Monthly Archives: January 2011

I believe

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

More inspiration via Trenberth and Willis from Josh, now available for an automobile near you.

Posted in fun_stuff | 18 Comments

NCDC’s Dr. Thomas Peterson: “It’s a knife fight”

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

This is a row screencap from this Twitter page: http://twitter.com/scio11 It comes from the January 13-16th, 2011 Science Online conference held in the Research Triangle Park in Durham. Details at these URL’s http://scienceonline2011.com/ http://scio11.wikispaces.com/ You can also follow us on … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Climategate, GHCN | Tagged , , , , , , , | 89 Comments

Dueling Hypotheses

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

The Trenberth article contains so many glaring errors and biased assumptions, it’s hard to know where to start. First of all, the difference between theory and hypothesis: The problem is not with dueling hypotheses, it is with dueling theories regarding … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Disaster, IPCC, media, Science | Tagged , , , | 137 Comments

Unequivocal Equivocation – an open letter to Dr. Trenberth

Posted on January 15, 2011 by

This essay from Willis appeared on WUWT overnight Saturday while I slept. After reading it this morning, I decided to make it a sticky at the top of WUWT (I also added the open letter reference) because it says everything … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | 710 Comments

Is the Brazilian flooding catastrophe evidence of another global warming era extreme ?

Posted on January 15, 2011 by

Guest post by Alexandre Aguiar, METSUL Communications Director, Brazil (note there’s much more here at METSUL’s blog) Corpses are still under tons of rocks and mud in the hills of Rio de Janeiro, but some experts are already rushing to … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster | Tagged , | 60 Comments

Saturday Silliness – Josh on Keven Trenberth’s AMS speech

Posted on January 15, 2011 by

Inspired by Willis, and adapted from DJ Meredith’s comment on WUWT, a cartoon on Kevin Trenberth, who seems determined to  explode any credibility Climate Science has left.

Posted in Humor, satire | Tagged , | 20 Comments

TV weathercaster re-education proposed by NSF and GMU

Posted on January 15, 2011 by

This is really something. The job opening listed below advertises for an NSF funded  program at George Mason University for education of TV weathercasters on how “unusual weather events” are connected to “climate change”. Apparently the “weather is not climate” … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Government idiocy, media, politics | Tagged , | 122 Comments

NASA: La Niña has remained strong

Posted on January 15, 2011 by

From NASA JPL in Pasadena: New NASA satellite data indicate the current La Niña event in the eastern Pacific has remained strong during November and December 2010. A new Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2 satellite image of the Pacific Ocean … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , , , , | 109 Comments

Worrisome engineering patches

Posted on January 15, 2011 by

From Slashdot: BJ_Covert_Action writes: “NASA engineers have finally discovered the root cause of the cracks that have been found on space shuttle Discovery’s main external tank. The main tank, one of the ‘Super Lightweight Tank’ models developed by Lockheed-Martin, employs … Continue reading →

Posted in space, Technology | Tagged , , , | 71 Comments

Bogus claims on Australian and Brazilian floods from ABC and Dr. Richard Sommerville

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

This ridiculous video story below from ABC news cites über alarmist Richard Somerville of Scripps in San Diego, and is backed up with this print story. Here’s what the print story headline said: Raging Waters In Australia and Brazil Product … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Disaster, Opinion, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 176 Comments

New Total Solar Irradiation (TSI) baseline value – solar min measured lower in 2008

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

From a new paper by Dr. Greg Kopp and Dr. Judith Lean, new finding on the solar minimum TSI in 2008: The most probable value of total solar irradiance representative of solar minimum is 1360.8 ± 0.5 W m−2, lower … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | Tagged , , , , , | 66 Comments

Friday Funny

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

Josh from cartoonsbyjosh.com writes in with: Here’s a thought… The MET Office say they need a new computer to get their predictions right. Er, why not just buy Pier’s Corbyn’s laptop – it seems to do the stuff, no?

Posted in Humor, satire | 35 Comments

More Unsubstantiated Global Warming Hype

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

Guest post by Michael Lewis, Ph.D. The current issue of the elitist “science” journal, Science, contains an article in its “Perspectives” section (not in the “Research” section):  Earth’s hot past could be prologue to future climate | UCAR. Here’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, climate_change, politics, Science | Tagged , , , , , , | 70 Comments

Quote of the Week

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

I somehow missed this in December, but WUWT reader Jimbo thankfully reminds us in comments on the Nature-”global warming isn’t killing penguins” thread

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Where’s John Mashey and “DeepClimate” when we need them?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

From Steve McIntyre on Climate Audit: Trenberth and Lifting Text Verbatim In case readers think that Trenberth’s outburst discussed yesterday represents an isolated and unfortunate climate scientist incident, this is not the case. In fact, some of Trenberth’s most objectionable language … Continue reading →

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According to NCDC’s own data, 2010 was not the warmest year in the United States, nor even a tie

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

While there’s been a lot of attention given to the recent NOAA and NASA press releases stating that 2010 was tied for the warmest year globally, it didn’t meet that criteria in the USA by a significant margin according the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Climate News | Tagged , , , | 205 Comments

Green journalists lament the lack of overwhelming coverage of global warming in the liberal media

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

Guest post by Ryan Maue Green journalists and partisan bloggers are baffled about the lack of sufficient coverage of the “2010 hottest year ever” — and utter failure to ram through climate legislation in the 111th Congress.  After scratching your … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, media | Tagged , , , , , , , | 99 Comments

Tale of the Global Warming Tiger

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. Once upon a time, long ago and far away, three brave warriors decided to do something about the tiger that was terrorizing their village. The first approached the tiger’s head and whacked it with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, measurement, NASA GISS | Tagged , , , , , | 52 Comments

Another overhyped global warming claim bites the dust

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

Longtime readers of WUWT may remember this story from 2008: Nutty Story of the Day: “Global Warming” is Killing the Penguins in Antarctica The root of this goes back as far as 2006, such as this MSNBC story: Now it appears … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Climate News | Tagged , , , , , | 109 Comments

A Conversation with the Author

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

Guest post by Michael A. Lewis, Ph.D In a New Year’s Day post, Anthony mounted the Abstract from a Paper titled Warming Power of CO2: Correlations with temperature change. Subsequent comments raised some questions about the Journal citation, International Journal … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 54 Comments

Government at work: spend $500,000 to save $8,000

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

Gosh, it can’t be the money, can it? There must be something else going on. The juxtaposition is priceless. From Tom Nelson: UVA spends $500,000 on lawyers when it would cost only $8,000 to deliver public documents? Commonwealth Foundation – … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI, Government idiocy | 67 Comments

Trenberth’s upcoming AMS meeting talk: ClimateGate Thoughts

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

Dr. Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) a U.S. publicly funded research center, uses the term “denier” six times in this upcoming talk, which he has submitted as a preprint to the American Meteorological Society (AMS) … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, politics, presentations | Tagged , , | 319 Comments

And you knew it would be said…Oz floods due to global warming

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

It was only a matter of time. NCAR’s Kevin Trenberth plays the never ending blame game. Scientists see climate change link to Australian floods By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia Wed Jan 12, 3:01 am ET SINGAPORE … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO | Tagged | 161 Comments

Giant evil gaseous blob attacks San Diego, film at 11

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

What could it be? Something from Los Angeles? Robert Clemenzi tells us in comments:

Posted in Carbon dioxide, modeling, ridiculae, satire | Tagged , , , , , | 69 Comments

The Australian cites covered up report of Brisbane flood danger

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

By Hedley Thomas, The Australian A SECRET report by scientific and engineering experts warned of significantly greater risks of vast destruction from Brisbane River flooding – and raised grave concerns with the Queensland government and the city’s council a decade … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster, Government idiocy | Tagged , , , , | 101 Comments