Monthly Archives: December 2011

MANNx TEDx and all that

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

The Mann at TEDx PSU (Penn State) video is now available. There’s no political content warning unfortunately, as Mann spends more time standing if front of giant faces of politicians and political pundits he hates than graphs and data. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Michael E. Mann | 69 Comments

WWF and Oxfam pushing for a shipping tax at Durban COP17 – since when do NGO’s get to write tax laws?

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

People send me stuff. This one had an IP address originating in Durban today, but it lists as a proxy server, so the person may/may not be there. From WUWT Tips and Notes: I am writing from the COP17 negotiations … Continue reading →

Posted in Durban Climate Conference | 134 Comments

RealClimate’s Steig: Pacific SST’s influencing Antarctic melt, no link to human causes demonstrated

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

WUWT readers may recall the Nature cover with this picture of Antarctica at left, followed by the subsequent falsification of the Antarctic warming claims made by Steig et al using the dicey Mannomatic math employed. We owe thanks to O’Donnell … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, glaciers, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , , , | 71 Comments

Who gets the most access to network data (like emails at CRU)?

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

Post updated – see below. Climategate – whodunnit? Well, according to this story in Help Net Security, the Information Technology people might be good candidates to see what has been going on behind the scenes at UEA’s Climate Research Unit, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Technology | Tagged , | 254 Comments

The Impact of Urbanization on Land Temperature Trends

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

by Zeke Hausfather , Steven Mosher, Matthew Menne , Claude Williams , and Nick Stokes [Note: this is an AGU poster displayed at the annual meeting, available here as a PDF. I’ve converted it to plain text and images for … Continue reading →

Posted in GHCN, UHI, weather_stations | 134 Comments

Common link in extreme weather events found – and no, it isn’t AGW

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

From the University of Wisconsin-Madison  something you’ll never see posted on Climate Progress or mentioned by weepy Bill McKibben because it mellows their harshness. Global winds could explain record rains, tornadoes MADISON –Two talks at a scientific conference this week … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, weather | 51 Comments

New hurricane record – 2232 days and counting since major Hurricane made landfall on the USA – last record was year 1900

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

While the alarmists squall over trying to control what they perceive as “extreme weather” driven by global warming at Durban COP17, urging immediate action in the form of coughing up 100 billion a year to poor countries for “reparations”, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Alarmism, hurricanes | 42 Comments

Chinese Deal Breakers

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The lead Chinese negotiator at the 17th UN COP (United Nations Conference of Partygoers) being celebrated in Durban is a man named Xie Zhenhua. He is the Vice Chairman of the Chinese National Development and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 74 Comments

It’s Worse Than We Thought… Again… “Warming may be irreversible by 2017″

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

This was in our guest author queue, but I was never notified of its existence. Better late than never. – Anthony Guest post by David Middleton… EA: Warming may be irreversible by 2017

Posted in Alarmism | 106 Comments

Monckton on sensitivity training at Durban

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

It. Ain’t. Gonna. Happen. From Christopher Monckton of Brenchley in Durban, South Africa It. Ain’t. Gonna. Happen. This is the ghastly secret that almost all the delegates here in Durban are desperate to conceal. Paper after paper, result after result, … Continue reading →

Posted in climate sensitivity, Durban Climate Conference, Uncategorized | 199 Comments

Tim Barnett on the hockey stick- “statistics were suspect”–the rest of the team knew of problems with Mann’s reconstruction

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

  Bishop Hill Writes: Email 2383 contains further evidence that everyone in the world of paleoclimate knew the Hockey Stick was a duffer. From: Tim Barnett [[2]mailto:XXXXXXXXXXX@ucsd.edu] Sent: 11 October 2004 16:42 To: Gabi Hegerl; Klaus Hasselmann Cc: Prof.Dr. Hans … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Uncategorized | 87 Comments

November 2011 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

by Bob Tisdale HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY REYNOLDS OPTIMUM INTERPOLATION (OI) SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DATA The Reynolds OI.v2 Sea Surface Temperature data now covers a time period from November 1981 to November 2011. Will NOAA now be changing the climatology for … Continue reading →

Posted in Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged | 23 Comments

IPCC Brand Science™ – extrapolating 10 himalayan glaciers to speak for 54,000 – meanwhile Himalayagate 2 is evolving over the Stern Report

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

10/54,000 = .0185 % That’s an impressively small sample size. Apparently Pachauri’s zeal to get back the Himalayagate claim of melting by 2035 outweighs any rational attempts at science. In any other discipline, a sample size this small would be … Continue reading →

Posted in Durban Climate Conference, IPCC | Tagged , , , , | 114 Comments

Open thread weekend

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

I’m a little burned out after nearly two weeks of covering Climategate 2.0, plus my children are demanding that I put up Christmas lights on the house. So, I’m taking the rest of the day off though may do an … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Thread | 138 Comments

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

Quote of the Week: “If you think that science is certain-well that’s just an error on your part.” Richard Feynman [H/t Daniel Botkin, WSJ] – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | 10 Comments

The contextual collection of ClimateGate 2.0 quotes

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

One of the first whines out of RealClimate ( a Fenton Communications/ Environmental Media Services production) was that they were “out of context” saying: “Indeed, even the out-of-context quotes aren’t that exciting, and are even less so in-context.” That’s typical … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | Tagged , , | 115 Comments

WUWT – helping to educate UEA students on climate

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

This is curious and amusing. A few days back it was reported that there was a CG2 email from Phil Jones where he laments some skeptical slides being used in a powerpount lecture at UEA. Turns out that wasn’t the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | Tagged , , , | 85 Comments

Scientists behaving badly – part II

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

By Steven Hayward, The Weekly Standard (via The GWPF) No amount of context can possibly exonerate the CRU gang from some of the damning expressions and contrivances that appear repeatedly in the new emails. More so than the 2009 batch, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 74 Comments

Another electric car company bites the dust

Posted on December 3, 2011 by

From Slashdot: After years of beautiful concept cars, envy-inspiring demos, and missed production targets starting in 2008, high-efficiency car startup Aptera is liquidating its assets. A pointed excerpt from Wired’s account:

Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , | 132 Comments

Coal – confirmed by NASA as getting cleaner

Posted on December 3, 2011 by

Oh Dear, It’s another Joe Romm head exploder. The improvement is verified by satellite data and the results are peer reviewed. Yet the EPA still insists on closing coal plants nationwide. NASA Satellite Confirms Sharp Decline in Pollution from U.S. … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, Environment | 92 Comments

The Dark Future of Solar Electricity

Posted on December 3, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The “Annual Energy Outlook” for 2011 is just out from the US Energy Information Administration. The section called “Levelized Cost of New Generation Resources” looks at what are called the “levelized” costs of electric power … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 317 Comments

Friday Funny – Bonus Edition

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

Josh was amused by the caveman reference I made to the Geico commercial Hockey stick falsification – so easy a caveman kid can do it. Here’s his take on it:

Posted in Climategate, Humor, satire | 14 Comments

Hurricanes and Global Warming – Opinion by Chris Landsea

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

While I was looking into Chris Landsea’s recent activities, I came across a new essay that is a pleasant change of pace from the Climategate Emails. While it is definitely an opinion piece, and a wonderful example of how to … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, AMO, Carbon dioxide, hurricanes, Methane, Michael E. Mann, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , | 65 Comments

FOIA is not enough. Why not legally mandate transparency in climate research? A Modest Proposal…

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

Guest post by Professor Robert G. Brown of Duke University. Not all scientific research is equal, in terms of its probable impact on humanity.  If one is studying poison dart frog species in tropical rain forests, getting a number wrong … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI, Opinion | 184 Comments

Team ugliness – a call to get a skeptics PhD thesis revoked

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

Guest post by Dr. Patrick Michaels – originally on Forbes, reposted here at the request of the author. Climategate II: An Open Letter to the Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research To: Dr. Roger Wakimoto Director, National Center … Continue reading →

Posted in climate ugliness, Climategate | 199 Comments