Tag Archives: National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCAR says targeting specific pollutants would slow SLR

Posted on April 15, 2013 by

From the  National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research I can see the EPA jumping all over this one. Black carbon is likely a contributor, as it changes the albedo of ice sheets and one that is much … Continue reading →

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Waste heat – a bigger climate effect than once thought

Posted on January 27, 2013 by

Dr. Roy Spencer recently opined about this issue (which is different from UHI) in: Waste Heat as a Contributor to Observed Warming If we divide that by the surface area of the U.S. in meters, we get 0.33 watts per sq. … Continue reading →

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NASA on the sun: ‘…tiny variations can have a significant effect on terrestrial climate.”

Posted on January 9, 2013 by

Researchers have considered the possibility that the sun plays a role in global warming. From NASA GSFC:  Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate In the galactic scheme of things, the Sun is a remarkably constant star.  While some stars exhibit dramatic … Continue reading →

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Flu forecasts using weather, not climate

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

Flu outbreaks predicted with weather forecast techniques BOULDER—Scientists at Columbia University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have adapted techniques used in modern weather prediction to generate local forecasts of seasonal influenza outbreaks. By predicting the timing and severity … Continue reading →

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Trenberth dials up the warming predictions

Posted on November 8, 2012 by

From NCAR: Future warming likely to be on high side of climate projections, analysis finds November 08, 2012 BOULDER—Climate model projections showing a greater rise in global temperature are likely to prove more accurate than those showing a lesser rise, … Continue reading →

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Climate not a significant factor in East African conflicts

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

From the University of Colorado at Boulder, another overhyped climate meme has been put to rest by a new study that made some obvious findings about temperature and rainfall as it relates to human behavior, but more importantly in human … Continue reading →

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Wyoming experiences that “giant sucking sound” as new coal fired climate supercomputer is turned on

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

Did your lights dim yesterday? It might have been Trenberth’s “travesty calculator”. Readers may recall when I covered the announcement of the building of this new supercomputer: NCAR’s dirty little secret Measuring 108,000 square feet in total with 15,000-20,000 square feet … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon footprint, Technology | Tagged , , , | 74 Comments

Will a new ‘Weather Commission’ be a benefit or a travesty?

Posted on September 28, 2012 by

This smells like Trenberth’s doings at the behest of Al Gore and his “Dirty Weather” Campaign. If so, then I’m against it, because all this will do is create another bureaucracy loaded with opinionated thinkers sucking up more tax dollars … Continue reading →

Posted in Government idiocy, Weather | Tagged , , , , | 89 Comments

Looking into solar coronal prominence cavities

Posted on September 21, 2012 by

by Karen C. Fox NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD › View larger Scientists want to understand what causes giant explosions in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, such as this one. The eruptions are called coronal mass ejections or … Continue reading →

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Tisdales’ Blog Memo to Kevin Trenberth at NCAR

Posted on September 20, 2012 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale Date:  September 20, 2012 Subject:  Trenberth and Fasullo (2012) paper “Climate extremes and climate change: The Russian heat wave and other climate extremes of 2010” From:  Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations To:  Kevin Trenberth – … Continue reading →

Posted in ENSO, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , , , , | 49 Comments

Ship sprayed seawater cloud making V2.0

Posted on August 20, 2012 by

Willis covered this before on WUWT, with Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud. Its baaaack. Figure 1. Artist’s conception of cloud-making ships. Of course, the first storm would flip this over immediately, but heck, it’s only a fantasy, so who cares? … Continue reading →

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‘What global warming really looks like’ – Michael Oppenheimer FAIL

Posted on June 28, 2012 by

Well, I warned everybody yesterday. That briefing was put together by Climate Nexus, an advocacy and communications group. An accompanying report on heat waves and climate change was released simultaneously at climatecommunication.org The usual suspects put that document together. See … Continue reading →

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‘We don’t believe the ice cores can be interpreted purely as a signal of temperature’

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

From the University of Wisconsin: Greenland ice may exaggerate magnitude of 13,000-year-old deep freeze by Chris Barncard Ice samples pulled from nearly a mile below the surface of Greenland glaciers have long served as a historical thermometer, adding temperature data … Continue reading →

Posted in Greenland ice sheet, Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , , , | 43 Comments

Dear Woods Hole and NCAR, maybe you missed this trend in Antarctic sea ice?

Posted on June 20, 2012 by

More modeling madness projecting the future, but the actual data for the past 30 years says otherwise, with a positive trend. Regular commenter Julienne Stroeve of NSIDC is one of the co-authors, so perhaps she’ll weigh in here. The article … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic, Modeling | Tagged , , , , , , , | 74 Comments

H2O 2012 conference theme: “please send money”

Posted on May 29, 2012 by

From Stanford University , this press release with a “who the heck cares?” question as a title. We have far bigger problems in California to worry about. It is another one of these “might result” weasel word press releases in … Continue reading →

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Trenberth takes on UAH satellite data in a new paper

Posted on May 7, 2012 by

They create an adjustment for the way the Alabama scientists handled data from NOAA-9, a satellite that collected temperature data in the mid-1980s. From the University of Washington comes this press release: New research brings satellite measurements and global climate … Continue reading →

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A view of climate “on the ground” from a reporter who was there at the beginning

Posted on March 9, 2012 by

Elevated from a comment Theodore White says: March 8, 2012 at 5:04 pm Let’s clarify a few things on another of Anthony’s excellent posts, like this one ‘Hey Hansen! Where’s the Beef !?’ – It’s lengthy, but gives the view … Continue reading →

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Your tax dollars at work: an NCAR cartoon on steroid use in baseball and compared to climate change

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

From the video description: AtmosNews takes a lighthearted look at an unexpected analogy, explaining why some people call carbon dioxide (and the other greenhouse gases) the steroids of the climate system. Statistics and extreme behavior are involved, whether we’re talking … Continue reading →

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New paper speculates on volcanoes during the Little Ice Age

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

From NCAR/UCAR, they’re still trying to stamp out solar influence as a potential cause of the Little Ice Age. One of the things I wonder about is that during low sunspot activity, does the reduced solar-magnetic influence have any effect … Continue reading →

Posted in Paleoclimatology, Vulcanism | Tagged , , , , , , , | 287 Comments

Polar bears and sulfates

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

From the University of Washington  some apparent confusion about what sulfates look like. Injecting sulfate particles into stratosphere won’t fully offset climate change IMAGE:A polar bear walks along an expanse of open water at the edge of Hudson Bay near … Continue reading →

Posted in Aerosols, Arctic | Tagged , , , , , , , | 94 Comments