Monthly Archives: November 2012

Another inconvenient truth – 2012 US tornado count well below normal

Posted on November 30, 2012 by

Somewhere, weepy Bill McKibben is weeping and Al Gore is raging, because they won’t be able to say “2012, the hottest year ever, caused more tornadoes” So much for “dirty weather” Heh. The NOAA Storm Prediction Center just updated their … Continue reading →

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Al Gore’s ‘Reality Drop’ is a bomb – so let’s give him a ‘hockey stick’

Posted on November 30, 2012 by

UPDATE: Hockey stick achieved, see below. Guess what? WUWT readers make up the majority of viewers of this farce video. Mostly curiosity I suppose. Watch the video, then see the numbers below. Yesterday, Tom Nelson asked this question, and it … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – Josh of the month club

Posted on November 30, 2012 by

Yes, you too can be a member of the “Josh of the month club”.

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More WUWT.TV: Interview and presentation with Dr. Sebastian Lüning

Posted on November 30, 2012 by

From our WUWT.TV 24 hour broadcast answer to Al Gore’s dirty weather on November 14-15, 2012. Dr. Sebastian Lüning of Dr. Franz Vahrenholt are co-authors of the book “Die Kalt Sonne” which we previously reviewed here and here on WUWT. … Continue reading →

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NOAA: ’2012 was an active [hurricane] year, but not exceptionally so …10 busier years in the last three decades’

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

NOTE: see video below, where you can watch the entire 2012 hurricane season on satellite time-lapse, way cool. – Anthony Busy 2012 hurricane season continues decades-long high activity era in the Atlantic Four U.S. land-falling storms include devastating Sandy and … Continue reading →

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An open letter to the U.N from climate skeptics

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Published in the Financial Post today: OPEN CLIMATE LETTER TO UN SECRETARY GENERAL: Current scientific knowledge does not substantiate Ban Ki-Moon assertions on weather and climate, say 125 scientists. Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations H.E. Ban Ki-Moon, … Continue reading →

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Alice in Wonderland science

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Our energy and environment deserve better – in South Africa and Qatar Guest post by Dr. Kelvin Kemm A few weeks ago, perhaps as a prologue to the “global warming disaster” convention in Doha, Qatar, South Africa’s Department of Environment … Continue reading →

Posted in Oceans, Ridiculae, Science | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 51 Comments

Doha delegation using hurricane Sandy as a call to action

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

(via CFACT) The latest round of climate talks began this week in Doha, Qatar in the usual fashion – namely, with alarmist claims that the world is being imperiled by manmade global warming and it’s time for “action.” Naturally, the … Continue reading →

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Another hole in the climate models – no lamp black forcing

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Interesting point, but I wonder how such a change would come about when people often can’t afford an alternative? Let there be clean light: Kerosene lamps spew black carbon, should be replaced, study says By Sarah Yang, Media Relations BERKELEY … Continue reading →

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Another WUWT.TV video, Mike Smith, severe weather expert

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Certified Consulting Meteorologist Mike Smith of WeatherData Inc. in Wichita, KS, a world renowned expert on severe weather, talks about the issues of trying to connect weather and climate and where these issues fail. 

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More on noisy Greenland ice loss data from GRACE

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Embracing data ‘noise’ brings Greenland’s complex ice melt into focus by Morgan Kelly, Office of Communications, Princeton Universtity An enhanced approach to capturing changes on the Earth’s surface via satellite could provide a more accurate account of how ice sheets, … Continue reading →

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A ReVolting development – Green Energy Stimulus Bankruptcies Come in All Sizes

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

By Paul Chesser, National Legal & Policy Center The little-reported bankruptcy of a relatively small electric vehicle battery manufacturer last month illustrates the many problems with President Obama’s green energy stimulus program, and why the more appropriate location for the … Continue reading →

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Making Spirits Bright: A Christmas Announcement

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

Guest Post by Ross McKitrick Hello WUWT’ers: Anthony has kindly given me a bit of real estate on his website to tell you about a Christmas-themed project I am involved in. Cheerfully it has nothing at all to do with … Continue reading →

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More WUWT.TV video segments – Joe D’Aleo on Hurricane Sandy and extreme weather

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

I continue with uploading videos from the 24 hour WUWT.TV Gore-a-thon on November 14-15th seen live here on WUWT. This post contains two segments, one that was seen during the live session on Hurricane Sandy, and one that was a … Continue reading →

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The Atlantic Magazine’s ’5 Charts About Climate Change That Should Have You Very, Very Worried’… Worried about scientific illiteracy.

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

Guest post by David Middleton I ran into this gem on Real Clear Energy this morning… The article cites terrifying new reports commissioned by the World Bank and the CIA and then launches into a graphical cornucopia of nonsense. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, Climate Craziness of the Week, Climate FAIL, Climate_change, Current News, Disaster, Drought, Environment, extreme weather, Fun_stuff, Greenland ice sheet, Humor, media, Paleoclimatology, Tabloid Climatology, Wildfires | Tagged , , , , , , | 88 Comments

Northern California’s coming super soaker event via the ‘Pineapple Express’

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

UPDATE: Added this HiDef imag showing a trio of lows (commas shaped clouds) in the Gulf of Alaska and southward: There’s lots of buzz here in Northern California about a series of upcoming storms starting today and through the weekend … Continue reading →

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Mythbusting Rahmstorf and Foster

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

Rahmstorf et al (2012) Insist on Prolonging a Myth about El Niño and La Niña Guest post by Bob Tisdale Anthony Watts of WattsUpWithThat forwarded a link to a newly published peer-reviewed paper by Stefan Rahmstorf, Grant Foster (aka Tamino of … Continue reading →

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Flu forecasts using weather, not climate

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

Flu outbreaks predicted with weather forecast techniques BOULDER—Scientists at Columbia University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have adapted techniques used in modern weather prediction to generate local forecasts of seasonal influenza outbreaks. By predicting the timing and severity … Continue reading →

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An update to US Hurricane Intensity 1900-2012 – no recent trend with hurricane Sandy

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

While there is still lots of caterwauling about Hurricane Sandy and climate, it is telling that this new update shows that the last five years record the lowest period of landfalling hurricane intensity of any five-year period dating all the … Continue reading →

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Speak loudly and carry a busted hockey stick

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

by Walter Starck (in Quadrant Online) The average temperature for the Earth, or any region or even any specific place is very difficult to determine with any accuracy.  At any given time surface air temperatures around the world range over … Continue reading →

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