Monthly Archives: July 2011

Congress shuts down foreign climate funding

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

From Physorg.com

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Dora almost explores Category 5 – in the Eastern Pacific

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Update:  4AM 7/22/2011:  Hurricane Dora nearly made it to Category 5 peaking at 135 knots maximum sustained winds.  Perhaps in the post-season reanalysis, the storm will be upgraded.  But, what’s more spectacular than it’s rapid intensification?  Dora has spectacularly weakened … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, weather | Tagged , , | 15 Comments

UEA’s response to EIR/FOIA requests – It depends who you are

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Guest post by Richard Brearley This post is written to publicise an interesting anomaly in UEA’s (University of East Anglia) treatment of requests sent to it under the Environmental Information Regulations. Readers should know that my interest is only in … Continue reading →

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20 trillion watts is not even Trenberth’s missing heat

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. writes: News Article On The Earth’s Heat From Radioactive Decay An intriguing news article has appeared by Charles Q. Choi titled Radioactive decay fuels Earth’s inner fires The article includes the text “Extraordinary amount of heat remains from … Continue reading →

Posted in Curious things, Radiation | Tagged | 105 Comments

The battle over sea level in JCR

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

John Droz writes in with this: A few months ago a widely-publicized article by Houston and Dean was published in the Journal of Coastal Research (and on your site), noting that although sea-level is rising; the tide gauge data does not show any increased … Continue reading →

Posted in sea level | Tagged , , | 88 Comments

Climate Craziness of the Week: This looks like a job for “green helmet guy”

Posted on July 20, 2011 by

Climate weirding at the UN: Here’s the whole weird story. I suppose neither the UN nor the Guardian remembers the “green helmet guy” fiasco from 2006, or they wouldn’t be using the term. Here’s a refresher:

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week, Humor, IPCC, satire | Tagged , , , | 64 Comments

Tropical Fish Storm Cindy explodes over the North Atlantic

Posted on July 20, 2011 by

Weather Post by Dr. Ryan Maue The title is a bit facetious since Cindy is a marginal tropical storm (~35 knots) and will not last more than a day as a tropical entity.  So, including tropical storms Arlene and Bret, … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | 40 Comments

Lord Monckton wins National Press Club debate on climate

Posted on July 20, 2011 by

Love him or hate him, the man can win a debate. Andrew Bolt shares the results of the National Press Club Debate in Australia writing: No wonder the warmists hate debate The National Press Club debate’s results: Lord Monckton – … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News | Tagged , , , | 321 Comments

80% of world climate data are not computerized

Posted on July 20, 2011 by

From FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology In order to gain a better knowledge of climate variations, such as those caused by global warming, and be able to tackle them, we need to understand what happened in the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data | Tagged , | 46 Comments

Some facts about deaths due to heat waves

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

We have a strong, but not unprecedented, heat wave gripping the central USA. NOAA made this video animation to show the breadth of it, which I converted to YouTube so everyone could view it: NOAA’s description of this video: A … Continue reading →

Posted in heat wave, weather | Tagged , | 88 Comments

Quote of the Week – rubbishing peer review

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

Here I am, minding my own business, looking at my local newspaper, and just reading what is happening locally. Then, out pops this profound quote of the week that is just gobsmacking. The first line of the story starts out … Continue reading →

Posted in local_issues, peer review | Tagged , | 94 Comments

Your tax dollars at work – EPA offers “golf swing seminar” on EPA work hours and in an EPA facility

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

I hadn’t planned on blogging today during my own work hours, but I’ll take a few minutes from my lunch to shine some much needed sunlight on this. Maybe I need to shut off my email to get anything done. … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy | Tagged , , | 72 Comments

Bering sea water temperature, headed down

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

Apparently, not all the Arctic is warming to script. This is an interesting graph from PICES, titled The Bering Sea: Current Status and Recent Events. It is accompanied by this text:

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Quantifying the moo

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

From the USDA, via Eurekalert. The goal was quantifying the moo. Next step, regulation. Hello $10/gallon milk.  In the first detailed study on emissions from large-scale dairies, ARS researchers found that a commercial dairy with 10,000 milk cows generated an … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture | Tagged , , , , , | 88 Comments

Clinton’s solution for the jobs crisis – painters

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

UPDATE:  have a look at Clinton’s house below. Yep, that’s the big plan. Paint your roofs white. From the Atlantic:

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Overpeck says 3 feet, real world sea level data says no way

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

From high and dry  University of Arizona, home of the world famous parking lot USHCN weather station, we have word via Eurekalert that a simulation says it will be bad as “sea levels are expected to rise by up to … Continue reading →

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Breaking news! Trees store carbon!

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

Who would have ever guessed trees store carbon by utilizing the gas of plant photosynthesis, carbon dioxide, and in an “immense, profound” way? From the Institute of Arctic Biology, where they seem to see no positive benefit to this, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Obvious science | Tagged | 81 Comments

CERN: “Don’t interpret the CLOUD experiment results”

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

From the Register and Nigel Calder’s blog via bunches of people who submitted in Tips and Notes, hints of a new project, the RCC (Real Climate Collider) /sarc. CERN ‘gags’ physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment What do these results … Continue reading →

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New NASA paper contradicts Kaufmann et al saying it’s volcanoes, not China coal

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

It seems that there’s a paper (from JeanPaul Vernier at NASA) out that contradicts the findings of Kaufmann et al 2011, where they blame China’s increasing coal consumption for lack of warming in the past decade saying coal use is … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols | Tagged , , , | 91 Comments

Climate scientists need protection from pirates

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

From the truth is stranger than fiction department… Scientists ask for escort in Indian Ocean due to pirates From the Independent By Roger Maynard in Sydney Scientists are seeking the help of the Australian and US navies to repel Somali … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 36 Comments

Oh, that’s gotta hurt, Al

Posted on July 17, 2011 by

Al Gore’s “Climate Reality Project” was launched on July 12th with great media fanfare, lots of interviews, and press all over the planet. It is heralded by some of the faithful as Gore 2.0, the second coming. Only one teensy … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on July 17, 2011 by

Fred Singer will be spreading the joyous news that humanity and the environment do not face eminent destruction. The claim of unprecedented and dangerous global warming is scientifically false. Fred’s tentative itinerary includes talks at the following times and locations: … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | Tagged | 13 Comments

Introducing the WUWT Global Temperature Page

Posted on July 17, 2011 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Our newest addition is the WUWT Global Temperature Page, which includes graphs, graphics and animations on Global Atmospheric, Surface and Ocean Temperatures, as well as a summary of Northern Hemisphere Temperatures at the end. … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, measurement, oceans, Temperature, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | 36 Comments

See temps rise at Sea-Tac

Posted on July 17, 2011 by

From Cliff Mass, a study that demonstrates how adding a runway generated a hockey stick in temperature difference to surrounding stations. As I’ve been saying for years, the dynamic environment of the airport is the wrong place to measure “climate … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, weather_stations | Tagged | 59 Comments

Sunday funnies

Posted on July 17, 2011 by

Josh is motivated by “News of the World”, he writes: I have been appalled by news this week by the stories that News of the World journalists would hack into anyone’s phone to get access to information. Journalists are not … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | Tagged | 11 Comments