Monthly Archives: January 2011

Climate Disasters: New Baylor Study Explores How People Respond

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

From Baylor University News Study looks into the interaction of knowledge, risk perceptions and action as it relates to climate events New results from a Baylor University study show that different behaviors and strategies lead some families to cope better … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster | Tagged , , , , | 28 Comments

Australia’s tragic flooding – 30 feared dead

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

UPDATES ADDED: See updates below the read more line My heart goes out to Australia. The ugly side of this is that a portion of the tragedy may have been prevented with a dam to control floodwaters. But as James … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster, Government idiocy | Tagged , , , , , , | 132 Comments

NOAA says 2010 tied with 2005 for warmest year in the surface temperature record

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

Press release: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110112_globalstats.html NOAA: 2010 Tied For Warmest Year on Record According to NOAA scientists, 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year of the global surface temperature record, beginning in 1880. This was the 34th consecutive year with global … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Climate News | 192 Comments

UPDATED: Nearly 71% of the USA is covered in snow, 49 of 50 states have snow on the ground

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

UPDATE: The map and data have been updated from NOHRS. We now have added to yesterday’s total with new overnight snows, bringing the CONUS coverage to 70.9%. KGMB-TV in Hawaii reports, that with snowfall on Mauna Kea, 49 out of … Continue reading →

Posted in snowfall, weather | Tagged , , , , | 77 Comments

Earth’s changing atmosphere

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

Guest Post by Erl Happ This article investigates the sources of natural climate variation.  This is a long post but it’s a big subject. Before you get half way through, your perception of the way things are, will have changed. … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO | Tagged , , | 143 Comments

Supreme court rejects hearing Hurricane Katrina AGW claim

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

From BusinessInsurance.com: Supreme Court won’t hear global warming case WASHINGTON —The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday not to review a pivotal global warming case brought by coastal residents seeking damages for property damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. In Ned Comer … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, politics | Tagged , , | 73 Comments

Another guy with a laptop outforecasts the Met Office

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

Piers Corbyn, while seemingly a bit eccentric, has the distinction of being the only man to have this headline: The man who repeatedly beats the Met Office at its own game Armed only with a laptop, huge quantities of publicly … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting, Government idiocy | Tagged , , , | 76 Comments

New Scientist – Those cursed climate emails

Posted on January 11, 2011 by

Guest post by Barry Woods, UK The last 2010 edition (Dec 25th 2010) of New Scientist (UK) has a review of 2010 and a preview of 2011 section… …and they are rather optimistic that the world has finally moved on from the Climategate emails. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Climategate | Tagged , , , , , , | 66 Comments

CO2 sequestration ‘splodes in Saskatchewan

Posted on January 11, 2011 by

From the “nobody could convince them it was a bad idea in the first place” department… UPDATE: More details now emerging – see below the read more line The Canadian Press – ONLINE EDITION Carbon injected underground now leaking, Saskatchewan … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration, satire | Tagged , , , , | 188 Comments

Spin, span, spun: now it’s “climate challenges”

Posted on January 11, 2011 by

You’d think with something so devastating, so frightening, so certain, they would not need to keep changing the name to make it more marketable. Maybe they can take a cue from Coca-Cola and call it: “New post normal science AGW” … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, ridiculae | Tagged , , , , | 123 Comments

The plot thickens: BBC Hits UK Govt with Freedom of Information Demand in Cold Winter Forecast Fiasco

Posted on January 11, 2011 by

By John O’ Sullivan The BBC serves Freedom of Information request (FOIA) on UK Government over weather forecast failures secrecy in worst winter for 100 years. In an almighty battle to salvage credibility three British government institutions are embroiled in … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI, forecasting, politics | Tagged , , , , | 117 Comments

Something topical

Posted on January 11, 2011 by

Guest post by Erl Happ The Northern Hemisphere is having an old fashioned winter. I thought it might be of interest to look back at history for any lessons that might be there. I think that we already have enough … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 70 Comments

Ocean Acidification: Chicken Little of the Sea Strikes Again

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

Guest Post by David Middleton Introduction As global warming morphs into climate change and global climate disruption and anthropogenic CO2 emissions give way to stochastic variability, clouds, the Sun, cosmic rays and our oceans as the primary drivers of climate change, environmental extremists … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, oceans, paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , | 141 Comments

Climate Craziness of the Week: Eat bugs, not meat, to “save the planet”

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

From Mongabay: Scientists in the Netherlands have discovered that insects produce significantly less greenhouse gas per kilogram of meat than cattle or pigs. Their study, published in the online journal PLoS, suggests that a move towards insect farming could result … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Climate Craziness of the Week, GLOC | Tagged , , , , | 108 Comments

Thunderstorms proven to create antimatter

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

Thunderstorms have been shown to create positrons and send them to space. As the late, great, Johnny Carson of the Tonight Show used to say, “That is some weird, wild, stuff“. NASA’s Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space Scientists … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged , , , , , | 77 Comments

Can Most Of The Rise In The Satellite-Era Surface Temperatures Be Explained Without Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases?

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale In this post, I divide the globe (60S-60N) into two subsets and remove the linear effects of ENSO and volcanic eruptions from GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index data since 1982. This is done using common methods. … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , , , , | 160 Comments

UK Parliamentary Committee Asked To Probe Winter Transport Fiasco

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

Met Office on the hot seat. From the GWPF: Liverpool Echo, 10 January 2011 by Ian Hernon A LIVERPOOL MP is set to head a Parliamentary probe into this winter’s transport “fiasco.” Riverside’s Louise Ellman, as chairman of the Transport … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting, politics | Tagged , , , , , | 58 Comments

Abandon all hope, ye who read this

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

Climate change to continue to year 3000 in best case scenarios New paper in Nature Geoscience examines inertia of carbon dioxide emissions New research indicates the impact of rising CO2 levels in the Earth’s atmosphere will cause unstoppable effects to … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Disaster, post-normal science, satire | Tagged , , | 227 Comments

Snow hits the south – air travel woes coming

Posted on January 9, 2011 by

Expect a really ugly day for air travel on Monday as Atlanta’s forecast is not one of encouragement, and we all know just how important Atlanta is an a regional air hub. From NWS Atlanta/Peachtree City, GA:

Posted in snowfall, weather | 41 Comments

The Met Office ‘secret’ prediction and the political implications

Posted on January 9, 2011 by

Guest Post by Barry Woods In The Telegraph (UK newspaper), it was reported that Roger Harrabin, an environment analyst at the BBC, told the Radio Times: “The trouble is that we simply don’t know how much to trust the Met … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting, media | Tagged , , , , , , | 106 Comments

My best computer upgrade, evah

Posted on January 9, 2011 by

The solid state hard drive comes of age I spend a lot of time at my PC, and I use quite a number of programs in my tasks at keeping WUWT updated. I use browsers, word editors, PDF viewers, paint … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , | 124 Comments

Met office: you want fries with that freeze?

Posted on January 9, 2011 by

The Met Office fries while the rest of the world freezes   By Christopher Booker (excerpt from his Telegraph column) First it was a national joke. Then its professional failings became a national disaster. Now, the dishonesty of its attempts … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, satire | Tagged , , , | 79 Comments

Poo Gloo Gaia Pans

Posted on January 9, 2011 by

Sorry for the title, I couldn’t resist. This article is calling to Mike Rowe, of “Dirty Jobs” fame, who makes “poo” his specialty. While this brown, er green, story isn’t our normal fare on WUWT, but I found it interesting. … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health | Tagged , , , , , | 70 Comments

Monckton skewers Steketee

Posted on January 9, 2011 by

2010 WAS THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley   Michael Steketee, writing in The Australian in January 2011, echoed the BBC (whose journalists’ pension fund is heavily weighted towards “green” “investments”) and other climate-extremist vested interests … Continue reading →

Posted in media, Opinion | Tagged , , | 315 Comments

College students lack scientific literacy, study finds

Posted on January 8, 2011 by

After reading this I asked myself: Is it any wonder college students get sucked in to emotionally based eco-causes/NGO’s that spout claims based on questionable science?  This troubling press release comes from Michigan State University. A link to the full … Continue reading →

Posted in education | Tagged , , | 102 Comments