Category Archives: Science

Quantifying the Solar Cycle 24 Temperature Decline

Posted on February 11, 2012 by

Guest post by David Archibald Three wise Norwegians – Jan-Erik Solheim, Kjell Stordahl and Ole Humlum – have just published a paper entitled “The long sunspot cycle 23 predicts a significant temperature decrease in cycle 24”. It is available online … Continue reading →

Posted in forecasting, Science, solar | Tagged , , , , , , , | 208 Comments

Gradually heading to hell in a handbasket just as bad as instant doom

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

From the National Science Foundation: Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt In “The Great Dying” 250 million years ago, the end came slowly The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction, paleoclimatology, Science, vulcanism | Tagged , , , , , , , | 78 Comments

Interesting presentations from the Nagoya Workshop on the Relationship between Solar Activity and Climate Changes

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

As the sun goes blank today, just 15 months from the expected Cycle 24 solar maximum, Dr. Leif Svalgaard writes in to advise me of the presentations made in the workshop in Japan in mid January. Dr. Svalgaard was an … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | Tagged , , , , , , , | 162 Comments

‘First Light’ Taken by NASA’s Newest CERES Instrument, includes stunning “blue marble” image

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

Western Hemisphere + web view | + hi-res image Eastern Hemisphere + web view | + hi-res image A ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite – Suomi NPP. … Continue reading →

Posted in earth, Science, space, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 96 Comments

The Ridiculousness Continues – Climate Complexity Compiled

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

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 , , , , , , , , , , | 238 Comments

The Myth of Settled Science

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

Guest post by Donald R. Baucom A key defense of AGW and now climate change is that the science is settled.  Historically and philosophically, this statement is unsustainable.                         Who would dare assert that we know all there is to … Continue reading →

Posted in Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, media, Science | Tagged , , , , , , , | 132 Comments

A Matter of Some Gravity

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A couple of apparently related theories have been making the rounds lately. One is by Nikolov and Zeller (N&Z), expounded here and replied to here on WUWT. The other is by Hans Jelbring, discussed at … Continue reading →

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Solar Cycle 24 Length and Its Consequences

Posted on January 8, 2012 by

Guest post by David Archibald Solar Cycle 24 is now three years old and predictions of the date of solar maximum have settled upon mid-2013. For example, Jan Janssens has produced this graph predicting the month of maximum in mid-2013, … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | Tagged , , , | 140 Comments

Looks like “global warming” is off the hook for honeybee deaths

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

Back in 2007, Wired Magazine mused: It’s only slightly less ridiculous than the other bee killing theory that year – cell phones. I published a story about the loony idea that was proposed by some researcher in Europe about “cell … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alarmism, Science | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 88 Comments

A controversial look at Blackbody radiation and Earth minus GHG’s

Posted on December 26, 2011 by

Guest Post by Reed Coray On Dec. 6, 2011 12:12 am Lord Monckton posted a comment on a thread entitled Monckton on sensitivity training at Durban that appeared on this blog on Dec. 5, 2011. In that comment he wrote: … Continue reading →

Posted in Radiation, Science | Tagged , , , , , , , | 239 Comments

Higgs Boson announcement expected from CERN today

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

UPDATE 5:57 AM The live webcast from CERN is overloaded but it appears that uncertainty still exists about the HB, they may have glimpsed its signal around 126 GeV – see below – Anthony “The God Particle” may have been … Continue reading →

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November Solar Activity Report – sunspots and 10.7cm radio flux up, but the solar magnetic Ap index crashes

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

This is strange. Usually we see the geomagnetic Ap Index increase with increasing sunspots and 10.7 cm radio flux. But the Ap index (the third graph below) has crashed to the third lowest level since January 2000, matching what it … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | 149 Comments

New paper suggests sun may be headed for a Maunder minimum

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

Just published in GRL, a new paper by Lockwood et al that suggests the sun may be headed for a Maunder type minimum.: The persistence of solar activity indicators and the descent of the Sun into Maunder Minimum conditions Key … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | Tagged , , | 189 Comments

Erratic, extreme, press release puts Princeton climate science in a new light

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

Must be Durban season. From Princeton University here’s a highly charged press release lapped up by some MSM professional worriers today that uses words like “erratic and extreme” to describe that it’s getting rainier in some places, a whole third … Continue reading →

Posted in Durban Climate Conference, modeling, Science | Tagged , , , , | 127 Comments

Are secular correlations between sunspots, geomagnetic activity, and global temperature significant?

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

New paper by Love et al suggests no prominent role for solar‐terrestrial interaction in global climate change. I’m providing it here for discussion. We are not convinced that the combination of sunspot‐number, geomagnetic‐activity, and global‐temperature data can, with a purely … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | Tagged , , , | 273 Comments

Hathaway’s November Solar Prediction

Posted on November 6, 2011 by

By David Archibald Joe D’Aleo asked for my comments on NASA’s James Hathaway’s latest solar prediction, available here: http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml When I read May 2013 for solar cycle maximum, I thought “That is my prediction”. But then at the bottom of … Continue reading →

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New paper from Loehle & Eschenbach shows extinction data has been wrongly blamed on climate change due to island species sensitivity

Posted on October 25, 2011 by

Guest post by Dr. Craig Loehle Last year, Willis Eschenbach had a WUWT post about extinction rates being exaggerated in the literature (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/04/where-are-the-corpses/). I offered to help him get this published, and it is now out. We conclude that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Extinction, Science | Tagged , , , | 102 Comments

It’s all relative: superluminal neutrino discovery explained

Posted on October 15, 2011 by

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 for the physics community to sort out.  Regardless, the point … Continue reading →

Posted in puzzling things, Science | Tagged | 112 Comments

New science field: “paleoblameatology”

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

Some days you just have to shake your head and say to yourself that there’s irrational fixation on CO2 that has deep roots in the psyche when we see things like this. The 10:10 video was proof enough, but now … Continue reading →

Posted in paleoclimatology, ridiculae, Science | Tagged , , , , | 126 Comments

Solar and climate- no longer taboo

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

Paul Hudson of the BBC writes: This is an exciting time for solar physics, and its role in climate. As one leading climate scientist told me last month, it’s a subject that is now no longer taboo. And about time, … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, solar | Tagged , , | 228 Comments

NSF just now figures out Archimedes’ buoyancy principle

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

Just like Archimedes discovered millennia ago, it is well known today that the Arctic ice cap displaces it’s own weight in the water so that when it melts it will not cause a rise in global sea level. Surprisingly, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, Science, sea ice | Tagged , , , , , , | 157 Comments

“…somebody had to say it”

Posted on October 8, 2011 by

Dr. Judith Curry writes about the UCAR meeting she attended: Some insight into the dynamics that resulted in a substantial change in emphasis in climate research is provided by a meeting that I attended earlier this week in Boulder:  the … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – The newest member of the Union of Concerned Scientists

Posted on October 7, 2011 by

Readers may recall this story a few weeks back: Be a “concerned scientist” – valid credit card required Reader DJ writes in Tips & Notes: Since becoming a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists when I found out all you … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, NGOs, ridiculae, Science | Tagged , | 178 Comments

Does this treatment sound familiar?

Posted on October 5, 2011 by

Yeah, consensus science never fails.

Posted in Science | Tagged , , | 106 Comments

Principle of the Universality: responsibilities of scientists

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

From the International Council for Science,  something for the beleaguered climate science community to consider. Responsibilities of scientists underlined by scientific community Rome, Italy – The General Assembly of the International Council for Science (ICSU) today reaffirmed the universal values … Continue reading →

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