Author Archives: Anthony Watts

Global Warming Policy Foundation Invites Royal Society Fellows For Climate Change Discussion

Posted on May 22, 2013

London, 22 May: In response to a suggestion by Sir Paul Nurse, the President of the Royal Society, the Global Warming Policy Foundation has invited five climate scientists and Fellows of the Royal Society to discuss the current state of … Continue reading →

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Stop global warming, get paid $12-13 per hour

Posted on May 21, 2013

…plus benefits if you work more than 350 hours… Spotted on the Orange County Craigslist by WUWT reader “Roy”, you’d think with a €236.9 million (2011) budget, they could afford something other than Craigslist.

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Senator Whitehouse apologizes for inciteful tornado remarks

Posted on May 21, 2013

Recall this story from yesterday: US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse From Rhode Island Provides Erroneous Information To American Public in Global Warming Rant Foxnews reports on the apology. Note that about the same time, Barbara Boxer was making similar claims.  Later, … Continue reading →

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Widespread evidence of cosmic impact documented – likely cause of the Younger Dryas cool climate episode

Posted on May 21, 2013

From the University of California – Santa Barbara some paleoclimatology without the need to see hockey sticks. Comprehensive analysis of impact spherules supports theory of cosmic impact 12,800 years ago (Santa Barbara, California) –– About 12,800 years ago when the … Continue reading →

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Oklahoma tornado officially an EF5 – wind speeds still less than 1999 Moore tornado

Posted on May 21, 2013

The map below shows ‘Tornado Tracks Streak Across Oklahoma’ as measured by doppler radar. The rotation of tornadoes creates a distinctive signature in radar data, and can be used to estimate the track that the system takes over land. This … Continue reading →

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Stunning ignorance on display from Senator Barbara Boxer over Oklahoma tornado outbreak

Posted on May 21, 2013

Via POLITICO’s Morning Energy – May 21, 2013: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif. – Chair of Senate Environment & Public Works Committee) took to the Senate floor and invoked the Oklahoma tornadoes in her speech on global warming. “This is climate … Continue reading →

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Timelapse video of 2013 Nenana Ice Classic breakup

Posted on May 20, 2013

This is a 5 frames per second timelapse taken from the webcam at 30 second intervals of the Nenana Ice Classic on May 20th, 2013 from 4PM to 5PM PDT (15:00-16:00 AKDT). Breakup started about 15:43 AKDT (about 16 seconds … Continue reading →

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Monckton challenges the IPCC – suggests fraud – and gets a response

Posted on May 20, 2013

The IPCC fraud case (but not the planet) hots up Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Two weeks ago I reported the central error in the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (2007) to its secretariat. After the contributing scientists had … Continue reading →

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Nenana Ice Classic sets new record for latest ice-out, and the record is still growing 

Posted on May 20, 2013

UPDATE: Breakup has occurred! See below, for my timelapse video Here is the webcam closeup – when it was still standing as of 14:18 AKDT: Alaska Dispatch confirms what we already knew in this thread on WUWT:

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Heat-related deaths in Manhattan projected to rise – except reality shows them going down in the USA

Posted on May 20, 2013

Only one problem, an NIH study shows that thanks to air conditioning and other factors, including better education programs about heat waves, heat related deaths are actually going down in the USA. From Davis et al, Changing Heat-Related Mortality in … Continue reading →

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WUWT upgrade, phase 3 – announcing our free WUWT toolbar

Posted on May 20, 2013

Readers may recall that I announced in early April that I have been working to make WUWT more accessible as well as more community oriented. Improvements so far have included enhanced commenting speed with less moderation and improvements to the … Continue reading →

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Nenana Ice Classic continues to close on new record, meanwhile, lunar effects have been noted

Posted on May 20, 2013

People send me stuff. Readers have been watching the Nenana Ice Cam via a post here on WUWT this weekend, waiting to see if a new record will be set for the latest ice-out ever. WUWT reader Geoff Shorten in … Continue reading →

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Why the new Otto et al climate sensitivity paper is important – it’s a sea change for some IPCC authors

Posted on May 20, 2013

Yesterday, WUWT was honored to have a guest essay by co-author Nic Lewis on the new Otto et al paper that pegs Transient Climate Response (TCR) at 1.3°C along with Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity at 2.0°C. Lewis , who had previously published … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on May 20, 2013

The Week That Was: 2013-05-18 (May 18, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.” Richard Lindzen [H/t … Continue reading →

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New paper from Otto et al and Nic lewis shows transient climate sensitivity less than 2C

Posted on May 19, 2013

UPDATE: this post has been superseded by the new guest essay from Nic Lewis which you can see here: New paper shows transient climate response less than 2°C

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Nenana Ice Classic – closing in on all time record latest ice-out

Posted on May 19, 2013

According to the ice breakup log, the latest the ice has ever gone out was May 20th, 1964 at 11:41 AM Alaska Standard Time. As of this writing there is about 28 hours to go to break that record. Geophysicist … Continue reading →

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Good news: World’s biggest ice sheets likely more stable than previously believed – upsets previous estimates of melting and sea level

Posted on May 18, 2013

Researchers show that high ancient shorelines do not necessarily reflect ice sheet collapse millions of years ago From the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: For decades, scientists have used ancient shorelines to predict the stability of today’s largest ice sheets … Continue reading →

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Climate control – lather, rinse, repeat

Posted on May 18, 2013

We always talk about and are lectured to about how “weather is not climate”. Of course that’s a flexible meme, because now when the weather turns hot or bad, climate is to blame. I had to go to Walmart today … Continue reading →

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Mike Mann’s global warming = tobacco claims on Al Jazeera

Posted on May 18, 2013

You just have to laugh. Mike, Dana, and some other guy named Rick Piltz, get face-time on Al Jazeera and the best they can do is cite “false balance” and “tobacco disinformation campaigns” to bolster their weak 97% argument? Of … Continue reading →

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Claim: How the IPCC arrived at climate sensitivity of about 3 deg C instead of 1.2 deg C.

Posted on May 18, 2013

UPDATE from Girma: “My title should have been ‘How to arrive at IPCC’s climate sensitivity estimate’ instead of the original” Guest essay by Girma Orssengo, PhD 1) IPCC’s 0.2 deg C/decade warming rate gives a change in temperature of dT … Continue reading →

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