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…
Month: June 2011
Open Thread #10
I’m off to ICCC6 today, ahead of time as I have other things to do in Washington ahead of the conference. Posting will be light. Guest posts are encouraged. Authoirs…
Geological Society statement about climate change
Dr. Capell Aris writes: Dear Mr. Watts, The UK Geological Society has made a statement about climate change. This seems to have received very little attention. It’s not a particluarly…
Quote of the week – still "wirthless" after all these years edition
Readers will recall that I launched a volley against former Senator Tim Wirth regarding his recent statement where he wants to “come after” skeptics. I also made him a standing…
Further Problems with Kemp and Mann
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my previous post I discussed some of the issues with the paper “Climate related sea-level variations over the past two millennia” by Kemp et…
Is the Corps of Engineers forcibly reverting floodplain to its natural state?
Guest post by Alec Rawls That’s the eye-popping thesis suggested by Joe Herring at American Thinker, and his prima facie evidence, while thin, is also hard to get around. The…
Gorefail: The state of the global green movement is "shambolic"
Via Glen Reynolds at Instapundit comes this excellent essay by Walter Russel Mead at the American Interest. The Failure Of Al Gore: Part One. It must be as perplexing to…
It hertz when you do that – power grid to stop regulating 60 Hz frequency
“Experiment” on the US power grid will change the way some clocks and other equipment function. Story submitted by Joe Ryan The AP has released an “exclusive” story concerning the…
EU Carbon Credit trading takes a dive. In Greece, they can't hardly give EU carbon credits away
Guest post by Ecotretas CO2 tumbling down Once upon a time, carbon trading was supposed to be the salvation for Earth’s climate problems. But as time went on, people started…
The End is Near for Faith in AGW
When the public learns about huge faults in the skeptic scientist accusation, combined with the faults in the IPCC, the result may send AGW into total collapse. Guest post submitted…
Northern Eurasian snowpack could be an important predictor of winter weather in U. S
Northern Eurasian snowpack could be an important predictor of winter weather in U. S., team from UGA reports Writer: Philip Lee Williams, 706/542-8501, phil@franklin.uga.edu Contact: Thomas Mote, 706/542-2906, tmote@uga.edu Jun…
Bring it, Mr. Wirth – a challenge
UPDATE (Sunday 6/26 8:30AM): After choosing the quote of the week this week (see above here) I’ve come to the conclusion that former Senator Wirth is mentally incapable of debating…
Run Away! The "Anthropocene" is coming!!!
Guest Post by David Middleton I just love it when the authors of these sorts of articles start out with a series of mistakes… The Anthropocene: Can Humans Survive A…
The supremes recommend the supreme skeptic
What better endorsement could skeptics ask for? – Anthony by Lawrence Solomon in the Financial Post The justices of the United States Supreme Court this week became the world’s most…
Friday Funny – Zombie sea level sticks
Josh writes: For Michael Mann’s use of the Hockey Stick in the sea level paper – an obscure cinematic reference. Well yes, but then isn’t that kind of appropriate?
El Niño – a global warming survivor
From the AGU Weekly highlights: El Niño–Southern Oscillation variability persisted in warmer world Changes in the distribution of sea surface temperature associated with the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cause significant…
Something more worrisome than global warming
Story Submitted by Mike Bromley ASTEROID FLYBY: – Asteroid will pass 12, 000 Km (7,500 miles) from Earth Newly-discovered asteroid 2011 MD will pass only 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) above…
7.2 Earthquake in Alaska – Tsunami Warning Canceled
From USGS: This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Contrails – itty bitty icy forcing
From the American Geophysical Union weekly highlights: Estimating climate effects of contrails Condensation trails, or so-called contrails, formed by freezing of ice crystals in the exhaust from aircraft jet engines…
This is why we don't leave black holes lying around
Just because it is Thursday, funny, and well done…
Tropical Storm Beatriz – the six hour "shorty"
50 years ago, we’d never have counted this as a tropical storm. As outlined recently in New peer reviewed study: Surge in North Atlantic hurricanes due to better detectors, not…
Oh Noes! Climatic monetary disruption seen in US economy
Weather affects business, and “It’s clear that our economy isn’t weatherproof,”. Gosh, who knew? For some monetary perspective on this issue, please note that Obama’s economic stimulus package was $787…
Reduce your CO2 footprint by recycling past errors!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony has pointed out the further inanities of that well-known vanity press, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This time it is Michael…
Gore's Rolling Stone Denier Diatribe
This hasn’t hit the newstands yet, but thanks to the propaganda arm of Gore Inc. aka “Repower America” I’ve been given a link to the advance online copy which you…
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