Monthly Archives: May 2011

Atlantic ‘conveyor belt’ current – still going strong

From the American Geophysical Union: Study suggests no slowing of Atlantic ‘conveyor belt’ current The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), which carries warm water to high northern latitudes near the surface and returns cold water in the deep ocean to … Continue reading

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Puzzling shape – adventure in bulldozing?

Now that we all survived the rapture, readers are invited to help figure out what this is. Details here:

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Arctic Cycles – AMO+PDO corresponds to Arctic station group

The following figure shows the AMO+PDO (black line above changed to red below) superimposed on the Arctic average annual temperature shown at the beginning of this document.

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

DON’T FORGET: Heartland Institute is sponsoring the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-6) to take place in Washington, DC from breakfast Thursday, June 30, to noon Friday, July 1, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. This event will be … Continue reading

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Iceland volcano eruption not likely to disrupt air travel

STOCKHOLM, May 21 (Xinhua) — An eruption has started in Iceland’s most active volcano Grimsvotn, according to reports reaching here from Reykjavik on Saturday. The smoke from the eruption can be seen from many places in south Iceland, Iceland’s television … Continue reading

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I’m sure the Chinese will stop if you ask them…

It seems the US is to blame…

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ENSO color tricks from NOAA’s Environmental Visualization Lab

Or, “how to hide the decline with color”. Here’s the image and press release from NOAA NNVL this week to push their hurricane season announcement. Notice anything odd? Weakening of La Niña but Above Normal Hurricane Season is Predicted [Thursday] … Continue reading

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Happer on The Truth About Greenhouse Gases

The dubious science of the climate crusaders. by William Happer (from First Things) William Happer is the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics at Princeton University. The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the … Continue reading

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Super Storm on Saturn

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and a European Southern Observatory ground-based telescope are tracking the growth of a giant early-spring storm in Saturn’s northern hemisphere so powerful that it stretches around the entire planet. The rare storm has been wreaking havoc for … Continue reading

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Weekend open thread – What are you doing for the rapture?

Somehow, standing in line for this just doesn’t do it for me. So the world ends tomorrow, May 21st, so some people say. What will you do?

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Polar bear population – no change

From CNS News: From that article:

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Indirect Solar Forcing of Climate by Galactic Cosmic Rays: An Observational Estimate

By Dr. Roy Spencer, PhD (reprinted from his blog with permission) UPDATE (12:35 p.m. CDT 19 May 2011): revised corrections of CERES data for El Nino/La Nina effects. While I have been skeptical of Svensmark’s cosmic ray theory up until … Continue reading

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Google fails the “Don’t be evil” maxim when it comes to climate censorship?

First the background on “Don’t be evil” as reported by Wikipedia: In their 2004 founders’ letter prior to their initial public offering, Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Brin explained that their “Don’t be evil” culture prohibited conflicts of interest, and … Continue reading

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Friday Funny – Hansen’s Horror Scopes

The motivation for this cartoon comes from this essay on The Hockey Schtick, which was prompted by a post on David Stockwell’s blog Niche Modeling, which I highly recommend bookmarking.

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Truly surprising science discovery – free floating planets

This is the last thing I expected, we live in an amazing age of discovery. From the AAAS:

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IPCC’s species extinction hype “fundamentally flawed”

Before you read this, I’ll remind WUWT readers of this essay: Where Are The Corpses? Posted on January 4, 2010 by Willis Eschenbach Which is an excellent primer for understanding the species extinction issue. Willis pointed out that there are a … Continue reading

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Sea Ice News – Call for Arctic sea-ice forecasts, plus forecast poll

It has been awhile since I’ve done a sea-ice report. That said, not much of note has been going on in the sea-ice arena, we are in that time of year when all of the years converge into a tighter … Continue reading

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Canada finds climate sanity

Back from the brink A sudden outbreak of sanity seems to have taken hold Canada. Firstly the idea of a carbon tax appears to have been killed off for good: Conservatives kill carbon tax Conservatives have kiboshed a carbon tax, Environment … Continue reading

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NOAA hurricane outlook indicates an above-normal Atlantic season

Looks pretty much the same as Mann’s hurricane season predictions The Atlantic basin is expected to see an above-normal hurricane season this year, according to the seasonal outlook issued by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center – a division of the National Weather … Continue reading

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According to the best-sited stations, the diurnal temperature range in the lower 48 states has no century-scale trend.

It seems that a number of folks have missed one of the more important conclusions from our first paper on the surfacestations project. Co-author Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon has some things to say about it the finding that is the title. … Continue reading

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Perth’s summer- hottest or not?

Perth temperature history Guest post by Chris Gillham It’s worth digging a bit deeper into claims by the Bureau of Meteorology that Perth endured its equal hottest summer in 2010/11 and its hottest first four months of the year on … Continue reading

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If NASA science was this easy to hack, CRU must have been child’s play

We still have no final report from the Norfolk police on whether the ClimateGate files were a hack, or an inside job by a whistleblower. However, we do have another example emerging today that illustrates that it seems rather easy … Continue reading

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Nielsen-Gammon interviews North and others on Wegman – plagiarism may be related to a cultural misunderstanding by foreign exchange student

I’m surprised too, at the reaction of North and others. They may have a point. Wegman: A Surprising Reaction by Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon at the Houston Chronicle’s Climate Abyss I spread the word yesterday to my colleagues about Wegman begin … Continue reading

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Joe Bastardi’s hurricane season

The Hurricane Season ( a rehash of what I have had so far) By Joe Bastardi, WeatherBell I see Dr Mann has a forecast out for 16 storms plus or minus 4, NOAA is out with theirs tomorrow. It is … Continue reading

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Mann’s hurricane season predictions

Hockey team science wonk Dr. Michael Mann has released his hurricane predictions, just in time to pre-empt NOAA’s planned release of their forecast ,Thursday, May 19, 2011 – 11:30 a.m. ET. ESSC Scientists make prediction for 2011 North Atlantic Hurricane … Continue reading

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