Monthly Archives: May 2011

Failing to make his case, James Hansen uses children as legal pawns

From LiveScience, another reason for NASA to fire Jame Hansen now: Here’s the basis for his actions in a nutshell:

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The Magic Cookpot

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach This one is for fun and also for real. The theme of this post is “There’s never enough time.” I worked in the villages of the developing world off and on for a number of … Continue reading

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New solar reconstruction paper suggests 6x greater solar forcing change than cited by the IPCC

This is interesting. This recent paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics here has done a reconstruction of TSI using Beryllium 10 isotope records combined with sunspot records. The paper suggests that the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) has increased since … Continue reading

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Greenpeace loses charity status in New Zealand

With the way they operate, can the rest of the world be far behind? From the WUWT tips and notes we have this news. Will and also John from New Zealand say:

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April 2011 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

Guest post by Bob Tisdale WEEKLY NINO3.4 SST ANOMALIES The weekly NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies have just risen above the threshold of a La Niña, and are just barely in ENSO-neutral territory. The NINO3.4 SST anomaly based on … Continue reading

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First Light on the Ozone Hockeystick

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach After many false starts, thanks to Steven Mosher and Derecho64 I was able to access the forcings used by the CCSM3 climate model. This is an important model because its successor, the CESM3 model, is … Continue reading

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Princeton: Direct removal of carbon dioxide from air likely not viable

From the Princeton news website By Steven Schultz Technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are unlikely to offer an economically feasible way to slow human-driven climate change for several decades, according to a report issued by the American … Continue reading

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UK Climate Resilient Infrastructure: billions needed to combat climate change effects on Wi-Fi signals

News Post by Ryan Maue A government issued report from the UK Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) sounds the alarm about the incredible impacts of climate change upon UK:  Wi-Fi signal range and strength will be greatly … Continue reading

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NOAA CSI: no attribution of climate change to tornado outbreak

All the bloviation from Think Progress, Climate Progress and the rest of those people that want to turn any disaster into a link to climate change are doing is just that: bloviating. Told ya so. Here’s the preliminary report from … Continue reading

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The Vatican gets involved in climate change

From Scripps: Vatican Science Panel Calls Attention to the Threat of Glacial Melt Pontifical Academy of Sciences working group of leading scientists to present report to Pope Benedict XVI Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San Diego A … Continue reading

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The surfacestations.org paper – accepted

After months of work, I’m pleased to announce that the paper that I have jointly written with several co-authors, including Dr. Roger Pielke Senior (who acted in the capacity as corresponding author) has run the peer review gauntlet and has … Continue reading

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The GISS divergence problem: Ocean Heat Content

Bob Tisdale points out the reality versus projection disparity. It would seem, that we have a GISS miss by a country mile. Where’s the heat? – Anthony First-Quarter 2011 Update Of NODC Ocean Heat Content (0-700Meters) Guest post by Bob Tisdale … Continue reading

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Solar Max – So Soon?

Guest post by David Archibald Dr Svalgaard has an interesting annotation on his chart of solar parameters – “Welcome to solar max”: Graphic source:  http://www.leif.org/research/TSI-SORCE-2008-now.png Could it be?  It seems that Solar Cycle 24 had only just begun, with solar … Continue reading

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Visualizing the “Greenhouse Effect” – Light and Heat

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein Solar “light” radiation in = Earth “heat” radiation to Space out! That’s old news to those of us who understand all energy is fungible (may be converted to different forms of energy) and energy/mass is … Continue reading

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Nenana 2011 Ice Classic result

In case you missed it, the official result for 2011 is in: The Tanana River officially broke up on May 4, 2011 at 4:24 PM and here’s the clock Here’s the context of the date in comparison with all of … Continue reading

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ROTFL – dog lovers will appreciate this one

This came to me via Facebook, and it has absolutely nothing to do with any topic I normally cover on this blog, but it is so hilarious that I still get tears in my eyes laughing at it even after … Continue reading

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Tree rings as a proxy for historical ENSO reconstruction

From the University of Hawai’i’s International Pacific Research Center at Mānoa, comes this proxy reconstruction that does some similar things the infamous hockey stick reconstruction, but doesn’t need to pull any statistical “tricks” to make the case. Our old friend … Continue reading

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How a leftover from the cold war turned into a weather and climate tool

This trapezoid shaped clearing in Modoc county, CA, has an interesting purpose. See image below:

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Intel’s new revolutionary Tri-Gate 3D transistors

Intel senior fellow Mark Bohr showed off the company’s revolutionary new 3D transistors in an announcement this week in San Francisco. The power, performance, and real estate gains are impressive. Moore’s Law seems to be holding. In the video below, … Continue reading

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Pielke Jr: Joe Romm Lies

Dr. Roger Pielke writes in with an update: [UPDATE 5/7: Joe Romm offers 3,300 wacky words in response to this short post. Crazy. Anyway, the simple response is, did Gore remove the slide I called him out on for using?  … Continue reading

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Top Secret NOFORN Restricted Access Climate Model Results

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Y’know, some of these climate games are getting kind of boring. I’m tired of people who are paid with my taxes hiding their data, results, and findings. Case in point, the “Community Earth System Model” … Continue reading

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The “Taxing your car by the mile” plan

Or in other words, we’ll all drive “taxis”, except for the chosen exempt few. Yesterday on “The Hill” they reported this story: Obama admin. floats draft plan to tax cars by the mile: ‘A vehicle miles traveled tax could be … Continue reading

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Stanford claims farmers “dodged impacts of global warming” in the USA, but you have to find it first.

But it looks to me as if corn doesn’t care. Check out U.S. corn yield. Corn seems to be doing well. I used corn yield because in the Stanford Press Release, they refer to corn yields. Some of the gains … Continue reading

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A Modest Proposal for Nuclear Waste Disposal

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach For many people the sticking point for nuclear power is, what do we do with the waste? We can “vitrify” the waste, but what do we do with it after that?  Figure 1. The process … Continue reading

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New sea level page from University of Colorado now up

As we surmised in earlier posts, the crozon.colorado.edu website was a test run. Here’s the newest graph from the revised http://sealevel.colorado.edu/ Updated: 2011-05-05 They write about the update:

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