Monthly Archives: February 2011

The life and times of Carbon Dioxide

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

From the “fun with conjecture department”, another graduate school paper parroting the claim from NOAA’s Susan Solomon that excess man-made CO2 stays in the atmosphere for thousands of years. From CO2science: In a paper recently published in the international peer-reviewed … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide | Tagged | 186 Comments

Watch sunspot group 1158 form from nothing

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

UPDATE: Leif Svalgaard provides us a magnetic movie (SDO HMI) which I’ve also converted and added below. It’s a real treat too. This is truly an impressive animation from the folks at the Solar Dynamics Observatory. I’ve converted it to … Continue reading →

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3 CME’s headed our way – geomagnetic storminess set for earth

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

From the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, word that our recent X-class (and lesser magnitude) solar flares have released three Coronal Mass Ejections (CME’s) toward Earth: The calm before the storm. Three CMEs are enroute, all a part of the … Continue reading →

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Going bananas over radiation

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

While doing some reasearch on Thorium, I came across this interesting little fact that I wasn’t familiar with, so I thought I’d pass it along. Many people fear radiation, sometimes the fear is irrational, based on the erroneous concept that … Continue reading →

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Quote of the week: the middle ground where AGW skeptics and proponents should meet up

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

This article was sent to me by Charles Hart, and I have to say, I really like this quote from Curt Stager in Fast Company. Between the extremes of Hansen’s pronouncements about coal death trains and people in Britain having … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, thorium power | Tagged , , , | 120 Comments

Forget CO2, US Debt “Causes” Warming

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

Guest Posting by Ira Glickstein Total US Debt (public and private) as a percentage of US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) correlates with NASA GISS US Annual Mean Temperature Anomaly better than CO2 levels! So, if we want to reduce warming, … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, NASA GISS | Tagged , | 91 Comments

New WUWT Ocean Reference Page added

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

Introducing our newest reference page the WUWT Ocean page: http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/ocean/ We’ve also changed the WUWT “ENSO/Sea Level/Sea Surface Temperature Page” to the “ENSO (El Nino/La Nina Southern Oscillation)” and this page is now everything ENSO. If you have the WUWT … Continue reading →

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Climate Audit requested of the Australian BoM and CSIRO

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

On Jo Nova’s site, the cat is set amongst the pigeons: A team of skeptical scientists, citizens, and an Australian Senator have lodged a formal request with the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) to have the BOM and CSIRO audited. … Continue reading →

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Blizzard stories from the National Weather Service

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

Mike Smith tips us to this NOAA Communications Office Summary of stories about the February blizzard. It makes for interesting reading. As Record Snow Falls, NWS Employees Hunker Down An Epic Storm: Tulsa, Okla. Chuck Hodges and Bruce Sherbon, forecasters … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting | Tagged , | 69 Comments

Controversial NASA temperature graphic morphs into garbled mess

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

UPDATE: Repaired – see below What happened to that image? Back in 1999, Dr. James Hansen of NASA penned a report on surface temperatures still located on their servers. However, the critical figure for the report, a GIF image, has … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, NASA GISS | Tagged , , , | 91 Comments

The Chinese peg the sulfur emissions worldwide

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

From PNNL: Worldwide sulfur emissions rose between 2000-2005, after decade of decline Shipping, China top emissions growth in new analysis of 150 years of emissions COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A new analysis of sulfur emissions appearing in the journal Atmospheric … Continue reading →

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Russian Winter: severe cold to invade Moscow and Eastern Europe

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue Throughout history, the term Russian Winter has come to explain the multitude of military failures of various invading forces into European Russia.  The effects of weather and short-term climate on warfare has been recognized … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, weather | Tagged , , , | 71 Comments

Climate craziness of the week: 8°F by 2100, sea level rise to hit US coastal cities hard

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

From the hot and well above sea level University of Arizona, home of the world famous parking lot climate station, comes this zany press release: Rising seas will affect major US coastal cities by 2100 Rising sea levels could threaten … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week, sea level | Tagged , | 128 Comments

Sunspot group 1158 produces an X class solar flare

Posted on February 14, 2011 by

Solar expert Dr. Leif Svalgaard says the last X class flare was Dec 13th, 2006. The flare today is the first Solar Cycle 24 flare reaching X class level. See the Xray plot below:

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Posted on February 14, 2011 by

Josh is feeling the day…

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Pielke Sr. on the 30 year random walk in surface temperature record

Posted on February 14, 2011 by

First some background for our readers that may not be familiar with the term “random walk” See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk ============================================================ New Paper “Random Walk Lengths Of About 30 Years In Global Climate” By Bye Et Al 2011 There is a new paper … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | Tagged , | 107 Comments

The Met Office link-buries the CET

Posted on February 14, 2011 by

The Central England Temperature Record has been getting some inconvenient attention as of late. Joe D’Aleo at ICECAP pointed out recently: The Central England Temperature record is one of the longest continuous temperature record in the world extending back to … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Government idiocy | Tagged , , , | 128 Comments

I Have A Stake In The Outcome

Posted on February 13, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Here on WUWT, Ron Cram has provided an interesting overview of a number of people’s ideas about desirable changes to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC). He proposes that the IPCC … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC, Opinion | Tagged , , | 199 Comments

The Futility of Wind Power

Posted on February 13, 2011 by

From Viv Forbes of Australia’s Carbon Sense Coalition comes this new document intended as “a submission to the Australian Senate Enquiry into Wind Farms” on the extraordinary costs of wind power generation both economically and environmentally:

Posted in energy, Uncategorized | 131 Comments

“The main problem is that the earth is hot, flat and crowded”

Posted on February 13, 2011 by

That headline is a newspaper article quote from NASA JPL’s resident climatologist Bill Patzert. However, given how badly writer “Beige Luciano-Adams” has botched the rest of the article Patzert is featured in, I suspect it is a misquote. Patzert can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 67 Comments

A Conversation with an Infrared Radiation Expert

Posted on February 13, 2011 by

A guest post by Ken Coffman and Mikael Cronholm In clicking around on the Internet, I found an outstanding paper called Thermodynamics of Furnace Tubes – Killing Popular Myths about Furnace Tube Temperature Measurement written by Mikael Cronholm. The paper … Continue reading →

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M class solar flare today

Posted on February 13, 2011 by

Dr. Leif Svalgaard writes in a short email: M6.6 flare kicks F10.7 to 126 sfu Here’s the flare on the X-ray plot:Here’s the xray image: So while the sun has been generally quiet recently, it still has its fits of … Continue reading →

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A viewpoint on the Antarctic warming debate

Posted on February 13, 2011 by

Antarctic temperature plots through the history of the debate: NASA 2004: NASA 2007: Steig et al 2009:   O’Donnell et al 2010:   Some historical perspective:

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Weekly Climate and Energy News

Posted on February 13, 2011 by

THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) On Wednesday, Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, and Lynn Goldman, a former EPA Assistant Administrator, representing the American Public Health Association, stridently … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | Tagged | 14 Comments

A modest proposal in lieu of disbanding the IPCC

Posted on February 13, 2011 by

Guest post by Ron Cram Since Climategate, PachauriGate, GlacierGate and AmazonGate, a number of mainstream and skeptical climate scientists have been very critical of the IPCC. Some are suggesting the IPCC should be disbanded and future assessment reports should come … Continue reading →

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