2, 2010 by

From Spaceweather.com: You know what comes out of the bottom of a thunder storm–lightning. But do you know what comes out of the top? On Sept. 28th at 7:01 am EDT, Joel Gonzalez photographed a gigantic jet shooting up from … Continue reading →

Posted in lightning, thunderstorms, weather | 41 Comments

Blow Me Up, Blow Me Down

Posted on October 1, 2010 by

Guest post by Thomas Fuller Well, with the calming passage of 24 hours, let’s take another look at the 10:10 video showing the splatterfest of gore as skeptics play the more volatile roles from the worst portions of the movie … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | 482 Comments

WUWT’s story on 10:10 – 3rd most popular on WordPress globally – even in New Zealand

Posted on October 1, 2010 by

People are really ticked off about this 10:10 video, and it isn’t abating. The story is making it’s way up the news food chain. Hits are increasing on it. This afternoon, this WUWT story reached #3 on WordPress. Not too … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Humor | 116 Comments

Now it’s 2°C climate change target ‘not safe’

Posted on October 1, 2010 by

Research suggests climate change target ‘not safe’ From the University of Exeter via Eurekalert An analysis of geological records that preserve details of the last known period of global warming has revealed ‘startling’ results which suggest current targets for limiting … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 164 Comments

A message to 10:10 -”sorry”, just doesn’t cut it

Posted on October 1, 2010 by

Well, it’s official. The 10:10 Carbon reduction team was embarrassed enough by their vile video showing children who disagreed with carbon reduction schemes getting blown up. They’ve put an apology up on their website:

Posted in Opinion | 237 Comments

10:10 exploding skeptical children video “disappears”

Posted on October 1, 2010 by

Well, well, somebody came to their senses. About two hours ago, around 6:30AM PST, 10:10 took down their disgusting video showing school children were skeptical of carbon reduction suggestions from their teacher, get blown up in a gory bloodbath that … Continue reading →

Posted in GLOC, politics, satire | 138 Comments

The Royal Society: Still Embarrassing Science

Posted on October 1, 2010 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Although it is encouraging that the Royal Society now acknowledges that climate science may not be as settled as it previously implied, the Society’s new report still stands as an embarrassment to science because … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, Science | 121 Comments

Knot in the ribbon at the edge of the solar system “unties”

Posted on October 1, 2010 by

From the Southwest Research Institute: For immediate release San Antonio — Sept. 29, 2010 — The unusual “knot” in the bright, narrow ribbon of neutral atoms emanating in from the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space appears to … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, space | 121 Comments