Monthly Archives: October 2011

Little Bubbles, part 1

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

Guest Post by Caleb Shaw Preface:  Climate Scientists and School Girls – A humorous description of a layman trying to investigate the little bubbles in ice cores,  involving both the actual science,  and a layman’s amazement over the politics. My … Continue reading →

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Posted in Antarctic, Curious things | Tagged , , , | 152 Comments

Climate Craziness of the Week: Supermandia

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

Mike Mann thinks this is cool. In case you don’t know, SUNY’s Professor Scott Mandia is the guy running Mike Mann’s legal defense fund. My only question is, why does he need hip wader boots?

Posted in Climate Craziness of the Week, Humor, Michael E. Mann, Satire | Tagged | 136 Comments

The incredible story of bigger shrinking birds, courtesy of global climate change

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

Two years ago, it was “Study says global warming shrinks birds” now thanks to impressive further study, they’ve discovered it’s “Bigger birds in central California, courtesy of global climate change.“ Can’t they get their story straight? Why don’t they ask … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate_change, Ridiculae | Tagged , , | 90 Comments

A Modest Proposal—Forget About Tomorrow

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a lovely 2005 paper I hadn’t seen, put out by the Los Alamos National Laboratory entitled “Our Calibrated Model has No Predictive Value” (PDF). Figure 1. The Tinkertoy Computer. It also has no predictive … Continue reading →

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Coke’s WWF cash machine

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

White Coke Cans Fund Polar Bear Myths Guest post by by Paul Chesser For years Coca-Cola has given millions of dollars to eco-extreme group World Wildlife Fund, whose alarmism and perpetration of falsehoods are unmatched among its cohorts in climate … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News | Tagged , , | 116 Comments

Monday Mirthiness – the BEST team

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

Josh thinks climate science is BEST left to rough and tumble experts. The next installment may best this one.

Posted in Satire, Humor, Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature | Tagged , , | 27 Comments

The BEST whopper ever

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

I was over at Judy Curry’s place, reading her update to the Mail on Sunday story, and noticed she referenced URLs to the updated FAQs at the BEST website. I followed and was totally shocked to read this FAQ: (bold … Continue reading →

Posted in Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature | Tagged , , , , | 94 Comments

Record snowfall for “Climate Justice Day” in New York

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

It just doesn’t get any better than this. The Occupy Wall Street Mob had a “Climate Justice Day” scheduled for today. I don’t think they figured on a “Nightmare on Wall Street” irony like this. I notice Bill McKibben isn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Satire | Tagged , , , , | 113 Comments

Weekly climate and energy news roundup

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

On the Road Again: Fred Singer will be speaking at the Santa Fe Conference on Tuesday morning immediately following Richard Muller of the BEST project. Singer’s comments will raise some issues concerning the BEST findings. Schedule Of Presentations At The … Continue reading →

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UAH lower troposphere temperature colder than 2008

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

Brrr…the Troposphere Is Ignoring Your SUV by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. For those tracking the daily global temperature updates at the Discover website, you might have noticed the continuing drop this month in global temperatures. The mid-tropospheric AMSU channels … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data | 43 Comments

Uh oh: It was the BEST of times, it was the worst of times

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

Alternate title: Something wonky this way comes I try to get away to work on my paper and the climate world explodes, pulling me back in. Strange things are happening related to the BEST data and co-authors Richard Muller and … Continue reading →

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New WUWT Polar Vortex Reference Page

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” We are pleased to introduce WUWT’s newest addition, the WUWT Polar Vortex Reference Page. For those unfamiliar, a Polar Vortex is “caused when an area of low pressure sits at the rotation pole of … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Ozone, Sea ice, Stratospheric water vapor | Tagged , , , , , | 81 Comments

Inches of “Global Warming” Get Dumped on NASA-GISS HQ

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein [Update: New York City got more snow in October 2011 than ever before in recorded history, according to the NY Daily News (including some good photos). Special thanks to WUWT commenter NikFromNYC who posted this … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Satire, Snow | Tagged , , , , , | 149 Comments

U.S. Hurricanes: worse than we thought…100 years ago

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

With the 2011 hurricane season drawing to a close in about a month, and with hurricane season this year being mostly uneventful in terms of landfall, I find this very interesting. This historical reanalysis by NOAA shows U.S. hurricane landfalls … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, Weather | Tagged , , , , | 36 Comments

The Incredible Voyage of Neodenticula Seminae

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

Guest Post by David Middleton This article from a publication called DW-World was recently brought to my attention as iron-clad proof of unprecedented Arctic melting due to AGW… Seems pretty cut and dried… But, I had never heard of DW-World, … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic | Tagged , | 59 Comments

The Unknown Unknowns of Global Warming

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

Plants, both through decay and respiration, are responsible for over half of the world’s annual carbon dioxide emissions. I mention this fact for one reason and that is to communicate the power of the biosphere upon the atmosphere. Usually, when … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Climate sensitivity, feedbacks, Modeling | Tagged , | 60 Comments

Major Snow for Northeastern USA – NYC may get earliest 1″ snowfall since the Civil War

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

How long before somebody blames it on global warming? Who will be first? Romm? McKibben? AP Science writer Seth Borenstein?, some clueless politician? New York has received measurable snow before Halloween only 3 times since 1869. These events were never … Continue reading →

Posted in Weather, records, snowfall | Tagged , , , | 76 Comments

Friday Funny – bonus

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

Josh caricatures “team aerosols” thanks to Dr. Roger Pielke’s compilation of responses to this question:  ‘Why, despite steadily accumulating greenhouse gases, did the rise of the planet’s temperature stall for the past decade?” Excuses, excuses.

Posted in Humor, Satire | 37 Comments

Donna’s IPCC “delinquent teenager” now in paperback

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

NOW AVAILABLE!! Paperback $20 (click here) -250 pages -includes an index -ships internationally from CreateSpace, the publishing arm of Amazon.com

Posted in Book Review, IPCC | Tagged | 24 Comments

Test of Rossi’s 1 MW E-Cat fusion system apparently successful

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

Guest post by Ric Werme Today is the customer test of Andrea Rossi’s 1 MW fusion reactor in his facility in Bologna, Italy. While Rossi initially expected to provide streaming video of the test, the customer nixed that because they … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, Technology | Tagged , , , | 297 Comments