Ticks are spreading, and down in the article, you guessed it, the cause is speculated to be global warming aka climate change. From CBS in Charlotte, worry over a one…
Month: May 2012
An Observational Estimate of Climate Sensitivity
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach “Climate sensitivity” is the name for the measure of how much the earth’s surface is supposed to warm for a given change in what is…
Paging David Appell and Nick Stokes again: time to fess up and apologize
“Death threats” story now proven false by ANU Chancellor Ian Chubb The bizarre now laughable “climate scientists get death threats” at Australian National University has finally imploded completely with the…
Myles off from the target
Josh of cartoonsbyjosh.com writes of a new climate FAIL entry: Hopefully you’ve watched the video, read the posts and comments here and at Climate Audit and Bishop Hill. Basically Myles…
This new paper may explain the widespread belief in the value of Michael Mann's methods and the 'bet' on the Hockey Stick
Over at Steve McIntyre’s, there’s a fascinating discussion going on about the relevance of the hockey stick in the context of the Myles Allen mis-identification of the temperature record in…
Memorial Day tribute – USS Iowa final voyage this weekend
On this memorial day, I thought it might be appropriate to share this image and story. The USS Iowa made its final voyage from Richmond, CA to San Pedro CA…
NOAA/NWS under fire – 'misappropriated $43 million dollars'
Report: National Weather Service misappropriated $43 million By Isolde Raftery, msnbc.com Jack Hayes, the director of the National Weather Service, stepped down Friday in response to an investigation that top…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “As an agency, NASA does not draw conclusions and issue ‘claims’ about research…
Apathy and the climate change divide – it isn't about science literacy
From Yale University, it seems the climate debate has become completely tribal. On the plus side, this study blows the “if only we could communicate to the public better” meme…
Another paper shows that severe weather/extreme weather has no trend related to global warming
From Pierre Gosselin’s Notrickszone http://notrickszone.com/2012/05/25/comprehensive-alps-study-clearly-refutes-humans-are-causing-more-weather-variability-and-extremes/ A new paper authored by Reinhard Böhm of the Austrian Central Administration For Meteorology (ZAMG) refutes the notion that anthropogenic warming is causing an increase of climate extremes…
Quote of the Week – BONUS Krugman insanity edition
I had no more than published the QOTW yesterday, and this one popped up. I’m of the opinion now that NYT economist and columnist Paul Krugman has gone insane, because…
Quote of the week – Myles Allen's "failure to communicate"
Steve McIntyre writes at Climate Audit: Bishop Hill links to a presentation by Myles Allen to a 2011 conference on Climategate, which like every other such handwringing introspection by climate…
Clive Best gives evidence for negative water feedback in Earth's climate system using the faint sun paradox and CRUTEM4 data
Excerpts from Evidence for Negative Water Feedback by Clive Best Abstract: Positive linear climate feedback for combined water effects is shown to be incompatible with the Faint Sun Paradox. In…
Facepalm! Gore's "dirty energy = dirty weather" claims about the US are laughable in the context of other countries
Al Gore, is his usual incompetent persona, is bloviating weapons grade nonsense again. A few prior examples: On TV, Earth’s core is millions of degrees, in AIT, snows of Mt.…
Tropical Storm Beryl forms
BULLETIN SUBTROPICAL STORM BERYL ADVISORY NUMBER 1 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL022012 1100 PM EDT FRI MAY 25 2012 …SUBTROPICAL STORM FORMS IN THE SOUTHEWESTERN ATLANTIC……
Paging Suzanne Goldenberg and Guardian editors – Pacific Institute Says Gleick Review Not Final
Quark Soup writes: Gleick Review Not Finalized, Pacific Institute Says Last week Suzanne Goldenberg of The Guardian reported: “A review has cleared the scientist Peter Gleick of forging any documents…
Natural Variability in the Widths of the Tropics
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my previous post, “Does This Analysis Make My Tropics Look Big?“I discussed a paper called “Recent Northern Hemisphere tropical expansion primarily driven by black…
Summary: The International Conference on Climate Change 7
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach After years of getting up at 4 AM to go commercial fishing, these days I generally have as little to do with dawn as possible.…
Joe Bast responds to Dr. Judith Curry's post on Heartland
Joe Bast is responding to: Heartburn at Heartland Posted on May 24, 2012by Judith Curry ==================================== Received via email: Dr. Curry, Thanks for reproducing in your recent post my account…
The CIA documents the global cooling research of the 1970’s
Despite what NCDC’s Thomas Peterson, Wikiwrangler William Connolley, and John Fleck would like you to believe as a “myth” (The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus), there was…
Kenji gets mail, but where's the science?
As many WUWT readers know, my dog, Kenji Watts, is an actual member of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He’s got papers to prove it. This of course is proof…
The sum of Yamal is greater than its parts
This post will be a sticky top post for a day or two, new stories will appear below this one. Climategate Continues By Andrew Montford & Harold Ambler May 24,…
Nanoscale vacuum transistors – way cool, but still not as pretty as a glowing 12AU6
From AAAS, news of a super tiny vacuum-tube transistor hybrid that can operate up to .46 TERAHertz (thats 460,000 megahertz or 460 gigahertz): Return of the Vacuum Tube by Jon…
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