From the “I have first dibs on Uranus” department: From Yahoo News/AFP: Spanish woman claims ownership of the Sun MADRID (AFP) – After billions of years the Sun finally has…
Month: November 2010
NYT's sort-of-clarity on Norfolk sinking aka "sea level rise" and an inconvenient map
This is a map and photo of Sharp’s Island and its sinking lighthouse in Chesapeake Bay, we’ll get back to that after the main article about Norfolk. GreenHell Blog writes:…
Examination of CRU data suggests no statistically significant warming
UPDATE: The StataSphere server can’t handle the load of interest, I’ve take the images offline from this article, and disabled the link to it. Once he gets the server up…
Can cacti 'escape' underground in high temperatures?
From the American Journal of Botany How a certain species will potentially handle global warming In the scorching summer heat of the Chihuahuan Desert in southwest Texas, air temperatures…
GASP! Climate Change could ruin Thanksgiving
From the “nothing escapes the clutches of global warming” department comes this farce: Here’s the ah, er, beef:
On Suzuki: "celebrity and integrity seem to be mutually exclusive"
From the Canadian Newspaper: An inconvenient letter to the editor, from a “green librarian” no less. h/t to Kate at SDA. David Suzuki disappointing To The Editor: On Saturday, Nov.…
America's Thanksgiving – the historical foundation
Much like the famous editorial, Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, it has become a tradition this time of year to see some newspapers reprint President George Washington’s Thanksgiving…
Apropos today – Turkey weather station
No, not CRS stuffing. But, an odd weather station in Adana, Turkey.
Something to be thankful for! At last: Cosmic rays linked to rapid mid-latitude cloud changes
UPDATE: Lead author Ben Laken responds in comments below. I’ve reported several times at WUWT on the galactic cosmic ray theory proposed by Henrik Svensmark which suggests that changes in…
A regional approach to the medieval warm period and the little ice age
Nicola Scafetta sends this along, I found this figure quite interesting, but there are many more in the full PDF available below. A regional approach to the medieval warm…
Dr. Ray Bradley's amazing photo
Here is the web page for Dr. Raymond S. Bradley who is listed as: University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences and Director of the Climate System Research Center…
Joe Bastardi's 2011 Arctic Sea Ice Prediction
Joe Bastardi paid a visit today in Sea Ice News #30 and left a comment with a forecast. Joe Bastardi says: November 23, 2010 at 3:45 am Keep in mind…
GHCN V3 temperature data errors spotted within a day of release
From the Inconvenient Sceptic, word that the new Global Historical Climatological Network (GHCN) Version 3 may not have significant quality control. He writes: I have been looking at tweaking the…
New peer reviewed study: global warming lowers death rates
The doom and gloom, hell and high water howling seems to have hit a traffic obstacle in the form of a new paper in the UK that shows warmer weather…
Wegman responds to USA Today
He certainly understands John Mashey. Here are some examples of the debunking for this whole affair:
Old climate models do a bad job with clouds, so a new model says "warming must be worse"
From the “it’s worse than we modeled department”, a case of “head in the clouds” thinking: From the University of Hawaii at Manoa via Eurekalert press release: Study could mean…
Final 2010 Arctic Sea Ice Summary – Sea Ice News #30
UPDATE: Peter Sinclair shows his true crock colors, and refuses to correct his errors in “crock of the week” even after they’ve been clearly pointed out. Some “journalist”, see update…
The day the SORCE solar satellite was almost lost
This is the little known story of what recently happened to the SORCE spacecraft and how it was nursed back to a mostly operational status over a period of weeks,…
Profiling the Largest Solar Explosions
From NASA JPL: Solar flares – they’re big and they’re fast. They can knock out a satellite or create a beautiful aurora. And the jury is still out on what…
Wegman whiners: this post's for you
Gotta love what’s in the yellow highlight. Since that story was printed in USA Today about the Wegman issues, I’ve been getting an influx of anonymous whiner trolls that are…
Climate change no longer scary in Europe
It’s not the climate, but the tide of opinion that’s changing in Europe and around the globe Guest post by Dr. Hans Labohm The upcoming climate change (and wealth redistribution)…
Gore admits the obvious: US corn ethanol was not a good policy
Do not expect to read much about this in the NY Times — and definitely don’t expect any follow up questions about his motivation for climate policy ($$$). Former Vice…
A double whammy of reality preceding the Cancun COP16 climate summit
From Reuters AlertNet, the International Energy Agency gets it: Fatih Birol, of the IEA, said the gains from the tougher EU reduction target would roughly equal only two weeks of…
Missing the big picture on CO2
From the University of Exeter, this press release below and not a peep in it about the El Niño earlier this year that would have helped to degassify CO2 from…
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