Monthly Archives: July 2011

Roll to observe Elenin – STEREO BEHIND looks at a hot topic

Posted on July 31, 2011 by

Story submitted by Robert Bateman In just a few hours from now, NASA rolls the STEREO BEHIND solar satellite to have a look at Comet Elenin (P/2010 X1), and if you haven’t been paying attention, it is one red hot … Continue reading →

Posted in space | Tagged , , | 62 Comments

The “Row to the Pole” publicity stunt looks doomed to failure by a sea ice block

Posted on July 31, 2011 by

Regular readers may recall that back on June 15th, I pointed out the absurdity of this “Row to the Pole” publicity stunt sponsored by the whisky company “Old Pulteney” which had plans to row to the North Magnetic Pole (based … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | Tagged , , | 122 Comments

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on July 31, 2011 by

Quote of the Week: It is scientists, not sceptics, who are most willing to consider explanations that conflict with their own. And far from quashing dissent, it is the scientists, not the sceptics, who do most to acknowledge gaps in … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | Tagged | 22 Comments

What do sea measurements reveal about Earth’s temperature trend?

Posted on July 31, 2011 by

From the AGU highlights Despite the fact that average temperatures on land have been increasing from year to year, globally averaged surface temperatures from 2000 to 2010 have shown only moderate warming. This is because sea surface temperatures over the … Continue reading →

Posted in sea level | Tagged , , , , | 89 Comments

The Parthenon of Climate

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

I can’t improve on the description offered by Steve McIntyre on the most recent taxpayer funded %&#@^*! from NOAA: their sponsorship of the display Pillars of Climate at the recent American Meteorological Society’s Applied Climatology and Climate Change Adaptation conference … Continue reading →

Posted in ridiculae, satire | 72 Comments

Connecticut’s new short lived all time high temperature record corrected – but was it ever a record at all?

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

The recent heat wave in the Midwest and the eastern United States has been characterized by all sorts of exaggerated claims. One even made it into Wikipedia as an “official” all time high record. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_temperature_extremes Dr. Roy Spencer alerted … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, records, weather, weather_stations | Tagged , , , , , , | 64 Comments

Fallout from Our Paper: The Empire Strikes Back

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. LiveScience.com posted an article yesterday where the usual IPCC suspects (Gavin Schmidt, Kevin Trenberth, and Andy Dessler) dissed our recent paper in in the journal Remote Sensing. Given their comments, I doubt any of … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, modeling | Tagged , , , , | 184 Comments

Carbon Tax needs a sunset clause

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

Sunset Clause for the C-Tax? Letter to the Editor Watts Up With That? 30 July 2011 Australians must insist that the monstrous carbon dioxide tax legislation has a sunset clause which is triggered by global cooling. This whole tax extravaganza … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon tax, Opinion | Tagged , | 70 Comments

Riding a Pseudocycle

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Loehle and Scafetta recently posted a piece on decomposing the HadCRUT3 temperature record into a couple of component cycles plus a trend. I disagreed with their analysis on a variety of grounds. In the process, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 416 Comments

Tropical Storm Don — disintegrates on landfall

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

For those in SE Texas hoping for some drough relief from Tropical Storm Don, so far early Saturday morning after landfall, a trace or scant rainfall is to be found.  Don’s convection has distintigrated with only a weak-low level swirl … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 45 Comments

New Berkeley study on grass and global warming misses one very important issue

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

Caveat, no, it isn’t about “grass use” in UC Berkeley, and note the press release with the key word, “could” in the title. From the University of California – Berkeley Warming climate could give exotic grasses edge over natives Invasive … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Climate News | Tagged , , | 73 Comments

Federal Official: Monnett suspension unrelated to “drowned” polar bears

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

As some WUWT readers theorized yesterday, something, perhaps even more egregious is the root of the suspension. The AP obtained an internal memo from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, sent via email circulated to staff. From the Sacramento … Continue reading →

Posted in Polarbeargate | Tagged , | 172 Comments

Inspector general’s transcript of drowned polar bear researcher being grilled

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

This fellow, Charles Monnett has been suspended pending an investigation into his polar bear research. You may recall that he single-handedly inspired Al Gore (not that it takes much) into producing this piece of science fiction for his even larger … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Arctic | Tagged , , , | 205 Comments

Rationalizing Trenberth’s missing heat

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. Additional Information On The “Ocean’s Missing Heat” By Katsman and van Oldenborgh 2011 I discussed the papers C. A. Katsman and G. J. van Oldenborgh, 2011: Tracing the upper ocean’s ‘missing heat’. Geophysical Research Letters (in … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans | Tagged , , | 60 Comments

Spencer and Braswell on Slashdot

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

This is how Slashdot breaks the news from Forbes article: “New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism”. When it hits Slashdot, you know it has gone viral. New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models Posted … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, global warming, modeling | 168 Comments

Wind energy -vs- wildlife, public comments sought

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

John Droz writes in with this today: Anthony: A US federal agency, the Fish & Wildlife Service, is currently debating whether or not there will be national wildlife rules for industrial wind energy, and if yes, what they will be … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, wind power | 45 Comments

Solar industry on the rise

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

Via Slashdot Hugh Pickens writes: According to Rhone Resch, the last three years have seen the U.S. solar industry go from a start-up to a major industry that is creating well-paying jobs and growing the economy in all 50 states, … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, solar | 148 Comments

Al Gore’s “drowned polar bear” AIT source under investigation

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

According to AP/Anchorage Daily News, he’s on leave pending results of investigation. It seems everywhere you look, there’s some sort of fakery going on with the polar bear issue. For example, the image at left, where Science magazine used this … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Alarmism, Arctic | Tagged , , , , | 91 Comments

New paper: UHI, alive and well in China

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 116, D14113, 12 PP., 2011 doi:10.1029/2010JD015452 Observed surface warming induced by urbanization in east China Key Points The rapid urbanization has significant impacts on temperature over east China A new method was developed to dynamically … Continue reading →

Posted in UHI | Tagged , , , | 53 Comments

Antarctic ice – more accurate estimates

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

Guest post by Verity Jones @ Digging In The Clay Cracking ice shelves make headlines, but ice loss estimates that are revised downwards don’t.  While there is great hand wringing over coastal ice loss in Greenland and the West Antarctic … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, sea ice | Tagged , , | 35 Comments

UEA/CRU releases their climate data under ICO order, but there are a few holdouts

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

From Climate data released Wed, 27 Jul 2011 All data sent to the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia by National Meteorological Services around the globe to complete its global land temperature dataset CRUTEM3 will be … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, weather_stations | Tagged , , | 75 Comments

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

Posted on July 27, 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 Arctic, sea ice | Tagged , , | 136 Comments

Quote of the Month – Nature disses skeptics

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

I already have a quote of the week, but since the fact that Nature decided to pay any attention at all to the Heartland Conference in Washington, D.C. which ended July 1st, this deserved a special place on WUWT, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, Quote of The Month | Tagged , , , | 110 Comments

Sheep study confirms a premise of McIntyre & McKittrick 05

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

Yesterday, I published a press release titled Tree ring widths more affected by sheep than temperature in which researchers in Norway published a peer reviewed study stating: “We found tree ring widths were more affected by sheep than the ambient temperature at … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , | 40 Comments

Tipping points and beliefs – the 10% solution

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

From the Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, statistics | Tagged , , | 119 Comments