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Crowdsourced Climate Complexity – Compiling the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Reference Page

Posted on February 19, 2012

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd, 2011, February 10th, 2011, February 28th, 2011, June 30th, 2011 … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Announcements, Antarctic, Arctic, Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, Citizen science, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, education, energy, ENSO, Environment, feedbacks, flooding, forecasting, geothermal energy, global warming, hurricanes, Land use land cover change, lightning, measurement, Methane, modeling, oceans, PDO, Science, sea ice, snowfall, Temperature, tornadoes, UHI, weather | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 113 Comments

Giant Veil of “Cold Plasma” Discovered High Above Earth

Posted on January 27, 2012

From National Geographic: Clouds of charged particles stretch a quarter the way to the moon, experts say. Clouds of “cold plasma” reach from the top of Earth’s atmosphere to at least a quarter the distance to the moon, according to … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Spaceweather, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 57 Comments

The Ridiculousness Continues – Climate Complexity Compiled

Posted on January 21, 2012

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments on this thread and several others documented within, I’ve been compiling a summary of all potential climatic variables in order to build a conceptual … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, AMO, Antarctic, Arctic, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, Earthquakes, energy, ENSO, feedbacks, geothermal energy, Gravity, hurricanes, Methane, oceans, PDO, petroleum, Science, sea ice, snow, solar, solar power, thorium power, tornadoes, wind power | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 264 Comments

A Big Picture Look At “Earth’s Temperature”

Posted on January 1, 2012

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Often in the climate debate, generalities are used to address more nuanced issues, e.g. “There is broad scientific consensus that Earth’s climate is warming rapidly and at an accelerating rate.” from the Wikipedia for … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, global warming, Sea Surface Temperature, Temperature | Tagged , , , , , , | 184 Comments

Extremely Dangerous Storm Slicing Towards Alaska

Posted on November 9, 2011

From Live Science An extremely dangerous storm is slicing toward northwestern Alaska and is expected to bring blizzard conditions and hurricane-strength winds to the state’s west coast. The storm, which formed from a mix of air masses over an area … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | Tagged , , , , , , , | 98 Comments

Climate Skeptic Combusts in New [William J Clinton Foundation] Video

Posted on November 4, 2011

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Correction: This video appears to be associated with the William J Clinton Foundation versus the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as was previously stated. Updated Below – New “The Air-Conditioned Suit” video surfaces “‘Combustible’ is … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, climate ugliness, Curious things | Tagged , , , , | 145 Comments

New WUWT Polar Vortex Reference Page

Posted on October 29, 2011

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” We are pleased to introduce WUWT’s newest addition, the WUWT Polar Vortex Reference Page. For those unfamiliar, a Polar Vortex is “caused when an area of low pressure sits at the rotation pole of … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, ozone, sea ice, stratospheric water vapor | Tagged , , , , , | 81 Comments

The BBC Endeavours to Provide More Biased Coverage on Climate Change

Posted on July 23, 2011

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” The BBC’s governing body, the BBC Trust, has released a report on its coverage of climate change, that is based partly on “an independent review” by Steve Jones, a Genetics Professor at University College London … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, media, sea ice, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 81 Comments

Introducing the WUWT Global Temperature Page

Posted on July 17, 2011

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Our newest addition is the WUWT Global Temperature Page, which includes graphs, graphics and animations on Global Atmospheric, Surface and Ocean Temperatures, as well as a summary of Northern Hemisphere Temperatures at the end. … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, measurement, oceans, Temperature, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | 36 Comments

On the Divergence Between the UAH and RSS Global Temperature Records

Posted on July 8, 2011

By Dr. Roy Spencer …or, OMG! HAS UAH BEEN BOUGHT OFF BY GREENPEACE!? Over the last ten years or so there has been a growing inconsistency between the UAH and Remote Sensing Systems versions of the global average lower tropospheric … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, measurement, Temperature | Tagged , , | 49 Comments

Earth’s Climate System Is Ridiculously Complex – With Draft Link Tutorial

Posted on June 30, 2011

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” I am often amused by claims that we understand Earth’s climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except CO2 as the primary driver of Earth’s temperature and make … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Antarctic, Arctic, cosmic rays, earth, education, ENSO, modeling, oceans, Radiation, rainfall, sea ice | Tagged , , , , | 332 Comments

PIOMAS Arctic Sea Ice Volume Model Corrected – Still Appears Suspect

Posted on June 28, 2011

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” It seems that the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) Arctic Sea Ice Volume Model that generated the highly suspect chart above has been corrected to “show reduced errors over the prior … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, sea ice, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 67 Comments

More Evidence that Global Warming is a False Alarm

Posted on June 28, 2011

Roy Spencer writes on his website: NASA’s James Hansen is probably right about this point: the importance of ocean heat storage to a better understanding of how sensitive the climate system is to our greenhouse gas emissions. The more efficient … Continue reading →

Posted in ARGO data, oceans, Sea Surface Temperature, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 43 Comments

BREAKING: ICO Orders UEA to Produce CRUTEM Station Data

Posted on June 27, 2011

Steve McIntyre reports on Climate Audit: Breaking news: Today probably marks the closing chapter of the longstanding FOI request for CRUTEM station data. The UK Information Commissioner (ICO) has rendered a decision (see here)  on Jonathon Jones’ appeal of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, FOI, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 50 Comments

New WUWT Oceanic Oscillation Page – With Link Tutorial

Posted on May 30, 2011

Introducing WUWT’s newest addition, the Oceanic Oscillation Page, which includes graphs and graphics,on Oceanic Oscillations including the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), El Niño/La Niña and the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation (AMO). It was a struggle to find content for this page, … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, climate data, ENSO, measurement, oceans, PDO, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | 17 Comments

Introducing the WUWT Atmospheric Oscillation (Teleconnection) Reference Page

Posted on May 16, 2011

Our newest addition is the WUWT Atmospheric Oscillation Page, which includes graphs, graphics and animations of the Arctic Oscillation (AO), Antarctic Oscillation (AAO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), North Pacific Oscillation (NPO), the Madden / Julian Oscillation (MJO), Southern Oscillation (SO) … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, climate data, ENSO, measurement | Tagged , , , , | 14 Comments

Introducing the WUWT Global Climatic History Page

Posted on April 30, 2011

This one really is a must see: WUWT Global Climatic History Page With graphs including Ocean Heat Content, Accumulated Cyclone Energy, Global Sea Level Change, Global Sea Ice Area, Surface Temperatures and Anomalies and Snowfall, the WUWT Global Climatic History … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 23 Comments

United States Climatic History in Graphs

Posted on April 16, 2011

We are pleased to introduce the new WUWT US Climatic History Reference Page The graphs within offer a reasonable overview of climatic conditions in the United States during our brief historical record. I don’t see any indications of catastrophically rapid … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Announcements, measurement | Tagged , , , , , | 54 Comments

Why are we so bad at long range weather forecasting?

Posted on April 9, 2011

By WUWT regular “justthefacts” In researching the use of tidal forces in long range weather forecasting, I came across an interesting August 30th, 2010 Associated Press/ MSNBC article based on interviews with Farmer’s Almanac Editors Sandi Duncan and Peter Geiger, … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting, measurement, modeling, NOAA, Uncategorized, weather | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 84 Comments

Introducing the WUWT US Weather History Reference Page

Posted on April 4, 2011

We are pleased to introduce WUWT’s newest addition, the WUWT US Weather History Reference Page The US Weather History page includes temperature, precipitation and snowfall graphs and graphics covering the prior year in the United States. It will soon be … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, climate data, education, weather | Tagged , , , , | 28 Comments