Monthly Archives: June 2011

Yet Even More Discussions About The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale INTRODUCTION I’ve written numerous posts that describe the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), what the PDO represents, and, just as important, what it does not represent. For those new to the PDO and for those needing … Continue reading →

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Earth’s Climate System Is Ridiculously Complex – With Draft Link Tutorial

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” I am often amused by claims that we understand Earth’s climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except CO2 as the primary driver of Earth’s temperature and make … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Antarctic, Arctic, cosmic rays, earth, education, ENSO, modeling, oceans, Radiation, rainfall, sea ice | Tagged , , , , | 332 Comments

The rain in Spain is mostly from the planes

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

OK, bad pun, but I could not resist. From the National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research  something related to what we have always said, airports are not a representative environment for climate measurement. Takeoffs and landings cause … Continue reading →

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Watch ICCC6 in Washington live here

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

Below is the live link to the 6th International Conference on Climate Change in Washington DC. Senator James Inhofe will be the keynote speaker. Video link and agenda schedule follow.

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Pielke Senior on NCDC’s recent “state of the climate” rehash

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

Continued Bias Reporting On The Climate System By Tom Karl and Peter Thorne By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. Today, there were news articles concerning the state of the climate system; e.g. see  the Associated Press news release in the Washington Post … Continue reading →

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Global warming to sicken farm animals

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

Farm animal disease to increase with climate change Researchers looked at changes in the behaviour of bluetongue – a viral disease of cattle and sheep – from the 1960s to the present day, as well as what could happen to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | Tagged | 103 Comments

Bizarre: NYT follows AAAS lead on “FOIA requests equate to death threats”

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

Chris Horner of the American Tradition Institute writes in with this: So the American Association for the Advancement of Science, thoroughly rattled by the American Tradition Institute’s FOIA requests of UVa and NASA — and even more so by the … Continue reading →

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The Log in the Eye of Greenpeace

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

Source: SPPI by Dennis Ambler Matthew 7:5 – Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. As Greenpeace publishes yet another … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 104 Comments

Paleopollen in Antarctica

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

Fossilized pollen reveals climate history of northern Antarctica Analysis of direct climate record shows Antarctic tundra persisted until 12 million years ago HOUSTON — (June 27, 2011) — A painstaking examination of the first direct and detailed climate record from … Continue reading →

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CAP and blunder – but Joe Romm is still invited to ICCC6

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

From the Heartland Institute, they call out the Center for American Progress for posting falsehoods, but invite them to the conference anyway. Class act. Liberal Think Tank’s ‘Prebuttal’ Gets Facts Wrong About The Heartland Institute, Climate Conference Today at 2 … Continue reading →

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Because being “green” is the first thing you think of when disaster happens

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

From Eurekalert, this inanity. What next, calls to reduce the beam power of NEXRAD weather radar systems so they are more “green”? I’m all for power efficiency in remote sensing, but leave it at that. Calling it “green” just sounds … Continue reading →

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Mistaking Numerology for Math

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I always love seeing what Science magazine thinks is important. In their June 10th edition, in their “BY THE NUMBERS” section, they quote Nature Climate Change magazine, viz: 1,211,287  Square kilometers of ice road-accessible Arctic lands that … Continue reading →

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Arlene – first tropical storm of the 2011 Hurricane season

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

First tropical storm of the 2011 Hurricane season, formed 28 days after the season started on June 1st. See it below. So far, rather disorganized. BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM ARLENE SPECIAL ADVISORY NUMBER   1 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL       AL012011 … Continue reading →

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VVD (Dutch classical liberals) are fed up with Royal Met Office – ask for its dissolution

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

Hans Labohm writes in an email: Dear all, Pursuant to my earlier e-mail, I am sending you the translation of my posting on DDS. The posting has been published now on: http://www.dagelijksestandaard.nl/2011/06/ren%C3%A9-leegte-over-gevaren-klimaatverandering-voor-voedselveiligheid See the translation below. (Feel free to improve … Continue reading →

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PIOMAS Arctic Sea Ice Volume Model Corrected – Still Appears Suspect

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” It seems that the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) Arctic Sea Ice Volume Model that generated the highly suspect chart above has been corrected to “show reduced errors over the prior … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, sea ice, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 67 Comments

Bastardi on learning from the past

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

Joe publishes an essay in the  State College newspaper which Mann reads looking for anything that might question his hockey stick theory. – Anthony Can America Last? Only If We Use the Lessons of the Past by Joe Bastardi If … Continue reading →

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More Evidence that Global Warming is a False Alarm

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

Roy Spencer writes on his website: NASA’s James Hansen is probably right about this point: the importance of ocean heat storage to a better understanding of how sensitive the climate system is to our greenhouse gas emissions. The more efficient … Continue reading →

Posted in ARGO data, oceans, Sea Surface Temperature, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 43 Comments

BREAKING: ICO Orders UEA to Produce CRUTEM Station Data

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

Steve McIntyre reports on Climate Audit: Breaking news: Today probably marks the closing chapter of the longstanding FOI request for CRUTEM station data. The UK Information Commissioner (ICO) has rendered a decision (see here)  on Jonathon Jones’ appeal of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, FOI, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 50 Comments

Center for American Progress and Romm to mock Heartland conference with a phone call

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

I laughed out loud when I read the press release. Romm just can’t stand the fact that we are in Washington, which he considers his turf, so he had to do something, anything. Heh. Gosh a conference call where he’ll … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness | Tagged , , | 55 Comments

Winter Weather in California in late June

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

While not unprecedented, it certainly is odd for the last week of June to see a weather bulletin with snow accumulation like this from NWS/NOAA. Here’s the storm system:

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Weekly climate and energy news roundup

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

Restoring the Scientific Method is the theme of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-6), Sponsored by the Heartland Institute. It will take place in Washington, DC from breakfast Thursday, June 30, to noon Friday, July 1, at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | Tagged | 20 Comments

Europe’s Green Agenda Folds As Economic Crisis Deepens

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

Newsbytes from The Global Warming Policy Foundation EU carbon prices have slumped 15% in one week, as a slew of bearish news took its toll on the markets. “It’s just been carnage these last few days,” said a trader at … Continue reading →

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Snow job: Al Gore doesn’t know how to use the Internet

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

From Tom Nelson – too good not to share. More proof that Fraudster Al Gore doesn’t know how to use the Internet Al’s Journal: June26th, 2011 Ice and Snow Disappearing from Mt. Rainier The effects of the climate crisis are … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore | Tagged , | 101 Comments

July ARCUS forecast poll – What will the September NSIDC Arctic minimum extent be?

Posted on June 26, 2011 by

Once again, I’m going to give WUWT readers an opportunity to make a forecast for submission, based on voting. See the poll at the end.  I’ll run this poll each month in the week before the deadline, and we’ll see … Continue reading →

Posted in sea ice | Tagged , , | 92 Comments

Global hurricane activity at historical record lows: new paper

Posted on June 26, 2011 by

During the past 6-years since Hurricane Katrina, global tropical cyclone frequency and energy have decreased dramatically, and are currently at near-historical record lows.  According to a new peer-reviewed research paper accepted to be published, only 69 tropical storms were observed … Continue reading →

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