Monthly Archives: July 2011

“Climate Reality” is Al Gore’s Gettysburg

Posted on July 16, 2011 by

Story submitted by Stephen Rasey On  July 12, I wrote a comment cautioning not to underestimate the Gore Climate Reality event scheduled for Sept. 14, 2011.    Mixing metaphors, I said that this was an “All In” bet and that this … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Alarmism | Tagged , , | 164 Comments

Curious summer weather in China

Posted on July 16, 2011 by

From NTD Television Snow Covers Sichuan State Highway 318 in Summer While people in other regions of China, are enduring the hot summer, a bizarre scene of drifting snow covered the Zheduo Mountain section of the Sichuan State Highway 318 … Continue reading →

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Location location, location: Wind Turbine Power Output Increased 10x

Posted on July 16, 2011 by

Wind Turbine power output is increased ten-fold by careful spacing, and direction of rotation, when compared to existing best practices. Click image for video surveyGuest post by Roger E. Sowell Summary:  A new study from CalTech shows that wind-turbine spacing, … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, Technology, wind power | Tagged , , | 158 Comments

I need your help for a short research project

Posted on July 16, 2011 by

No, I’m not asking for money, just some crowdsourced help. I have a short project that I can do in some free time tomorrow night, that is if I can get a little help. As you folks know by now, … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 178 Comments

Devastating paper on IPCC consensus

Posted on July 16, 2011 by

I’m pinched for time, so I’ll unashamedly pinch this from Bishop Hill (who I don’t think will mind): A devastating paper by Jane Goodwin on Iowa State university is discussed at Judy Curry’s blog. The subject is the IPCC consensus:

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Contradictory Studies – IPCC Struggling to Pinpoint Rising Sea Levels

Posted on July 16, 2011 by

Story submitted by WUWT reader Mark B …the estimates currently differ by almost five meters (16.5 feet). The United Nations’ forecast of how quickly global sea levels will rise this century is vital in determining how much money might be … Continue reading →

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

NOAA plays the sea level card with El Niño

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

Strong El Niño could bring increased sea levels, storm surges to U.S. East Coast New study examines how El Niño in cold months affected water levels over past 50 years A new NOAA study found coastal areas along the East … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO | Tagged , | 51 Comments

High Costs Bury AEP’s Carbon Burial Plan

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

Story submitted by Hugh McCullough American Electric Power has scuttled its pilot project to bury CO2 from its Mountaineer coal-burning plant in Red Haven WVa. The original projected cost, before unanticipated overruns, was $668 million. About 1/3 of the gross … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration | Tagged , , , | 91 Comments

Friday Funny Double Feature – Herring the Red & La Niña

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

Josh was motivated by a comment on Bishop Hill.  Josh writes: This was inspired by a comment by Theo Goodwin at Bishop Hill. http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/7/14/abraham-on-the-mwp.html The climate blogs this week have been full of trolls bearing gifts of red herrings. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, satire | 25 Comments

Polar OBuoy – the movie

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

An engineer who helped deploy “obuoys” in the Arctic submitted this story, but wishes to remain nameless since he feels that he’ll be ostracized for sharing here. I’ll respect his wishes, and pass along the information. He writes via the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | Tagged , , | 71 Comments

Barrier reef panic? – not so much

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

It seems that when you look at the way the data was gathered, and find that while some areas of the GBR declined, others gained. Analysed other ways, it doesn’t seem so alarming. Perhaps the phrase is “coral picking”? Assessing … Continue reading →

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Ionospheric airglow signature of tsunami waves confirmed

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

From the University of Illinois, something quite interesting, long speculated on, now confirmed. Tsunami airglow signature could lead to early detection system Researchers at the University of Illinois have become the first to record an airglow signature in the upper … Continue reading →

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One more reason to distrust CRU and UEA – their hired spinmeister was arrested in the News of the World phone hack scandal

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

This is a repost from Climate Audit “Covert” Operations by East Anglia’s CRU Jul 14, 2011 – 2:53 PM by Steve McIntyre Today brings news of the arrest of the managing director of a firm hired by the University of East … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | Tagged , , | 75 Comments

Pielke Sr. on Climate Science Myopia

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. There is an article Global warming lull down to China’s coal growth by Richard Black of the BBC which perpetuate an inappropriately narrow view of climate science. The article headlines with the text “The lull in … Continue reading →

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The China Syndrome: Don’t Blame China For Temperature Standstill

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

Newsbytes from The Global Warming Policy Foundation and Dr. Benny Peiser The idea that China is to blame for the global temperature standstill does not stand up. It is a fact that in a world where CO2 is increasing year … Continue reading →

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Sea Ice News – July ARCUS forecast published

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

Figure 1. Distribution of individual Pan-Arctic Outlook (July Report) values for September 2010 sea ice extent. Credit: Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS). Click to enlarge. Download High Resolution Version of Figure 1. Thank you to all contributors of … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | Tagged , , | 112 Comments

Personal note: reduced posting in the coming weeks

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

I’m going to be “on hiatus” perhaps a couple of weeks or more to catch up on my business, which needs some significant attention right now. Blogging, as most of you know, is a loss. Between my wife’s illness last … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 88 Comments

Chris Mooney doesn’t understand the Internet, and neither do some researchers

Posted on July 13, 2011 by

I had to laugh. Over at Discover Magazine Intersection Blog, Chris Mooney is defending the paper I critiqued a couple of days ago as if it contains some actual solid science. He’s griping that I didn’t read the full paper … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, media | Tagged , , , | 70 Comments

Give this lady an Order of Australia medal

Posted on July 13, 2011 by

The death spiral of PM Julia Gillard and the Labor Party in Australia continues, and it has been pretty much a sealed fate thanks to one nameless woman in gift shop where Gillard got cornered, and this lady stood up … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon tax | Tagged , , , | 110 Comments

Germany to shovel climate fund dollars into coal plants

Posted on July 13, 2011 by

Less than a month after the failed Bonn UN climate confab, Germany has announced a most audacious energy policy:  in order to shutter nuclear plants (but not completely scuttle their economy), the German government will direct climate fund cash to … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change | Tagged , | 104 Comments

WTF? US Geological Survey studying rice, fungus, & climate

Posted on July 13, 2011 by

From this USGS Press Release. What, you don’t have enough earthquakes to chase or maps to make? Read your mission statement when you applied to congress for funding: The USGS plays a crucial role in protecting the public from natural … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture | Tagged | 54 Comments

Peer reviewed paper: 2010 Russian heat wave “mostly natural”

Posted on July 13, 2011 by

The 2010 Summer Heat Wave of Western Russia Reference Dole, R., Hoerling, M., Perlwitz, J., Eischeid, J., Pegion, P., Zhang, T., Quan, X.-W., Xu, T. and Murray, D. 2011. Was there a basis for anticipating the 2010 Russian heat wave? … Continue reading →

Posted in heat wave | Tagged | 51 Comments

Great moments in doomsday countdowns

Posted on July 13, 2011 by

With Al Gore’s recent re-emergence from the dead with An Inconvenient Truth, Version 2.0, I find myself noting his website, The Climate Reality Project (formerly The Alliance for Climate Protection) countdown clock has a familiar look to it. It has … Continue reading →

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Archibald: Solar Based Climate Forecast to 2050

Posted on July 13, 2011 by

Guest post by David Archibald When I started out in climate science in 2005, the climate people ignored the solar physics community. A casual perusal of the literature though indicated that the difference in climate outcome from Dikpati’s (NASA) estimate … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting | Tagged , , , | 195 Comments

SDO sees ‘Dark Fireworks’ on the Sun

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

From Science@ NASA:  On June 7, 2011, Earth-orbiting satellites detected a flash of X-rays coming from the western edge of the solar disk. Registering only “M” (for medium) on the Richter scale of solar flares, the blast at first appeared … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | Tagged , , | 35 Comments