Monthly Archives: December 2011

Solar-Terrestrial Power Update

Posted on December 25, 2011 by

By Paul L. Vaughan, M.Sc. The amplitude of Earth’s zonal winds is modulated by the solar cycle. Here’s a concise visual update based on the latest data: LOD’ = rate of change of length of day

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Merry Christmas – open thread

Posted on December 24, 2011 by

Above: Christmas trees in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres As of this post, I’m offline until late Monday PST. Moderators, don’t be shy about taking time off too.

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Mann hockey stick co-author Bradley: “it may be that Mann et al simply don’t have the long-term trend right”

Posted on December 24, 2011 by

Tom Nelson spots a gem in the Climategate 2 emails: Hockey stick co-author Ray Bradley: “it may be that Mann et al simply don’t have the long-term trend right”; “I hedge my bets on whether there were any periods in … Continue reading →

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Great Circle Route over the pole cleared for Branson’s Virgin Air

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

This will shave six hours off a flight from London to Fiji, which had to either stop in Los Angeles or Seoul en-route. There’s a good side and a bad side to this. The good side: Thousands, perhaps hundreds of … Continue reading →

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Spaceballs – the debris

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

Curious story in AFP yesterday: Full story here – Click the image above for a large view of the object. Me thinks it is from either of these spacecraft:

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Friday Funny – New NOAA supercomputer “Gaea” revealed

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

From the Atomic City Underground Blog of knoxvillenews.com comes word that a big kahuna of komputing is about to go online. The Cray XK6 supercomputer is a trifecta of scalar, network and many-core innovation. It combines Cray’s proven Gemini interconnect, … Continue reading →

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UK police seize computers of skeptic blogger in England

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

UPDATE: 12/21/11 4PM  -BBC covers Tallbloke, finally, Richard Black still silent-  Norfolk constabulary to share hand-off Climategate investigation, and  Greg Laden caves – see below Dec 14th -The first blogger to break the Climategate2 story has had a visit from … Continue reading →

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NYT reporter engages in zany conspiracy theory – suggests bloggers “knew” FOIA emails were coming

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

This is almost as clueless as the raid on Tallbloke by the police looking for scraps. But it does underscore one thing – investigators are clueless and so is the major press. For the record, I don’t know who “FOIA” … Continue reading →

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The year in Josh – 2011

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

What would we do without the comic relief from Josh? So much hilarity.

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China Warns EU’s Green Fanatics Of Global Trade War

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

Via the GWPF, the great war of flying carbon credits appears to be massing on the border. China has warned the European Union to abandon its controversial carbon tax on airlines or risk provoking a global trade war. Adding weight … Continue reading →

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Climate craziness of the week – the last one, really!

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

The Telegraph goes full stupid with this headline. The craziness is that this photo essay has to be done every year, a point apparently lost on both the Telegraph and the photographer.

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In where I get my own nuclear explosion for Christmas

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

It’s getting onto the time when we just let other cares fall away and focus on family and friends, and what holiday season would be complete without some fireworks when they all get together? ;-)

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Nothing is Sustainable

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach People have this idea that sailing is cheap, because of the low fuel costs. But blue-water sailors have a saying that goes like this: The wind is free … but everything else costs money. Reading … Continue reading →

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The Two Koreas, 1950–2008: An Unplanned Experiment in Economic Systems, the Carbon Footprint and Human Well-Being

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

  Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Lately, North Korea has been very much in the news. Its population—or should I say, “captive population”—greets the passing of the baton from one ruler to another in the same spirit as “Kim … Continue reading →

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Shocker – Ken Caldeira resigns as IPCC AR5 lead author

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

(via Tom Nelson) Ken Caldeira resigns as IPCC lead author, saying: “…it is not clear how much additional benefit there is to having a huge bureaucratic scientific review effort under UN auspices…” New Directions for the Intergovernmental Climate Panel – … Continue reading →

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Ben Santer’s “damage control” on UAH global temperature data

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

The post below on Dr. Roy Spencer’s blog that contains responses from Spencer and Christy deserves wide distribution and attention, because it shows just how badly Ben Santer and John Abraham want to squelch this dataset. Particularly amusing is the … Continue reading →

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Shocker: BP quits solar power industry

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

BP Exits the Solar Industry (via Planet Gore) By Greg Pollowitz Bloomberg: BP Plc, Europe’s second-largest oil company, will shut its solar power unit and quit the business entirely after 40 years because it’s become unprofitable. The company will wind down … Continue reading →

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Senseless about sensitivity

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

The speculative press release below is from the University of Gothenburg.  After having a paper published earlier this year  in Science that argues climate sensitivity might be lower than the IPCC stated in AR4, we have a new press release … Continue reading →

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Hansen’s Arrested Development

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach James Hansen has taken time off between being arrested to produce another in the list of his publications. It’s called “Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Implications“. This one is listed as “submitted” … Normally these days I … Continue reading →

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Another alarming climate myth bites the dust – mosquito borne malaria does NOT increase with temperature

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

Back in 2001, the University of Florida wrote one of those “science by press release” thingy’s in Eurekalert where they speculated that global warming would increase ranges, and thus the range of mosquito borne disease. The next year, NPR jumped … Continue reading →

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Greg Laden caves – makes nice with Tallbloke

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

Tom Nelson points out that Laden seems to have caved to impending legal action. His essay now is a world apart from the angry and accusatory rhetoric of a few days ago. I think maybe Laden and the owners of … Continue reading →

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Job opening for: Environment Program Officer

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

People send me stuff. This WUWT reader (who shall remain nameless) writes of a job opening that some of our readers may very well be suitable for. The letter says they “…welcomes a diverse pool of candidates for this search”, … Continue reading →

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This is Glacial Tap

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

From McGill University , hmmm, where have we heard this water supply threat from receding mountain glaciers before? Children just aren’t going to know what glaciers are. Glacial tap is open but the water will run dry Retreating glaciers threaten … Continue reading →

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Thou shalt not question UN “experts”

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

  Inconvenient questions will not be tolerated in Durban or other climate crisis conferences Guest post by Kelvin Kemm British Viscount Christopher Monckton of Brenchley parachuted with me into Durban, South Africa, to challenge UN climate crisis claims, attracting numerous … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 101 Comments

Tisdale on IPCC Models Versus Sea Surface Temperature Observations During The Recent Warming Period

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale OVERVIEW This post compares satellite-based Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies to the hindcasts and projections of the multi-model mean of CMIP3 models. CMIP3 is the archive the IPCC used as the source of their models … Continue reading →

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