Monthly Archives: December 2010

Knobs

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Andrew Lacis and the good folks at GISS have a new paper, Atmospheric CO2: Principal Control Knob Governing Earth’s Temperature, Andrew A. Lacis, Gavin A. Schmidt, David Rind, Reto A. Ruedy 15 OCTOBER 2010 VOL … Continue reading →

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The Dessler Cloud Feedback Paper in Science: A Step Backward for Climate Research

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

How’s this for “rapid response“? This rebuttal comes out at exactly the same time the press embargo lifts in Science. We were able to obtain advance copies of the Dessler paper, plus Dr. Spencer had seen it as a poster … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, ENSO, feedbacks, Science | Tagged , , , | 124 Comments

Monckton’s Mexican Missive #3

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

The abdication of the West From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Cancun, Mexico, Dec 9th, 2010 I usually add some gentle humor to these reports. Not today. Read this and weep. Notwithstanding the carefully-orchestrated propaganda to the effect that nothing … Continue reading →

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UK’s coldest December (so far) in 100 years, brush fires in Israel

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

Roads closed, no petrol? How will Phil Jones get to work? – Anthony Now the Army moves in to clear away snow in coldest December for 100 years as fuel runs out at petrol stations in Scotland and East Anglia … Continue reading →

Posted in records, snowfall, weather | Tagged , , , | 117 Comments

Is the warming in the 20th century extraordinary?

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

WUWT readers, Figure 4 is noteworthy, because it points out the trend of 20th century warming in context with other periods of warming derived from the ice core record. I suggest you bookmark this post and that graph, as it … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, feedbacks, IPCC, paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , | 125 Comments

The Story Told by the Southern Oscillation Index

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

Guest post by David Archibald Bob Tisdale’s post on ENSO on 19th November prompted me to see what I could find in the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) data. The SOI is calculated from the monthly or seasonal fluctuations in the … Continue reading →

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Shredding the “climate consensus” myth: More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC & Gore

Posted on December 8, 2010 by

From Climate Depot, read more here INTRODUCTION: More than 1000 dissenting scientists (updates previous 700 scientist report) from around the globe have now challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Climate News | Tagged , , , , | 126 Comments

Upcoming paper in Nature – Greenland ice sheet melt: “it’s weather, not climate”

Posted on December 8, 2010 by

From the University of British Columbia press office: Greenland ice sheet flow driven by short-term weather extremes, not gradual warming: UBC research Sudden changes in the volume of meltwater contribute more to the acceleration – and eventual loss – of … Continue reading →

Posted in glaciers, Science | Tagged , | 56 Comments

A bill for climate data integrity: The Public Access to Historical Records Act

Posted on December 8, 2010 by

This just in from U.S. Senator David Vitter’s office here’s now the official press release: For Immediate Release Contact: Joel DiGrado (Vitter) (202) 224-4623 December 8, 2010 Emily Lawrimore (Barrasso)  (202) 224-6441 Vitter, Barrasso Introduce Bill to Ensure Open, Accurate NASA Climate … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, politics | Tagged , , , , , | 91 Comments

Cancun COP16 attendees fall for the old “dihydrogen monoxide” petition as well as signing up to cripple the U.S. Economy

Posted on December 8, 2010 by

Oh dear, some of these folks aren’t the brightest CFL’s in the room. Readers may remember this famous Penn and Teller video from 2006 where they get well meaning (but non thinking) people to sign up to ban “dihydrogen monoxide” … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancun Climate Conference, Humor, satire | Tagged , , , , , , , | 217 Comments

“Gore effect” strikes Cancun Climate Conference 3 days in a row

Posted on December 8, 2010 by

From the “weather is not climate department” – New record low temperatures set in Cancun for three straight days, and more new low temperature records are possible this week. Dr. Roy Spencer, who is in Cancun representing climate skepticism on … Continue reading →

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Arsenic and post-haste: another example of the broken peer review process turned “science by press release”

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

Did “go fever” push NASA to publicly announce science to the MSM that wasn’t well peer reviewed? WUWT readers may recall that I conjectured about the cryptic press release NASA made last week that set the blogosphere afire. See NASA’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 73 Comments

NASA climate model shows plants slow Global Warming by creating a new negative feedback in response to increased CO2

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

  From NASA Earth Science news: A new NASA computer modeling effort has found that additional growth of plants and trees in a world with doubled atmospheric carbon dioxide levels would create a new negative feedback – a cooling effect … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Climate News, modeling | Tagged , , , , | 106 Comments

Massive solar filament eruption captured by SDO

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

The Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite captured this image yesterday. A massive filament on the Sun erupted in a stunning display as seen here in the videos below. The giant solar eruption created a long filament of magnetic plasma, which extended … Continue reading →

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Monckton’s Mexican Missive #2

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

Yes, we have no bananas From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Cancun, Mexico at COP16 via SPPI I dined with Dr. Roy Spencer as the Atlantic rollers swished and crashed against the long, sandy beach here in Cancun. We … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancun Climate Conference | Tagged , , , | 147 Comments

News bites: The Green Energy Collapse

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

From the GWPF, a collection of headlines: Across the world, unsustainable subsidies for wind and solar are being cut back.—Lawrence Solomon, – Financial Post, 3 December 2010 The French government is planning to suspend feed-in tariffs for new photovoltaic installations … Continue reading →

Posted in energy | Tagged , , , | 69 Comments

Exposed: A $7-billion carbon scam

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

Here’s more clear evidence that the Carbon Trading industry is doomed. Not only has carbon trading been halted in the USA due to lack of a market and ludicrously low prices of a nickel per ton, now it has been … Continue reading →

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Antarctic Ozone Hole smallest in five years

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

  From MSNBC: WELLINGTON, New Zealand — International efforts to phase out the use of chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-depleting substances may be paying off, according to research revealed Friday by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand. … Continue reading →

Posted in CFC's, ozone | Tagged , , | 115 Comments

Quote of the Week – “weather is not climate”, flaming edition

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

Over at The Air Vent, Jeff reviewed the book “Warnings” by CCM Mike Smith.  This is a book about weather, weather forecasting, severe weather events, and the people and technology that save lives and help people in their daily lives … Continue reading →

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“Zombie” satellite shuts down critical NOAA NWS systems overnight

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

I’m a bit of a zombie myself as I write this, as I was up until 4:30AM PST dealing with this problem which turned out to affect National Weather Service offices nationwide in addition to my business, which uses the … Continue reading →

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CFACT’s “Kook of the week” at Cancun

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

From the YouTube description: Lord Christopher Monckton, renowned science and policy expert, presents CFACT’s Kook of the Week. This gentleman was found at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Cancun, Mexico. Watch the video:

Posted in Humor, satire | Tagged , , | 154 Comments

Visualizing the entire 2010 Atlantic hurricane season in one image

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

The photo below is a stunning and novel piece of imagery and I commend NOAA’s Environmental Visualization Laboratory for this nicely done graphic. If they had done it last year, Al Gore would not have had to Photoshop in some … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, weather | Tagged , , , , | 47 Comments

BBC “disappears” headline “Coldest December Day on record for some sites”

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

People send me stuff. Strange, what could be so wrong or threatening about this story headline that it simply had to “vanish” without so much as a correction or a note as to why? Fortunately the Internet has a memory. … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, media | Tagged , , , | 80 Comments

Monckton’s Mexican Missive

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

From Nopenhagen to Yes We Cancun by Christopher Monckton Thanks to Wikileaks, everyone here in the Mañana Republic of Mexico now knows just how much bullying and arm-twisting the administration of Barack Obama in the United States applied to various … Continue reading →

Posted in Cancun Climate Conference | Tagged , , , , | 152 Comments

Warmest year ever? – 2010: An Unexceptional El Nino Year

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

by David Whitehouse of the GWPF The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 3 December 2010 If the media headlines are to be believed 2010 is heading to be either the warmest or in the top three warmest years since the instrumental … Continue reading →

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