Monthly Archives: August 2011

Another GISS miss, Tisdale calls out Hansen and Sato on failed predictions

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

A Memo To Hansen and Sato Guest commentary by Bob Tisdale Date:August 21, 2011 Subject:A Request About Your El Niño Predictions And A Question About Anthropogenic Global Warming To: James E. Hansen and Makiko Sato Dear Makiko and James: I am … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Opinion | Tagged , , | 71 Comments

The tool that will save you time on WUWT and the web

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

I was surprised to learn that many people don’t know what I know about how to find things in web pages and documents. For as many comments and web pages we have on WUWT, I wanted to  make sure everybody … Continue reading →

Posted in Curious things | 88 Comments

Animals and plants flee 0.7°C temperature rise in last century

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

UPDATE: Highly recommended reading from Donna LaFramboise (h/t to reader Lars P), apparently this researcher has had several rebuttals posted against his previous peer reviewed version of this claim. One rebuttal by a prominent ecologist said: “the worst paper I … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, climate_change, Environment | Tagged , | 89 Comments

Fudging in greenhouse gas stats?

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

From EMPA Switzerland: Sketchy emission reports revealed by Empa measurements at Jungfraujoch Fluorinated hydrocarbons are potent greenhouse gases, emission of which must be reduced under the Kyoto Protocol. If you rely on the official reports of the participating countries, the … Continue reading →

Posted in CFC's, measurement | 44 Comments

Is economic “graceful decline” the true agenda of some warmists?

Posted on August 20, 2011 by

Guest commentary by Indur Goklany Sometimes the true agenda is laid bare. From http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2011/08/19/1, a piece on Bill McKibben, in which E&E News’ Paul Fialka discusses his agenda, are these passages. [My comments are in brackets. I have highlighted some … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health, Opinion | 102 Comments

The character of climate change part 3

Posted on August 20, 2011 by

Guest post by Erl Happ Here’s a hypothetical: Let’s imagine that we have an atmosphere of two parts.  The first 10 km of the atmosphere has no greenhouse gas.  The second 40 km has a greenhouse gas incorporated. In the … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change | 117 Comments

Saturday Silliness – Concerned Cartoon Contest

Posted on August 20, 2011 by

People send me things. The story a couple of days ago about Union of Concerned Scientists (Be a concerned scientist – valid credit card required) has prompted some interest in their cartoon contest. Hi Anthony, Seems the UCS are having … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, satire | 57 Comments

Oh noes! Cities endanger the future environment

Posted on August 20, 2011 by

From Yale University Growth of cities endangers global environment New Haven, Conn.—The explosive growth of cities worldwide over the next two decades poses significant risks to people and the global environment, according to a meta-analysis published today in PlosOne. Researchers … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Environment | 59 Comments

Interpretation of the Global Mean Temperature Data as a Pendulum

Posted on August 19, 2011 by

By Girma Orssengo, PhD In his Caltech commencement address in 1974, Professor Richard Feynman advised students the following: “Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them.” [1] Using the global mean temperature (GMT) … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate FAIL, Science | 211 Comments

Detecting sunspots before they form allows for better space weather forecasting

Posted on August 19, 2011 by

From Stanford University New method detects emerging sunspots deep inside the sun, provides warning of dangerous solar flares, say Stanford researchers Sunspots spawn solar flares that can cause billions of dollars in damage to satellites, communications networks and power grids. … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 46 Comments

Ryan Maue’s paper in GRL in AGU’s weekly highlight

Posted on August 19, 2011 by

We’ve known this for quite some time, but I wanted to offer my congratulations to Dr. Maue. I’m thankful that you are a WUWT contributor. – Anthony AGU journal highlights — Aug. 18 The following highlights summarize research papers that … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, hurricanes, weather | 46 Comments

Novel idea – arrange solar panels like Nature designed it

Posted on August 19, 2011 by

From Slashdot, something so obvious you wonder why nobody tried it before: arrange solar panels like tree leaves for better efficiency. See the story and graphs I’ve provided below. 13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough An anonymous reader … Continue reading →

Posted in Citizen science, solar | 127 Comments

Another sea level rise fallacy falls short

Posted on August 19, 2011 by

Heat-driven expansion not a major source of sea level rise With the power to drown low-lying nations, destroy infrastructure, and seriously affect sensitive coastal ecosystems, sea level rise may be one of the most readily apparent consequences of global warming … Continue reading →

Posted in sea level | 98 Comments

Space Storm Tracked from Sun to Earth for First Time

Posted on August 19, 2011 by

by Dr. Tony Phillips NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released today during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar … Continue reading →

Posted in solar, space | 22 Comments

ODTRAN Moddities

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an online calculator called MODTRAN that calculates the absorption of longwave (“greenhouse”) radiation for various greenhouse gases (“GHGs”), and shows their resulting effect. It does this on a “line-by-line” basis, meaning it examines each … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 157 Comments

Bizarre, craptastic theory from the Guardian, Penn State, and NASA: “ET will kill us because global warming will tip them off that we are a bad species”

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

UPDATE: co-author admits it is a “horrible mistake”, see below – Anthony From the you’ve got to be effing kidding me department. First, I apologize to my readers for the headline. Read on and I think you’ll see it is … Continue reading →

Posted in GLOC, space | 357 Comments

Tisdale on 2011 sea level changes

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

1ST Quarter 2011 Sea Level Anomaly Update And An Initial Look At The Impacts Of ENSO On Global Sea Level Guest post by Bob Tisdale It’s been more than two years since my last Sea Level anomaly update using the data … Continue reading →

Posted in sea level | 68 Comments

Denied: California Green School’s charter revoked

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

This is a story about a charter school in my town of Chico, CA that had its charter revoked last night by the school board. I used to serve on that board, and I would have voted to pull the … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, local_issues | 82 Comments

Major flaw found in Arctic temperature reanalysis – exaggerates warming

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

This might put a kink in the RC posited “polar amplification of temperature” that is expected from AGW. A previous paper published in Nature (Screen & Simmonds 2010) said: The ERA-40 reanalysis has been used to show that Arctic warming … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, Temperature | 43 Comments

New GWPF Briefing Paper

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

The Truth About Greenhouse Gases London, 17 August – The Global Warming Policy Foundation today publishes an outstanding briefing paper by the distinguished physicist Professor William Happer of Princeton University (USA). In his paper The Truth About Greenhouse Gases, Professor … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 37 Comments

Be a “concerned scientist” – valid credit card required

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

Reader DJ writes in Tips & Notes: Since becoming a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists when I found out all you needed was a valid credit card, my curiosity about who and what they really are has spiked.

Posted in satire, Science | 88 Comments

NASA squelches comet Elenin fears

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

NASA got tired of answering doomsday questions, so issued a statement and FAQs to deal with the nonsense. Comet Elenin Poses No Threat to Earth Often, comets are portrayed as harbingers of gloom and doom in movies and on television, … Continue reading →

Posted in space | 43 Comments

Still no polar ice tipping points ahead

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

We covered this earlier, but this is a new press release on the subject today. From the University of Washington via Eurekalert Model shows polar ice caps can recover from warmer climate-induced melting A growing body of recent research indicates … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice | 85 Comments

Quote of the week – hump day hilarity

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

I busted out laughing when I saw this from the Pajamas Media Tattler.

Posted in Humor, Quote of the Week | 22 Comments

NOAA’s Weather Ready Nation

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

This press release from NOAA came in an email today. I’m not too impressed by the “2011 Ties Record for Billion Dollar Disasters” statement because as inflation and property values rise, so will monetary estimates for “most expensive disaster year”. … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster, NOAA | 46 Comments