Guest essay by Jeffery S. Patterson My last post on this site, examined the hypothesis that the climate is dominated by natural, harmonically related periodicities. As they say in the…
Month: September 2013
The WUWT Hot Sheet for Sept 26th, 2013
From Steve McIntyre: Two Minutes to Midnight There is much in the news about how IPCC will handle the growing discrepancy between models and observations – long an issue at skeptic…
Study: The Late Cretaceous Period was likely ice-free
From the University of Missouri-Columbia COLUMBIA, Mo. – For years, scientists have thought that a continental ice sheet formed during the Late Cretaceous Period more than 90 million years ago…
Unwarranted Temperature Adjustments and Al Gore's Unwarranted Call for Intellectual Tyranny
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University For researchers like myself examining the effect of local microclimates on the ecology of local…
National Geographic rising sea level prophecy – cause for concern or absurd fairytale?
Guest essay by Prof. Don J. Easterbrook The September issue of National Geographic shows sea level midway up the Statue of Liberty, 214 feet above present sea level (Fig. 1)…
IPCC on acid – if they are virtually certain about ocean acidification, why does X-prize offer a reward for designing a proper ocean pH meter?
The IPCC writes in the “leaked” SPM It is very likely that oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2 results in acidification of the ocean. The pH 44 (see 7) of seawater…
The WUWT Hotsheet for Wednesday, Sept 25th
Stephan Rahmstorf hatches an egg at RealClimate: What ocean heating reveals about global warming The heat content of the oceans is growing and growing. That means that the greenhouse effect…
New Book by Bob Tisdale: “Climate Models Fail”
THANK YOU Many thanks to everyone who has purchased a copy of Climate Models Fail — and to those who are considering it. And thank you, Anthony, for posting this…
Climate campaigner David Suzuki doesn't know what the climate temperature data sets are
During David Suzuki’s Q&A on Australian ABC-TV, and WUWT regular Bill Koutalianos puts the fruit fly guy on the spot. Video of the interview follows. Andrew Bolt writes: David Suzuki…
Quote of the week – the death of 'Popular Science' commentary
Apparently, the science was too popular, so what do these fools do? Alienate their readers of course:
The reply to the 'bad astronomer – Phil Plait' that Slate.com refused to publish
Guest essay by Dr. Matt Ridley Phil Plait, who goes by the name of the “bad astronomer”, has now written three articles in Slate attacking two of my columns in…
Retro 3D climate model applied to faint young sun paradox
From the AGU weekly highlights: Evaluating solutions to the faint young Sun problem During the Archean eon, between about 3.8 billion years ago and 2.5 billion years ago, the Sun…
The WUWT Hotsheet for Tuesday Sept 24th, 2013
IPCC on the hotseat… IPCC Chairman Denies Global Warming Slowdown Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the UN’s climate panel, dismissed suggestions of a slowdown in global warming. “There’s definitely an…
An impartial look at global warming…
Guest essay by M.S.Hodgart (Visiting Reader Surrey Space Centre University of Surrey) The figure presented here is a new graph of the story of global warming – and cooling. The…
Catching My Breath
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I thought I’d write about something a bit different, still about science, but of another kind. When I was sixty-three, I had the curious experience…
A new use for those old AOL discs we have accumulated – cleaning sewage water
From The Optical Society and the “so crazy it just might work” department comes this curiosity: Spinning CDs to Clean Sewage Water Scientists find a potential new use for old…
Access: The "leaked" IPCC AR5 draft Summary for Policymakers
For weeks, this document has been put in the hands of most every journalist that writes about climate issues, and many articles have been written about its contents. Given that…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for Monday Sept 23rd, 2013
UN panel opens Stockholm meet on global warming “I’m looking forward to working with you in the next four days to deliberate and approve (this report) line by line,” [Pachauri]…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2013-09-21 (September 21, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: A difficult question for the…
The Eruption Over the IPCC AR5
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the leaked version of the upcoming United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) Chapter 1, we find the…
Weather Before and After the Hurricane of 1938
This week New England is being inundated with retrospectives on the Hurricane of 1938. We have everything from a “Special Limited Edition” Weather Map Prepared by Bob Copeland, a retired…
Sea Ice News Volume 4 Number 6: Arctic sea ice has most definitely turned the corner – Maslowski is falsified
Plus notes on the ARCUS sea ice forecasting contest As I pointed out on September 16th in Sea Ice News Volume 4 Number 5: No ice free Arctic this year…
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