Monthly Archives: September 2011

IPCC: Resistance is futile

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

Donna Laframboise has an excellent piece on how the IPCC has been assimilated by influence from the WWF. Apparently hawking the threat of dead panda bears is quite lucrative, Donna writes: It is important to understand that while the WWF … Continue reading →

Posted in IPCC, NGOs | Tagged , , , | 114 Comments

Your [wasted green] tax dollars at work

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

From the Fiscal Times: Solyndra Went on a Spending Spree After Getting Loan Former employees of Solyndra, the shuttered solar company that exhausted half a billion dollars of taxpayer money, said they saw questionable spending by management almost as soon … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy, Green tech | Tagged , , | 103 Comments

Edible Carbon Dioxide Sponge

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

This gives whole new meaning to the term “spongeworthy”. From Northwestern University News: EVANSTON, Ill. — A year ago Northwestern University chemists published their recipe for a new class of nanostructures made of sugar, salt and alcohol. Now, the same … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon sequestration | Tagged , , | 69 Comments

The Amazing Decline in Deaths from Extreme Weather in an Era of Global Warming, 1900–2010

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Summary Proponents of drastic curbs on greenhouse gas emissions claim that such emissions cause global warming and that this exacerbates the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including extreme heat, droughts, floods and … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health, weather | Tagged , , , | 84 Comments

A modest proposal to Skeptical Science

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

UPDATE: Some new data has come to light, see below. As Bishop Hill and WUWT readers know, there’s been a lot of condemnation of the way John Cook’s Skeptical Science website treated Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. recently when he attempted … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness | Tagged , , , , | 343 Comments

Solar activity on the upswing, big sunspot rotating into view is producing x-class solar flares. Large CME expected soon, may hit earth.

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

From Spaceweather.com: New sunspot 1302 has already produced two X-flares(X1.4 on Sept. 22nd and X1.9 on Sept. 24th), can another be far behind? NOAA forecasters put the 24-hour probability at 20%. The sheer size of the active region suggests the … Continue reading →

Posted in solar flare | Tagged , , , , | 71 Comments

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

Quote of the Week: “Can We Really Call Climate Science A Science?” Paul Roderick Gregory – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Number of the Week: 140 decades – – … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | 11 Comments

They had to burn the village to save it from global warming

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

From Wikipedia: One of the most famous quotes of the Vietnam War was a statement attributed to an unnamed U.S. officer by AP correspondent Peter Arnett. Writing about the provincial capital, Bến Tre, on February 7, 1968, Arnett said: “‘It … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon credits | Tagged , , , | 64 Comments

Another resignation over bad behavior over climate skepticism

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

From Bishop Hill, news via Pierre Gosselin that the decision by SEII to disinvite speakers to a conference (including Dr. Fred Singer) has backfired, badly. Gosselin is reporting that a prominent engineer has resigned from one of France’s [sic*] learned … Continue reading →

Posted in disinvitation, politics | Tagged , | 54 Comments

Open Thread Weekend

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

This post serves two purposes. 1. A forum for open discussion in a civil manner 2. A test for Windows Live Writer to see how well it does for creating a blog post.

Posted in Open Thread | Tagged | 54 Comments

The anti-science battle of Green -vs- Mooney

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

Heh, gotta love this. Get popcorn. I was tipped off to this by Chris Mooney in a Tweet where he’s calling for reinforcements: Kevin Green of the American Enterprise Institute got the war of words rolling with these comments at … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, Alarmism, climate ugliness | Tagged , , , , | 181 Comments

Monckton’s letter to the journal Remote Sensing

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

Christopher Monckton writes in email: I sent the attached commentary to the journal a week back and have not had so much as an acknowledgement. So do feel free to use it. It is reproduced below. Readers may recall of … Continue reading →

Posted in peer review, Spencer-Braswell and Dessler | Tagged , , , , | 117 Comments

UARS is down, but NASA doesn’t know where

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

UPDATE: a later statement from NASA below says N. Pacific off the U.S. West coast, teleconference scheduled. See below. NASA confirms that the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) has entered Earth’s atmosphere and burned/broken up. Some Twitter reports say debris … Continue reading →

Posted in space | Tagged , | 90 Comments

Model predicts Arctic sea ice extent

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

From the University of Washington , some great news if it holds predictive power over time in the face of a cyclic, noisy, non-linear system. Model provides successful seasonal forecast for the fate of Arctic sea ice Relatively accurate predictions … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, forecasting, modeling, sea ice | Tagged , , | 47 Comments

Let the inhaler hoarding begin

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

First, let’s go back a month,  this from the Will Steger Foundation: On Tuesday [August 2nd 2011], State Senator Torres Ray said, “I’m delighted to participate in the air quality awareness event organized by the Sierra Club in Minneapolis. Air … Continue reading →

Posted in CFC's, GLOC, Government idiocy, ozone | Tagged , , , , , , , | 91 Comments

Friday Funny Bonus Edition

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

An uncomfortable week for John Cook’s crew at ‘Skeptical Science’

Posted in Humor, satire | 105 Comments

It’s all UARS

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

UPDATE from NASA 11:PM Fri: NASA says it continues to wait for final confirmation of re-entry. “If debris fell on land (and that’s still a BIG if), Canada is most likely area,” the space agency just said. Update #12 Fri, … Continue reading →

Posted in space | Tagged , , , | 60 Comments

Friday Funny – The Times Atlas of the world, it is a changing

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

Josh writes: There has been a considerable fuss about the feel-good 14th Edition of the Times Atlas of the World even in the Guardian, which did elicit an apology from the Times. Subsequently James Delingpole wrote a delightful spoof which did not go down too well in … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, satire | Tagged , , , , , | 41 Comments

Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

From the National Science Foundation Scientists probe Indian Ocean for clues to worldwide weather patterns Study shows how tropical weather brews in the Indian Ocean and moves eastward along the equator IMAGE: This is the S-PolKa radar on Addu Atoll … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans | Tagged , | 43 Comments

Where is Science?

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

Guest post by Erl Happ The Southern Oscillation Index is a reference point for the strength of the Trade winds. It represents the difference in atmospheric pressure between Tahiti and Darwin. In figure 1 the SOI is the red line … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 146 Comments

The Maldives can’t take a joke

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

But they can sure act like one: From the BBC: Maldives government complains of spoof atlas omission The government of the Maldives has complained after the London Daily Telegraph website carried a satirical blog post saying the island nation is … Continue reading →

Posted in fun_stuff, sea level | Tagged , , , , | 89 Comments

IPCC, models, HadCRUT, and cherrymandering

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

The Rest of the Cherries: 140 decades of Climate Models vs. Observations by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Since one of the criticisms of our recent Remote Sensing paper was that we cherry-picked the climate models we chose to compare … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, modeling | Tagged , , , , , | 129 Comments

A disturbance in the force – CERN finds faster than light particles?

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

From Yahoo News: CERN claims faster-than-light particle measured GENEVA (AP) — Scientists at the world’s largest physics lab say they have clocked subatomic particles traveling faster than light, a feat that — if true — would break a fundamental pillar … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged , , , , | 265 Comments

Greenland ice not responding as predicted

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

From C3 Headlines and The Hockey Schtick word that the whole Greenland ice loss issue and Atlasgate just got more complex. As a whole Greenland is not responding the same, which suggests regional weather variability as a cause. From C3 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 41 Comments

Over-cooked or well done?

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

Bishop Hill has yet another amusing entry on the post facto revisionism going on over at the oxymorinically named Skeptical Science blog run by John Cook. Add to that, Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. also has an entry where he says … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness, Opinion | Tagged , , , | 110 Comments