Monthly Archives: November 2011

Hump day hilarity: Chris Mooney’s abby-normal post modern science

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

Chris Mooney has come up with new book to explain why people like you and I are “abby-normal” for not unthinkingly and uncritically accepting all aspects of global warming climate change climate disruption. I haven’t read it, though the cover … Continue reading →

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Extremely Dangerous Storm Slicing Towards Alaska

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

From Live Science An extremely dangerous storm is slicing toward northwestern Alaska and is expected to bring blizzard conditions and hurricane-strength winds to the state’s west coast. The storm, which formed from a mix of air masses over an area … Continue reading →

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Nature pans Gore’s 24 Hours of ‘Climate Reality’

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

From the Hockey Schtick: The November 2011 edition of Nature Climate Change pans Al Gore’s 24 Hours of ‘Reality’, disputing Gore’s suggestion that global warming is responsible for all extreme weather and noting: “Gore may have briefly pumped up his disillusioned … Continue reading →

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Fixing the Firefox 7 and 8 missing http://

Posted on November 8, 2011 by

Earlier today I got zapped by what I considered a “bug” in Firefox 7 (and now today, 8) when I copy and pasted a URL to Bob Tisdale’s blog into a short post this morning. Thanks to a new “feature”, … Continue reading →

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Asteroid near miss – the movie

Posted on November 8, 2011 by

There’s no danger that the asteroid will strike Earth, but Sky and Telescope reports that if it did, it would “deliver a kinetic-energy punch equivalent to several thousand megatons of TNT … the kind of potential threat that outer-space sentries … Continue reading →

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The Durban Game

Posted on November 8, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the run-up to the next-to-last big meeting of the UNFCCC (United Nations Frequent Climate Change Carnival) held in Copenhagen in 2009, I showed the following graph under the title “Why Copenhagen Will Achieve Nothing“ … Continue reading →

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China’s climate ca$h blackmail

Posted on November 8, 2011 by

Who says you can get rid of entitlements? WUWT covered this issue over HFC-23 production previously in The biggest environmental scandal in history. It seems it is about to get bigger. China just decided to blackmail the brilliant minds soon to … Continue reading →

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A note from Bob Tisdale

Posted on November 8, 2011 by

My shortest post ever. Please click

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Shame and Witches (Nature Climate Change)

Posted on November 8, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein A copy of the journal Nature Climate Change> landed in my mailbox just in time for Halloween. According to them: (1) almost any kind of climate change is likely to cause increased conflict, and (2) … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week: sea life “must swim faster to survive climate change”

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

From the National Science Foundation, more nuttiness from the reef alarmist Ove Hugh-Goldberg’s sea-buddy John Bruno, who I encountered in Brisbane last year. I wonder how sea life manages to outrun El Niño and La Niña ENSO events without being … Continue reading →

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An ironic juxtaposition of our elders and CO2

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

A strange juxtaposition in the news today about our older generation, carbon dioxide, and climate change. It seems the past 60 crowd produce less CO2 in their activities than the rest of us. It seems they also believe it affects … Continue reading →

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No fair dinkum in Australia’s carbon tax today

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

Letter to the Editor (or an opinion piece) Watts Up With That? 8th November 2011 (Australia time)   Back towards the Dark Ages The passage of the carbon tax bills today is no reason for celebration. It is a step … Continue reading →

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Back To Reality: UK Puts Climate Change On Back Burner

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

Newsbytes from The GWPF via Dr. Benny Peiser Britain’s carbon emissions grew faster than the economy last year for the first time since 1996, as a cash-strapped population relegated the environment down its league of concerns and spent more money … Continue reading →

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Why Reanalysis “Data” Isn’t

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is a new paper out by Xu and Powell, “Uncertainty of the stratospheric/tropospheric temperature trends in 1979–2008: multiple satellite MSU, radiosonde, and reanalysis datasets” (PDF, hereinafter XP2011). It shows the large differences between the satellite, … Continue reading →

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Sea Ice News: rapid re-refreeze of the Arctic in October, 40% faster than normal

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

From NSIDC: A rapid freeze-up Arctic sea ice extent increased rapidly through October, as is typical this time of year. Large areas of open water were still present in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas at the end of the month. … Continue reading →

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A request: +1 Us for Google’s Sake

Posted on November 6, 2011 by

A week or so ago I found out about Google’s +1 program, which allows anybody to uprate websites that participate, so that users can boost that site’s search rankings. As has been found recently, Google has staff of people who … Continue reading →

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Hathaway’s November Solar Prediction

Posted on November 6, 2011 by

By David Archibald Joe D’Aleo asked for my comments on NASA’s James Hathaway’s latest solar prediction, available here: http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml When I read May 2013 for solar cycle maximum, I thought “That is my prediction”. But then at the bottom of … Continue reading →

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Uncertain about Uncertainty

Posted on November 6, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was reading a study just published in Science mag, pay-walled of course. It’s called “The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems”, by Burrows et al. (hereinafter B2011). However, I believe that … Continue reading →

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NCDC data shows that the contiguous USA has not warmed in the past decade, summers are cooler, winters are getting colder

Posted on November 5, 2011 by

See update below: New comparison graph of US temperatures in 1999 to present added – quite an eye opener – Anthony There’s been a lot of buzz and conflicting reports over what the BEST data actually says, especially about the … Continue reading →

Posted in Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, climate data | Tagged , , | 224 Comments

An Initial Look At The Hindcasts Of The NCAR CCSM4 Coupled Climate Model

Posted on November 5, 2011 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale OVERVIEW This post compares the instrument observations of three global temperature anomaly datasets (NINO3, Global, and North Atlantic “Plus”) to the hindcasts of the NCAR couple climate model CCSM4, which was used in a couple … Continue reading →

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My few minutes with Andy Rooney

Posted on November 5, 2011 by

This morning we wake up to the news that Andy Rooney has died following complications from surgery at the age of 92. Like many of you, I’m saddened to hear of this. Me, perhaps more so, because I had the … Continue reading →

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Cooling Warming by the numbers

Posted on November 5, 2011 by

I get featured in this WSJ piece from “The Numbers Guy” Carl Bialik, but there’s a curious sentence in the first paragraph. At first I thought it was an editorial device or maybe a pun. Then I saw this:

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Why is 20 years statistically significant when 10 years is not?

Posted on November 5, 2011 by

Guest post by James Padgett Many of you are aware that the concept of continental drift, proposed by Alfred Wegener, was widely ridiculed by his contemporaries. This reaction was in spite of the very clear visual evidence that the continents … Continue reading →

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Climate Skeptic Combusts in New [William J Clinton Foundation] Video

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Correction: This video appears to be associated with the William J Clinton Foundation versus the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as was previously stated. Updated Below – New “The Air-Conditioned Suit” video surfaces “‘Combustible’ is … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, climate ugliness, Curious things | Tagged , , , , | 145 Comments

Roman Period “megadrought” found in the USA southwest

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

From the University of Arizona, one wonders how such a thing could happen when CO2 was at “safe” levels. They are using bristlecone pines again, which may very well be a better proxy for rainfall than for temperature. At least … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology | Tagged , , | 194 Comments