Tag Archives: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Gosh, ‘hidden’ climate change may threaten eelgrass meadows

Posted on June 3, 2013 by

From the University of Gothenburg , the stuff that keeps some people awake at night. A question; why should we care? And, why should we take any of this seriously when you do things like “We raised the water temperature … Continue reading →

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Posted in Biomass, Carbon dioxide | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 41 Comments

Plants that got buried during the Little Ice Age come to life again

Posted on May 31, 2013 by

From the University of Alberta, this news release is making the rounds, but what many of the alarmists don’t get (Joe Romm for example) is that these plants had to have a warm environment to grow in first, then they … Continue reading →

Posted in Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , , , | 59 Comments

Study suggests ‘snowball Earth’ was real and was reversed by ‘An ultra-high carbon dioxide atmosphere’

Posted on February 28, 2013 by

It makes you wonder what created all that CO2 millions of years ago. From Louisiana State University LSU researchers find new information about ‘Snowball Earth’ period It is rather difficult to imagine, but approximately 635 million years ago, ice may … Continue reading →

Posted in Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , | 162 Comments

Settled science update – of mice and men

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

Just when you think you know everything there is to know about a model you run tests on, out comes some whippersnapper to upset the scientific apple cart. It makes you wonder how this could have gone on for so … Continue reading →

Posted in Current News, Puzzling things, Science | Tagged , , , , , | 94 Comments

“Canadian oil sands pollute nearby lakes. Report is blow to Keystone pipeline.” (Or Not)

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

The only “blow to the Keystone pipeline” is in the exaggerated reporting of the science… The “report” (Kurek et al., 2013) did find slight elevations (relative to 1950) of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in five lakes in the vicinity of … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Current News, Energy, Environment, petroleum | Tagged , , , , , , , | 109 Comments

Jellyfish and Global Warming – another busted alarm

Posted on January 1, 2013 by

WUWT readers may recall seeing stories like these in the past. Warming wailers like Bill McKibben, who unthinkingly regurgitated this bogus Jellyfish news in op-eds like this one, take note. A new new peer reviewed study shows that once again, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Oceans | Tagged , , , , | 32 Comments

More on noisy Greenland ice loss data from GRACE

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Embracing data ‘noise’ brings Greenland’s complex ice melt into focus by Morgan Kelly, Office of Communications, Princeton Universtity An enhanced approach to capturing changes on the Earth’s surface via satellite could provide a more accurate account of how ice sheets, … 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 →

Posted in Economy-health, Forecasting | Tagged , , , , , , , | 48 Comments

Climate negotiations relying on ‘dangerous’ thresholds to avoid catastrophe will not succeed

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

From the University of Gothenburg , some appearance of sanity. The identified critical threshold for dangerous climate change saying that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees Celsius seems not to have helped the climate negotiations so … Continue reading →

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Reef Alarmists Jump The Shark

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

by Walter Starck (with thanks to Dr. Bob Carter) The Great Barrier Reef is doomed again. A recent widely publicised scientific study reports the dramatic finding that it has lost half its coral in the last 27 years. Forty-eight precent … Continue reading →

Posted in Oceans | Tagged , , , , | 49 Comments

Yet another fix needed for climate models – this time due to aerosols

Posted on October 5, 2012 by

There are so many updates and fixes needed to the climate models these days its almost like watching a car undergoing a perpetual repair process. When does the time come when the owners realize that maybe they should take advantage … Continue reading →

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Global warming to kill fruit flies – and this is a bad thing?

Posted on September 18, 2012 by

Evolutionary straitjacket means flies can’t take the heat Many species of fruit fly lack the ability to adapt effectively to predicted increases in global temperatures and may face extinction in the near future, according to new research. In a study … Continue reading →

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Fresh water flea panic – so it must be happening in the oceans too

Posted on September 7, 2012 by

From York University   – quite possibly the most poorly written science by press release I’ve seen this year. The leaps of “may” are profound, and the footbal team analogy is designed to elicit sympathy. I suppose if Daphnia populations were … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Oceans | Tagged , , | 51 Comments

Warming increases biodiversity, except when it doesn’t

Posted on September 4, 2012 by

From the University of York  news that warming increases biodiversity. Since that’s a buzzword in the biology protectors circle, you’d think they’d be happy about this. Nope. Research reveals contrasting consequences of a warmer Earth A new study, by scientists … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Extinction | Tagged , , , , , , , | 67 Comments

Hansen’s Temperature Analysis: Today’s Normal is Yesterday’s Extreme–and Nobody Cares

Posted on August 23, 2012 by

From Master Resource, by Chip Knappenberger Yesteryear’s climate extremes are today’s climate normals. Yet we are largely oblivious and better off. A hundred years from now the same will be true. Ho hum…. But not everyone thinks this way. Take … Continue reading →

Posted in James Hansen | Tagged , , | 49 Comments

Texas A&M says freshwater hurricanes grow stronger

Posted on August 14, 2012 by

From Texas A&M University , a claim that fresh water intensifies hurricanes. At first blush, the concept seems wonky to me, as I don’t think there’s much difference between the heat content potential of fresh -vs- saltwater. Though, it might … Continue reading →

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Cliff Mass pans Hansen’s PNAS paper

Posted on August 9, 2012 by

Cliff writes to me to tell me about this essay: Climate Distortion. I’m happy to draw attention to it. He writes: This week, with great fanfare,  NASA scientist James Hansen and associates released a paper “The Perception of Climate Change“  … Continue reading →

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Editorial: ‘Hansen is simply wrong’ and ‘his hypothesis is a complete and abject failure’

Posted on August 7, 2012 by

UPDATE: 9:55 AM  PDT 8/8/12 A graph of Palmer Drought Severity Index -vs- GISTEMP data has been added from Dr. Michaels. Looks like another “GISS miss”. There’s a lot of blowback against James Hansen’s recent (non tested) PNAS paper, trying … Continue reading →

Posted in James Hansen, NASA GISS, Opinion | Tagged , , , | 147 Comments

NASA’s James Hansen’s big cherry pick

Posted on August 6, 2012 by

From NASA:  Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming A new statistical analysis by NASA scientists has found that Earth’s land areas have become much more likely to experience an extreme summer heat wave than they were in … Continue reading →

Posted in extreme weather, James Hansen | Tagged , , , , , , | 189 Comments

Wild Speculation on Climate and Polar Bears

Posted on July 27, 2012 by

By Dr. Pat Michaels at World Climate Report, reposted with permission. Here is another big one from PNAS. For those who don’t know, PNAS stands for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and it has gained the unfortunate … Continue reading →

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