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Monthly Archives: May 2011
The new US Postal service green stamps – no mention of global warming, climate change, or carbon – but they do want us to turn off our lights “forever”
The first thing I thought of when I heard about the new US Postal Service “green stamps” was this logo at right. I suppose I’ve dated myself identifying this, but I can’t help it. For the baby boomer generation, S&H … Continue reading
Posted in Government idiocy
Tagged climate change, George Monbiot, global warming, United States Postal Service
62 Comments
Pat Frank: The New Science of Climate Change
Guest post by John A. This is a shout-out to a fascinating post by Pat Frank on Jeff Id’s blog on the mysterious changes to climate history coming from James Hansen’s GISS dataset. Here’s how Pat describes it:
Posted in climate data
76 Comments
Update on the CERN CLOUD experiment
WUWT reader Max_B tips us off to this article and video. According to Nigel Calder’s Blog, CERN’s CLOUD experiment (testing Svensmarks’s cosmic-ray theory) shows a large enhancement of aerosol production and the results are due for release in 2 or … Continue reading
Posted in aerosols, cosmic rays
Tagged CERN, Cosmic ray, Henrik Svensmark, Jasper Kirkby, Nigel Calder
128 Comments
Life is Like a Black Box of Chocolates
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my earlier post about climate models, “Zero Point Three Times The Forcing“, a commenter provided the breakthrough that allowed the analysis of the GISSE climate model as a black box. In a “black box” … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
220 Comments
Smear job by “The Carbon Brief”
The website “populartechnology.net” decided to ask the questions the smear publishers didn’t. I’ve been authorized to reproduce this in full here, and reposting at other blogs is encouraged. AGW proponents seem hell bent on trying to repeat this “linked to” … Continue reading
Posted in climate ugliness
Tagged Atmospheric Science, DeSmogBlog, ExxonMobil, John Christy
105 Comments
Yesterday it was triangles in the desert…
…today it is arrows carved in the forest.
Posted in Curious things
20 Comments
Comments on the American Physical Society Report on Direct Air Capture of CO2
I try to give equal access to those who want to comment professionally on reports here, here is one such example. This is commentary on the WUWT story Princeton: Direct removal of carbon dioxide from air likely not viable – Anthony … Continue reading
Posted in carbon sequestration
Tagged American Physical Society, Carbon dioxide, Flue gas, SRI International
48 Comments
Measuring rain the easy way: using an automatic logging rain gauge
A few days ago I mentioned John Neilsen Gammon’s post about The other half of the USHCN network – precipitation In that post I had a picture of the standard rain gauge used by Cooperative weather observers in the USA, shown … Continue reading
Posted in rainfall, Technology, weather
Tagged Data logger, National Climatic Data Center, National Weather Service, Rain gauge
40 Comments
Technical paper training for “Hansen’s Bulldog”
Bob Tisdale responds to Grant Foster aka “Tamino”, self proclaimed “Hansen’s Bulldog” (now oddly deleted but available at the Wayback machine via this link). The difference between Mr. Tisdale and Mr. Foster is that Mr. Tisdale doesn’t need to resort … Continue reading
NCDC cites “controversy” with the UAH temperature record, and the search for a “true climate signal”
This article in the January/February edition of WIRES Climate Change doesn’t surprise me at all. With the uncertainty of the surface temperature record in question, the Met Office’s Peter Thorne and NCDC’s Tom Peterson, who once wrote a ghost authored … Continue reading
Curiosity in the desert
It is not often we see perfect triangles in the desert from space. Anybody know what this is?
We’ve heard this before
National Academy of Sciences : Action needed to manage climate change risks — new report WASHINGTON — Warning that the risk of dangerous climate change impacts is growing with every ton of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, a National … Continue reading
Potential Agricultural Impact of the Eddy Minimum
Guest post by David Archibald I will be giving a lecture in Washington in early June on my way through to the Bahamas. Following are the slides that pertain to the agricultural impact of the current de Vries cycle event … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, solar
Tagged agriculture, Little Ice Age, Mount Pinatubo, Mount Tambora
156 Comments
The surfacestations paper – statistics primer
Fall et al. 2011: The Statistics By John Neilsen-Gammon (from his blog Climate Abyss – be sure to bookmark it, highly recommended – Anthony) As I mentioned in my last post, I did a lot of the statistical analysis in … Continue reading
The SmartMeter backfiring privacy issue
The promise was to help you control your electricity bill by becoming more aware of your energy use. The downside is that with the data gathered, other people and businesses can also become more aware of your habits, like when … Continue reading
Another cloudy-maybe geoengineering scheme
UGA scientists find missing links in biology of cloud formation over oceans UGA News Service Scientists have known for two decades that sulfur compounds that are produced by bacterioplankton as they consume decaying algae in the ocean cycle through two … Continue reading
Quote of the week – climate as Voldemort
This is quite something. It is sort of a reverse “he who must not be named” meme, and we have a prominent meteorology dean dissing climate colleagues:
Posted in Quote of the Week
Tagged Atmospheric Sciences, climate, John Snow, Lord Voldemort, University of Oklahoma
56 Comments
What climate science has come to: a rap music video with expletives
While not as bad as the horrid 10:10 video exploding children, I have to wonder this about the actual scientists that participated in this farce: what were you thinking ? Of course, it does seem some circles in climate science … Continue reading
The long awaited surfacestations paper
This summary is from Dr. Pielke at the University of Colorado in his words. I’ll have my own post on some detail not covered here, with links to the SI – data code, etc we are preparing in a day … Continue reading
A reader question on OHC – discussion
This comment seemed like a useful question to discuss, so I’m elevating it to post status A. Patterson Moore says: May 11, 2011 at 6:04 am I see ocean heat content discussed here and elsewhere from time to time, but … Continue reading
Posted in oceans, Sea Surface Temperature
128 Comments
The other half of the USHCN network – precipitation
Normally I focus on the temperature component, but the reason I’m posting this will become evident soon. – Anthony Our New Analysis of United States Precipitation Trends By John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas state climatologist I’m going to be talking a lot … Continue reading
Ultimate bug repellant may help fight malaria and other insect borne diseases
From Vanderbilt University, scientific serendipity swats smell: New insect repellant may be thousands of times stronger than DEET by David Salisbury Imagine an insect repellant that not only is thousands of times more effective than DEET – the active ingredient … Continue reading
UAH global temperature anomaly – up in April
As La Niña fades, this is not surprising. Dr. Roy Spencer is back at work and reports the new lower troposphere number. Note also the global sea surface temperature graph below, which is quite interesting. I’m sure Bob Tisdale will … Continue reading
1001110001000
This is the five thousandth published post on WUWT, since this is a computer written blog, publishing the number in binary seemed appropos. 1388 for you hexadecimal fans. I don’t have anything profound to say. It is just a number, … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements
168 Comments
Latest solar cycle update from the Space Weather Prediction Center
SWPC updated their solar cycle progression page…looks like the levels have held since the big uptick in March.























