From the Smithsonian , something that makes me wonder. When the ice ages lowered sea levels and opened land bridges, and mammals of all sorts made passages, or when a…
Month: May 2014
Study: Is "Global Warming" about to make a comeback?
Results of the study show that the term “Climate Change” is too bland to excite people Story submitted by Eric Worrall Bryan Walsh, writing for Time Magazine, has published a…
Freedom From Information Act (FFIA)
Guest essay by Charles Battig No, that is not a mistake. FFIA is the unofficial, but real operative world of bureaucracy, which has its own interpretation of the official Freedom…
Color perceptions of the National Temperature
Back in June 2008, I did a post titled Color and Temperature: Perception is everything. One WUWT reader, Jes Simon noticed that since that time, something changed in the way NOAA…
Another one for the list*, climate change causes half-breed trout
Study Finds Climate Change Accelerates Hybridization Between Native, Invasive Trout MISSOULA – A new article by researchers from the University of Montana, the U.S. Geological Survey and Montana Fish, Wildlife…
A 'regime of wildfire' contributed to carbon sequestration 15,000 years ago
The next time somebody says wildfires in the USA are “unprecedented” show them this. Buried fossil soils found to be awash in carbon “It looks like there was an incredible…
Still ice on Lake Superior – never before seen to this extent in the satellite era
IceAgeNow writes: As of today, 27 May 2014, Lake Superior ice cover stands at 4.3% – the greatest level of ice seen on this date, not only on Lake Superior,…
First Major Hurricane in the Eastern Pacific Ocean of 2014
The first tropical cyclone of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season grew into a major hurricane as Hurricane Amanda reached Category 4 status on the Saffir-Simpson scale over the Memorial Day…
'Extreme Weather' – Before CO2 was being blamed for political points
Imagine the wailing about ’caused by climate change’ if this happened today. From NOAA: This Month in Climate History: May 27, 1896, St. Louis Tornado What remains the third most…
Climate change and bug albedo
From the Imperial College of London , something buggy, though I have to wonder if other factors aren’t involved in the range expansion, like more sunlight getting through due to…
Antarctica climate alarmism frenzy revisited – ill-informed, exaggerated and erroneous media claims galore
Sea level rise increase 1/2 thickness of human fingernail crates media “sea level rise alert” panic Guest essay by Larry Hamlin During May three new scientific papers appeared addressing results…
Quote of the week: a howler from the World Meteorological Organization – what warming?
Gosh, you’d think they’d check the data before issuing a statement like this (press release follows). It [CO2] was responsible for 85% of the increase in radiative forcing – the…
Well, Color Me Gobsmacked!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve developed a curious kind of algorithm that I’ve humorously called “slow Fourier analysis”, but which might be better described as a method for direct…
Researcher 'has a problem' with attributing West Antarctic Ice Sheet 'collapse' to human activity
From NASA JPL and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, something that maybe journo-hacktivist Susanne Goldenberg should pay attention to before she writes another screed. Reports that a portion of the West Antarctic…
New WUWT ENSO Forecast Page, Underwater Upgrades to the WUWT ENSO Page and a Disturbance in the Equatorial Atlantic
Guest Post by Just The Facts Introducing the new WUWT ENSO Forecast Page with an array of low skill forecasts… There are also several upgrades to the WUWT ENSO page,…
5.7 million dollar NSF grant to Columbia University for climate 'voice mails from the future'
You have to wonder who at the National Science Foundation thought funding a website that makes fake voicemails from the future and games that have people running around looking for…
UK's only climate skeptic party crushingly wins the EU election
UPDATE: A cartoon from Josh drawn about a year ago has been added. See below. By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The United Kingdom Independence Party, the only climate-skeptical party in…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-24-05 (May 24, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: The greatest enemy of knowledge is…
Can GISS And Other Data Sets Set Records in 2014? (Now Includes April Data)
Guest Post by Werner Brozek (Edited By Just The Facts) GISS and other sets are poised to set new records in 2014, even without an El Nino. The present GISS…
Monckton and Monty – dead parrot parody of IPCC
First, if you have not seen the Monty Python “dead parrot” sketch in your lifetime, before you read the satire from Christopher Monckton below, watch this video. Just click on…
'Settled science' – paper claims the Universe is static, not expanding
New evidence, based on detailed measurements of the size and brightness of hundreds of galaxies, using The Tolman test for surface brightness, indicates that the Universe is not expanding after…
My local newspaper editor lowers the boom on "climate change" as a catch-all
Thank you, David Little of the Chico Enterprise Record. Readers please note: I had nothing to do with his Sunday column opinion piece, it is as much a surprise to…
It's The Evidence, Stupid!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I hear a lot of folks give the following explanation for the vagaries of the climate, viz: It’s the sun, stupid. And in fact, when…
Open Thread Weekend
This holiday weekend, be sure to remember the U.S. Memorial Day, which is Monday. I’m offline except maybe for some time tonight and tomorrow morning.
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