Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou have published a paper (paywalled, of course) in one of the best-known vanity presses of science, PNAS (Proceedings of the National…
Month: October 2011
Peak Oil – now for the downslope
Guest post by David Archibald When I posted on peak oil’s effect on agricultural costs and food security, some comments questioned the idea of peak oil. What follows is a…
The Durban ramp-up continues – Climate refugee problem now equated to brain surgery
From the University of Florida , it’s worse than we thought. Moving people around requires brain surgeon like skills, I kid you not. Then there’s that mighty big if: “If…
Kelp! Kelp! It's warming!
From Cell Press , at least they didn’t study Kudzu as a proxy for land temperature. Seaweed records show impact of ocean warming As the planet continues to warm, it…
Climate scientists and their excuses
Candid Comments From Climate Scientists By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. There is a news release by Paul Voosen on Greenwire titled Provoked scientists try to explain lag in global warming (Tuesday, October…
Send in the clouds, there ought to be clouds (in models)
New tool clears the air on cloud simulations LIVERMORE, Calif. — Climate models have a hard time representing clouds accurately because they lack the spatial resolution necessary to accurately simulate…
Nature pans BEST and Muller PR antics, prints letter from Dr. Singer
Scientific climate Nature 478, 428 (27 October 2011) doi:10.1038/478428a Published online 26 October 2011 Results confirming climate change are welcome, even when released before peer review. excerpts: … Of course,…
Does the Trenberth et al “Earth’s Energy Budget Diagram” Contain a Paradox?
Guest post by Bob Fernley-Jones by Bob Fernley-Jones AKA Bob_FJ CAUTION: This is written in Anglo-Oz English. Here is the diagram as extracted from their 2009 paper, it being an update…
Even as far back as 1892, station siting was a concern
Former California State Climatologist Jim Goodridge sent this along yesterday. This interesting letter from 1892 is a letter from Sergeant James A. Barwick to cooperative weather observers in California. He…
First geothermal energy map of the USA now in Google
Via Slashdot, drill baby drill, but for heat, not oil. The Google funded Enhanced Geothermal Systems research at the Southern Methodist University has produced a coast-to-coast geothermal potential map of…
Rahmstorf's new heat wave cherry twisty
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. says exactly what I thought: this new paper from Rahmstorf is untrustworthy. He writes: Here is another good example why I have come to view parts…
Call for guest authors – I'm stepping away from WUWT for awhile
Now that BEST has given themselves enough rope with their PR shenanigans, I have a new paper to finish. I also have papers to review. One of the upsides/downsides of…
Extreme melting in Greenland – no high temperatures required
From the City College of New York: Extreme Melting on Greenland Ice Sheet, Reports CCNY Team Glacial Melt Cycle Could Become Self-Amplifying, Making it Difficult to Halt The Greenland…
Occupy London: "Righteous" until it gets too cold – IR camera reveals they leave to a warm bed at night
This is Hilarious. When the going gets tough, the occupiers get going! Wild eyed climate svengali Bill McKibben claims the “atmosphere is occupied”, and that’s why we have global warming.…
Singer's letter to WaPo on BEST
The scientific finding that does not settle the climate-change debate S. Fred Singer Letter to WashPost Oct 25, 2011** Before you write off Bachmann, Cain, and Perry as cynical diehards,…
New paper from Loehle & Eschenbach shows extinction data has been wrongly blamed on climate change due to island species sensitivity
Guest post by Dr. Craig Loehle Last year, Willis Eschenbach had a WUWT post about extinction rates being exaggerated in the literature. I offered to help him get this published,…
The Reef Abides
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I love the coral reefs of the planet. In my childhood on a dusty cattle ranch in the Western US, I decorated my mental imaginarium…
No global climate change in the past 20,000 years?
Guest post by Dr. Don J. Easterbrook Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA In a paper entitled “Current global warming appears anomalous in relation to the climate of…
Largest nuclear bomb dismantled to date in the US arsenal, the B53
According to Wikipedia, this warhead (9.1 megatons) was apparently never tested, although an experimental TX-46 predecessor design was detonated 28 June 1958 as Hardtack Oak, which detonated at a yield…
It's libel – except when Mike does it
This Mann-made global warming lawsuit could backfire on the Penn State alarmist Guest post by Paul Driessen Lewis Carroll died too soon. Just imagine the fun he’d have with the…
Aurora in Michigan last night – great time lapse video
As I mentioned on my post yesterday, low latitude aurora could be possible thanks to the CME that impacted Earth yesterday. Here’s a wonderful time lapse video from Michigan last…
Another Climate FAIL: New Research Casts Doubt on Doomsday Himalayan Water Shortage Predictions
Barry Woods writes via email: Previously: (at Copenhagen) Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: “In 25 years the glaciers that provide water for 3/4 of a billion people will disapear entirely”…
The IPCC "Delinquent teenager" gets air time
Donna Laframboise is interviewed on SunTV about her new book. 7:40, but well worth your time. Click image for the video. Tom Harris at ICSC writes: Toronto-based researcher Donna Laframboise…
Real Climate pans BEST and Muller
In a shocking development that may represent a singularity, I find myself in agreement* with parts of an opinion piece posted on Real Climate today called Berkeley Earthquake Called Off.…
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