Monthly Archives: April 2011

Deep fried flying

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

I’ve never much thought there was much usefulness to waste vegetable oil used for automobile fuel, as there is a much more finite amount of waste frying oil available compared to petroleum. Ditto for chicken fat powered aviation. Would you … Continue reading →

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Wakey wakey

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

CU-Boulder leading study of wind turbine wakes A turbine at the National Wind Technology Center south of Boulder, Colo. (photo courtesy of CIRES) While wind turbines primarily are a source of renewable energy, they also produce wakes of invisible ripples … Continue reading →

Posted in energy | Tagged , , , | 64 Comments

EPA abuses the permit process for an icebreaker

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Jeez Louise. They may need an icebreaker for the project, and so since they didn’t account for its exhaust, let’s scuttle the whole thing and the 4 billion invested so far.  I’m no fan of Shell, but this is just … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | Tagged , , , | 168 Comments

The climate sensitivity and the surface temperature record question – answers from major players

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Dr. Roger Pielke Senior posted this today, since he has no comments on his blog, I felt it would be good to repost it here to allow discussion – Anthony Repost Of Weblog Climatequotes.com “Climate Scientists Answer Question: Should Climate … Continue reading →

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Quote of the week – Note to UEA and CRU: get a clue

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

You’d think that after all the pain and suffering caused by Climategate to the University of East Anglia and the Climate Research Unit, these guys would have a clue. You’d think that they’d want to get the monkey off their … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, FOI | Tagged , , , , , , , | 91 Comments

The Pseudonymous Poll Trailer

Posted on April 25, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [NOTE: This is not the poll, it is preparation for the poll.] Well, I have to say that I have learned a whole lot already in this project. In preparation for an upcoming poll on … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 216 Comments

Climate Craziness of the Week – greentabs for gasoline

Posted on April 25, 2011 by

This ginormous marketing spam was left as a comment on WUWT on the thread: Stratospheric water vapor may have contributed about a third of the warming 1980-2000 but now is in decline Seeing as to how it was left on … Continue reading →

Posted in GLOC, Humor, satire | Tagged , | 56 Comments

Ben Santer elected AGU fellow

Posted on April 25, 2011 by

No mention if he threatened to “beat the crap out of” the judges /sarc Ben Santer From Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Ben Santer is a man with a lot of accolades under his belt: A recipient of the MacArthur “genius” … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, satire | Tagged , , , | 80 Comments

Amphibian decline – climate change not the single culprit

Posted on April 25, 2011 by

Like the recent smackdown of the “plankton are declining” nonsense, compare the new paper from OSU below to this reporting from 2008: From Oregon State University: Catastrophic amphibian declines have multiple causes, no simple solution CORVALLIS, Ore. – Amphibian declines … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | Tagged , , | 55 Comments

The Ocean Wins Again

Posted on April 25, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I took a lot of flak last year for my post saying that the global 50% drop in phytoplankton claimed by Boyce et. al was an illusion. I had said: So where did the Nature … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 154 Comments

Update on the CU sea level page status

Posted on April 25, 2011 by

Things are changing with global sea level data reporting. As I mentioned in my post April 6th: What’s delaying UC sea level data from being updated? As you can see in the graph above, the data has not been updated since … Continue reading →

Posted in sea level | Tagged , | 81 Comments

Australia’s bad carbon policy advice dissected

Posted on April 25, 2011 by

Wrong advice, wrong policy by Bob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks, Bill Kininmonth & Des Moore From Quadrant Online April 25, 2011 Government misadvised on global warming On November 10 last year, the government’s Multi-party Climate Change Committee (MCCC) received … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon tax | Tagged | 57 Comments

Green Sin Week – your personal guide to penance

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

Mocking Lent, Good Friday, and Easter observed by millions, the eco website “Grist” this week showed the link between all things green and religion, by making a “virtual confession booth” for those who have sinned against Gaia. Apparently, there’s been … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Humor, satire | Tagged , , , | 117 Comments

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

Quote of the Week: “Climate change is the norm. If you want something to worry about, it would be if the climate were static. It would be like a person being dead.” Richard Lindzen, as quoted in the first issue … Continue reading →

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The Telegraph “gets it” about Climategate investigations and the conflict of interest of publicly funded media

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

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Sunday Silliness

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

Here’s a hilarious green/AGW spoof of the opening theme of the 60′s TV show Green Acres, which was itself a spoof of the famous painting, American Gothic, one of the few paintings to reach the status of cultural icon (like … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, satire | Tagged , , | 26 Comments

Upcoming Anonymous Poll on Anonymity

Posted on April 23, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Why do people not sign their own names to what they write on the internet, and in particular on this blog? I thought I’d ask people this in the form of an anonymous poll. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 387 Comments

On ocean heat content, Pinatubo, Hansen, Bulldogs, cherrypicking and all that

Posted on April 23, 2011 by

Self proclaimed “Hansen’s Bulldog” (now oddly deleted but available at the Wayback machine via this link), the blogger known as “Tamino” loves to bloviate his views about imagined cherrypicking whenever he thinks we aren’t showing everything we are supposed to, … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, NASA GISS, oceans, vulcanism | Tagged | 79 Comments

Clouds, radiative forcing, and climate models – still tweaking

Posted on April 23, 2011 by

As most readers know, clouds are still poorly understood and under-represented in climate models. This new research may help. From: DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Effect of cloud-scattered sunlight on earth’s energy balance depends on wavelength of light Accounting for wavelength … Continue reading →

Posted in clouds, modeling | Tagged , , , | 70 Comments

Easter Blizzard in the Northeastern US, Global Warming to Blame?

Posted on April 23, 2011 by

From the “weather is not climate” department, post by Mike Lorrey: I woke up today to find a couple inches of snow accumulating on my deck, and was thinking about setting up a nice picture there with some of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 60 Comments

Tornado hits St. Louis airport

Posted on April 23, 2011 by

The airport is closed due to damages. Video follows.

Posted in tornadoes | Tagged , | 31 Comments

New mystery appliance is the antithesis of the green dream

Posted on April 23, 2011 by

What sort of new appliance is so hip, so cool, so stylish, so sophisticated, so much a work of art…that you’d put it in your glass penthouse living room, so that you could impress your hot model girlfriend? Don’t look … Continue reading →

Posted in GLOC, Humor, satire, Technology | Tagged , , | 147 Comments

Overstretching Attribution (Nature Climate Change)

Posted on April 22, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein VOL 1 NO 1 of a new journal, Nature Climate Change, arrived in my mailbox today. While clearly in the Warmist camp, it was refreshing to read the first paper Overstretching attribution. It starts off … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change | Tagged , , | 40 Comments

Friday Funny: F-word Fusillade by Michael Tobis

Posted on April 22, 2011 by

Lucia sums up the preparations as: It’s happy hour. I say pour yourself a beer and toast St. Barbara as you admire this most recent barrage of artillery launched by MT, the climate communications cannoneer that just can’t stop launching … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, FUG, Humor, satire | Tagged | 79 Comments

Failed Mirth Earth Day predictions

Posted on April 22, 2011 by

Via iHateTheMedia, here are a few of the predictions made on the first Earth Day. Don’t these sound like the predictions today that fail, like the 50 million climate refugees by 2010 followed by the moving of the goalposts to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate FAIL, Humor, ridiculae, satire | 80 Comments