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Stacked Volcanoes Falsify Models

Posted on May 25, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, this has been a circuitous journey. I started out to research volcanoes. First I got distracted by the question of model sensitivity, as I described in Model Climate Sensitivity Calculated Directly From Model Results. Then … Continue reading →

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GISS and NCDC Monthly Global Surface Temperature Update for April 2013

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

Sorry about missing the update for March. I waited patiently for the HadCRUT4 data to update on the Met Office’s old webpage (recently deleted), but hadn’t realized they’d posted the March data on a new webpage because of a new … Continue reading →

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SkepticalScience Now Argues Against Foster & Rahmsorf (2011)

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

SkepticalScience recently produced a YouTube video which claimed to show that the rate of global warming has not slowed in recent years. See their post here, which states: This replicates the result of a study by Foster and Rahmstorf (2011) … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Main Development Region Sea Surface Temperatures & Anomalies – Plus a Couple of Other Regions

Posted on May 19, 2013 by

OVERVIEW This post presents the annual cycle in sea surface temperatures for the hurricane main development region in the North Atlantic. It also presents the sea surface temperature anomalies for three regions: (1) the Main Development Region, (2) the Gulf … Continue reading →

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The Icy Nenana River

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The last time I was in Alaska, I had the good fortune to stop by the town of Nenana, home of the Nenana River Ice Classic. Nenana sits at the junction of the Tanana and … Continue reading →

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The curious case of rising CO2 and falling temperatures

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

Guest essay by Tony Brown Some readers might recall my recent article ‘The Long Slow Thaw?’ In this I reconstructed Central England temperature to 1538 from its current instrumental date of 1659. I was surprised by two notable periods of … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

Dear WMO: Thanks for furnishing the lovely graph of global temperature anomalies in your WMO Statement on Status of the Global Climate in 2012. I’ve reproduced it here. The caption for it reads: Figure 4. January–December global land and ocean … Continue reading →

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USA Today’s breathless CO2 announcement – not quite there yet

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

From the Oh noes, we’re almost doomed department: For the first time in roughly 5 million years, the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere could top 400 parts per million in the Northern Hemisphere next month. Full story … Continue reading →

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Clean Coal by Wire

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

Guest post by Viv Forbes There is a persistent green myth that coal-fired power generation causes city smogs. It does not. City air pollution is nothing new. King Edward I complained about London pollution in 1306, as did Queen Elizabeth … Continue reading →

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Imagine What Would Happen If We Didn’t Have A Strong El Niño For 4 More Years

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

This is a cross post of my post titled El Niño-Southern Oscillation Then and Now. I’m presenting this for those who look for patterns. I see it only as a curiosity—nothing more. I am not suggesting that future ENSO events … Continue reading →

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Monday Mirthiness – Josh draws ‘born to be mild’

Posted on April 22, 2013 by

Josh provides some comic relief over Dana Nuccitelli’s “meany mode”.

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Thunk! That’s the sound of the EU carbon credit inverse hockey stick hitting the floor

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

After hitting record lows back in January, there was a plan to prop up the EU carbon market. That worked…for a while. Then the backloading plan was rejected, and the real market forces took over. From: Environmental leader: EU Carbon … Continue reading →

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Another Internet poll goes horribly wrong

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

[self snip] I was given a tip, and didn’t realize that this poll is over a year old and didn’t recall WUWT had previously covered it. Neither did Tom Nelson when he covered it last night, so I withdraw this … Continue reading →

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Mannian money madness

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

Tom Nelson writes: Bummer: If the Kochs are really spending $100 million annually on climate change denial (as Michael Mann claims), why is prominent skeptic JoNova forking over her own cash to replace her five-year-old computer?

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A Preliminary Look at Compo et al (2013)

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

The recent paper Compo et al (2013) is titled “Independent confirmation of global land warming without the use of station temperatures”. It’s in the preprint phase, and of course it’s paywalled. The abstract is here. It reads: Confidence in estimates … Continue reading →

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Lewandowsky paper ‘provisionally removed’ due to complaints

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

UPDATE: Steve McIntyre has an interesting letter about the Lewandowsky and Cook affair here. Retraction Watch writes: Last week, we covered the complicated story of a paper by Stephan Lewandowsky and colleagues that had been removed — or at least … Continue reading →

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Why the Marcott et al FAQ was published on Easter Sunday

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

Steve McIntyre explores this question along with the bigger question about the core top redating which created the Marcottian uptick: Q. Why did realclimate publish the Marcott FAQ on Easter Sunday?

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The puzzle: why have rising temperatures been on a ‘Twenty-year hiatus”?

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

Not sure that “sceptical fringe” would apply here, but I’ll take the press where we can get it. See my comments below. – Anthony Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists puzzled | The Australian DEBATE about the reality … Continue reading →

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Weblog awards – WUWT wins for the third time

Posted on March 24, 2013 by

That puts WUWT in the hall of fame for the science category, and we cannot be in that contest again. WUWT also wins “Weblog of the Year”. Thanks to everyone for your support! From the Bloggies Twitter Feed Some of … Continue reading →

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Don’t Turn Off the Lights

Posted on March 21, 2013 by

Earth Hour This Saturday Is a Colossal Waste of Time and Energy. Bjorn Lomborg -No Lights to Turn Off- On the evening of March 23, 1.3 billion people will go without light for the rest of the night—just like every … Continue reading →

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