Monthly Archives: January 2011

Naked bodies and a new Messiah

Guest post by Robert Zimmerman If anyone had any doubt that the global warming movement is undergoing a serious collapse, this so-called news article from Spiegel Online, entitled “Naked bodies and a new Messiah: Green groups are trying to sex … Continue reading

Posted in Al Gore, Alarmism, Climate News, climate_change, education, Environment, media, Opinion, politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 107 Comments

Lawrence Solomon on consensus statistics

  Lawrence Solomon in the Financial Post writes: The ‘scientific consensus’ about global warming turns out to have a lot more to do with manipulating the numbers How do we know there’s a scientific consensus on climate change? Pundits and … Continue reading

Posted in IPCC, Opinion | Tagged , , | 81 Comments

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Note: Normally this appears on Sunday, but I’m way behind this week- Anthony THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Today marks the re-launch the SEPP web site, www.sepp.org. The web site is … Continue reading

Posted in Climate News Roundup | Tagged | 41 Comments

An Unexpected Limit to Climate Sensitivity

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [Update: I have found the problems in my calculations. The main one was I was measuring a different system than Kiehl et al. My thanks to all who wrote in, much appreciated.] The IPCC puts … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 247 Comments

The Northeast snowstorm of 2010 by satellite view

From NASA Earth Observatory: Last week’s Winter Storm in the Northeastern United States download large image (9 MB, JPEG)acquired December 28, 2010 download GeoTIFF file (74 MB, TIFF)acquired December 28, 2010 download Google Earth file (KMZ)acquired December 28, 2010 A … Continue reading

Posted in snowfall, weather | Tagged , , , | 18 Comments

Global Sea Surface Temperature continues to drop

SST UPDATE FROM AMSR-E By Dr. Roy Spencer, PhD The following plot shows global average sea surface temperatures from the AMSR-E instrument over the lifetime of the Aqua satellite, through Dec 31, 2010. The SSTs at the end of December … Continue reading

Posted in ENSO, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , , , | 83 Comments

UAH Global Temperature anomaly published, 1998 still warmest year in the UAH satellite record

See also: RSS data: 2010 not the warmest year in satellite record, but a close second Dec. 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.18 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer, PhD. NEW 30-YEAR BASE PERIOD IMPLEMENTED! Sorry for yelling like that, but … Continue reading

Posted in climate data | Tagged , , , | 90 Comments

California’s remarkable December weather

While Miami and much of south Florida experienced the coldest December on record, the “other sunny state”, California, has been getting blasted with snow. My family and I experienced this firsthand yesterday on the drive back from Southern California to … Continue reading

Posted in ENSO, snowfall, weather | Tagged , , , , , , , | 42 Comments

RSS data: 2010 not the warmest year in satellite record, but a close second

NOTE: A second graph has been added. See below. The RSS data for Dec 2010 is out and available here, and I’m second in publishing it. The honor for being first goes to Lucia at the Blackboard here. I used … Continue reading

Posted in climate data | Tagged , , | 76 Comments

It’s such a cold December: 2010 ends on a chilly note where people live

Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue December global surface temperatures cratered after the Cancun climate confab, which ended a string of above-average months.  However, until the government temperature keepers put out their 2010  autopsy and bubble plot with the appropriate … Continue reading

Posted in climate_change, weather | Tagged , , , | 83 Comments

Bangladesh, the Poster Child

Guest post by: B.Quartero Bangladesh, the largest Delta in the world, has been the poster child of a scary sea level rise story ever since “An Inconvenient Truth”. There is much to be concerned about in Bangladesh, and flooding is … Continue reading

Posted in Land use land cover change, sea level | Tagged , , , , , , , | 56 Comments

Do solar scientists STILL think that recent warming is too large to explain by solar activity?

  Guest post by Alec Rawls Study of the sun-climate link was energized in 1991 by Friis-Christensen and Lassen, who showed a strong correlation between solar-cycle length and global temperature: This evidence that much of 20th century warming might be explained … Continue reading

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US Energy Independence by 2020

Guest post by David Archibald Ira Glickstein’s post promoting clean coal has prompted me to offer a few slides from a presentation I had prepared. One of the things that gets me about clean coal is that the same people … Continue reading

Posted in energy | Tagged , , , , , | 226 Comments

Antarctic Ice Cores: The Sample Rate Problem

  Guest Post by David Middleton In my first guest post (CO2: Ice Cores vs. Plant Stomata), we discussed the merits of ice cores vs. plant stomata as paleo-CO2 measurements. One of the key stomata papers I cited was Thomas van Hoof’s … Continue reading

Posted in paleoclimatology | 114 Comments

Greenhouse Thought Experiment

UPDATE: Jeff provides his answer below Guest post by Jeff Condon (reposted by request from The Air vent) Derek has been in a war with ScienceofDoom over the what appears to be Planck radiation. I’m actually not sure of his … Continue reading

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New paper – “absence of correlation between temperature changes … and CO2″

WUWT readers may remember way back when…I posted this from Joe D’Aleo: Warming Trend: PDO And Solar Correlate Better Than CO2 Joe wrote then: Clearly the US annual temperatures over the last century have correlated far better with cycles in the … Continue reading

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Zombie satellite cured, brought back to life

Readers may remember this story from 2010: “Zombie” satellite shuts down critical NOAA NWS systems overnight It appears the zombie has been brought back from the half dead.

Posted in space, Technology | Tagged , , | 18 Comments

Time Magazine and Global Warming

People send me stuff. Nigel Rios writes in with a great compendium of Time Magazine covers that illustrate the history of that magazine’s global warming coverage from the 1970′s to the present. It’s worth the click.

Posted in Humor, media, satire | 112 Comments