Monthly Archives: April 2012

Met Office April Forecast: “…drought impacts in the coming months are virtually inevitable.”

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

UPDATE: Forecast humor on steroids, here You can’t make up FAIL like this. First this story in the BBC Today: Now let’s have a look at the official Met Office forecast for April, issued on March 23rd, 2012: About these … Continue reading →

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Why climate science is a textbook example of groupthink

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

In groupthink, organizations value consensus more than free thought. The emphasis on consensus leads to group polarization, in which a group’s positions become more extreme than any individual would come up with. Alarmist climate science is a textbook example of … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Altitudes: how stratospheric temperature is de-coupled from the surface temperatures

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

On the battle between Arrhenius and Ångström. Story submitted by John Kehr, The Inconvenient Skeptic Any serious discussion about the Theory of Global Warming will eventually include the absorption band argument that started more than 100 years ago between Arrhenius … Continue reading →

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Rosie O’Donnell has a winter coat for sale

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

Guest post by Mark Johnson What would the climate change debate be without a quote from Rosie O’Donnell. Al Roker was interviewing the talk show host on a Weather Channel segment Monday morning during “Wake Up with Al.” Here’s how … Continue reading →

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Baghdad gives up historical climatic clues

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

From the FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology Arabic records allow past climate to be reconstructed The study has been published in Weather, a publication of the Royal Meteorological Society Corals, trees and marine sediments, among others, are … Continue reading →

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Breaking – EPA’s “crucifier” resigns

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

Junkscience.com reports that: EPA official Al Armendariz who rocketed to infamy last week because of 2010 comments about “crucifying” industry, has resigned from the agency. Click for his resignation letter. (PDF) Here’s the source of the uproar, this video:

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The EPA and undisclosed human experimentation

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

In my email today: From: The Honorable Dana Rohrabacher Date: 4/27/2012 EPA Compromises the Integrity of Science Dear Colleague: “Which do you find more shocking: that the Environmental Protection Agency conducts experiments on humans that its own risk assessment would … Continue reading →

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Consensus Argument Proves Climate Science Is Political.

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

UPDATE: I’ve added a video at the end that speaks to the consensus thinking. Marc Morano’s arguments leaves the Australian Youth Climate Coalition’s Anna Rose speechless. – Anthony Guest post by Dr. Tim Ball Claims of a consensus was an … Continue reading →

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Supreme irony: wind farms can cause atmospheric warming, finds a new study

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

NOTE: An update has been added below, using the press release that came out today after the news stories yesterday. While ironic that something designed to reduce CO2 emissions (and presumably warming)is actually producing warming around it, this isn’t really … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on April 29, 2012 by

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what … Continue reading →

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On Fracking

Posted on April 29, 2012 by

  This post represents two milestones for WUWT. 1. It is the first post where a detailed examination of fracking has been offered to the readers. 2. It is the first post I’ve authored from an airplane cruising about 35,000 … Continue reading →

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Tisdale on the “17 year itch” – Yes, there is a Santer clause

Posted on April 29, 2012 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale What Do Observed Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies and Climate Models Have In Common Over The Past 17 Years? One word answer: NOTHING!!!! OVERVIEW In this post, we’ll compare satellite-based sea surface temperature anomalies (Reynolds OI.v2) … Continue reading →

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From Schmidt 2005 to Miller 2012: the “not needed” excuse for omitted variable fraud

Posted on April 29, 2012 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls Miller et al. 2012 recently provided some pretty strong evidence for a solar driver of climate. “This is the first time anyone has clearly identified the specific onset of the cold times marking the start … Continue reading →

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Climate craziness of the week – global warming blamed for increase In Major League home runs

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

“…thinner air” cited by sports broadcaster From DeadSpin’s Timothy Burke: Tim McCarver Blames Global Warming For The Increase In Major League Home Runs We’d normally save this sort of thing for McCarve’d Up (which will be back next week after … Continue reading →

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Live blogging from the Weather Channel 30th anniversary

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

It has been a busy day for me. I chased the last remaining (yet to be surveyed) USHCN weather station in Georgia at Dahlonega, plus did historical reference interviews with TWC founder John Coleman and Director of Meteorology Joe D’Aleo … Continue reading →

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Tisdale: A Closer Look at CRUTEM4 Since 1975

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

Note: I’m blogging this from Atlanta, where I am at the TWC Pioneers reunion. Bob was kind enough to provide this post so I can relax a bit (though I think I’ll chase a NOAA USHCN weather station today anyway). … Continue reading →

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UN Sheep At Work

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The United Nations, progenitor of a thousand agencies, has released a report called “MOVING TOWARDS A CLIMATE NEUTRAL UN” regarding its success in reducing its own “carbon footprint” (full version , summary). The Head Prophet of … Continue reading →

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Open thread weekend

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

As you may know, I’m traveling this weekend to be with the founders and pioneers of The Weather Channel in Atlanta for an informal 30 year reunion, which I talked about in detail here. Thanks, sincerely, to everyone for the … Continue reading →

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Climate scientists who have been claiming Texas is warming are totally wrong.

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

Story submitted by Forrest Mims III, originally published for the San Antonio Express-News In the early days of this column, concerned readers sent many questions about the earth’s ozone layer, which I began measuring in 1990. Today, public interest in … Continue reading →

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Pilot video for a series: Bill Scientific – “The Greenhouse Effect”

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

Guest post by Bill DiPuccio, Science Teacher Let’s face it, high school science videos can be boring and ineffective. I like my science with a twist of comic exaggeration. So I decided to produce a video with enough humor to … Continue reading →

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