Monthly Archives: July 2011

Tree ring widths more affected by sheep than temperature

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

From Wiley-Blackwell, via Eurekalert, something just plain surprising. Nibbling by herbivores can have a greater impact on the width of tree rings than climate, new research has found. The study, published this week in the British Ecological Society’s journal Functional … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology, satire | Tagged , | 71 Comments

Quote of the week: from the reductio ad absurdum file

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

This story is about why laws bowing to sea level worries will make signs like this at left more common in one Australian town. I’ve seen stupidity from local city governments before, but this one takes the cake. Residents of … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy, sea level | Tagged , , , | 87 Comments

A down under slide show on the folly of the carbon tax

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

A reminder to PM Gillard: you are a carbon based life form. Here’s the entire slide show online from Philip R. Wood in Australia given July 14th.

Posted in carbon tax, politics | Tagged , , | 80 Comments

Pielke Sr. on new Spencer and Braswell paper

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

Reposted from Dr. Roger Pielke Sr’s blog New Paper “On the Misdiagnosis Of Surface Temperature Feedbacks From Variations In Earth’s Radiant Energy Balance” By Spencer and Braswell 2011 There is a new paper published which raises further questions on the robustness … Continue reading →

Posted in climate reconciliation, feedbacks, modeling | Tagged , , , | 203 Comments

Antarctic Ice shelf collapse – “worse than we thought”

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

Researchers Provide Detailed Picture of Ice Loss Following Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelves An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet of how much glacial ice surges into the sea following … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, satire, sea ice | Tagged , , | 132 Comments

Volcano found on the Moon’s farside

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

Non-mare silicic volcanism on the lunar farside at Compton–Belkovich Bradley L. Jolliff,Sandra A. Wiseman,Samuel J. Lawrence,Thanh N. Tran,Mark S. Robinson,Hiroyuki Sato,B. Ray Hawke,Frank Scholten,Jürgen Oberst,Harald Hiesinger, Carolyn H. van der Bogert,Benjamin T. Greenhagen,Timothy D. Glotch& David A. Paige Nature Geoscience … Continue reading →

Posted in space, vulcanism | Tagged , , | 51 Comments

Loehle and Scafetta calculate 0.66°C/century for AGW

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

Guest post by Craig Loehle and Nicolas Scafetta Human Effect on Climate Clearly Detected (but is 0.66 deg C/100yr since ~1950!) Loehle, C. and N. Scafetta. 2011. Climate Change Attribution Using Empirical Decomposition of Historical Time Series. Open Atmospheric Science … Continue reading →

Posted in global warming, IPCC, modeling | Tagged , , | 678 Comments

Prey and predator model of clouds

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

From the Weizmann Institute of Science – Eat, Prey, Rain Photo: Tamar Deutsch What do a herd of gazelles and a fluffy mass of clouds have in common? A mathematical formula that describes the population dynamics of such prey animals … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, clouds | Tagged , , , , | 29 Comments

Curiosity – coming to Mars – maybe

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

When I was in Washington a couple of weeks ago for ICCC6, I took the family to the National Air and Space Museum on the mall. While everyone was gazing at rockets and other bus-sized hardware of glory days past, … Continue reading →

Posted in space, Technology | Tagged , , , , | 108 Comments

Law of unintended carbon consequences

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

From Oregon State University Northwest Forest Plan has unintended benefit – carbon sequestration CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Northwest Forest Plan enacted in 1993 was designed to conserve old-growth forests and protect species such as the northern spotted owl, but researchers … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration | Tagged , , , | 50 Comments

David Appell denies he has any class

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

Normally, I ignore David Appell who runs a blog called Quark Soup where he spends a good portion of his time hyperbloviating about things that make him upset. A lot of the time, that’s me and the readers of WUWT. … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness, satire | Tagged , , | 143 Comments

Weekly Weather and Climate News Roundup

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

Quote of the Week: “From the household perspective, reductions in energy expenditures act like a tax cut for the Pennsylvania economy, increasing discretionary income.” Penn State report on natural gas from shale. – – – – – – – – … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup, cosmic rays | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

Greenpeace and the IPCC – The Edenhofer Excuse

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

Guest post by Shub Niggurath It has been a recurring pattern that the most dramatic of conclusions arrived by the IPCC, are shown to arise from unsubstantiated or exaggerated claims in literature put out by environmental pressure groups. The latest … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC | Tagged , , , , | 47 Comments

The “great dying of thermometers” – helping GISS find the undead thermometers, complete with code

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

Guest post by Walter Dnes. There was phenomenon known as “the great dying”, where most of the Canadian stations being used for GISS world monthly temperatures disappeared, at least according to GISS. In reality, many of these “dead” stations are … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, weather_stations | 70 Comments

The Texas centered drought versus 1918, 1956 and 1934

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

Guest post by Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow, WeatherBell Co-Chief Meteorologist June temperature and precipitation rankings are in. Enlarged. Warmest in Texas, Second warmest in Oklahoma. Enlarged Driest in New Mexico. Fourth driest in Oklahoma. Fifth driest in Texas. Wettest … Continue reading →

Posted in drought, heat wave | Tagged , , | 29 Comments

Corruption in the carbon trading market

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

Corruption and crime already taking place in the carbon market Opinion piece by Julie Bishop, Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Australia) 20th July 2011 Carbon offsets have already run out of credit “…..It is alarming that the Prime Minister has … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon credits | Tagged , , , | 43 Comments

Even Further Down “The Borehole”

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

Yesterday we had an enlightening guest post by Ian Rons titled Further Down the “Bore Hole” which presented some comment data and graphs, along with some observations about that nature of RealClimate.org and the way they treat visitors and commenters. Ian … Continue reading →

Posted in Curious things | Tagged , , , | 60 Comments

The BBC Endeavours to Provide More Biased Coverage on Climate Change

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” The BBC’s governing body, the BBC Trust, has released a report on its coverage of climate change, that is based partly on “an independent review” by Steve Jones, a Genetics Professor at University College London … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, media, sea ice, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 81 Comments

Paywallgate: hacker breaches MIT, downloads millions of papers

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

While  Joe Romm and Keith Olberman spin the most absurd conspiracy theory imaginable related to Climategate, that it was the work of “News of the World”, Murdoch, and/or Wallis, we find another example of academic file hacking, this one far … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | Tagged , , | 60 Comments

Bastardi: Just Say No to El Nino, at least till 2012

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

Guest post by Joe Bastardi I  did not say boo at some of the “shoot the messenger  posts”  on my “Say No to El Nino”, including one person who wanted to throw out everything I said simply because of my … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, forecasting | Tagged | 173 Comments

Galactic sized bathtub of water found in space

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

From NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena: Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, space | Tagged , , , | 65 Comments

Fools gold as paleo-atmospheric proxy

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

From the University of Edinburgh Fool’s gold gives scientists priceless insight into Earth’s evolution Fool’s gold is providing scientists with valuable insights into a turning point in the Earth’s evolution, which took place billions of years ago. Scientists are recreating … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | Tagged , | 25 Comments

Heat index update, Mid-Atlantic states experience Middle East climate

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

Weather Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue As the ridge of high pressure slowly edges eastward over the eastern USA, dewpoints in the 80sF and temperatures over the century mark are creating heat index values typically seen in Iran, Yemen, … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 69 Comments

Further Down the “Bore Hole”

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

A look at comment deletion at RealClimate compared with WUWT Guest post submitted by Ian Rons Regular readers will doubtless be familiar, either at first- or second-hand, with the enthusiasm with which moderators at RealClimate.org seem to reject comments from … Continue reading →

Posted in Curious things | Tagged , , , , , | 162 Comments

Thank the Gods for Climategate

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Guest post submitted by Steve Garcia (feet2thefire http://feet2thefire.wordpress.com ) It has now been more than 20 months since the CRU emails were outed, by whatever or whomever. Some day we may actually know who did it, but for now we … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | Tagged | 187 Comments