Monthly Archives: January 2011

New paper on forcings of historical European temperatures

Posted on January 20, 2011 by

From Nature Geoscience Influence of human and natural forcing on European seasonal temperatures Gabriele Hegerl, Juerg Luterbacher, Fidel González-Rouco, Simon F. B. Tett, Thomas Crowley & Elena Xoplaki Journal name: Nature Geoscience DOI: doi:10.1038/ngeo1057 It is the regional and seasonal … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | Tagged , , | 30 Comments

Twittering Heights and Knife Fights

Posted on January 20, 2011 by

One of the bloggers over at ScienceBlogs, this happy looking guy at left, seems to have a real problem with people (me) interpreting Twitter feeds in ways that perhaps the originators didn’t intend (or like). I don’t follow Twitter feeds, … Continue reading →

Posted in media, post-normal science, Science | Tagged , , | 75 Comments

“It’s as if our facts were losing their truth”

Posted on January 20, 2011 by

Below is an excerpt from an excellent article in The New Yorker which describes a recognition of curious phenomenon spanning many different fields of science: Different scientists in different labs need to repeat the protocols and publish their results. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 171 Comments

Euro Carbon Market Fraud – trade suspended

Posted on January 20, 2011 by

From the Telegraph: European carbon market suspended over fraud fears The European carbon market has been thrown into turmoil after the scandal-hit scheme was suspended for a week over suspicions of fraud. More than €2bn (£1.7bn) of trade is likely … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 69 Comments

Breakthough solution for power plants – pump the CO2 into the sea…oh, wait

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

From the EPA might have something to say about that department…this press release from LNL suggests dumping tons of Calcium Bicarbonate as a byproduct of CO2 scrubbing into the oceans instead. Only one teeny little problem – most coal fired … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration, ridiculae | Tagged , , , , , | 112 Comments

Scientific American still running false warming story

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

And the domino newscloning effect continues…

Posted in Alarmism, media | 143 Comments

AAAS withdraws “impossible” global warming paper

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

Complaints over “impossible conclusions” cited as the reason. from CTV: EurekAlert withdraws climate change paper A study warning that the planet would warm by 2.4C by 2020, creating deadly consequences for the global food supply, is being debunked as false … Continue reading →

Posted in media, post-normal science | Tagged , , , , | 117 Comments

Hansen gets FOIA’d on ethics issues with NASA

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 19, 2011 Contact: Christopher Horner, chris.horner@atinstitute.org ATI Environmental Law Center Seeks NASA Records on Dr. James Hansen Today the American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a federal Freedom of Information Act request with NASA, … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI | Tagged , , , , , | 113 Comments

Bait and switch; business as usual

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

Reading the headline and first paragraph of this press release from FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology one might think they are making a case for natural cycles. Sadly, no, not so much. Man, volcanoes and the sun … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | Tagged , , , , , | 45 Comments

Same news, different century

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

They say those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Read this article in the Vancouver Sun, May 1982, and tell compare to the sorts of news stories we are seeing today about the same topic with … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster | Tagged , , | 91 Comments

NRL Scientists Develop 3D Model of the Ionosphere F-region

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

From the Naval Research Lab, not our normal fare, but interesting for its uniqueness. The first global simulation study of equatorial spread F (ESF) bubble evolution using a comprehensive 3D ionosphere model, SAMI3, has been demonstrated. The model self-consistently solves … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged , , | 35 Comments

There was shrinkage!

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

Apologies in advance… From the University of Michigan press center Shrinking snow and ice cover intensify global warming ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The decreases in Earth’s snow and ice cover over the past 30 years have exacerbated global warming more than models … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, Humor, satire, snowfall | Tagged , , | 108 Comments

Cuccinelli-Mann probe takes a bizarre twist

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

Wow. In the middle of the battle, the warmists erroneously send up a flare from their position, drawing undue attention to the target. I rather expected a moribund outcome from this investigation, maybe a couple of embarrassing quotes, maybe a … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI, politics | Tagged , , | 134 Comments

NASA Sun Spot Number predictions revised again

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

UPDATE: see my animation of NASA solar forecasts since 2004 below. WUWT Commenter J Gary Fox writes: The solar cycle 24 predicted sunspot maximum has been reduced again – predicted peak down to 59 Max. (1/3/11) http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml “It’s tough to … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | Tagged , , , , | 187 Comments

D’Aleo on NOAA and NASA

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

By Joe D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow The pressure has been mounting. The public doubt about global warming has been increasing in the past year given Climategate, and how promises of warm snowless winters failed. After cold and snowy winters in … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | Tagged , , , , | 95 Comments

Hansen would rather have us ruled by China

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

Patrick J. MICHAELS: China-style dictatorship of climatologists NASA’s Hansen prefers rule by decree to fight ‘global warming’ Excerpts: From the Washington Times Monday, January 17, 2011 November’s election made it quite clear that the people of the United States do … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 229 Comments

Weekly Energy and Climate News Roundup

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) On Tuesday, the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling issued a 300 plus page report that was long on recommendations … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | Tagged , , , | 22 Comments

After the Noachian floods in 1861, California experienced a punishing drought

Posted on January 17, 2011 by

Guest post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue (using my AB History from Michigan) The catastrophe modeling of the USGS extrapolates current damage$ based upon the scenario of the California floods of 1861-1862.  Quoting directly from the Southern California quarterly Volume … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Science, weather | Tagged , , , , , | 64 Comments

Richard Lindzen: A Case Against Precipitous Climate Action

Posted on January 17, 2011 by

Via the GWPF, an essay by Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT: The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the developed world … Continue reading →

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NCDC’s Dr. Tom Peterson responds

Posted on January 17, 2011 by

After I published this story: NCDC’s Dr. Thomas Peterson: “It’s a knife fight” I wrote to Dr. Peterson to advise him that he had WUWT available to him for rebuttal should he wish. Here is his response verbatim. – Anthony ============================================================ … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Current News | Tagged , , , , , , | 193 Comments

Zero Point Three times the Forcing

Posted on January 17, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Now that my blood pressure has returned to normal after responding to Dr. Trenberth, I returned to thinking about my earlier somewhat unsatisfying attempt to make a very simple emulation of the GISS Model E … Continue reading →

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Sea level may drop in 2010

Posted on January 17, 2011 by

Guest post by John Kehr Based on the most current data it appears that 2010 is going to show the largest drop in global sea level ever recorded in the modern era.  Since many followers of global warming believe that … Continue reading →

Posted in sea level | Tagged , , , , | 202 Comments

USGS enters the weather porn business with ARkStorm

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

It used to be enough to push worry about El Niño in the news, now the USGS takes it to whole new level. I don’t dispute the historical evidence of the 1861/62 flooding, but scaring the crap out of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism | Tagged , , , , , , | 78 Comments

Trenberth reacts: edits speech to fix copying, leaves “deniers”

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

Well that’s what I get for taking a nap today. I had been checking Dr. Trenberth’s manuscript regularly at the AMS website, and of course while napping he (or somebody) changed it. Of course Steve McIntyre caught it and points … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | Tagged , , , | 91 Comments

The PAST is Not What it Used to Be (GW Tiger Tale)

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. Time machines are a staple of sci-fi. Someone travels back to the past and changes some momentous historical event, expecting his or her heroic action will improve the present and future, usually with disastrous results! … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, climate data, Climategate, measurement, modeling, NASA GISS | Tagged , , | 87 Comments