Monthly Archives: September 2011

Nobel laureate resigns from American Physical Society to protest the organization’s stance on global warming

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

WUWT may recall the late Dr. Hal Lewis led the way on this last year as I covered at WUWT and in an op-ed at the Christian Science Monitor. From Climate Depot, who got the exclusive: Nobel prize winner for … Continue reading →

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Mann fights against freedom of information

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Contact: Paul Chesser, paul.chesser@atinstitute.org On September 2, lawyers for Dr. Michael Mann filed requests to allow them to intervene in American Tradition Institute’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against University of Virginia, citing Dr. Mann’s alleged … Continue reading →

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“Put a cork in it, Al!” – new online game for Climate reality day

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

From the “fight fire with fire fight silliness with silliness” department comes this press release from CFACT: PLAY METHANE MADNESS ON GORE’S CLIMATE PROPAGANDA DAY – SEPTEMBER 14. PUT A CORK IN GLOBAL WARMING HOT AIR (AND FLATULENCE). “Put a … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Humor, satire | Tagged , | 24 Comments

Dessler: “Paying the price for climate change” or a case of flawed statistical analysis?

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

Guest post by David Middleton My State is currently in the grip of a very severe drought… Professor Andrew Dessler, an atmospheric sciences professor at our nation’s greatest university, recently authored a column about our drought in the Bryan-College Station … Continue reading →

Posted in Spencer-Braswell and Dessler, Uncategorized | 100 Comments

Climate disaster, declining rainfall, rising sea levels

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

Guest Post by Erl Happ The subject of this post is climate change in the place where I live. The climate has changed in the last sixty years and there is a widespread notion that man is at fault. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 51 Comments

Just in time for the Gore-a-thon, Facebook shuts down a significant portion of email story alerts

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

Perhaps Facebook was concerned that Al Gore was convincing thousands of unsuspecting dupes to hand over their Facebook account control, which would mean “post at will” on thousands of user accounts, resulting in millions of SPAM messages being send out … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 43 Comments

Sea Ice News: Arctic sea ice “may” have turned the corner

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

UPDATES: New NSIDC data and a press release from them added below. While some folks (Joe Romm in particular) are touting the recent University of Bremen press release suggesting a new record low has been met, declaring record minimum Arctic extent … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, sea ice, Sea Ice News | Tagged , , , , , , | 209 Comments

Brits Question Global Warming More Than Americans & Canadians

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

From Angus Reid Public Opinion: Half of respondents in the two North American countries think climate change is a fact and is caused by emissions—fewer Britons concur. While Canadians continue to be more likely than Americans and Britons to blame … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Opinion | Tagged , , | 93 Comments

Astronomers find extreme weather on an alien world

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

Alternate title: How long before Bill McKibben says: this brown dwarf has a middle name, and it’s global warming. Cosmic oddball may harbor a gigantic storm TORONTO, ON – A University of Toronto-led team of astronomers has observed extreme brightness … Continue reading →

Posted in Curious things, space | Tagged , , | 31 Comments

Pielke Sr. on Skeptical Science’s attacks on Spencer and Christy

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

Scientific Robustness Of The University Of Alabama At Huntsville MSU Data By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. As a result of the persistent, but incorrect (often derogatory) blog posts and media reports on the robustness of the University of Alabama MSU temperature data, … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness | Tagged , , , , , , | 63 Comments

Monday Mirthiness – a cancel-a-thon in the making

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

I read Paul Krugman’s column once in awhile, and I always come away feeling abused. Yesterday when I read his column, my first thought was that “if I had a subscription, I’d cancel it”. Apparently I wasn’t the only one. … Continue reading →

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Well there goes the “climate is weather averaged over 30 years” standard

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

Forecasting climate? The average value of a meteorological element over 30 years is defined as a climatological normal. Source: NOAA/NWS It’s been done: From the University of California – Los Angeles Can scientists look at next year’s climate? Is it … Continue reading →

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Al Gore’s opinion, available for $145K a pop – meanwhile Al says skeptics are the ones with money that needs investigating

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

Stange juxtaposition of Al Gore related stories today. SU to vote on funding Gore, others to speak | Washington University, St Louis The College Democrats will be appealing for almost $145,000 to pay Al Gore to speak on campus. That … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Uncategorized | Tagged | 78 Comments

Newsbytes: Green jobs and carbon pricing – up in smoke?

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

The green-jobs revolution may be going up in smoke. Despite billions of dollars in federal investment and cheerleading from President Obama, even the most ardent supporters of a transformed, job-generating energy sector based largely on wind, solar and other renewable … Continue reading →

Posted in newsbytes | Tagged | 24 Comments

New study shows Greenland ice varied greatly in the past

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

“… abrupt climate change has been a systemic feature of Earth’s climate for hundreds of thousands of years…” From Cardiff University 800,000 years of abrupt climate variability An international team of scientists, led by Dr Stephen Barker of Cardiff University, … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, climate_change | Tagged , , | 40 Comments

9-11 Lest we forget

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

There’s nothing I could say that hasn’t been already said better by somebody else, so I’ll just post this video, which I think is well done.  

Posted in Uncategorized | 41 Comments

Bill Illis: Clouds account for most of the variability in net radiation at the Top of the Atmosphere

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

While we are marveling at the recent revelation out of Serbia that shows a connection between cosmic rays, clouds and temperature, our own volunteer moderator, Roger (Tallbloke) noticed and collated some comments from Bill Illis which are well worth repeating … Continue reading →

Posted in Spencer-Braswell and Dessler | Tagged , , | 108 Comments

New paper links cosmic rays, clouds, and temperature

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

This new paper shows what appears to be a link between Forbush descreases and terrestrial temperature change shortly afterwards. It is a short time scale demonstration of what Svensmark is positing happens on a longer climate appropriate time scale as … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, cosmic rays | Tagged , , , , , , , | 140 Comments

My town’s Climate Action Protest- I get to be “zombietime”

Posted on September 10, 2011 by

WUWT readers may know of the famous zombietime.com where an anonymous photographer captures some of the bizarre things that happen at protests in SFO and Berkeley.  Today on the campus of Chico State University, a protest of sorts was held, … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, local_issues, ridiculae, satire | Tagged , , | 113 Comments

Dessler gets schooled by Spencer

Posted on September 10, 2011 by

Josh writes: In view of the thread The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: My Initial Comments on the New Dessler 2011 Study a commenter over at BishopHill said this: “Does this mean that John Abrahams comments, reported in the Guardian … Continue reading →

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Dessler: “People who discount the science of climate change don’t do it because they’ve read the science”

Posted on September 10, 2011 by

Drought, Wildfires Haven’t Changed Perry’s Climate-Change Views : It’s All Politics : NPR Last week, I drove to College Station to talk with Andy Dessler about the renewed firestorm over global warming. This was the week before actual firestorms roared … Continue reading →

Posted in Spencer-Braswell and Dessler | Tagged | 167 Comments

A note about hearing technology

Posted on September 10, 2011 by

Over on Slashdot, there’s a post that caught my eye because it is so simplistic and so wrong. It’s something I have deep personal experience with, and while not the normal fare for WUWT I thought I’d share my detailed … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | Tagged , , | 139 Comments

Global warming alarmism on steroids – some like it hot

Posted on September 9, 2011 by

This is one of those Jeane Dixon style predictions, written in such general terms that it can be provable by just about any summer in the future. According to the Wikipedia article on her, John Allen Paulos, a mathematician at … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, GLOC | Tagged , , , , , | 65 Comments

RGGI update: It wasn’t supposed to be like this

Posted on September 9, 2011 by

Guest post by Ric Werme Too long title: New Hampshire stays in, NJ probably gets out, 3rd quarter auction sells less than 18% of allowances, secondary market moribund, RGGI soldiers on. RGGI is short for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, … Continue reading →

Posted in cap-and-trade, politics | Tagged , , , , | 42 Comments

Quote of the Week – Wuebbles Weather World

Posted on September 9, 2011 by

Serially warm reporter Dan Vergano of USA today wrote an article on the “Current Extreme Weather and Climate Change” report, released this week that says it’s all our fault. With a peer review team like this one, what other conclusion … Continue reading →

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