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About Ric Werme

I'm a software engineer with roots that go back to PDP-10s and the ARPAnet (and WWW references to those days). I also like most anything scientific and am active in the climate skeptic community.

Hurricanes and Global Warming – Opinion by Chris Landsea

Posted on December 2, 2011

While I was looking into Chris Landsea’s recent activities, I came across a new essay that is a pleasant change of pace from the Climategate Emails. While it is definitely an opinion piece, and a wonderful example of how to … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, AMO, Carbon dioxide, hurricanes, Methane, Michael E. Mann, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , | 65 Comments

Test of Rossi’s 1 MW E-Cat fusion system apparently successful

Posted on October 28, 2011

Guest post by Ric Werme Today is the customer test of Andrea Rossi’s 1 MW fusion reactor in his facility in Bologna, Italy. While Rossi initially expected to provide streaming video of the test, the customer nixed that because they … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, Technology | Tagged , , , | 297 Comments

RGGI update: It wasn’t supposed to be like this

Posted on September 9, 2011

Guest post by Ric Werme Too long title: New Hampshire stays in, NJ probably gets out, 3rd quarter auction sells less than 18% of allowances, secondary market moribund, RGGI soldiers on. RGGI is short for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, … Continue reading →

Posted in cap-and-trade, politics | Tagged , , , , | 42 Comments

Andrea Rossi’s E-cat fusion device on target.

Posted on August 4, 2011

Guest post by Ric Werme Six months ago I posted, with Anthony’s consent and misgivings, Cold Fusion Going Commercial!?. It’s time to take a look at how Dr Rossi and his Energy Catalyzer are doing. In a word, Wow. There’s … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, Science, Technology | Tagged , , , , | 306 Comments

RGGI update: New Hampshire likely in, New Jersey likely out. New York sued.

Posted on July 10, 2011

Guest post by Ric Werme Ten state RGGI Region It’s time for an update on the efforts of states interested in leaving RGGI, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. RGGI is a Cap and Trade system set up by ten northeastern … Continue reading →

Posted in cap-and-trade, politics | Tagged , , , , | 23 Comments

Nils-Axel Mörner: Arctic Environment by the Middle of this Century

Posted on July 5, 2011

Guest Post by Ric Werme Nils-Axel Mörner, best known for his career of studying sea level and sea level records, reported in the April 2011 issue of the journal Energy & Environment that: At around 2040-2050 we will be in … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, solar | Tagged , , , | 161 Comments

And the hits keep coming: 80 million pages served

Posted on June 13, 2011

Guest post by Ric Werme I like to look at remaining trip lengths in terms of a fraction 1/n left to reach a goal. For example, in April WUWT was 3/4ths of the way to 100 million page views – … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | Tagged , , | 36 Comments

12th quarterly RGGI auction a bust? It sure wasn’t a boom.

Posted on June 11, 2011

The northeast US’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative sells CO₂ allowances through quarterly auctions. The intent is that both electric power producers will buy some because they have in order to emit CO₂, and speculators will buy some in hopes of … Continue reading →

Posted in cap-and-trade, politics | Tagged , | 23 Comments

Klotzbach and Gray continue to expect a well above-average hurricane season

Posted on June 2, 2011

The last (and my favorite) of the major hurricane seasonal forecasts came out yesterday. Phil Klotzbach and Bill Gray from Colorado State are sticking with their April forecast. Rather anti-climactic, but perhaps it’s a measure of the confidence in the … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes | 65 Comments

The Worst “Cook”book Interview Ever?

Posted on May 28, 2011

Guest post by Bob Fernley-Jones. (AKA Bob_FJ) In addition to regular readers at WUWT, those familiar with John Cook’s misleadingly named website “Skeptical Science” may be offended by the following interview with John Cook and Haydn Washington about their new … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, media, Opinion | Tagged , , , | 99 Comments

“Get Carter” and his Supporters, Part B

Posted on May 14, 2011

Guest post by Bob Fernley-Jones (aka Bob_FJ) Caution; this in Anglo-Oz English, and e.g. ABC = Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and red emphasis is mine. In Part A we discussed how Professor Bob Carter was shamefully treated by two branches of … Continue reading →

Posted in media | Tagged , , , , , | 57 Comments

RGGI news: DE wants out, PA doesn’t want in, NH & NJ making progress

Posted on April 21, 2011

(Aside to non-USA readers: my apologies for all the two character state abbreviations, especially NH which here does not mean Northern Hemisphere! RGGI is our Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a Cap and Trade program in the northeast USA.) I wasn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in cap-and-trade, politics, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 30 Comments

Energy Flow in the United States – 94.6 quads in 2009

Posted on April 10, 2011

Guest post by Ric Werme The folks at Lawrence Livermore Natl. Labs produce a fascinating look at all the energy production in the US, from energy in (as quadrillion BTUs, or quads for short) to energy out: This was featured … Continue reading →

Posted in energy | Tagged , | 62 Comments

“Get Carter” campaign grows on Australia’s ABC radio & TV,

Posted on April 10, 2011

Guest post by Bob Fernley-Jones [Note from Ric Werme: Bob asked me to help post this while Anthony was away. I’m not familiar with everything going in this matter, but the previous post appears to have been welcome in Australia. … Continue reading →

Posted in media | Tagged , , , , | 77 Comments

Climate Change: Bigger health threat than AIDS, malaria

Posted on April 6, 2011

UPDATE: Holy moly. Dr. Richard North over at the EU Referendum points to this, (screencap below) which makes Ric’s article (further below) look tame. Add this to what’s going on in the AMA, and it looks like a effort to … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Government idiocy, ridiculae | Tagged , , , | 77 Comments

NASA’S Glory Satellite Fails To Reach Orbit

Posted on March 4, 2011

NASA reports that Glory, a satellite to monitor aerosols failed to reach orbit, apparently from a fairing that didn’t release. See update below on the massive budget overruns for this failed project. NASA’s announcement: NASA’s Glory spacecraft launched aboard a … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, space | Tagged , , , | 139 Comments

Cold Fusion Going Commercial!?

Posted on January 22, 2011

Foreword: I gave Ric Werme permission to do this essay. I don’t have any doubt that the original Cold Fusion research was seriously flawed. That said, this recent new development using a different process is getting some interest, so let’s … Continue reading →

Posted in presentations, Science, Technology | Tagged | 330 Comments

New Hampshire to Consider Withdrawing from RGGI

Posted on December 26, 2010

RGGI is the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, created by a group of ten northeastern states. RGGI runs a carbon trading scheme with the primary goal to reduce CO₂ emissions. Permits are auctioned off quarterly, September’s auction only sold 75% of … Continue reading →

Posted in carbon credits | 28 Comments

35 years ago: The Witch of November Come Stealin

Posted on November 10, 2010

Today is the 35th anniversary of the sinking of the Great Lakes ore carrier, the Edmund Fitzgerald. The shipped was sunk by “The Witch of November”, a strong Lake Superior storm that often occurs around the same time each year. … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster, weather | 68 Comments

Klotzbach and Gray: final 2010 two week hurricane forecast

Posted on October 13, 2010

First, a confession – I’m not feeling terrifically motivated to write up this forecast. As we stumble to the end of the 2010 hurricane season, there’s a lot dry air around, there’s a minor hurricane that’s taking a track that … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting, hurricanes | 32 Comments

Klotzbach and Gray: two week hurricane forecast

Posted on September 29, 2010

We expect that the next two weeks will be characterized by above-average amounts of activity (greater than 130 percent of climatology.) So starts the latest two week forecast from Philip Klotzbach and William Gray at Colorado State University. As you … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting, hurricanes | 31 Comments