Author Archives: Ric Werme

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.

NWS station at Corinna, Maine: same old problems, now with global impact

Posted on February 24, 2013

In Anthony’s recent post about the new snowfall records, the record high at Jal, New Mexico caught his eye. I live in New Hampshire, so the lonely red dot in Maine caught my eye. I’ve never been fond of this … Continue reading →

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Posted in Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, Climate data, Climate FAIL, Weather_stations | Tagged , , | 43 Comments

It was the best of times, it was [will be] the worst of times.

Posted on February 12, 2013

My brother stumbled across an interesting pair of headlines today. Nothing very new, but a nice collection yin and yang. Weather vs climate. Observation vs model. Boom vs bust. First, the yang. WUWT already covered this at Another ‘Vinerism’, or … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Snow, snowfall | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 51 Comments

What’s up with RGGI? Moving the cap down.

Posted on December 13, 2012

Guest post by Ric Werme Things have been pretty quiet in the northeast’s the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). New Jersey has gotten out and remains out, New Hampshire didn’t get out, but most of the money collected will be … Continue reading →

Posted in Cap-and-trade, Carbon credits, Carbon dioxide, carbon tax | Tagged , | 24 Comments

Cheap Natural Gas, but wait – there’s more

Posted on October 3, 2012

Guest post by Ric Werme One minor sign of fall where I live is the arrival of a letter from the gas utility announcing the “Fixed Price Option (FPO) lock-in price” for the winter season. FPO offers a price which … Continue reading →

Posted in Fracking, natural gas, Opinion, petroleum, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 75 Comments

Submarines in the Winter Twilight

Posted on March 17, 2012

One of the more celebrated North Pole surfacings of the USS Skate happened today in 1959, see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/26/ice-at-the-north-pole-in-1958-not-so-thick/ for more on that and several others. Nearly a couple years ago at the ICCC in Chicago, Lord Monckton noted that at … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, Astronomy, Citizen science, Sea ice | Tagged , , , , , , , | 59 Comments

50 years ago: The Great Atlantic Storm of 1962

Posted on March 6, 2012

Guest post by Ric Werme This week marks the 50th anniversary of a destructive nor’easter named “The Great Atlantic Storm of 1962″ by the NWS and just “The Ash Wednesday Storm” by others. I lived in Ohio at the time, … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster, flooding, hurricanes, snowfall | Tagged , , , | 26 Comments

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 →

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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