Monthly Archives: December 2010

Climate debate rages in The Australian

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

I’m pleased to offer some essays and letters with links that have recently appeared in The Australian newspaper. One of them is an essay from my friend and fellow skeptic, Jo Nova, in Perth, who does a superb job with … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | Tagged , , , , | 162 Comments

Coldest December ever in Britain as snow piles up, Europe freezes

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

Breaking news!  December can still be cold and snowy over parts of the Northern Hemisphere.  Don’t look to the American media for much information about European weather;  it’s about as foreign as driving on the wrong side of the road.  … Continue reading →

Posted in snowfall, weather | Tagged , | 187 Comments

Lunar eclipse and winter solstice to coincide, first time since the year 1378

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

How often do you get to witness an event that has not been seen since the year 1378,  over half a millennium, 632 years ago? Of course, weather will make or break the viewing, and it appears the much of … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy | Tagged , , , | 86 Comments

Climate Central confuses weather and climate – you help write the rebuttal

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

Here’s an opportunity for crowd-sourcing a rebuttal to Climate Central’s Top Ten Climate Events of 2010. I think it is mistitled, and should be Climate Central’s Top Ten Weather Events of 2010. Of course it OK when they do it, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | Tagged , , , , | 117 Comments

Warming skeptic gets key Science post – may do “mean things”

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

From Politico Leading House climate skeptic Jim Sensenbrenner appears to have landed a perch to lead investigations into global warming science. The Wisconsin Republican is set to become the vice chairman of the House Science Committee under incoming Chairman Ralph … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | Tagged , , | 95 Comments

First measurement of magnetic field in Earth’s core

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

Earth’s internal dynamo generates average field in outer core 50 times that at surface A University of California, Berkeley, geophysicist has made the first-ever measurement of the strength of the magnetic field inside Earth’s core, 1,800 miles underground. The magnetic … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

This video has been making the rounds, and the most encouraging thing about it is: it ran on the BBC. The fact that is did speaks to the growing skeptical view of climate change.

Posted in Humor, satire | 118 Comments

Chicago Climate Exchange = FAIL, Now California opens “Pacific Carbon Exchange”

Posted on December 16, 2010 by

UPDATE: related story shows what can happen when emissions trading doesn’t have proper checks and balances – Carbon trading tempts firms to make greenhouse gas California hasn’t learned from the failure of the Chicago Climate Exchange this year, when a … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon credits | Tagged , , , | 127 Comments

UAH and UHI

Posted on December 16, 2010 by

Note: clearly satellites can see urban heat, as demonstrated by this recent paper unveiled at the 2010 AGU meeting by NASA. See: Satellites Image the Urban Heat Islands in the Northeast. It can also be demonstrated that the UHI biases the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Land use land cover change, UHI | Tagged , , , , , , , | 155 Comments

Preliminary results for the CERN CLOUD cosmic ray experiment

Posted on December 16, 2010 by

From Nature blog: Sunny days for CLOUD experiment An experiment designed to investigate the link between solar activity and the climate has its first results in the bag. At the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco today, Joachim Curtius … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays, Science | Tagged , , , , | 133 Comments

Craven Attention

Posted on December 16, 2010 by

Steve Mosher reports that things got a bit bizarre at the 2010 American Geophysical Union convention in San Francisco Guest post by Steven Mosher At AGU today I was witness to a “new AGU.” In the very first Steven Schneider … Continue reading →

Posted in FUG, post-normal science | Tagged , , , , , , | 183 Comments

Arctic Oscillation spoiling NASA GISS party

Posted on December 15, 2010 by

Note: I want to thank everyone who commented here and elsewhere regarding my last post about GISS that sent everyone into a tizzy. All that is very helpful. Here’s more on GISS and the AO. -Anthony Effects of the Positive … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, NASA GISS | Tagged , , , | 104 Comments

Clueless bloggers attack Fox News for memo that says “show both sides” of the global warming/cooling story

Posted on December 15, 2010 by

Joe Romm and Al Gore share one thing in common besides being paid for blogging, writing, and making opinions on climate to scare the dickens out of people: they don’t understand what journalism is supposed to be about. Not only … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Alarmism, media | Tagged , , , , , , | 114 Comments

The periodic table becomes a weight watcher

Posted on December 15, 2010 by

From the “not etched in stone department”, via Eurekalert we learn that  Atomic weights of 10 elements on periodic table about to make an historic change showing that everything we thought we knew, is still subject to revision as we … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged , , , , | 58 Comments

Software tip: How to save yourself at least $250

Posted on December 15, 2010 by

Yesterday I had a request from a client for a network diagram for a system I’m designing, and normally I create such drawings as a PNG file. But this client said “no, I need it in Visio, or similar style … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , | 135 Comments

Hump Day Hilarity: songs for round up day

Posted on December 15, 2010 by

This is amusing: We sing at events supporting peace and social justice around Oxfordshire. That description from their web page seems nice, until you listen to what they are singing.

Posted in Alarmism, Humor | Tagged | 96 Comments

Global tropical cyclone activity still in the tank

Posted on December 15, 2010 by

Even with the expected active 2010 North Atlantic hurricane season, which accounts on average for about 1/5 of global annual hurricane output, the rest of the global tropics has been historically quiet.  The Western North Pacific this year has seen … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, weather | Tagged , , | 42 Comments

“Sustainability” continues to run amok in my town

Posted on December 15, 2010 by

I’ve written about this before. We have a group of citizens here in town called the “sustainability task force” which is highly influenced by the eco-zealotry of Chico State University pushing their ideas of how everyone should live onto the … Continue reading →

Posted in local_issues | Tagged , | 166 Comments

Global Eruption Rocks the Sun

Posted on December 14, 2010 by

I should point out that thanks to the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we can see things that we’ve never seen before. So while this event is unprecedented in the history of science, it is likely “business as usual” for old … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar, space, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | 147 Comments

Voyager1 – so far out, there’s no solar wind anymore

Posted on December 14, 2010 by

What is really amazing is that the probe still operates after over 3 decades, which is a testament to the design team. It’s a SNAP to keep powered up though. – Anthony Artist concept of Voyager near interstellar space. Image … Continue reading →

Posted in solar, space | Tagged , , , , | 110 Comments

Satellites Image the Urban Heat Islands in the Northeast

Posted on December 14, 2010 by

Gee where have we seen something like this before? Dads/Moms and Grandparents: if you’d like your children/grandchildren to be able to do something on UHI for the spring science fair, here’s an easy to do idea. – Anthony From Science … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI | Tagged , , , , | 164 Comments

Dueling press releases – which is it: dead or weakened?

Posted on December 14, 2010 by

It’s AGU week in San Francisco, of course that means the annual barrage of science by press release. I was struck by this juxtaposition of two press releases at Eurekalert this morning. Note the headlines of the screencap below: Here … Continue reading →

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Quote Of The Week – AGW statistical futility

Posted on December 14, 2010 by

Here’s a quote related to the McShane and Wyner discussion brought to light thanks to Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann at RealClimate that I happen to agree with. Yes I know, that’s a shock to some. This quote is from … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, modeling, NASA GISS, paleoclimatology | Tagged , , | 91 Comments

NASA’s Terra Satellite Images Minnesota’s Blizzard Aftermath

Posted on December 14, 2010 by

From Science @ NASA.gov The upper Midwest was hit by a powerful winter storm this past weekend as more than 17 inches of snow brought down the roof to the Metrodome football complex (link added by WUWT)  in Minneapolis. NASA’s … Continue reading →

Posted in records, snowfall, weather | Tagged , , , , , | 68 Comments

The Details Are In The Devil

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I love thought experiments. They allow us to understand complex systems that don’t fit into the laboratory. They have been an invaluable tool in the scientific inventory for centuries. Here’s my thought experiment for today. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 132 Comments