Monthly Archives: November 2010

Undetected crack causes unpredictable results

Posted on November 12, 2010 by

From Geekosystem:  [This is a must watch video / safe for work] On Wednesday, thousands of Springfield, Ohio residents were left without power when a 275-foot smokestack being demolished fell the wrong way, knocking down two 12,500 volt power lines … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster | Tagged | 113 Comments

Drought, Titicaca, Poopo, and Local Tipping Points

Posted on November 12, 2010 by

Press Release 10-216 Catastrophic Drought Looms for Capital City of Bolivia Historical ecology of the Andes indicates desert-like setting on the horizon Catastrophic drought is on the near-term horizon for the capital city of Bolivia, according to new research into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, drought, paleoclimatology | 76 Comments

A bad news week for AGW proponents

Posted on November 12, 2010 by

This is a collection of news story excerpts this past week. AGW proponents and environmentalists is general are taking hit after hit in the media this week. – Anthony From the GWPF via email: The Crisis of Climate Catastrophism The … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup, media | 94 Comments

Stubborn Antarctic Ozone Hole refuses to change

Posted on November 12, 2010 by

Maybe it is because the major catalyst isn’t CFC’s after all? See this story: Galactic Cosmic Rays May Be Responsible For The Antarctic Ozone Hole In the conclusions of the paper here (PDF) there is this: Thus, the above facts (1)–(5) … Continue reading →

Posted in CFC's, cosmic rays, ozone | 114 Comments

My Comments On The Andy Lacis Post On CO2 As A Climate Thermostat

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

  By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. Andy Lacis has posted two guest contributions on my weblog; Guest Post “CO2: The Thermostat That Controls Earth’s Temperature” By Andy Lacis Further Comment By Andy Lacis On CO2 As A Climate Thermostat I … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, modeling | 141 Comments

Study: CO2 sequestration may contaminate groundwater

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

From the “MTBE is perfectly safe department” and Duke University: Leaking underground CO2 storage could contaminate drinking water DURHAM, N.C. — Leaks from carbon dioxide injected deep underground to help fight climate change could bubble up into drinking water aquifers … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration | 107 Comments

Germany’s Greens get ugly with climate skeptics

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

When I first saw this I thought to myself “maybe posting this isn’t appropriate on Veterans Day”. Then, after additional reflection, I realized this is exactly what our American veterans and the allies fought for: freedom of speech and freedom … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism | 280 Comments

Veteran’s Day

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

’nuff said.

Posted in Announcements | 68 Comments

The best shot?

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

Guest post by Matt Ridley (with permission, from his blog The Rational Optimist h/t to Indur Goklany) UPDATE: David MacKay’s letter is now up in a separate post here Some weeks ago I wrote an article for The Times about … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | 73 Comments

“Extreme global warming” in the ancient past

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

Ancient global warming: but which came first, the temperature or the CO2? From the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) Variations in atmosphere carbon dioxide around 40 million years ago were tightly coupled to changes in global temperature, according to new … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | 105 Comments

Cassini’s CIRS Reveals Saturn Is on a “Cosmic Dimmer Switch”

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

From Science @NASA – Study suggests changes in Saturn’s emitted power are related to varying cloud cover. Like a cosmic light bulb on a dimmer switch, Saturn emitted gradually less energy each year from 2005 to 2009, according to observations … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, space | 20 Comments

Mount Merapi SO2 plume headed for Australia

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano put a lot of ejecta into the air; ash, CO2, and SO2. Here’s a recent news report showing the eruption: Tracked by satellite, now the Sulfur Dioxide plume is headed for Australia.

Posted in aerosols, vulcanism | 35 Comments

“Climate-Ready” Rice

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

From the “I love the smell of rice-a-roni in the morning” department and the Global Rice Science Partnership, we have adaptation to a warmer more CO2 laden world. It’s another “Ehrlich population bomb were all gonna starve” moment shot to … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Climate News | 77 Comments

“Gross” Data Errors in GHCN V2. for Australia

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

UPDATE: 11/11/10 An errata has been posted, see the end of this essay – Anthony Guest post by Ed Thurstan of Sydney, Australia Synopsis This study shows that the NOAA maintained GHCN V2 database contains errors in calculating a Mean … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, GHCN, weather_stations | 96 Comments

35 years ago: The Witch of November Come Stealin

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

Today is the 35th anniversary of the sinking of the Great Lakes ore carrier, the Edmund Fitzgerald. The shipped was sunk by “The Witch of November”, a strong Lake Superior storm that often occurs around the same time each year. … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster, weather | 68 Comments

Mystery “missile launch” off California – solved?

Posted on November 9, 2010 by

UPDATE: Contrail Science writes: Note to the media – since this was almost certainly Flight AWE808 (US Airways) from Hawaii to Phoenix, why not have a camera crew somewhere in the vicinity (does not need to be exact, or a … Continue reading →

Posted in puzzling things | 270 Comments

Turning UHI into harvestable electric power

Posted on November 9, 2010 by

From the University of Rhode Island, some ideas on putting waste city heat to good use. They seem to recognize what most climate scientists don’t. There’s a lot of heat in cities. URI researchers aim to harvest solar energy from … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, Technology | 81 Comments

Tom Fuller exits stage left, poetically

Posted on November 9, 2010 by

Frequent WUWT contributor Tom Fuller has decided to step away from blogging. His final post is below. Tom provided some greatly appreciated help in keeping WUWT humming while I dealt with family health issues, and so I owe him a … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 70 Comments

David Whitehouse: The Climate Coincidence: Why is the temperature unchanging?

Posted on November 9, 2010 by

From: The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 9 November 2010 It seems probable that 2010 will be in terms of global annual average temperature statistically identical to the annual temperatures of the past decade. Some eminent climatologists, such as Professor Phil … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 165 Comments

Peak Oil panic: Oil will run dry before substitutes roll out

Posted on November 9, 2010 by

Via press release: a forecast study of investor patterns from UC Davis. Stock prices suggest a 90-year gap At the current pace of research and development, global oil will run out 90 years before replacement technologies are ready, says a … Continue reading →

Posted in energy | 220 Comments

Study says SST convection threshold rising

Posted on November 9, 2010 by

From the University of Hawaii at Manoa, more of the “more heat = more hurricanes” meme. Threshold sea surface temperature for hurricanes and tropical thunderstorms is rising IMAGE: The average tropical sea surface temperature (black) and an estimate of the … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, Sea Surface Temperature | 89 Comments

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) The US news this week was dominated by the elections during which the Republicans won convincing control of the House of Representatives. By the Constitution, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | 14 Comments

60,000,000

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

Congratulations are in order for hitting the 60-million mark in page-views.  As you can see from the Alexa traffic rank, WUWT has remained steadfastly popular since that pesky ClimateGate story a year ago.  Way to go Anthony! The traffic rank … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 65 Comments

AGU backs away from “climate rapid response team” citing faulty reporting

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

The inaccurate LA Times story AGU cites was excerpted (via a Chicago Tribune reprint) and linked here yesterday at WUWT. AGU issued this press release today, which is repeated in entirety below. – Anthony Inaccurate news reports misrepresent a climate-science … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 87 Comments

New essay from Dr. David Evans and SPPI

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

This has just been released today, and it carries on the cover a well known USHCN station photograph. You’ll probably recognize a number of the surfacestations.org photos in it. Unfortunately, I was not given the chance to review this essay … Continue reading →

Posted in presentations | 80 Comments