Monthly Archives: April 2011

An insider’s view of Caltrans, efficiency, and green edicts

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

A reaction comes via email from a Caltrans employee to the story: Caltrans abandons weather, embraces “climate change” as the reason for washed out roads I’ve redacted the name and other identifying information, to protect the employee identity. This inside view … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy | Tagged , | 48 Comments

Second BEST

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Professor Muller of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project is always interesting, but he just keeps digging his personal hole deeper. He recently gave an interview titled “Scientists Often Pigeonholed By Political Debates“ and answered questions … Continue reading →

Posted in Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature | Tagged | 135 Comments

Adventures in journalism: from llama fish to carbon neutral bras

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

Louise Gray, who wrote this amazing piece of journalism in the Telegraph the other day… Fish carried up a mountain on backs of llamas to escape global warming …has boobed given us yet another story worthy of discussion here. The … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon footprint, ridiculae, satire | Tagged , , , | 61 Comments

Stockwell asks: Is the Atmosphere Still Warming?

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

Guest post by Dr. David Stockwell I suspect that the only really convincing evidence against global warming is a sustained period of no global warming or cooling — climate sensitivity and feedbacks are too esoteric. I have followed the recent … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, PDO | Tagged , , | 98 Comments

Socialists of the World Unite for Youth Climate Conference

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ryan Maue: Starting Friday, April 15 in Washington DC, we will be able to witness an absolutely surreal public display of anti-capitalist, extreme far-left community organizing, all wrapped in the cloak of climate change / clean energy … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics, Science | Tagged , , , , | 133 Comments

Final words on the 2010 Russian heat wave from AGU: weather, predictable

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

The map above, from the NASA Earth Observatory Picture of the Day website, shows how the temperature on July 27 departed from the 2000 to 2008 average. Download large image (1 MB, JPEG) Deadly 2010 Russian heat wave: Not from climate … Continue reading →

Posted in heat wave, weather | Tagged , | 18 Comments

George Mason University “Climate Change Communicator of the Year” – where only one viewpoint is allowed

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

Heh, what can you say? Read some of the glowing nominations at the links below. It’s pure self aggrandizement wrapped in a delusional comedy. I got the biggest chuckle from seeing skepticalscience.com listed as an “organization”. Mike Mann’s nomination letter … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Humor | 66 Comments

Caltrans abandons weather, embraces “climate change” as the reason for washed out roads

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

I just finished reading: Turning a More Vivid Shade of Green: Caltrans Takes a Stand on Climate Change, Global Warming from the Caltrans website. The road sign below (from this online sign generator) rather sums up what the essay says … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy | Tagged , , , , , | 78 Comments

Yellowstone’s supervolcano – worse than we thought

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

From www.unews.utah.edu via Eurekalert Electric Yellowstone Conductivity image hints volcano plume is bigger than thought SALT LAKE CITY, April 11, 2011 – University of Utah geophysicists made the first large-scale picture of the electrical conductivity of the gigantic underground plume … Continue reading →

Posted in vulcanism | Tagged , , | 72 Comments

Climate Change Craziness of the Week: a fish story from llama land

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

This is just….just…ah heck I can’t even begin to describe it. The stupid, it burns. Here’s the odoriferous essence of this publicity stunt story:

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week | Tagged , | 123 Comments

Heated worries? Be alerted about temperature and humidity

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

As many know, I create instrumentation and display systems that do a wide variety of weather monitoring tasks. Usually I focus on weather and climate measurement in situ. Now, I have something useful for alerting you to problems of mission … Continue reading →

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Zeroed out: NOAA Climate Service funding axed in budget CR

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

From the House Appropriations Committee:  Summary — Final Fiscal Year 2011 Continuing Resolution:  PDF Page 2:  Commerce, Justice, Science:  “This section of the CR also prohibits funding for: the establishment of a Climate Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, Science | Tagged , | 60 Comments

Quote of the week – the carbon munchies

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

Yes, but they didn’t inhale the electricity…

Posted in carbon footprint | Tagged , , , , , | 69 Comments

California’s giant sucking sound

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

Time to leave California? Governor Moonbeam may be the best salesman Texas has. While there’s a state delegation in Texas (including former SFO mayor Gavin Newsom) trying to figure out why Texas is pulling business out of California (cue Ross … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy | Tagged , , , , , , | 107 Comments

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

Quote of the Week: “Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | 7 Comments

NCDC’s March Madness

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

To read this report, one might conclude that at 1.4 degrees F above the long-term (1901-2000) average, things are looking really bad for US temperatures…that is, until you look at the March temperature records of the past which aren’t part … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | Tagged , | 45 Comments

One data set discontinued, NCDC to offer free daily data access to another

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

I’m not sure what the motivation for this is, none was given in the announcement. The historical data contained in the 3200 directory will remain on ftp3 for a limited time. This mirrors the removal of other datasets, such as … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | Tagged , | 17 Comments

Pielke Senior: Climate Science Myths & Misconceptions

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

Climate Science Myths And Misconceptions – Post #1 On The Global Annual Average Surface Temperature Trend By Dr. Roger Pielke Senior There are a remarkable number of myths and misconceptions about climate science. In a set of upcoming posts in the coming weeks starting … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | 28 Comments

A headline I thought I’d never see

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

It seems that the media down under is turning on newly appointed climate change commissioner Tim Flannery and his ideas. We need a Flannery FAIL blog to keep track of all of these. Have a look:

Posted in Climate News | Tagged , , , , | 74 Comments

Steig on Antarctic warming: “Rossby wave trains”

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

From the University of Washington, comes this upcoming paper by corresponding author Dr. Eric Steig (and co-authors)that the mechanism for warming of the Antarctic Peninsula is mostly weather pattern driven. The mechanism cited? “Rossby Wave Train” aka the circumpolar vortex … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, weather | Tagged , , , | 32 Comments

Satellite-Era Sea Surface Temperature Versus IPCC Hindcast/Projections – Part 1

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale GLOBAL AND PACIFIC OCEAN SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE OVERVIEW This series of posts examines the differences between multi-model mean of the IPCC 20C3M (Hindcast)/SRES A1B (Projection) data and the Reynolds OI.v2 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies, … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , , , | 40 Comments

New gasoline engine design has 4x efficiency of pistons

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

This looks promising. It is basically a continuous combustion wave turbine. While not super powerful in this early design and not intended to replace a V-8 it can be brought to market for a hybrid vehicle application soon, according to … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | Tagged , | 147 Comments

Solar, Terrestrial, & Lunisolar Components of Rate of Change of Length of Day

Posted on April 10, 2011 by

Paul L. Vaughan, M.Sc. Without a good handle on its simple geometry, a seemingly complex time series can appear as a changeling yielding to the pressures of mysterious statistical manipulation. For example, a fundamentally important seminal observation reported by Le … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | Tagged | 174 Comments

Sunday Satire – The Skepticism Time Series

Posted on April 10, 2011 by

I stumbled across this looking for something else. Worth a look just for the chuckle. The only thing missing is the marker for Jim Hansens’s 1988 senate speech  where he and Senator Tim Wirth made the room extra hot for … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, satire | Tagged , | 25 Comments

Climate models go cold

Posted on April 10, 2011 by

Carbon warming too minor to be worth worrying about By David Evans (excerpts from a special to the Financial Post) The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro-thin half-truths and misunderstandings. I am a … Continue reading →

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