Monthly Archives: November 2010

Hump day humor

Posted on November 3, 2010 by

Josh from www.cartoonsbyjosh.com writes: There is a fun story over at Lucia’s about a Crack Journalist asking some, it seems to me, slightly unbalanced questions of Judy Curry. This interpretation of ‘Crack’ came to mind.:

Posted in Humor, satire | 11 Comments

Open to the public – Climate Webinar

Posted on November 3, 2010 by

Webinar: Fossil fuels make the third world more resilient against climate change. Speaker: Indur Goklany When: November 4 at 3:30-5:30 PM, U.S. Eastern Daylight Saving Time. Organized by Theo Richel at Dutch website, “Der Groene Rekenkamer” [which is ”The Green Court”, in English, according … Continue reading →

Posted in presentations | 14 Comments

Quote of the week – unbelievable hubris from CARB’s Mary Nichols

Posted on November 3, 2010 by

Now that California’s Prop 23 to suspend the AB32 global warming law has failed, you get some real clarity from the players. If you ever doubted that our current crop of “save the planet” bureaucrats think they are above answering … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy, Quote of the Week | 89 Comments

Greenland Ground Zero for Global Soot Warming

Posted on November 3, 2010 by

People send me stuff. In my email this past week I got a cover photo of the June 2010 issue of National Geographic along with this message from Al in Georgia: I was at the Doctor’s office and picked up … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, Arctic, carbon soot, glaciers | 68 Comments

‘Greenest President Ever’ trip to India has a carbon footprint bigger than the citizens of many US cities

Posted on November 3, 2010 by

Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, wrote in January 2010 on the Huffington Post that President Barack Obama was “The Greenest President Ever“. Weeellll….maybe not. You see, today we have these headlines: The Daily Mail: Forty planes and … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, ridiculae | 137 Comments

Prop 23 “suspend global warming law” fails in California

Posted on November 3, 2010 by

The Secretary of State’s website is overloaded, this according to the LA Times, with 3.5 million votes counted statewide:

Posted in Climate News, politics | 174 Comments

New video: Global Warming’s effects, A to Z

Posted on November 3, 2010 by

I’m sure many of you have heard of the “complete list of things caused by global warming” Dr. John Brignell, a retired professor of industrial instrumentation at the University of Southampton in Britain, compiled an impressive list of alarmist claims … Continue reading →

Posted in fun_stuff | 46 Comments

The full Tamino

Posted on November 2, 2010 by

Here’s what you get to see at Open Mind sHx | November 2, 2010 at 9:26 am You know, Tamino, you shouldn’t be so shy about asking Anthony Watts to place a permanent link to your blog at WUWT. Real … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 84 Comments

New atmospheric model says tail wags dog

Posted on November 2, 2010 by

From the AGU Highlights on Eurekalert, how to make models do what you want by removing important portions of the natural system: Atmospheric dynamics, not ocean, could drive El Niño features Scientists generally believe that ocean dynamics are the primary … Continue reading →

Posted in modeling | 70 Comments

The Atlantic Ocean via the AMO drives the apparent “Global Warming”

Posted on November 2, 2010 by

By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM The North Atlantic undergoes a multidecadal oscillation appropriately called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation or AMO. It is officially the mean sea surface temperature anomaly from the equator to 70 degrees North. It went above the longer … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO | 121 Comments

Who are the Climate Fools? – Climate Fools Day Recap

Posted on November 2, 2010 by

Guest post by Barry Woods, London. According to the newspapers a ‘cabal of sceptics’ and ‘dinosaurs’ descended on London on Climate Fools Day. I actually attended the Climate Fools Day meeting in the House of Commons on 27th October 2010, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | 74 Comments

A few thoughts on California’s Proposition 23 “battle for the planet”

Posted on November 1, 2010 by

As we head to the polls November 2nd, one of the ugliest and most watched global warming battles will get a litmus test by the voters of California. First some background. California’s Global Warming Solutions Act called AB32 was passed … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, politics | 126 Comments

UAH global temperature, down about 0.2°C in October

Posted on November 1, 2010 by

As pointed out last week, Sea Surface Temperatures and the daily lower troposphere temperatures continue to fall as La Niña looms large in the Pacific. We may find that the continued drop prevents 2010 from being the “hottest year ever” … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Climate News | 50 Comments

Spencer on Global Warming Elitism, Tomorrow’s Election, and The Future

Posted on November 1, 2010 by

by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The NASA A-Train satellite constellation symposium I attended last week in New Orleans was in some sense a celebration of the wide variety of global satellite observations we are now collecting from Earth orbit. … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, politics | 226 Comments

Josh on Mosh

Posted on November 1, 2010 by

When is science art, and art, science? It is metaphysical or metadata? Josh moshes the meta without harshing the mellow:

Posted in Humor | 15 Comments

Arctic Temperatures and Ice – Why it is Natural Variability

Posted on November 1, 2010 by

By Joe D’Aleo, CCM On October 21st the Associated Press hit the wires with a story entitled ”Sea Ice Melting as Arctic Temperatures Rise.” The temperatures in the arctic have indeed risen in recent years and ice has declined, bottoming … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Arctic, PDO | 66 Comments

NGO pleads for $15 billion “ocean acidification” monitoring system

Posted on November 1, 2010 by

Via Eurekalert, from the NGO Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO), a press release that says, “panic! please send money”. Here’s the punch line: The Foundation says the average level of pH at the ocean surface has dropped … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans | 201 Comments

No more double standards

Posted on November 1, 2010 by

Government officials and grant recipients must also be held accountable for fraud Guest post by Paul Driessen False, misleading or fraudulent claims have long brought the wrath of juries, judges and government agencies down on perpetrators. So have substandard manufacturing … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, Environment, Opinion | 60 Comments