Monthly Archives: June 2011

Chris Mooney must not be from Missouri

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

Kid blogger Chris Mooney (at left) often writes fascinating articles for their sheer single mindedness of purpose – making anyone who doubts AGW in even the slightest look like fools. I’ve been on the receiving end a few times but … Continue reading →

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Climate change in UK schools – “we are taking it back to the core stuff”

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

From the Guardian, a hopeful situation for climate realists everywhere. Climate change should not be included in the national curriculum, the government adviser in charge of overhauling the school syllabus in England has said. Tim Oates, whose wide-ranging review of … Continue reading →

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Rutgers on Coal vs. Nuclear

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

From Rutgers University press room: The Energy Debate: Coal vs. Nuclear Rutgers researcher finds factors other than global warming and potential for plant accidents figure into Americans’ preferences As America struggles down the road toward a coherent energy policy that … Continue reading →

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Dramatic satellite images of the Ethiopian eruption

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

The MODIS/AQUA rapidfire website finally had a pass overhead online early this AM of the Ethiopian/Eritrean area volcanic eruption of Nabro, and I have them below. The plume stretches well over 1000 miles now. In the photo below, the Red … Continue reading →

Posted in vulcanism | Tagged , , , | 71 Comments

The Chaos theoretic argument that undermines Climate Change modelling

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

Just to be clear ahead of time, chaos in weather is NOT the same as climate disruption listed below – Anthony Guest submission by Dr. Andy Edmonds This is not intended to be a scientific paper, but a discussion of … Continue reading →

Posted in modeling | Tagged , , | 212 Comments

And the hits keep coming: 80 million pages served

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

Guest post by Ric Werme I like to look at remaining trip lengths in terms of a fraction 1/n left to reach a goal. For example, in April WUWT was 3/4ths of the way to 100 million page views – … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | Tagged , , | 36 Comments

Solar activity still driving in the slow lane

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

The sun seems not to be in cooperative mood again this month. It has gone blank again. And from SWPC, the brief upticks of April were not repeated in May:

Posted in Science, solar | 163 Comments

UK business poised to flee green carbon tax

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

From The GWPF, newsbytes on the subject of UK Businesses Threaten To Flee Abroad To Escape Green Energy Levies British industry’s ability to compete with companies overseas is under threat from punitive green energy costs, the new president of the … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon tax | Tagged | 110 Comments

“Stop Mr. Climate Change”

Posted on June 12, 2011 by

That’s a sign in one of the videos below. This is what college churns out these days, at least in UMass Lowell, but I’ll give them points for not wasting state funding or seeking grant money. From their YouTube website: … Continue reading →

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Earthquakes and volcanic eruption in Ethiopia

Posted on June 12, 2011 by

UPDATE: I’ve updated the sat IR image below, plus added some Google Earth imagery below. The ash plume has hit the stratosphere and has now extended to more than 1000 miles from the point of origin. It looks more and … Continue reading →

Posted in vulcanism | Tagged , , , | 98 Comments

Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on June 12, 2011 by

  Quote of the Week: “… and my error has been a good lesson to me never to trust in science to the principle of exclusion.” The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, p 15 [H/t Paul Macrae] – – – – … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | Tagged | 25 Comments

Emails, schmemails – its only harrassment when they do it,

Posted on June 12, 2011 by

Without even invoking the angst the media had over climategate emails, where somebody simply got fed up with the constant illegal sidestepping of FOI requests and dumped the whole lot… FOIA said November 17, 2009 at 9:57 pm e We … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, media | Tagged , , | 67 Comments

BBC snowed by the whims of nature

Posted on June 12, 2011 by

Oh noes! Then, suddenly, this week, in summer no less, nature decides that snowfalls won’t be a thing of the past after all, and makes bozos of the BBC:

Posted in Climate News, snowfall, weather | Tagged | 92 Comments

Craziest carbon credit scheme yet – shooting camels in Australia

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

How to Create Carbon Credits – Kill a Camel. By Viv Forbes The people who brought us pink-bats and cash-for-clunkers have a new scheme – we can earn carbon credits by shooting wild camels, humanely of course. Surely it would … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon credits, Government idiocy | Tagged , , , | 151 Comments

12th quarterly RGGI auction a bust? It sure wasn’t a boom.

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

The northeast US’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative sells CO₂ allowances through quarterly auctions. The intent is that both electric power producers will buy some because they have in order to emit CO₂, and speculators will buy some in hopes of … Continue reading →

Posted in cap-and-trade, politics | Tagged , | 23 Comments

Phil Jones does an about face on “statistically significant” warming

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

From the “make up your mind” department: Climate warming since 1995 is now statistically significant, according to Phil Jones, the UK scientist targeted in the “ClimateGate” affair. Last year, he told BBC News that post-1995 warming was not significant – … Continue reading →

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Massive drifts and late-melting snowpack

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

Guest Post by Verity Jones While the MSM is all hot under the collar about the Killer heat wave in the mid-East US, not a mention about the massive snow accumulation in the Western USA this year. It’s not just … Continue reading →

Posted in records, snowfall | Tagged , , | 114 Comments

Gotta Admire The Chutzpah

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The abstract of a new study from Science Magazine entitled “The Unusual Nature of Recent Snowpack Declines in the North American Cordillera”, Gregory Pederson et al., 9 June 2011 (paywalled, all data available here, figures … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 87 Comments

New sea level dataset now available – still flat

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

NEW NODC DATASET: THERMOSTERIC SEA LEVEL ANOMALIES Posted by Bob Tisdale Just a quick one-graph post. The NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) has added Thermosteric Sea Level Anomaly data to its GLOBAL OCEAN HEAT CONTENT webpage. The NODC describes the … Continue reading →

Posted in sea level | Tagged | 75 Comments

Venice to be hit hard by Climate Change? Never mind

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

I guess they won’t need any more “Green Economic Conferences” there the like this: Where they say: “Venice is particularly hard hit by climate change and this conference is an attempt to provide solutions that various parts of Italy are … Continue reading →

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Sulfur Dioxide plume from the Chilean volcano

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

Here’s the eruption seen from NASA MODIS: This visible image was taken on June 8 at 18:30 UTC (2:30 p.m. EDT) by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite. The plume from the Puyehue-Cordón … Continue reading →

Posted in vulcanism | Tagged , , | 39 Comments

Nature to world’s people: stop your modern living

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

More of this “climate justice” rubbish, now “legitimized” by a publication in a leading science journal From the Hockey Schtick: The journal Nature suggests billions of people could be sued for legal breach of duty to care for the climate … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon footprint | Tagged , , | 125 Comments

New commenting features on WUWT

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

NOTE TO READERS: I have no control over this, wordpress.com implemented it across the board. My advice until they fix it is to make sure you are running a modern updated browser, Such as Firefox. – Anthony from the wordpress.com … Continue reading →

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Pressure Mounts To Come Clean On Hidden Green Taxes

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

Newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF: Power companies were under mounting pressure last night to come clean about the green ‘stealth levies’ secretly added to fuel bills – and tell customers exactly how much they are paying for … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon tax, newsbytes | 42 Comments

The Long View of Feeding the Planet

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach People have short memories. One of the things that I have learned in this game is to start any particular quest by finding the longest continuous records and look at them to understand the situation. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 119 Comments