From: ScienceDaily (Aug. 20, 2008) Coal burning, primarily in North America and Europe, contaminated the Arctic and potentially affected human health and ecosystems in and around Earth’s polar regions, according…
Month: August 2008
Upper Wisconsin and Minnesota Forecast: Frost and Freeze Before Labor Day
We’ve seen a lot of anecdotal evidence of a cooler than usual summer in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere. This one caught my eye though, because I can’t ever…
UK's Daily Mail: Awful August has delayed this year's harvest but global warming is not to blame
Note: UK atmospheric scientist John Kettley, is formerly of the Met Office and the Fluid Dynamics Department at the Bracknell headquarters. JOHN KETTLEY: Awful August has delayed this year’s harvest…
How not to measure temperature, part 69
Two weeks ago I posted about a story from the Orange County Register titled Urbanization Raises The Heat in Orange County. It was front page news that day, on Friday, August…
Another chance to make comments on climate change
As you may have already read, the CCSP Unified Synthesis Product report, which contains a multitude of errors and misrepresentations, is on hold while the various “synthesis products” catch up…
Cryosphere Today Makes Changes – Improves product, drops Gore comment
In the thread where we have examined the visual discrepancies in sea ice report that concerned a number of people, William Chapman of the University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana joined in the…
Australian Space Weather Agency Revises Solar Cycle 24 Start, Adding 6 Months
Solar Cycle 24 just can’t seem to get rolling. IPS announced today (IPS is the Australian Space Weather Agency) , that it has changed its forecast for Solar Cycle 24,…
December 1986 – Irony
A guest post by John Goetz In my post December 1986, I presented a histogram showing the GISS estimate of December 1986 minus the actual for GHCN stations in Europe…
Reuters: World Meteorological Organization says "This year so far coolest for at least 5 years"
Finally some recognition of all the anecdotal weather we’ve been talking about here – Anthony World Meteorological Organization Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:15am IST LONDON (Reuters) – The first half…
Skeptics win one! NOAA/NCDC to hold the CCSP report
NOTE: In the headline, the word “pull” has been replaced with the word “hold” which better represents the process that will now occur. My thought for that word was “pull…
Nutty Story of the Day#6 – Blood Meant for Transfusions Can Get Contaminated Due to Global Warming
From:Environmental Health Posted online: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 5:50:36 PM Blood Meant for Transfusions Can Get Contaminated Due to Global Warming Increasing temperatures can contaminate blood meant for transfusions,…
More anecdotal and oddly cool summer weather: Rockford, IL yet to reach 90 degrees
Having grown up in the midwest not too far from there, having no 90 degree days yet for the entire summer is admitedly unusual. Here is a running window of…
Democrats planning everything but the weather in Denver
From USA Today: Democrats planning everything but the weather in Denver By Chuck Raasch, GNS Political Writer WASHINGTON — Democrats are hoping for an open-air sendoff of Barack Obama on…
AMS Linking Weather Events to Climate Change
One of the most vocal criticisms I get is when I write about weather events around the globe. For example one commenter, “beaker” recently wrote this criticism to my story about…
Thanks to Nature, a Large Atmospheric Sulfur Dioxide Experiment is Now Underway in the Pacific
Last June, WIRED magazine wrote an in depth article that asked: Can a Million Tons of Sulfur Dioxide Combat Climate Change? The question arose from research from research at Lawrence Livermore National…
Denver's low maximum temperature daily double
CDOT closed Loveland Pass west of Denver for a couple hours to plow. It seems a bit cool all over the USA for a Sunday afternoon in August. US HOURLY…
Gore wrong on Kilimanjaro snow: Its the trees and "freezer burn"
From the “we told you so” department, more agreement that Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth movie poster child for global climate change has nothing to do with climate change at all, and everything…
Nutty story of the day #5, One more thing to worry about: The Oxygen Crisis!
Trend of atmospheric oxygen (O2) from Cape Grim, Tasmania. This looks serious, right? Read on. FOREWORD: I had to chuckle at this. This is the sort of story I would expect in…
Anecdotal cold weather news from around the world
There continues to be a number of reports of colder than normal weather and seasons from around the globe. Here are a few. Loveland Pass Colorado, today Australia: http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/cold-weather-here-to-stay/9718 Cold…
Nutty Story of the Day #4: Germans apply glacier anti-melt screen
From Physorg.com The Swiss alpine region of Valais is pictured in February 2008. German researchers trying to slow melting glaciers have set up a large screen in the Swiss…
Heat Wave in Portland: Watch for "AGW did it" stories
Portland is one of the “greener” cities in the USA. So it would not be surprising to see some stories blaming the current heat wave on “Global Warming” or “Climate…
Arctic Ice Extent Discrepancy: NSIDC versus Cryosphere Today
Foreword: I had originally planned to post a story on this, but Steven Goddard of the UK Register sends word that he has already done a comparison. It mirrors much…
Hadley Climate Center HadAT2 Data shows global cooling in the last year
Overall long term trend remains positive in lower troposphere. Most often on this forum we have looked at either surface temperature data from surface observations or lower tropospheric temperature data derived…
Last Chance! Today is the deadline for comments
See this: An important call for public comment on the NASA Climate Change Science Program If you have not made a comment on this report, and the many, many flaws it…
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