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Whose Reality is it Anyway?

Posted on September 20, 2011

by charles the moderator [updated to correct usage of the words rank and reach. The correct graphs were used originally, but I used the wrong word to describe them] Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project claims 8.6 million views of their … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Alarmism | Tagged , , , , | 89 Comments

Weekly Climate Energy News Roundup

Posted on March 13, 2011

The Week That Was: 2011-03-12 (March 12, 2011) Brought to You by SEPP (www.sepp.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) PLEASE NOTE: The complete TWTW, including the full text of the articles, can be downloaded in an easily printable … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup | 6 Comments

I forwarded the email before I was against it

Posted on March 10, 2011

The revelation a couple of days ago that Dr. Eugene Wahl deleted emails with an IPCC author after receiving some form of communication with Dr. Michael Mann has caused quite a bit of excitement. The more recent revelation is that … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Humor, satire | 96 Comments

To Serve Mann

Posted on March 8, 2011

Breaking: Mann and Wahl have responded. See updates below. 3/9 12:45 PM Pacific Time. This story is now updated to be consistent with Mann and Wahl’s response: By Steven Mosher and charles the moderator Sources confirm that a federal inspector … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | Tagged , , , , | 492 Comments

Bangladesh, the Poster Child

Posted on January 3, 2011

Guest post by: B.Quartero Bangladesh, the largest Delta in the world, has been the poster child of a scary sea level rise story ever since “An Inconvenient Truth”. There is much to be concerned about in Bangladesh, and flooding is … Continue reading →

Posted in Land use land cover change, sea level | Tagged , , , , , , , | 56 Comments

New Year’s Open Thread

Posted on December 31, 2010

Anthony is traveling and offline for another day or too. So [insert witty ctm like comment here] here’s another open thread for fun and amusement.

Posted in Uncategorized | 137 Comments

Contest

Posted on December 24, 2010

By Charles The Moderator, I have lived in California all my life, the first half in SoCal, the second half in NorCal. A funny thing happens ever year. If we have a below normal amount of rain, in the spring … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster, drought | Tagged | 57 Comments

Climategate–the Made Up Story, or Mr. Assange, WUWT?

Posted on December 20, 2010

By charles the moderator While the identity(ies) of the source(s) of the Climategate files has never been identified, long time readers of WUWT and Climate Audit are quite familiar with the Climategate timeline as it unfolded here, there, and throughout … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | Tagged , , , , , | 144 Comments

Nov. 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.38 deg. C

Posted on December 3, 2010

from drroyspencer.com December 3rd, 2010 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. YR MON GLOBE NH SH TROPICS 2010 1 0.648 0.860 0.436 0.681 2010 2 0.603 0.720 0.486 0.791 2010 3 0.653 0.850 0.455 0.726 2010 4 0.501 0.799 0.203 … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, measurement, Sea Surface Temperature | 112 Comments

Climate Model Deception – See It for Yourself

Posted on October 21, 2010

Guest post by Robert E. Levine, PhD The two principal claims of climate alarmism are human attribution, which is the assertion that human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide are warming the planet significantly, and climate danger prediction (or projection), which is … Continue reading →

Posted in modeling | 110 Comments

Livetoon pencil sketches of the GWPF Klaus lecture by Josh

Posted on October 20, 2010

WUWT carried the Vaclav Klaus – The Climate Change Doctrine – The Inaugural Annual GWPF Lecture here. Now Josh has summed it up in a series of cartoons.

Posted in Humor, Opinion | 15 Comments

Bad News (Polar) Bears?

Posted on October 20, 2010

Famous photoshopped polar bear image: Ursus Bogus – click the bear for the story behind this faked image Update/background story: From the Port of Churchill Polar Bear Watchers/Excursion outfit: October 12, 2010 If the summer season is any indication of … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism | 82 Comments

Wind power mirages

Posted on October 20, 2010

Would generating more electricity from wind really help poor families or the environment? By Pastor Jay Dennis From CanadaFreePress.com We Americans are often told we must end our “addiction” to oil and coal, because they harm the environment and Earth’s … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, politics | 112 Comments

What Happened to All the Hurricanes, Al?

Posted on October 19, 2010

From Pajamas Media, After Hurricane Katrina and the amazing season of 2005, we were supposed to see year after year of terrible hurricanes. Where are they? Where is all the death and destruction? We were told global warming was here, … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes | 59 Comments

Middlesboro Kentucky: Pitch Black?

Posted on October 19, 2010

By Steven Mosher. In his august draft of Hansen2010, Dr. Hansen makes the following claim: “We present evidence here that the urban warming has little effect on our standard global temperature analysis.  However, in the Appendix we carry out an … Continue reading →

Posted in GHCN, NOAA, weather_stations | 63 Comments

Typhoon Megi and SST anomaly in East Asia

Posted on October 19, 2010

Guest Post by Nonoy Oplas, Typhoon MEGI (local name “Juan”) has crossed the Philippines’ landmass but still on the western side of the country’s area of responsibility as I write this. Megi is the 10th typhoon of the year in … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, Sea Surface Temperature | 29 Comments

Spain’s Solar Deals on Edge of Bankruptcy as Subsidies Founder

Posted on October 19, 2010

From Bloomberg German Vilimelis heard about Spain’s solar gold rush from his brother-in-law in 2007. Across the plains around Lerida, the northeastern Spanish town where they spent weekends, farmers were turning over their fields to photovoltaic panels to capitalize on … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, politics | 85 Comments

Super Typhoon Megi

Posted on October 19, 2010

From NASA Super Typhoon Megi Posted October 19, 2010 download large image (4 MB, JPEG)acquired October 18, 2010 download Google Earth file (3 KB, KMZ)acquired October 18, 2010 Share this image On October 18, 2010, Typhoon Megi approached and made … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes | 24 Comments

Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War

Posted on October 19, 2010

Was it warmer in Virginia in 1781 than it is today, or has our capacity to cope been enhanced? In fact, climate does not determine our well-being.  Unfortunately, climate change policies might, and for the worse. H/T and comment above: … Continue reading →

Posted in economy-health | 99 Comments

Sea ice extent – answer to skepticalscience.com

Posted on October 18, 2010

Guest Post by Frank Lansner (frank), Answer to the Skepticalscience.com article: http://www.skepticalscience.com/DMI-data-on-Arctic-temperatures-Intermediate.html regarding the article: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/05/dmi-polar-data-shows-cooler-arctic-temperature-since-1958/ I can see that skepticalscience appears satisfied with the DMI data when you use the full year data – so what causes the summer temperature … Continue reading →

Posted in sea ice | 87 Comments

Bradley Copies Fritts

Posted on October 18, 2010

A remarkable bit of digging by our man McIntyre finds out more about certain people who live in glass houses. From Climate Audit (reposted with explicit permission from the author for the plagiarism police,) In the original Deep Climate post … Continue reading →

Posted in politics | 85 Comments

Update And Changes To NODC Ocean Heat Content Data

Posted on October 18, 2010

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale, As noted in the post October 2010 Update to NODC Ocean Heat Content Data, the National Oceanographic Data Center has updated itsOCEAN HEAT CONTENT (OHC) data. This is the dataset based on the Levitus et al (2009) … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, ENSO, oceans, PDO | 105 Comments

In Search of Cooling Trends

Posted on September 4, 2010

by Verity Jones and Tony Brown (Tonyb) Back in October Tony asked me to help with a big idea. Searching Norwegian climate site Rimfrost (www.rimfrost.no) Tony had found many climate stations all over the world with a cooling trend in … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, climate_change, measurement | 122 Comments

Open Sea Ice Thread

Posted on September 1, 2010

With Sea Ice News # 20 closed here is a place for ongoing discussing the 2010 season. That’s it. I may add a picture later.

Posted in sea ice | 192 Comments

Sea Ice News #16

Posted on August 1, 2010

By Steven Goddard, http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php Summer is rapidly winding down in the Arctic, and (based on DMI graphs) the region north of 80N appears set to finish the summer as the coldest on record. So far, there have only been a … Continue reading →

Posted in sea ice, Sea Ice News | 216 Comments