Tag Archives: Northern Hemisphere

Natural Variability in the Widths of the Tropics

Posted on May 25, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my previous post, “Does This Analysis Make My Tropics Look Big?“I discussed a paper called “Recent Northern Hemisphere tropical expansion primarily driven by black carbon and tropospheric ozone”, by Robert Allen et al, hereinafter … Continue reading →

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The CIA documents the global cooling research of the 1970’s

Posted on May 25, 2012 by

Despite what NCDC’s Thomas Peterson, Wikiwrangler William Connolley, and John Fleck would like you to believe as a “myth” (The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus), there was in fact serious consideration of the global cooling issue in … Continue reading →

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California Air Resources Board to make webcast on ‘black carbon and other “short-lived” greenhouse gases. ‘

Posted on May 24, 2012 by

Short notice – this is on NOW. Worth watching, even if only for how they justify saying ‘black carbon and other “short-lived” greenhouse gases.’. I didn’t know black carbon was a gas. Here’s the release: On Thursday, May 24, at … Continue reading →

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Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 5 – SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook forecasting contest for 2012

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

The Arctic sea ice extent forecasting contest is on again.  As before I’ll allow readers to submit their best estimates in a poll, and I’ll submit those results as we’ve done in the past two years. Last year, the forecast … Continue reading →

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Does This Analysis Make My Tropics Look Big?

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is a new paper in Nature magazine that claims that the tropics are expanding. This would be worrisome because it could push the dry zones further north and south, moving the Saharan aridity into … Continue reading →

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Carbon soot may be driving the expansion of the tropics – not CO2

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

From the University of California – Riverside it seems that black carbon soot is driving tropical expansion. How could this be? I thought CO2 was all powerful, so powerful with the strength of 400,000 Hiroshima bombs each day that animals … Continue reading →

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Shakun The Last, I Hope

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In three previous posts here, here, and here, I discussed problems with the paper by Shakun et al., “Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation” (PDF,hereinafter S2012) Commenters said, and … Continue reading →

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Does CO2 correlate with temperature history? – A look at multiple timescales in the context of the Shakun et al. paper

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

Guest post by Michael Pacnik Especially in the context of recent discussion of the Shakun et al. paper, a look at other sources for temperature history versus CO2 can be helpful, examining timescales ranging from the past century to the … Continue reading →

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March 2012 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update – A New Look

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale THE ADDITION OF CMIP3 (IPCC AR4) HINDCASTS/PROJECTIONS TO GRAPHS I’ve added a new feature to the graphs of the monthly sea surface temperature updates on a trial basis, and it is the multi-model mean of … Continue reading →

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Spencer shows compelling evidence of UHI in CRUTem3 data

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

McKitrick & Michaels Were Right: More Evidence of Spurious Warming in the IPCC Surface Temperature Dataset Guest post by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The supposed gold standard in surface temperature data is that produced by Univ. of East Anglia, … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on March 25, 2012 by

Quote of the Week: “I am always happy to be in the minority.  Concerning the climate models, I know enough of the details to be sure that they are unreliable. They are full of fudge factors that are fitted to … Continue reading →

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Snow White Takes a Walk In The Park

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I wrote a post called I Used To Be Snow White (… but then I drifted) a week or so ago about a study titled “Impact of Declining Arctic Sea Ice on Winter Snowfall” (PDF) that … Continue reading →

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Letter to the editor: Carbon Lies

Posted on March 10, 2012 by

Letter to the Editor Watts Up With That? 11th March 2012 The Australian government’s plan to sell their un-saleable carbon tax has hit a snag – their pollsters have discovered that the word ”carbon” provokes anger in the electorate. This … Continue reading →

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February 2012 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

By Bob Tisdale OFF-TOPIC NEWS Due to the popularity of If the IPCC was Selling Manmade Global Warming as a Product, Would the FTC Stop their Deceptive Ads? in .pdf form, I will be publishing a Kindle edition hopefully this … Continue reading →

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The Earth has chills and fever, and spots, or something

Posted on March 7, 2012 by

WUWT Readers may remember in 2006 Al Gore announcing on national television one morning that: The earth has a fever… He of course was pushing his book, An Inconvenient Truth as the cure. Now, almost six years later, other symptoms … Continue reading →

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I used to be Snow White

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a paper out by, inter alios, our good friend Judith Curry. The paper is “Impact of Declining Arctic Sea Ice on Winter Snowfall”, by Jiping Liu, Judith A. Curry, Huijun Wang, Mirong Song, and … Continue reading →

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Tamino’s Trick

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

Guest Post by Jeff Condon Tamino has his crowd all whipped up about sea ice.  He has done two posts now declaring how stupid I, Anthony Watts, and by association, all of you, are.   Sorry folks, it was a … Continue reading →

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Increasing Winter Cold in Recent Years and the Arctic

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM A new study led by the Georgia Institute of Technology attempted to support a relationship reported in recent years (Overland) between melting ice in the Arctic regions and widespread cold outbreaks in the Northern Hemisphere. “We … Continue reading →

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Sea ice decline posited to be driving snowier NH winters

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

From Georgia Tech, the science press release that gave us the best-warming-headline-evah thanks to media spin, likely started by BBC’s Richard Black. It is worth noting that this study cites data from such a short time from 2009-2011. Surely if … Continue reading →

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Best – warming – headline – evah

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

I’ve been getting a lot of pressure to cover the story by warmspinner Richard Black over at the BBC about a supposed feedback between Arctic sea ice and colder, snowier, winters in the UK and the EU. For example, WUWT … Continue reading →

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