Monthly Archives: April 2011

Stratospheric water vapor may have contributed about a third of the warming 1980-2000 but now is in decline

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

Don’t Ignore Nature From the Global Warming Policy Foundation by Dr. David Whitehouse How many times have you seen, read or heard some climate ‘expert’ or other say that mankind’s greenhouse gas emissions are largely responsible for the unprecedented warming … Continue reading →

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Icelandic volcano exonerated for harsh winter of 1783–1784

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

From AGU’s Geophysical Research Letters:   In June 1783 the Laki volcano in Iceland began to erupt, and continued erupting for months, causing a major environmental disaster. The eruption spewed out toxic sulfuric acid aerosols, which spread over northern latitudes … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology, vulcanism | Tagged , | 41 Comments

The Climate Change Blues

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

Via Eurekalert, and from the “Department of Population Color Doppler Shift”, comes this story of the bluing. Next comes the violet. After that, well, I don’t even want to talk about it…   Published in the Journal of Animal Ecology … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, ridiculae | Tagged , , | 72 Comments

Arctic Ozone “Hole” in March

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

From the European Space Agency, a story of significant cold and wind patterns that have created an ozone “hole” in the Arctic where there normally isn’t one. The last time this happened was in 1997. It isn’t really a “hole” … Continue reading →

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Bastardi: no return of El Niño til 2012

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

No No to el Nino ( till 2012) By Joe Bastardi (from his WeatherBell blog) I was going to write something about the dreaded back door front and how while it may be 90 at the masters this weekend it … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, forecasting | Tagged , , | 118 Comments

Global temperature still headed down- UAH: negative territory

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

The global temperature has fallen .653°C (from +0.554 in March 2010 to -0.099 in March 2011) in just one year. That’s a magnitude nearly equivalent to the agreed upon global warming signal agreed upon by the IPCC. It is quite … Continue reading →

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Courtillot on the solar UV climate connection

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

From the HockeySchtick Video: Geophysicist explains how the Sun controls climate, not CO2 Dr. Vincent Courtillot is a professor of geophysics at the University Paris-Diderot and Chair of paleomagnetism and geodynamics of the Institut Universitaire de France. In the recent lecture below he … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the week – Claim: nuclear tests stopped global warming in the mid 20th century

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

People send me stuff. Never mind the other aerosol sources, it was the Fat Man and Little Boy. From the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics April 2011, these claims: Atmospheric nuclear explosions induced the stagnation in global warming in … Continue reading →

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All the climate news that’s fit to misprint

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

While Krugman wails at the NYT, giant Elk die in print for all the wrong climatic reasons. In Tips and Notes, P J Brennan says: All the news that’s fit to mis-report: From today’s NYT When the planet warmed at … Continue reading →

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An investigation of USHCN station siting issues using a cleaned dataset

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

While BEST is making a public relations train wreck for themselves by touting preliminary conclusions with no data analysis paper in place yet to support their announcements, there have been other things going on in the world of surface data … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, weather_stations | Tagged , , , | 65 Comments

Quote of the Week – it’s a doozy

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

Finally, a scientist gets it, speaks out about it, and a reporter in a major media outlet publishes the words that say in even stronger terms what I said last Thursday about Dr. Richard Muller’s testimony before Congress. From the … Continue reading →

Posted in Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, media | Tagged , , , , | 77 Comments

Pielke Sr. on sampling error in BEST 2% preliminary results

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

Is There A Sampling Bias In The BEST Analysis Reported By Richard Muller? Guest post by Dr. Roger Pielke Senior In his testimony Richard Muller (which I posted on Friday April 2 2011), indicated that he used 2% of the available … Continue reading →

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Introducing the WUWT US Weather History Reference Page

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

We are pleased to introduce WUWT’s newest addition, the WUWT US Weather History Reference Page The US Weather History page includes temperature, precipitation and snowfall graphs and graphics covering the prior year in the United States. It will soon be … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, climate data, education, weather | Tagged , , , , | 28 Comments

CSIRO shows cyclone (hurricane) frequency down, contradict Gore and many others who claim Global Warming will increase them

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

From The Australian: Climate change to mean fewer cyclones and smaller waves, says CSIRO research CSIRO research commissioned by the federal government suggests climate change could dramatically reduce the number of tropical cyclones in the Australian region and decrease wave … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on April 3, 2011 by

Quote of the Week: “To reduce the interpretation of all kinds of climate change and of global warming to one variable, CO2, and to a small proportion of that one variable – human induced CO2- is impossible to accept.” Vaclav … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | Tagged | 20 Comments

Listen up, “deniers”! Your Internet use is destroying the planet

Posted on April 3, 2011 by

Personally, I’ve always thought that the key to an advanced and open society was freedom of information. Apparently too much freedom for certain labeled groups of people is going to destroy the planet. Gosh. Australian media really has gone off … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness, media, satire | Tagged , , | 147 Comments

Former EPA researcher Alan Carlin publishes his paper

Posted on April 3, 2011 by

My New Paper On The Economics And Science Of Climate Change Guest Post by Alan Carlin On Friday my new paper on climate change science and economics was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, a … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | Tagged , , , | 90 Comments

The big self parodying “climate change blame” list

Posted on April 3, 2011 by

Longtime WUWT reader Jimbo writes in Tips and Notes: The following has been partly referenced and inspired by Numberwatch. The differences between this list and Numberwatch are: 1) I have tried to select my sources only from peer reviewed letters, … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, ridiculae | Tagged , | 68 Comments

Leaked document shows how Australian government planned to “sell the idea of a carbon dioxide tax to the public”

Posted on April 2, 2011 by

Professor Bob Carter writes: A rather remarkable thing happened in Australia last week, which was the leaking of an internal government document issued to all Labor MPs (probably from the PM Gillard’s office) with 16 pages of suggestions as to … Continue reading →

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“Science has been sitting on his critique of Dessler’s paper for months”

Posted on April 2, 2011 by

On Recent Criticisms of My Research By Dr. Roy Spencer One of the downsides of going against the supposed “consensus of scientists” on global warming — other than great difficulty in getting your research funded and published — is that … Continue reading →

Posted in peer review, post-normal science | Tagged , , | 108 Comments

UHI, this is London

Posted on April 2, 2011 by

Since BEST claims they will work to take UHI into consideration, it seems worthwhile to highlight this new paper. Guess who’s a co-author? Phil Jones of UEA’s CRU. Image above from Arizona State, Center for Environmental Science Applications (CESA). From … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI | Tagged , , , , | 82 Comments

Better Living Through Electricity

Posted on April 2, 2011 by

Power for the people You cannot champion the poor, but support anti-energy policies that perpetuate poverty Guest post by Paul Driessen In a scene reminiscent of Colonial Williamsburg, for 16 years Thabo Molubi and his partner had made furniture in … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, politics | Tagged , , , | 84 Comments

Giant 7 megawatt sea fan announced

Posted on April 1, 2011 by

New from Vestas, the company that gives you roto-splode: …comes this super gnarly giant sea wind turbine. No, not an April fools post. Here’s the details from Vestas:

Posted in energy, Technology | Tagged , , , , | 157 Comments

Declining rainfall, bugs, and birds

Posted on April 1, 2011 by

Via Eurekalert Smithsonian scientists find declining rainfall is a major influence for migrating birds Instinct and the annual increase of daylight hours have long been thought to be the triggers for birds to begin their spring migration. Scientists at the … Continue reading →

Posted in rainfall, weather | Tagged , , | 87 Comments

15 years

Posted on April 1, 2011 by

Happy Birthday, JunkScience.com!

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