Monthly Archives: July 2011

The grass is greener on the ethanol model side

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Switch from corn to grass would raise ethanol output, cut emissions CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Growing perennial grasses on the least productive farmland now used for corn ethanol production in the U.S. would result … Continue reading →

Posted in energy | Tagged , | 54 Comments

Gavin’s borehole logic

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

Realclimate censorship by Ecotretas Realclimate.org is notoriously known for censoring comments. Examples are everywhere on the Internet, and in a couple of minutes you get a handful of them: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5). I knew this when I went … Continue reading →

Posted in FUG | Tagged , , | 103 Comments

Take away the IPCC’s cash source, problem solved

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

To Kill IPCC, Cut the Cash Source:  SPPI by Dennis Ambler UN climate chief promotes carbon trading in Africa I would suggest that many people think that the UN policies on “global warming/climate change/wealth re-distribution, emissions trading, etc” emerge only from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore | Tagged , , , | 32 Comments

Lipstick on a pig: Gore rebrands climate outfit

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

Post by Ryan Maue You knew it was only a matter of time after the Rolling Stone criticism of Obama on climate, but Al Gore is back and in a big way. Some are calling it an Inconvenient Truth 2.0 … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, climate_change, politics | 139 Comments

Keystone XL: Liberal activists plan civil disobedience outside White House

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

By Ryan Maue. Free publicity: Bill McKibben’s Call to Action:  “I want to tell you about an upcoming action — it looks set to turn into the biggest civil disobedience protest in the history of the North American climate movement. … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, politics | Tagged , , , | 149 Comments

Lowering The Bar

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony has pointed out a new paper by McKinley et al. regarding the carbon sinks of the oceans (preprint available here , supplementary online information here). The oceans absorb and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 100 Comments

Tisdale: An Introduction To The Hadley Centre’s New HADSST3 Sea Surface Temperature Data

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

 by Bob Tisdale The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) has added the Hadley Centre’s new Sea Surface Temperature (SST) dataset HADSST3 to their Climate Explorer. (Thanks to Dr. Geert Jan van Oldenborgh for the update.) The following post is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , , | 31 Comments

So, if you get divorced, can you chop them down?

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

From the Philippines, a whole new twist to getting wood.

Posted in ridiculae | Tagged | 20 Comments

New study suggests that the volcanic impact on climate may be significantly underestimated

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

Thick ash poured from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull Volcano when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this image on April 17, 2010. The ash in this image is at two different altitudes. A concentrated plume rises over … Continue reading →

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

Monday Mirthiness

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

Josh visually chronicles how the proxy data was made to fit in Kauf-mann et al 2011, which we published on here.

Posted in Humor, satire | 14 Comments

Researchers set up fake global warming websites to study response

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

Ah yes, the tired old you are irrelevant because are funded by big (coal, gas, oil, wood, propane, butane, electric, peat, Exxon-Mobil take your pick) gets turned into a peer reviewed paper. What will they think of next? Ironically, this … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, media, ridiculae | Tagged , , , , | 138 Comments

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on July 11, 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 | 26 Comments

The BBC’s Richard Black Engages in “Goldilocks-Picking”

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

Guest post by David Middleton From the BBC… Climate: Cherries are not the only fruit Just about the most predictable event of the week was the tempest of opinion created by the analysis of global temperature changes published in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate FAIL, media, paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , | 103 Comments

Transcript of Andrew Bolt’s “Carbon Sunday” interview with Richard Lindzen

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls Anthony posted the video earlier. Professor Lindzen as casually bemused dragon-slayer. Highly quotable, so I thought I’d create a transcript. Here is Lindzen’s damning conclusion (after demolishing any scientific basis for Australia’s new carbon tax): … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | 60 Comments

Robust uncertainty

Posted on July 10, 2011 by

There’s nothing like conflicting your title in your own press release. From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Climate change reducing ocean’s carbon dioxide uptake MADISON – How deep is the ocean’s capacity to buffer against climate change? As one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Obvious science | Tagged , , , , | 66 Comments

RGGI update: New Hampshire likely in, New Jersey likely out. New York sued.

Posted on July 10, 2011 by

Guest post by Ric Werme Ten state RGGI Region It’s time for an update on the efforts of states interested in leaving RGGI, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. RGGI is a Cap and Trade system set up by ten northeastern … Continue reading →

Posted in cap-and-trade, politics | Tagged , , , , | 23 Comments

Carbon Tax Mark 4? A Stealthy Cancer

Posted on July 10, 2011 by

Letter to the Editor Watts Up With That 10 July 2011 Carbon Tax Mark 4 is flimsy but dangerous. Because of public opposition to a new tax on everything, the tax has been gutted. The PM hopes to buy public … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon tax, Opinion | 67 Comments

Tisdale on SST correlation with AGW

Posted on July 10, 2011 by

Does The Sea Surface Temperature Record Support The Hypothesis Of Anthropogenic Global Warming? Guest post by Bob Tisdale This post is an expansion on my earlier post Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies – East Pacific Versus The Rest Of The World. In … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Sea Surface Temperature | 164 Comments

“Carbon Sunday” – The madness in Australia over the Carbon Tax

Posted on July 10, 2011 by

They are calling it “Carbon Sunday”. This is a collection of links and excerpts regarding PM Julia Gillard’s speech announcing the tax. In a nutshell, from what I can see, the majority of Australians are pissed, and she’s toast, partly … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon tax, Climate News, politics | 124 Comments

100 years ago today, “climate disruption” traveled back in time to kill 652 people

Posted on July 10, 2011 by

There’s always a lot of squawking about “climate disruption” from politically funded disinformers like Joe Romm, Bill McKibben,  and their ilk anytime there is a heat wave anywhere these days. But, it doesn’t hold up. One only has to look … Continue reading →

Posted in heat wave, weather | 50 Comments

7.0 quake off Honshu, Japan – no Tsunami Warning

Posted on July 9, 2011 by

From USGS The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a statement, but no warning:

Posted in earth, Earthquakes | 21 Comments

Obituary – Hal Lewis

Posted on July 9, 2011 by

In Memoriam Harold (“Hal”) Warren Lewis (October 1, 1923 – May 26, 2011) Before his dramatic resignation from the American Physical Society on October 6, 2010 over the society position on global warming (the text of his letter is available … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | Tagged , | 47 Comments

While the Sun’s in a funk, no hint of resumed ocean warming

Posted on July 9, 2011 by

Global SST Update: Still No Sign of Resumed Warming by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Here’s the global average sea surface temperature (SST) update from AMSR-E on NASA’s Aqua satellite, updated through yesterday, July 7, 2011: The anomalies are relative … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, clouds, ENSO, Sea Surface Temperature | 64 Comments

Best wishes to Andy Revkin for a speedy recovery

Posted on July 9, 2011 by

I don’t know how I missed this, perhaps it was all the ICCC6 business, travel, and work catch-up. NYT Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin has suffered a stroke. He’s “ok” in the sense that it is not life threatening, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 42 Comments

Solar activity report: the sun is still in a funk

Posted on July 9, 2011 by

UPDATE: New graphs from David Archibald added. See below. The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has released their latest charts on solar activity and the news is not encouraging for solar watchers. Today, the sun has but a couple … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 140 Comments