Guest post by John Goetz A story appeared briefly yesterday on the CNN homepage titled Ruthless drought in West Timor puts children in crisis. There is no doubt that this…
Month: July 2008
How not to measure temperature, part 66
The MMTS system introduced by the National Weather Service in the mid 1980’s continues to be the Achilles heel of the surface observation network. Intrepid surfacestations volunteer Don Kostuch finds…
I need some volunteers for a special climate related project.
I have a need to test something. Unfortunately testing that something requires a lot of careful manual labor at the PC keyboard. When the work is done, it will give…
NBC and Partners to buy Weather Channel
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC Universal and two partners said Sunday they have reached a deal to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications Inc., ending a drawn-out process that…
Also Going Down: Carbon dioxide burial reaches a milestone
Climate project: Dr Peter Cook holds sandstone from the Otway Basin, where 10,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide has been stored underground. Photo: Glen McCurtayne From Australia’s The Age. Orietta Guerrera…
Going Down: Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events
During our discussion of the preposterous news story from Pravda, claiming this headline: “Earth begins to kill people for changing its climate” a scientist dropped in to provide us some…
Penn Jillette on skepticism
From half of the same team that brought you this classic video of di-hydrogen monoxide: Climate change? Once more, ‘I don’t know’ Being honest about not knowing enough of the…
Earth begins to kill people for changing its climate
Note: Yes, you read that right. The headline is not mine, but from the original masters of newspaper propaganda, Pravda. See the URL. Gotta love the classic photo they chose. But then,…
Alleviate world hunger: produce more clean carbon dioxide
From:Canada Free Press By Dirck T. Hartmann Thursday, July 3, 2008 (Editor’s Note: To many in the know, Dirck T. Hartmann, who worked on the Apollo Space Program and many…
USGS + NOAA = Monster Earth Sciences Bureaucracy
In an article published in the journal Science, a group of former senior federal officials call for the establishment of an independent Earth Systems Science Agency (ESSA) to meet the…
All the curves that are fit to print
Regarding the latest UAH and RSS global temperature data plots Dave B writes: “…could you post a best-fit, to be fair? I don’t have the technology.” Sometimes I’m tempted to…
Charlotte smashes 123 year record low temperature
GREG LACOUR, The Charolotte Observer This morning was downright cool in the Charlotte region — cool enough to break a record that had stood for more than a century.The temperature…
What a difference 20 years makes
Recently, Dr. James Hansen of NASA GISS gave his 20 year anniversary speech before congress, in which he was restating the urgency of the global warming crisis we now face.…
Northwest Passage: still impassable
impassable im·pass·a·ble [im-pas-uh-buhl] –adjective 1. not passable; not allowing passage over, through, along, etc.: Heavy snow made the roads impassable. 2. unable to be surmounted: an impassable obstacle to further…
UAH Global Temperatures, June 2008 still low "unofficially"
While the official number for June 2008 global temperature anomaly from UAH is not out yet, Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit reports it to be -0.114 for the global number.…
Winter in the high Rockies finally gets plowed
From the International Herald Tribune, a reminder of just what a significant winter we’ve had. “So much snow still remains that the Park Service had to move the 75th-anniversary celebration…
Hansen Poll Results and the Backup Poll
As many readers know, I started a poll last week regarding Dr. Jim Hansen’s statement that energy company executives “be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature”.…
Sydney's historic weather station: 150 meters makes all the difference
Here is an interesting story about the weather station in Sydney at the Astronomical Observatory (well sort of, it got bumped off). It seems the astronomers and meteorologists at the…
And The Winner Is: Climate Catastrophe by a Landslide
Remember the gawd-awful movie The Day After Tomorrow from 2004? Gore used footage from the movie in his now bullet hole riddled An Inconvenient Truth for “dramatic effect”. In an odd…
Thanks again to all my readers – another record month
Above is the raw, unadjusted numbers from WordPress for Watts Up With That? for the month of June 2008 reflecting the total page views. I routinely find WUWT in the…
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