Monthly Archives: December 2010

What frog science can teach us about global warming

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

A Frog Revival From World Climate Report About 15 to 20 years ago, folks began to notice problems in amphibian communities around the world. At first, physical deformities were being noticed and then large population declines were being documented. The … Continue reading →

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Time to end your membership with the American Geophysical Union

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

Pigs have been flying at AGU, apparently. All hope is lost for this organization. Get out while you can. Grab an air sickness bag, then see this press release: AGU Board adds new members with expertise in science policy and … Continue reading →

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McShane & Wyner Hockey Stick Smackdown – redux

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

WUWT readers may remember this popular article from August 30th, 2010 New paper makes a hockey sticky wicket of Mann et al 98/99/08 and then The Team’s response RC’s response to McShane and Wyner: a case of orange cones which gave rise … Continue reading →

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Hundreds of new cold and snow records set in the USA

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

New 2 day record December snowfall amount to the Minneapolis/St Paul area While there have been a few high temperature records in the desert southwest and western Oregon, the majority of weather records in the USA this week have been … Continue reading →

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News Bites – Real Climate Progress In Cancun

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

From the GWPF Green Agenda Kicked Into UN Black Hole The climate change conference in Cancún has ended with failure to set a target date for the reduction of carbon emissions. The Mexican hosts persuaded 192 out of 193 countries … Continue reading →

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An Open Letter to Dr. Subra Suresh

Posted on December 12, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dear Dr. Suresh: My sincere and heartfelt congratulations on your being appointed Director of the US National Science Foundation (NSF). It is indeed an honor for anyone. In particular it is a great achievement for … Continue reading →

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Tisdale K.O.e’s GISS’s latest “warmest-year nonsense”

Posted on December 12, 2010 by

Bob Tisdale writes: I’ve been holding off telling you about my most recent post in hopes that GISS would continue with their warmest-year nonsense.  And they did. Using correlation maps, animations, graphs and a youtube video, the post shows how leftover warm … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on December 12, 2010 by

THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) The 16th Conference of Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is finishing up in Cancun. The gathering is part of the UN’s … Continue reading →

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Metrodome Collapses in Minneapolis – will they blame global warming climate change climate disruption this time?

Posted on December 12, 2010 by

Remember when Joe Romm said the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis was related to”climate change”? And again… The truth, never reported on Climate Progress, is far different:

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Hansen feels the need to explain why GISS is high in the midst of frigid air

Posted on December 12, 2010 by

I was working on a general report yesterday, but in checking background for it, I discovered this recent missive from Dr. Hansen. I suppose when your agency is the “odd man out”, you feel a need to explain yourself. Note … Continue reading →

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View the 2010 Hurricane Season in Google Earth

Posted on December 12, 2010 by

While we are waiting for Ryan Maue’s ACE 2010 report on the hurricane season, there’s this from the Google Earth blog: Greg at Geodesic contacted us to let us know about a very cool animation that his company has built … Continue reading →

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A really neat piece of hybrid organic semiconductor tech generates electricity from light or heat

Posted on December 12, 2010 by

From Fujitsu’s press web site: Fujitsu Develops Hybrid Energy Harvesting Device for Generating Electricity from Heat and Light Paves the way toward widespread energy harvesting, generating self-sufficient power from the surrounding environment Kawasaki, Japan, December 9, 2010 — Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. … Continue reading →

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Snow Season Off to a Roaring Start

Posted on December 11, 2010 by

By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM Last year the Northern Hemispheric snowcover was the second highest in the NOAA snow history back to the mid 1960s. It trailed only the legendary 1977/78 winter. It fell just ahead of 2007/08, pushing it to … Continue reading →

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Skeptical Stocking Stuffers

Posted on December 11, 2010 by

Yesterday on the Friday Funny – the new and improved 4 legged AGW table thread, there was quite a bit of interest in getting T-Shirts of Josh’s latest CAGW cartoon, the “No Shoogle 4 legged CAGW Table” (shoogly means wobbly in … Continue reading →

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Cancun ends with “low hanging fruit”, but fails to renew Kyoto

Posted on December 11, 2010 by

Maybe the failure had more to do with the caliber of people attending…like these McKibben zombies. Heads go in the sand at 8:45 in the video:  From Politico: Negotiators from about 190 countries reached a modest set of agreements early … Continue reading →

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Latest Rasmussen poll on global warming opinion

Posted on December 11, 2010 by

From Rasmussen Reports: 41% Now Say Global Warming is Caused By Human Activity, More Say Planetary Trends Most U.S. voters continue to be concerned about global warming but still are more inclined to think it’s caused by planetary trends rather … Continue reading →

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If climate science politics were a hockey game…oh, wait

Posted on December 11, 2010 by

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. -Rodney Dangerfield (1921 – 2004) …not surprisingly, the United Nations’ 2010 Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, is failing, with Mother Nature helping to dampen warming … Continue reading →

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Which way to the feedback?

Posted on December 11, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is an interesting new study by Lauer et al. entitled “The Impact of Global Warming on Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over the Eastern Pacific—A Regional Model Study” [hereinafter Lauer10]. Anthony Watts has discussed some … Continue reading →

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OSU’s Dr. Lonnie Thompson pushes gloom and doom, still thinks the snows of Kilimanjaro are melting due to global warming

Posted on December 10, 2010 by

This is an OSU press release, timed to appear in Eurekalert for Cancun’s COP16 on December 8th, and reposted here verbatim, including the all caps headline. Even though the “melting on Kilimanjaro due to global warming” has been fully debunked … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – the new and improved 4 legged AGW table

Posted on December 10, 2010 by

Now with Escherisms! Josh from Cartoons by Josh writes: I thoroughly enjoyed all the helpful comments on both your blogs about Kev’s  4 legged climate table. I have tried to put a few of them in… the result was of … Continue reading →

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Quick, somebody slap a carbon tax on this new planet

Posted on December 10, 2010 by

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Reveals First Carbon-Rich Planet PASADENA, Calif. — Astronomers have discovered that a huge, searing-hot planet orbiting another star is loaded with an unusual amount of carbon. The planet, a gas giant named WASP-12b, is the first … Continue reading →

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“Gore Effect” on Steroids: Six straight days of record low temperatures during COP16 in Cancun Mexico – more coming

Posted on December 10, 2010 by

The irony, it burns. Do you think maybe Gaia is trying to send the U.N. and the delegates a message? One record low was funny, three in a row was hilarious, a new record low for the month of December … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancun Climate Conference, records, weather | Tagged , , , , | 202 Comments

Monckton’s Mexican Missive #4

Posted on December 10, 2010 by

Mercury rising From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Cancun, Mexico I am in the plenary session hall at the Moon Palace, where diligent readers of this humble blog will recall that Ms. Figurehead, the president of the UN climate conference … Continue reading →

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A helpful note to Dr. Eric Steig

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

Perhaps Dr. Steig was too busy writing snark (in response to a peer reviewed paper that is a rebuttal his own) to figure it out, but this made me laugh. Comment # 6 in this thread over at Real Climate … Continue reading →

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“Gore Effect” strikes again: new coldest ever December record low temperature in Cancun

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

God indeed has a sense of humor. From Weather Underground: Here’s the actual METAR data, showing 10°C (50.0°F):

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