Monthly Archives: April 2011

Reality Leaves A Lot To The Imagination

Posted on April 30, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach On an average day you’ll find lots of people, including NASA folks like Gavin Schmidt and James Hansen, evaluating how well the climate models compare to reality. As I showed here, models often don’t do well … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 77 Comments

Introducing the WUWT Global Climatic History Page

Posted on April 30, 2011 by

This one really is a must see: WUWT Global Climatic History Page With graphs including Ocean Heat Content, Accumulated Cyclone Energy, Global Sea Level Change, Global Sea Ice Area, Surface Temperatures and Anomalies and Snowfall, the WUWT Global Climatic History … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 23 Comments

Wonky Team Science

Posted on April 30, 2011 by

Josh from CartoonsbyJosh.com writes: Like you I have been shocked by things written about this by alarmists – quite extraordinary. This cartoon comes from the daftness written here courtesy of Gav, Mike and Kev.

Posted in Humor, satire | 34 Comments

Are Gulf Of Mexico Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Near To Record Levels?

Posted on April 30, 2011 by

Bob Tisdale shows that once again, the devil is in the details. Guest post by Bob Tisdale OVERVIEW This post illustrates Gulf of Mexico Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data and discusses the post by Jeff Masters at his www.wunderground.com blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , | 71 Comments

Why windmills won’t wash

Posted on April 30, 2011 by

Guest post by the Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Consider the Oldbury wind turbine, which WattsUpWithThat.com reveals was installed a couple of years ago at a primary school in the Midlands at a cost of £5000 sterling plus Vicious Additional Taxation … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, Humor, satire, wind power | 183 Comments

Friday Funny – science safety run amok

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

I learned how to make and use gunpowder in the fifth grade thanks to my home chemistry set. KNO3 + S + C = boom! I happily and safely (I have all my digits) made my own fireworks for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, ridiculae, Science | Tagged , , , | 121 Comments

NOAA: Preliminary analysis of April 27-28 tornado outbreak makes it the 3rd deadliest so far

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) map below shows tornado tracks logged by NEXRAD Doppler Radar NOAA’s preliminary estimate is that there were 211 tornadoes on April 27-28, 2011. During the multi-day period of April 26-28, The National Weather Service (NWS) … Continue reading →

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The folly of linking tornado outbreaks to “climate change”

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

In times of tragedy, there always seems to be hucksters about trying to use that tragedy to sell a position, a product, or a belief. In ancient times, tragedy was the impetus used to appease the gods and to embrace … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Current News, Disaster, Opinion, thunderstorms, tornadoes, weather | Tagged , , , , , | 69 Comments

Never let a good crisis go to waste: tornado deaths blamed on lawmakers opposed to climate legislation

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

Further Update: Turns out I was hoping for too much.  Brad Johnson found at least three scientists eager to be quoted in his follow up article:  Kevin Trenberth, Michael Mann, and Gavin Schmidt.  The quotes from these top scientists are … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics, weather | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 171 Comments

Aqua satellite images tornado damage path

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

Mike Smith of meteorological musings writes: Brown Gashes on an Otherwise Green Earth You’ll want to click to enlarge this image. This from the AQUA earth-monitoring satellite. These tornadoes were so large they left visible brown gashes on the Alabama … Continue reading →

Posted in tornadoes, weather | Tagged , , , | 66 Comments

Satellite based radar images April 28th tornado outbreak

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

From: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center TRMM Satellite sees massive thunderstorms in severe weather system The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite again flew over severe thunderstorms that were spawning tornadoes over the eastern United States on April 28 and … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology, weather | Tagged , , | 11 Comments

Uncertain Climate Risks (Nature Climate Change)

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein As I continue to plow through Vol 1 Issue 1 of the new Journal Nature Climate Change, I came to the following amazing statement: Communicating the value of climate modelling … requires confronting such apparent … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, clouds, feedbacks, IPCC, modeling, politics, Science, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 153 Comments

RFP’s and the sad state of climate science funding

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

From the “more study is needed” department and Dr. Roger Pielke Senior, it seems that the RFP (request for proposal) might be one of the biggest problems with climate science today, as some read like recipes. He posted this article … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy | Tagged , , , | 46 Comments

“…it would be a mistake to blame climate change for a seeming increase in tornadoes”

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

I was very encouraged by this part of the story:

Posted in Current News, Technology, tornadoes | Tagged , , | 50 Comments

Real Climate on Spencer – Bad timing or just bad judgment?

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

UPDATE: After I sent an email to Dr. Steve Ghan, RC has suspended comments. See below. My thanks and kudos to them for doing so. – Anthony It strikes me as very odd, and very, very, tacky, that Real Climate … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 43 Comments

Here, let me fix that headline for you

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

Corrected below.

Posted in Climate News, Humor, satire | 46 Comments

Post facto review on yesterday’s tornado outbreak

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

UPDATE: I’ve added a firsthand account from Dr. Roy Spencer below. Epic Tornado Outbreak ends today with focus near East Coast By Joseph D’Aleo from Weatherbell.com We talked about this would be a season of major floods and severe weather … Continue reading →

Posted in thunderstorms, tornadoes, weather | Tagged , | 28 Comments

Larry Bell creates a disturbance in the force

Posted on April 28, 2011 by
Posted in Alarmism | Tagged , | 60 Comments

The wind turbine albedo effect

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

Via the Wakey Wakey thread, I got wind of this photo (seen below the continue reading line) which is a real world effect of the model at left. It seemed worthwhile to share for the sheer uniqueness of it. The … Continue reading →

Posted in fun_stuff | Tagged | 71 Comments

ENSO report and forecast

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

  Summary: La Niña conditions continued across the equatorial Pacific. The magnitude of negative sea surface temperature anomalies continued to decrease across the Pacific Ocean. A transition to ENSO-neutral conditions is expected by June 2011. Ensemble forecast: All models indicate … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO | Tagged , , | 49 Comments

“Profound” climate variability engine found – leakage around the Cape of Good Hope “could mean that current IPCC model predictions for the next century are wrong”

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

From the National Science Foundation: Threading the Climate Needle: The Agulhas Current System Increased Agulhas “leakage” significant player in global climate variability Additional photos here The Agulhas Current which runs along the east coast of Africa may not be as … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans | Tagged , , , , , , , | 146 Comments

Study of the East Greenland Current finds no trend

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

Current research for the East Greenland Current (EGC) has been focused on freshwater fluxes from melting ice. Because the EGC runs through the Greenland Sea and eventually through the Labrador Sea (as the West Greenland Current) it can have strong … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, oceans | Tagged , , , | 15 Comments

The UN “disappears” yet another inconvenient climate claim, and once again, botches the cover up

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

It seems there’s a purge on at the UN to remove failed climate claims. Last week it was the 50 million climate refugees that never materialized and was covered up, this week it’s the poor of Africa they’ve “disappeared”.  This … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Climate FAIL | Tagged , , , | 109 Comments

World opinion on global warming: not so hot

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

Results of the latest Gallup poll: Worldwide, Blame for Climate Change Falls on Humans Americans among least likely to attribute to human causes by Julie Ray and Anita Pugliese WASHINGTON, D.C. — World residents are more likely to blame human … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, Opinion | Tagged , , | 54 Comments

Blown promises

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

First the promise, perhaps a bit overrated: The article goes on to say: The borough already has one publicly-owned turbine — a 33ft Air Dolphin turbine at a location off Taylors Lane, Oldbury, near the civic amenities site in Shidas … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI, Government idiocy | Tagged , , | 163 Comments