Monthly Archives: June 2011

Look out Portland, “climate disruption” sending waves of refugees your way

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

So far, the only climate refugees I’ve ever seen in reality are the ones that travel from NYC, Boston, Minneapolis, and other cold winter locations to escape to Florida and Arizona during November-March. I have to laugh at this though:

Posted in drought, ridiculae, weather | 62 Comments

One more reason to say asphalt affects local weather

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

Paved surfaces can foster build-up of polluted air From the National Center for Atmospheric Research BOULDER—New research focusing on the Houston area suggests that widespread urban development alters weather patterns in a way that can make it easier for pollutants … Continue reading →

Posted in Obvious science | Tagged , , | 33 Comments

Comparing IPCC 1990 predictions with 2011 data

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

Submitted by Dr. Clive Best The first IPCC report in 1990 chaired by Prof. Houghton made a prediction for  a rise in global temperatures of 1.1 degrees C from 1990 until 2030. This prediction can now be compared with the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, IPCC | Tagged | 168 Comments

Lindzen on getting the “special treatment” for publishing papers

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

Lindzen-Choi ‘Special Treatment’: Is Peer Review Biased Against Nonalarmist Climate Science? by Chip Knappenberger [Editor’s note: The following material was supplied to us by Dr. Richard Lindzen as an example of how research that counters climate-change alarm receives special treatment in … Continue reading →

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Paleopessimism by Proxy

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

Carbon release and global warming now and in the ancient past From the National Oceanography Centre Our findings suggest that humankind may be causing atmospheric carbon dioxide to increase at rates never previously seen on Earth – Dr Ian Harding, … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | Tagged , | 48 Comments

Ministers Fall For Climate Folly, Warns Ex-Civil Service Chief

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

Newsbytes by Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF Politicians and Whitehall mandarins are pandering to global warming ‘alarmists’ and consigning Britain to a future of inflated fuel bills and economic misery, the former head of the Civil Service warned last … Continue reading →

Posted in newsbytes | Tagged | 18 Comments

CAGW – the pessimists choice

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

Submitted by Professor Bob Ryan The debate between advocates of CAGW and ‘sceptics’ is a rerun of an old argument between those who take a pessimistic and those who take an optimistic view of humanity.  Following the collapse of communism … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion | Tagged , | 83 Comments

Crater Lake USHCN weather station – the GISS removal

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

Readers may recall I wrote in this article about my family memorial day excursion to Crater Lake: Crater Lake happens to have a USHCN weather station, and it is one of the few stations that GISS excludes (they have an … Continue reading →

Posted in weather_stations | Tagged , , | 78 Comments

Silly Nazi hijinks: let’s tattoo deniers “for the grandchildren”

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls Richard “bonehead” Glover, radio talker and 20 year columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, dares to be outrageously conventional: Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. There … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 90 Comments

Heat burst hits Wichita: 102 degrees at 1AM

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

Weather post by Ryan Maue Wichita, Kansas was hit with a thunderstorm induced “heat burst” early Thursday morning, with the temperature jumping from the mid-80s up to 102F after midnight! Wichita, KS  NWS Observations Wichita has now experienced the earliest … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | Tagged , , | 39 Comments

Huge auroral display tonight and tomorrow

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

Submitted by Mike Hebb High speed particles in route- excuse the models. An event on the Sun occurred on the 7th of June. Prompt arrival of high speed particles has already affected the atmosphere. See video below:

Posted in Uncategorized | 33 Comments

Alarmists refuse to take on skeptical geologists

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

By Tom Harris Anyone not already familiar with the stance of geologists towards the global warming scare would have been shocked by the conference at the University of Ottawa at the end of May. In contrast to most environmental science … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 79 Comments

June 10th is Hug a Climate Scientist Day

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

Hal Jordan, via the Submit Story feature submits this brief entry: Apparently, Australian AGW advocates are not well liked. Aussie climate scientists need random hugs from strangers to reassure them that they aren’t universally hated.

Posted in Humor, satire | Tagged , , , | 88 Comments

On The AMO+PDO Dataset

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

Bob Tisdale suggests that the way some folks have combined the PDO and AMO datasets t produce a new curve is wrong, and here is his supporting analysis. – Anthony Guest post by Bob Tisdale Including A Discussion Of Its … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , | 58 Comments

Quote of the week – where the hockey pucks go

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

Dr. Bradley (of MBH98 hockey stick fame) really outdoes himself this time.

Posted in Quote of the Week, satire | Tagged , | 76 Comments

The Climate Swoosh

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

by J Storrs Hall In my previous post, I argued that sea-surface temperatures hadn’t shown an inflection in the mid-twentieth century, and that the post-50′s rise was essently a land-based phenomenon. To take the analysis further, I thought I could … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide | Tagged , , | 109 Comments

Alarmist climate science and the principle of exclusion

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

AGW theorists are being misled by the principle of exclusion Story submitted by Paul Macrae In 1837, Charles Darwin presented a paper to the British Geological Society arguing that coral atolls were formed not on submerged volcanic craters, as argued … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged , , , , | 118 Comments

UAH global temperature anomaly, up a bit in May

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

UAH Temperature Update for May, 2011: +0.13 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer Little Change from Last Month The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for May, 2011 was just about the same as last month: up slightly to +0.13 … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | Tagged , , | 50 Comments

Science Is Not Being Corrupted — Scientists Are

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Story submitted by John Droz. Today I received an email from an editor, who was saying that “Science” depends on what your political persuasion is. I dispute that opinion and answered as follows — Briefly, what has happened is that: … Continue reading →

Posted in post-normal science | Tagged , , | 55 Comments

Green economic thinking: revenge not economics

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Guest Post by Barry Woods TATA recently announced the loss of 1500 jobs in the steel industry in the UK, with the explanation that this was at least in part because of a price on carbon announced in the setting of Carbon Budgets which are … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, carbon tax, politics | Tagged , , , , | 92 Comments

Forget deforestation: The world’s woodland is getting denser and change could help combat climate change

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Story idea submitted by Alexander Werner via the new “Submit Story” feature on the header menu. For years exponents of climate change theories have used images of deforestation to support their cause. Here is a 2007 story in The Independent … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | Tagged , , | 33 Comments

Road opens way late due to massive snow

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Where? Hint – somewhere in the USA details here:

Posted in records, snowfall | 88 Comments

May 2011 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

by Bob Tisdale THE EAST PACIFIC VERSUS THE REST OF THE WORLD This month I’m going to start the update with the two graphs that represent the East Pacific and the Rest-Of-The-World Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies. These datasets were … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged | 32 Comments

Creating an AGW Quotation Collection

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

This seems like a good idea, and I’ll be happy to dedicate a page to it if readers help fill in. WUWT reader Charles Harrison  uses the new submit story feature (see header menu) to ask this:

Posted in Uncategorized | 169 Comments

A demonstration of Chladni Patterns

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

Post submitted by John A. Readers of Climate Audit will have noted Steve McIntyre  mentioning Chladni patterns in respect to the results of some climate reconstructions which exhibit spacial autocorrelation – which means that the data points are related to … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Curious things | 25 Comments