Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at Judith Curry’s excellent blog there’s a discussion of Trenberth’s missing heat. A new paper about oceanic temperatures says the heat’s not really missing,…
Month: January 2012
October to December 2011 NODC Ocean Heat Content Anomalies (0-700Meters) Update and Comments
Guest post by Bob Tisdale SAME INTRODUCTION AS ALWAYS The National Oceanographic Data Center’s (NODC) Ocean Heat Content (OHC) anomaly data for the depths of 0-700 meters are available through…
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry denial backfires – big crowd in Portland hears all about climate change skepticism
Readers may recall when I took OMSI to task for being debate deniers. That didn’t work out so well for OMSI what with the negative publicity and the packed room…
Legal exemplars cited in Michael Mann's UVA email case
Mann alludes to his “dirty laundry” which cannot come out, requesting his correspondent to not pass the email or the data attached to it to anyone else (PE-22). The Environmental…
What in the world is going on with global temperatures?
Multiple indicators show global temperatures headed down this month, and fast. by Joe D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow As shown above (see the datapoint in the square box), the UAH AMSU…
Frequency of strong Florida hurricanes decreased in last 600 years
The next time some alarmist caterwauls about hurricanes becoming worse and more frequent due to global warming, show them this study. Noting that “the brief observational record is inadequate for…
First Estimate of Solar Cycle 25 Amplitude – may be the smallest in over 300 years
Guest post by David Archibald Predicting the amplitude of Solar Cycle 24 was a big business. Jan Janssens provides the most complete table of Solar Cycle 24 predictions at: http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/SC24.html…
Another GISS miss, this time in Iceland
Ever wonder why NASA’s Jim Hansen (and many others) see red at high northern latitudes? Above 2011 Temperature Anomaly. Source: NASA GISS interactive plotter With all that red up north,…
Polar bears and sulfates
From the University of Washington some apparent confusion about what sulfates look like. Injecting sulfate particles into stratosphere won’t fully offset climate change IMAGE:A polar bear walks along an expanse…
PEERs rush in: Climate Science Legal Defense Fund
Andrew Revkin reports today on the engagement of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) to the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund created by Professor Scott Mandia, aka “Supermandia” as he…
The Simon-Ehrlich Wager at Seven Billion People
Guest post by David Middleton Back in 1980, the great libertarian economist, Julian Simon, and the prepetually wrong Malthusian biologist, Paul Ehrlich, entered into a little wager regarding population growth…
Biggest solar storm since 2005
It is being called by WaPo “The Biggest solar storm since 2005“. The sun erupted late on January 22nd, 2012 with an M8.7 class flare. The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured…
Death Valley's Big Bang Theory
From the The Earth Institute at Columbia University Waiting for Death Valley’s Big Bang A volcanic explosion crater may have future potential In California’s Death Valley, death is looking just…
The Message in the Dye 3 Data
Guest post by David Archibald The story so far: in this recent post – Ap Index Neutrons and Climate, we had looked at the Dye 3 oxygen isotope-derived temperature record…
Refutation of Stable Thermal Equilibrium Lapse Rates
Guest post by Robert G. Brown Duke University Physics Department The Problem In 2003 a paper was published in Energy & Environment by Hans Jelbring that asserted that a gravitationally…
It's "dead heat" – Americans rate global warming last
It appears that only the zealots care much about global warming anymore, yet it doesn’t stop them from making grand pronouncements of gloom and doom or taking fossil fueled publicity…
The Mystery of Equation 8
I’ve been looking at the Nikolov and Zeller paper again. Among other things, they claim to be able to calculate the surface temperature Ts of eight different planets and moons from…
FOI victory against Phil Jones, CRU, and UEA
Excerpts from Bishop Hill: A major FOI victory This post is a jointly written effort by myself and Don Keiller. Readers may remember the Information Commissioner’s ruling last year that UEA…
Monday Mirthiness – dollars and sense
Josh weighs in on this story, writing: What is it with the new measuring climate in terms of money? Just bizarre. As Carl Sagan* might say, “billions and billions”.
Forecastthefacts.org – Political Activists Gagging Our TV Meteorologists on Climate Issues
UPDATE: 1/23/12 11AMPST Exposed – Forecastthefacts.org is a George Soros funded activist website. See details below. By Michael A. Lewis, PhD. and Anthony Watts Some one or some organization is…
Gore, Hansen, Trenberth to make Antarctic PR expedition
From the you’ve got to be effin kidding me department comes news of the epic journey to Antarctica. What do they hope to prove? I don’t know, it seems like…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Quote of the Week:“…it would not serve the national interest. – President Obama in rejecting permits to build a new overland pipeline to import additional oil from neighboring Canada using…
Unified Theory of Climate: Reply to Comments
Foreword – I’ve had this document since January 17th, and it has taken some time to get it properly reproduced here in full due to formatting issues. Some equations have…
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