Monthly Archives: September 2011

My Oh Miocene

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It was hot here a couple of days ago. I walked past a huge aloe vera plant, taller than my head, that grows by our house. The heat radiating off of the plant was palpable. … Continue reading →

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Principle of the Universality: responsibilities of scientists

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

From the International Council for Science,  something for the beleaguered climate science community to consider. Responsibilities of scientists underlined by scientific community Rome, Italy – The General Assembly of the International Council for Science (ICSU) today reaffirmed the universal values … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to Alan Carlin on vindication

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

While the GAO issues a report today saying that the US Historical Climatological Monitoring Network has real tangible problems (as I have been saying for years) the Inspector General just released a report this week saying that EPA rushed their … Continue reading →

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GAO report on the poor quality of the US climate monitoring network

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

Senator Inhofe’s EPW office issued a press release today on the subject of USHCN Climate Monitoring stations along with links to this report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) …the report notes, “NOAA does not centrally track whether USHCN stations … Continue reading →

Posted in Citizen science, climate data | Tagged , , , , | 98 Comments

The Telegraph finally figures out where the North Magnetic Pole is was, issues microscopically sized correction

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

WUWT readers may remember this story I wrote about the clowns from Old Pulteney’s “Row to the Pole” who had headlines blaring in Britain exclaiming they had rowed to the “north pole”. Telegraph, BBC, and Independent geography FAIL: “Row to … Continue reading →

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CDM-ania

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I wrote previously about the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. In that post, I pointed out an underlying irony of the CDM. At the behest of European AGW supporters who would never, … Continue reading →

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Wikileaks: Major UN Climate Programme ‘Basically A Farce’

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

Newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser at The Global Warming Policy Foundation A diplomatic cable published last month by the WikiLeaks website reveals that most of the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in India should not have been certified because … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – bug sex and beer

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

From the University of Toronto, where they didn’t blame the CO2 in the beer for this, thank goodness. University of Toronto Mississauga professor wins Ig Nobel Prize for beer, sex research It was a case of a besotted male and … Continue reading →

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Getting ready for more global warming: Heathrow airport triples snow clearance fleet

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

It seem airport operator BAA has realized that Global warming has really dumped on them the last two years and rather than be caught with their pants down again, they 3x increased their equipment and staff ready to clear snow. … Continue reading →

Posted in snowfall | Tagged , , | 90 Comments

Plants gobbling up CO2 – 45% more than thought

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

From the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres a clear indication for those “CO2 is plant food” scoffers that the plants don’t care what they think. Productivity of land plants may be greater than previously thought Researchers recommend the reworking … Continue reading →

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1 K or not 1 K? That is the question

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley I am very grateful for the many thoughtful postings in response to my outline of the fundamental theoretical upper bound of little more than 1.2 K on climate sensitivity imposed by the process-engineering theory of … Continue reading →

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Warming Island / Greenland Sea Regional Climate and Arctic Sea Ice Reconstruction

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

Guest post by David Middleton The recent return of the Warming Island AGW myth inspired me to build a climate reconstruction for the Greenland Sea region. Temperature Reconstruction I performed a GISS station search centered on 71.4 N latitude, 23.5 … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , , | 52 Comments

Video analysis and scene replication suggests that Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project fabricated their Climate 101 video “Simple Experiment”

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

UPDATE2 10/18/2011 – The experiment has been replicated several ways, see: Replicating Al Gore’s Climate 101 video experiment shows that his “high school physics” could never work as advertised UPDATE: New images added prove without a doubt the faked split screen. … Continue reading →

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EPA Rules … and how they don’t follow their own

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Most folks would not be surprised if I were to make the claim that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not properly consider the science when it issued its “Endangerment Finding” saying that CO2 … Continue reading →

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Comment of the week

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

It’s been long time since I featured one of these, but this one from James Delingpole’s blog really hit home for me. This comment from Amanda was about my exposing the video produced by Al Gore.

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Just in time: shale oil use without creating carbon dioxide

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

From the American Chemical Society , something that will cause synapse arcing in Bill McKibben’s and Joe Romm’s brains. I guess Obama can build that Keystone XL pipeline after all. Bzzt! Using the energy in oil shale without releasing carbon … Continue reading →

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Report: EPA cut corners on climate finding, ignored Data Quality Act, flouted peer review process

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

From: The Daily Caller In a report released Wednesday (at Sen. Inhofe’s request, dating back to April) the inspector general found that the EPA failed to follow the Data Quality Act and its own peer review process when it issued … Continue reading →

Posted in peer review, politics | Tagged , , , , | 36 Comments

Cloud cools

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

Guest post by Erl Happ This post was generated in response to the Christopher Monkton thread. It is not a criticism of Christopher Monkton but of our tendency to imagine that artful mathematicians (I am not one) are sufficiently sophisticated … Continue reading →

Posted in climate sensitivity, clouds | Tagged | 113 Comments

Delingpole on Reason.tv

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

James Delingpole and WUWT are inextricably linked in climate history. I broke the climategate story here at WUWT from my laptop at Dulles airport, Delingpole was the first in the MSM to pick it up. From there the story spread … Continue reading →

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Monckton on “pulling Planck out of a hat”

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley My commentary written for Remote Sensing on the empirical determination of climate sensitivity, published by the splendid Anthony Watts some days ago, has aroused a great deal of interest among his multitudes of readers. It … Continue reading →

Posted in climate sensitivity, IPCC | Tagged , , , | 189 Comments

Honey, I shrunk the copepods

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

From the Queen Mary, University of London , there was shrinkage, of plankton no less. I’m sure it’s easy to extrapolate that right up to the top of the food chain. How global warming could cause animals to shrink The … Continue reading →

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Getting GRLed

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. recently submitted this paper to Geophysical Research Letters (GRL): A homogeneous database of global landfalling tropical cyclones Jessica Weinkle* and Roger Pielke, Jr. Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado, 1333 Grandview Ave, … Continue reading →

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Future wind

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

From CSIRO Australia New energy in search for future wind Scientists are taking the first steps to improve estimates of long-term wind speed changes for the fast-growing wind energy sector. The research is intended to identify the risks for generators … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, wind power | Tagged , , , , | 66 Comments

Geomagnetic solar storm in progress

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

Spaceweather.com reports: A strong-to-severe geomagnetic storm is in progress following the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME) at approximately 12:15 UT on Sept. 26th.

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Allergies and Dr. Broecker

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In yet another futile attempt to explain away what I see as the reasonable and justified skeptical American reaction to the unending stream of nonsense being peddled as climate science these days, we have an … Continue reading →

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