The extremely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season burned through the alphabet with 30 named storms including 14 Hurricanes and 7 Majors. The two seasonal hurricane forecasts that I trust the…
Author: Ryan Maue
Maue: new climate hiatus or accelerated warming trend coming?
You Ought to Have a Look: Time for a New “Hiatus” in Warming, or Time for an Accelerated Warming Trend? Guest essay by Dr. Ryan Maue As you can tell…
It's all relative: superluminal neutrino discovery explained
Update: October 17 00:00 UTC: whether this supposed explanation out of at least 80+ different papers attempting to debunk the neutrino FTL results has a shred of truth will take a while…
Weather amnesia
Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue Dr. Judith Curry is quoted in a classic Seth Borenstein AP screed connecting disparate extreme weather events into a tidy AGW-narrative: “Sometimes it seems…
Bill Nye is the anti-science guy when it comes to global warming and hurricanes
Post by Dr. Ryan Maue (cross posted at my Policlimate) “Must watch TV: Nye expounds on theory of racism” Much “debate” has erupted in the liberal mainstream media concerning the…
Flashback: Today Show paddles canoe in ankle deep water for photo-op
With all of the serious questions about hype over Hurricane Irene and the media’s introspection and sanctimonious hand-wringing, I felt it was time for some levity. If you do not…
Long-range forecast models see 92L developing into a powerful hurricane (Katia) next week
Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue Update: August 29 — Tropical Depression 12 has formed out of the strong African easterly wave near 30W. It will generally move Westward over…
CEI misses the boat on the need for the National Weather Service
Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) picks an odd time and a curious target for their latest missive pondering whether We Really Need a National…
State Dept issues final enviro impact statement on Keystone XL Pipeline
Post by Ryan Maue Friday evening news dump — in this case, the United States State Department drops a big one and essentially green-lights a “controversial” pipeline project. The Keystone…
Climate activist McKibben bizarrely blames Hurricane Irene on global warming
Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue Update: Andrew Revkin writes a nice piece at his DotEarth NY Times blog that “very politely” repudiates McKibben. Remember, the NY Times editorial board…
North Atlantic spawns 9th storm of season: Irene
Update: Monday, August 22: Hurricane Irene will likely rapidly intensify at some point over the next couple days becoming a major hurricane (maximum probably Category 4). It is a large-storm…
Locked up: US Park police transport Tar Sands protesters to the pokey
News update by Ryan Maue Update: The jails were emptied Monday morning. Also, Daryl Hannah has announced that she is heading to the White House oil-sands protest. Update: New York…
Heat index update, Mid-Atlantic states experience Middle East climate
Weather Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue As the ridge of high pressure slowly edges eastward over the eastern USA, dewpoints in the 80sF and temperatures over the century mark…
Tropical Fish Storm Cindy explodes over the North Atlantic
Weather Post by Dr. Ryan Maue The title is a bit facetious since Cindy is a marginal tropical storm (~35 knots) and will not last more than a day as…
Germany to shovel climate fund dollars into coal plants
Less than a month after the failed Bonn UN climate confab, Germany has announced a most audacious energy policy: in order to shutter nuclear plants (but not completely scuttle their…
Lipstick on a pig: Gore rebrands climate outfit
Post by Ryan Maue You knew it was only a matter of time after the Rolling Stone criticism of Obama on climate, but Al Gore is back and in a…
Keystone XL: Liberal activists plan civil disobedience outside White House
By Ryan Maue. Free publicity: Bill McKibben’s Call to Action: “I want to tell you about an upcoming action — it looks set to turn into the biggest civil disobedience…
Driest place on Earth: Atacama desert in Chile buried under feet of snow
Weather Post by Dr. Ryan Maue The Atacama desert in Chile described as the driest place on Earth just got walloped by an extreme cold front (climate change) and was…
San Francisco Chronicle uncorks a vintage climate science article
Weather Post by Dr. Ryan Maue Those reading the San Francisco* Chronicle on Wednesday were treated to a front page story on California’s Climate: Warmer interior leads to cooler coastline.…
Amateur hour: National Journal experts on extreme weather mostly flacks
Guest Post by Ryan Maue Over at the National Journal, we get an insider’s view of the climate crisis: a so-called debate about the effects of global warming on extreme…
Global hurricane activity at historical record lows: new paper
During the past 6-years since Hurricane Katrina, global tropical cyclone frequency and energy have decreased dramatically, and are currently at near-historical record lows. According to a new peer-reviewed research paper…
Heat burst hits Wichita: 102 degrees at 1AM
Weather post by Ryan Maue Wichita, Kansas was hit with a thunderstorm induced “heat burst” early Thursday morning, with the temperature jumping from the mid-80s up to 102F after midnight!…
Is Bill Nye Smarter than a 5th Grader?
Post by Ryan Maue It’s a wonder why the media continue to trot out the likes of Bill Nye and Michio Kaku to speak about climate change and the weather…
Conservative Think-Tank falsely conflates hurricane forecasting with climate change
Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue The National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative “think-tank”, has again issued a press release asking if NOAA is Smarter than Fifth Graders…
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