Monthly Archives: December 2010

Cryosat ice mission returns first science data

Posted on December 22, 2010 by

NOTE: The image below is NOT sea ice thickness, but ocean topography. Radar data from the European satellite has been used to make a map of ocean circulation across the Arctic basin. Cryosat’s primary mission is to measure sea-ice thickness, … Continue reading →

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Red Faces At The Met Office

Posted on December 22, 2010 by

From the GWPF, here’s a collection of articles that are collectively ripping the Met Office a “new one”. And, it is easy to see why. Here’s the Met Office supercomputer enhanced model output forecast from October 2010: The map and … Continue reading →

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SORCE’s Solar Spectral Surprise – UV declined, TSI constant

Posted on December 22, 2010 by

From NASA’s website (h/t to David Archibald) By Adam Voiland NASA’s Earth Science News Team Two satellite instruments aboard NASA’s Solar Radiation & Climate Experiment (SORCE) mission — the Total Solar Irradiance Monitor (TIM) and the Solar Irradiance Monitor (SIM) … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Week – Total Ecplise of the Moonbat

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

Dr. Richard North of the EU Referendum has few words for George Monbiot regarding his recent claim that cold snowy winters are the result of “global warming”. North writes:

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Wow, that’s a lot of water – major rainfall in SoCal

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

Southwestern USA, 7 day cumulative percent of normal, shown below: Source from water.weather.gov Have a look at the 7day  totals:

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Obama caves on promise, Internet to be regulated by FCC

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

From the WSJ: Even HuffPo thinks this is a bad idea:

Posted in GLOC, Government idiocy | Tagged , , , | 174 Comments

You know it’s bad California when green companies move out of Berkeley

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

Excerpts via Bloomberg: Wind energy company moving headquarters to KC By BILL DRAPER The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. A California-based wind turbine manufacturer is moving its headquarters and production operations to a site at Kansas City International Airport, where … Continue reading →

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Polar bears no longer on ‘thin ice’: researchers say polar bears could face brighter future

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

From the:USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station via Eurekalert Polar bears no longer on ‘thin ice’: researchers say polar bears could face brighter future VIDEO: Science team placing radio collars on polar bears. PORTLAND, Ore. December 21, 2010. “When … Continue reading →

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Total Lunar Eclipse on the Solstice – way cool

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

From Spaceweather.com TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE: Earlier today, for the first time in 372 years, a total lunar eclipse occurred on the date of the northern winter solstice. Observers in North America were favored with an overhead view as the full … Continue reading →

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Sea Ice News #32 – Southern Comfort

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

I’ve been remiss at posting regular entries of this feature, and there hasn’t been much happening on the way to peak Arctic Ice this year. The action seems mostly down south, and there’s a lot of news from NSIDC that … Continue reading →

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Climategate–the Made Up Story, or Mr. Assange, WUWT?

Posted on December 20, 2010 by

By charles the moderator While the identity(ies) of the source(s) of the Climategate files has never been identified, long time readers of WUWT and Climate Audit are quite familiar with the Climategate timeline as it unfolded here, there, and throughout … Continue reading →

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Australia’s white summer, Monbiot’s red fury

Posted on December 20, 2010 by

Australia swaps summer for Christmas snow Excerpts from Physorg.com Snow and ice covering buildings and cars on December 19, 2010 at Mount Hotham,Victoria, as snow fell in Australia. The usual hot and summery December weather was replaced in parts by … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, GHCN, weather_stations | Tagged , , , , | 172 Comments

Department of Homeland Security goes off the deep end – now plans to battle “climate change” in addition to terrorists

Posted on December 20, 2010 by

Not content to keep to the terrorism prevention mission for which they were founded, DHS’s Janet Napolitano now plans to battle a religious war of “climatic jihad”.  Here’s what happened the last time Washington DC took on weather in February … Continue reading →

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Warm Bias: How The Met Office Misleads The British Public

Posted on December 20, 2010 by

By Dr. Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation Met Office 2008 Forecast: Trend of Mild Winters Continues Met Office, 25 September 2008: The Met Office forecast for the coming winter suggests it is, once again, likely to be … Continue reading →

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A Dalton Minimum Repeat is Shaping Up

Posted on December 20, 2010 by

The sun went spotless yesterday, the first time in quite awhile. It seems like a good time to present this analysis from my friend David Archibald. For those not familiar with the Dalton Minimum, here’s some background info from Wiki: … Continue reading →

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The Mayor of London gives props to skeptic Piers Corbyn

Posted on December 19, 2010 by

George Monbiot probably burst a blood vessel when he read this. Congratulations to Piers, who doesn’t need a teraflop class supercomputer to render a forecast. This passage tells the story: I have not a clue whether his methods are sound … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, politics | Tagged , , | 145 Comments

Model Charged with Excessive Use of Forcing

Posted on December 19, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The GISS Model E is the workhorse of NASA’s climate models. I got interested in the GISSE hindcasts of the 20th century due to an interesting posting by Lucia over at the Blackboard. She built … Continue reading →

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Associated Press gone wild: 2010 disaster article is unadulterated trash

Posted on December 19, 2010 by

2010′s world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards: The Associated Press has published one of the most biased pieces of environmental science journalism in a long time,  and that’s quite a feat in itself. Indeed, there are some serious journalistic integrity … Continue reading →

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Renewables forcing consumer energy price rise in Oregon

Posted on December 19, 2010 by

Rates set to jump for Pacific Power, PGE customers in January. Published: Friday, December 17, 2010, 9:24 PM     Updated: Friday, December 17, 2010, 9:24 PM By Ted Sickinger, The Oregonian Come New Year’s, better strip the lights off the … Continue reading →

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Greenland blows hot and cold while Europe freezes

Posted on December 19, 2010 by

There’s a colorfully sharp temperature contrast in Greenland, one might think it was “red hot” there. Hmmm where have we seen something like this before? The warm red pocket over southern Greenland and Eastern Canada is caused by a blocking … Continue reading →

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Sunday Silly

Posted on December 19, 2010 by

Measuring temperature has its risks and uncertainties, you can bank on it.

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New winter temperature proxy in UK: “grit”

Posted on December 18, 2010 by

UPDATE: BBC and Reuters is reporting (h/t to reader FergalR) that: ‘Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said he had asked the government’s chief scientific adviser to assess whether the country was experiencing a “step change” in weather patterns due to climate … Continue reading →

Posted in snowfall, weather | Tagged , , , | 138 Comments

Central Pacific storm looks like a hurricane, but is it?

Posted on December 18, 2010 by

Update:  HORRAY:  Tropical Storm Omeka was named!  Dec 20, 2010 If it looks like a duck…well, if this bird were in the Atlantic, it would have been named a while ago.  Instead, this area of (subtropical) low-pressure that has an … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, weather | Tagged | 27 Comments

How Germany’s weather team views the “hottest year ever”

Posted on December 18, 2010 by

Translation via the GWPF Speculation Alert: “New Little Ice Age Cannot Be Ruled Out” Wednesday, 15 December 2010 09:16 Rickmer Flor, wetter.info Everybody is talking about global warming – but in Germany and also in many other countries around the … Continue reading →

Posted in snowfall, weather | Tagged , , , , | 155 Comments

Cosmically, Heliospherically, and Terrestrially, FYI

Posted on December 18, 2010 by

Last night I decided to have a look at the Space Weather Prediction Center solar charts to see how the geoplanetary magnetic index (Ap) was doing, and decided since I was too tired, I’d put it off until this morning. … Continue reading →

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