Category Archives: Weather

Germany Weathers Darkest Winter in 43 Years

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

“Overly Overcast: Germany Weathers Darkest Winter in 43 Years” It seems that there’s a lot of gloom in Germany this Winter, more so than usual. This article in Spiegel explains why: “The days may be getting longer, but there’s still … Continue reading →

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Cooltech: a nanoscale foglifter and frost inhibitor coating

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

From the American Chemical Society, something interesting. A new anti-frost and anti-fog coating for glass In an advance toward glass that remains clear under the harshest of conditions, scientists are reporting development of a new water-repellant coating that resists both … Continue reading →

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The Winter Of 1947

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

“Climate disruption” before the current lunacy of “CO2 caused extreme weather” era By Paul Homewood The Great Freeze of 1963 was the coldest winter in the UK for over 200 years. However, the winter of 1947, while not as cold, … Continue reading →

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Over 650 snow records set in USA this week – another wonky surface station located

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

UPDATE : The NWS responds about the station issue, see below. – Anthony Almost 60% of the contiguous USA covered in snow. While pundits spin attempts at linking snowfall in the Northeast USA to AGW, much like they do in … Continue reading →

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New model says more snow at poles, less elsewhere due to CO2

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

From Princeton and the I haven’t looked out the window lately department: Forecast is for more snow in polar regions, less for the rest of us (Journal of Climate) Posted on February 22, 2013 By Cather­ine Zan­donella, Office of the … Continue reading →

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Snowjobs are just a thing of the past…er, present

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

While we have a major winter snowstorm barreling through the USA Midwest, we know that the usual suspects will jostle for position to tell the media that this is just another signature of global warming climate change climate disruption extreme … Continue reading →

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Harvesting Fog: The No-Regrets Option

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve written before about the “no-regrets” option when one is faced with uncertainty. It relates to one of my favorite rules of thumb. I often live my life by my “rules of thumb”, general guidelines … Continue reading →

Posted in Aerosols, Curious things, fog, Weather | Tagged , , | 106 Comments

Paging Chuck Rice at Kansas State – real data is calling you, collect

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

Oh Dear, Another Climate Scientist Makes A Fool Of Himself Guest post by Paul Homewood I sometimes get accused of being too dismissive of Climate Scientists, probably with justice. However, there are times when they just set themselves up to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Drought, records, Temperature, Weather | Tagged , , , | 94 Comments

New paper from NOAA demonstrates that El Niño has more impacts than climate on winter weather in the USA

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

While AP’s Seth Borenstein cites opinions of activist scientists in erroneously claiming that ‘climate change’  increasing atmospheric moisture is the main driver for winter weather events, it turns out that El Niño patterns are strongly associated with winter weather impacts. … Continue reading →

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Whac-a-moling Seth Borenstein at AP over his erroneous extreme weather claims

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

Comments on Yesterday’s paean to Global Warming Guest post by Dr. Richard Keen, Meteorologist Emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder It’s like playing whac-a-mole. After every major storm or unusual (or even slightly interesting) weather event, some non-investigative reporter gets hold … Continue reading →

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How to learn nothing from the 2010 flooding in Brisbane

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

From Griffith University Flood research shows human habits die hard Climate Change experts examine rebuilding New research has come up with ways to quickly assess flood damage to houses while also showing most people didn’t intend to make changes to … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

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 →

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China’s big jet – not the passenger kind

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

From the Science China Press Is there gigantic jet event in middle latitude region in mainland China? When talking about lightning, appearances of different lightning which occur along with thunderstorms will emerge in the minds of the people and these … Continue reading →

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Time lapse video of the 2013 Snowpocalypse in the Northeast

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

This is fun to watch. It is a time lapse video of the Snowpocalypse in Hartford, CT. Clearly, you can see the posited global warming influences having an effect. /sarc

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Global Warming To Bring Colder/Warmer Winters

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

By Paul Homewood It seems that every time we get some snow, another “scientist” is wheeled out to explain that, no matter how cold it gets, it is all down to global warming. In the last week or so, we … Continue reading →

Posted in Global warming, snowfall, Temperature, Weather | Tagged , , , , , , , | 117 Comments

Forecasts of the Boston Blizzard

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

I thought I’d save a few forecast graphics now, to see how they hold up when the snow event is over. First, here’s the one from NWS Boston. I can’t say I much like their color scheme, as it gives … Continue reading →

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Bob Tisdale shows how ‘Forecast the Facts” Brad Johnson (and now Dr. Heidi Cullen) are fecklessly factless about ocean warming and the blizzard

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

UPDATE2: Gosh. Shouldn’t Dr. Cullen know more than McKibben and Brad Johnson?!  (h/t to Marc Morano) – Anthony Here’s the SST anomaly map she cites as proof in her post about the issue at Climate Central. Note that actual temperatures … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Oceans, Sea Surface Temperature, Snow | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 81 Comments

Michael Tobis has bupkis

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

UPDATES have been added:  see below. Not only does Tobis have bupkis, he’s been caught out in a Janus moment from 2010 where he says the exact opposite. – Anthony I wrote a post yesterday pointing out how a WWF … Continue reading →

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Heaviest Snowfall in a Century Hits Moscow – WWF has logic fail

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

UPDATE: See a new related story here. From the Moscow Times By Roland Oliphant The heaviest snowfall in a century brought Moscow and the surrounding region to a near standstill and left hundreds of people without power, officials said Tuesday. And with snowfall set to continue at least until … Continue reading →

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A New Kind Of Rain

Posted on February 4, 2013 by

By Paul Homewood Verity Jones, over at Digging in the Clay, reminds me of an interview with Lord Smith, the politician formerly known as Chris Smith, in the Sunday Telegraph. According to Smith, a former Environment Secretary and now head … Continue reading →

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