Monthly Archives: November 2010

In climate world, up is down

Update and brief review below by Ryan Maue… From Reuters Alert Net: Colder winters possible due to climate change-study * Colder winters possible in northern regions * Shrinking sea ice causes airstream anomalies * Finding does not conflict with global … Continue reading

Posted in Climate News | 113 Comments

Constructal GDP

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Encouraged by the response to my post on Adrian Bejan and the Constructal Law, which achieved what might be termed unprecedented levels of tepidity, I persevere. Here’s a lovely look at the energy use of … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 146 Comments

By the Book

One year after climategate, a journalist has finally come close to asking the question that Tom Fuller and I wanted them to ask: “Why did Jones ask people to delete mails?” This was context that the mails could not supply. … Continue reading

Posted in Climategate | 38 Comments

Fireworks under fire

UPDATE: Yes, sadly, I had to look. There’s the fireworks and global warming question being bandied about related to the 2012 Olympics. See below the read more line. – Anthony From the Journal of Obvious Science department: Smoke from fireworks … Continue reading

Posted in Obvious science | 92 Comments

Montford and Newbery’s submission to the BBC’s Science Coverage Review

I’ll be honest and say that I’m deeply sceptical that this or any other submission will make much difference, but I admire their tenacity. Andrew Montford ( Bishop Hill ) and Tony Newbery (Harmless Sky) have put in a submission … Continue reading

Posted in Environment, media | 53 Comments

The Jones “rehabilitation”

UPDATE: A prescient comment from Willis Eschenbach has been added to the body of the story, see below. There’ an article in Nature Magazine which is an interview with Phil Jones of the CRU regarding his role in Climategate and … Continue reading

Posted in Climategate | 170 Comments

Quote of the Week – 20/20 hindsight

Dr. Roger Pielke Jr writes in the “$82 billion prediction” post Katrina: The Sarasota Herald-Tribune has an revealing article today about the creation in 2006 of a “short-term” hurricane risk prediction from a company called Risk Management Solutions.  The Herald-Tribune … Continue reading

Posted in forecasting, hurricanes, Quote of the Week | 38 Comments

French give the boot to the “Super Ministry of Environment”

From Pierre Gosselins “No Tricks Zone”, some encouraging news; the French have surrendered to common sense. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has pulled the plug on the French prestige project, a super ministry of environment, dubbed “Medad” (Ministère du Développement durable). … Continue reading

Posted in Climate News, politics | 62 Comments

The Constructal Law of Flow Systems

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach One of the most fundamental and far-reaching discoveries in modern thermodynamics is the Constructal Law (see the wiki entry as well). It was first formulated by Adrian Bejan in 1996. In one of his descriptions, … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 214 Comments

Himilayan Melting Glacier Alarm Version 2.0

No mention of the IPCC’s flawed 2035 date, but still many of the same talking points are used. It pays to recycle I suppose. This statement: “But climate change is still happening and we do need to prepare for it. … Continue reading

Posted in glaciers, IPCC | 83 Comments

Complaints against Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

WUWT readers may remember Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg from when I had a tussle with him during my speaking tour in Australia in Brisbane. Then, the good professor thought his opinion so important, that he disrupted the meeting and hogged the … Continue reading

Posted in Alarmism, media, Opinion | 63 Comments

Climate Craziness of the Week: Amusment park or Ecopolis?

I can see where something like this might work as a resort. But 250 million “climate refugees”? Really? From job-maldives.com where they are “celebrating three years of service”: LILYPAD, A FLOATING ECOPOLIS FOR CLIMATICAL REFUGEES 2100, a large crowd of … Continue reading

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week | 73 Comments

Inconvenient eco bags – now with lead

From the New York Times: Even Reusable Bags Carry Environmental Risk By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM They dangle from the arms of many New Yorkers, a nearly ubiquitous emblem of empathy with the environment: synthetic, reusable grocery bags, another must-have accessory … Continue reading

Posted in Current News, Environment | 79 Comments

A suggestion to Dr. James Hansen: go protest coal in China

Over at the Air Vent, Jeff Id has a very interesting story by Roddy Campbell, and in particular one graph that struck me as thought provoking. When I first saw it, these two stories immediately came to mind: Breaking: NASA … Continue reading

Posted in energy | 105 Comments

Sea Ice News #29

In sea ice news this week, Arctic sea ice continues its inexorable climb toward the summit, to be reached sometime in March 2011. At present the ice growth is tracking just below the rate of 2007, but it should also … Continue reading

Posted in Sea Ice News | 56 Comments

Fighting ice at the nano level – a promise for improved safety

This is a really neat discovery. As we all know, ice is a big killer and safety hazard, especially on airplanes. This new material prevents supercooled droplets from freezing, sticking, and accumulating.- Anthony From Harvard: Breaking the ice before it … Continue reading

Posted in Science, Technology, weather | 61 Comments

Climate Change: The Keywords (Part 2 of 3)

Climate Change: The Keywords (Part 2 of 3) Part 1 here Written by Geraldo Luís Lino, special to Climate Change Dispatch – cross posted at WUWT The second keyword for the long overdue reassessment of the climatic issues is knowledge, … Continue reading

Posted in climate_change | 55 Comments

Investors Business Daily: A New Consensus

IBD picks up on the SciAm poll WUWT covered here. Global Warming: Wouldn’t the followers of Scientific American have a pretty good understanding of what’s really going on with the climate? If a reader poll is any indication, they’re skeptical … Continue reading

Posted in Opinion | 81 Comments

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Distinguished physicist Hal Lewis caused a furor when he submitted his letter of resignation to the American Physical Society (APS) The response from APS was more … Continue reading

Posted in Climate News Roundup | 31 Comments

Booker: The climate change scare is dying, but do our MPs notice?

The collapse of the warmist position on climate change has not impinged on politicians in Britain or Brussels, says Christopher Booker. Nothing more poignantly reflects the collapse of the great global warming scare than the decision of the Chicago Carbon … Continue reading

Posted in Climate News | 83 Comments

Small town news gets it: The “green dream” in California is bankrupt, CARB is arrogant, state lawmakers clueless

From home of the weather station that started it all, Marysville, CA their small town newspaper writes a scathing opinion on the California Air Resources Board. They get it. The problem is that people that make up CARB are like … Continue reading

Posted in media, Opinion | 181 Comments

New Felis Catus; humans drool, cat rules

UPDATE: felis catus reacquired – see below. In the middle of all the recent family medical troubles, we also lost our cat of 15.5 years, “Minners”, due to age related disease. Minners is seen at left, performing a water quality … Continue reading

Posted in Humor | 143 Comments

Comparing CO2 in warm and cold periods in geologic history

I recall a conversation I had with Dr. Bob Carter at a restaurant in Townsville, QLD after our public presentations there in June 2010 where he lamented the fact that many of the AGW proponents and many of his critics, … Continue reading

Posted in Carbon dioxide, paleoclimatology, Sea Surface Temperature | 94 Comments

Gore’s Movie in the UK – behind the scenes battle

This is an interesting analysis of the laws and behind the scenes posturing related to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and broadcasting rules. Lest anyone ever think that Wikipedian William Connolley limited his political activism to hacking climate related Wikipedia … Continue reading

Posted in Al Gore, politics | 40 Comments

Save the Sunburnt Whales

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 96 Comments