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…
Month: August 2008
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…
The tale of the hockey stick
Or as an alternate title: “Why we find it difficult to trust certain climate scientists.” This posting by Bishop Hill, telling the tale of the nefarious temperature reconstruction known as…
Spotless days: 400 and counting
The sun on 08/12/2008 just before midnight UTC – spotless As many of you know, the sun has been very quiet, especially in the last month. In a NASA news…
December 1986
A guest post by John Goetz Cross posted from Climate Audit After I posted GISS Spackle and Caulk, a number of commenters marveled at the symmetry of the histogram (GISS…
Arizona State: Climate Models Missing Important Aersols
Above graphic for illustration only – not related to study cited below PHOENIX, Aug. 11 (UPI) — U.S. Scientists say they’ve discovered some measures used in atmospheric science overlook important…
Maine's tourism industry suffering due to cooler, wetter, weather
NOTE: There seems to be an abundance of anecdotal weather evidence that the northern latitudes in North America have had a cooler summer than usual. Of course there are places…
GISS Spackle and Caulk
Guest post by John Goetz Cross posted from Climate Audit Earlier this year I did a post on the amount of estimation done to the GHCN temperature record by GISS…
NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face
NOTE: You may recall a story I posted some months ago titled: “NASA: It’s the wind” regarding Arctic wind circulation patterns and the way it drove sea ice further south…
Urbanization raises the heat in Orange County, CA
UPDATE: I personally visited this station today, thanks to a family visit that coincidentally took me to within a couple of miles of this station. It’s on a rooftop at…
The view on AGW from the Australian
Key degrees of difference Cameron Stewart, Associate editor | August 09, 2008 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24148862-11949,00.html HAS global warming stopped? The question alone is enough to provoke scorn from the mainstream scientific community…
"…this year, there was an exceptional amount of ice -"
Click for larger image – Polarstern am Eisrand vor Nordost-Grönland Photo: Martin Graeve, Alfred-Wegener-Institut August 7-08 press release on work done from MV Polarstern in the northern Greenland Sea (between…
NOAA: U.S. Temperature Above Normal in July
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: John Leslie 301-713-2087, ext. 174 Aug. 8, 2008 NOAA: U.S. Temperature Above Normal in July July 2008 was the 30th warmest July for the contiguous United States, based…
July UAH Global Temperature Anomaly: up a bit and in general agreement with RSS
UAH (University of Alabama, Huntsville) Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data for July 2008 was published today and has moved a bit above the zero anomaly line, with…
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