More harbinger of the Northern Hemisphere winter to come? A bulldozer cleans snow on the Sichuan-Tibet road in Nyingchi, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region Oct. 30, 2008. (Xinhua Photo) LHASA,…
Month: October 2008
WUWT visitor traffic holding steady
You may remember last month I posted adjusted numbers for WUWT due to a SPAM attack, dropping my September count by about 50K: SEPTEMBER NUMBERS Click for full sized image…
Arctic sea ice continues rebound
When we last checked in to the Nansen Sea Ice Graphs, it looked like they were heading towards the “normal” line in a hurry. Ice area seems to still be…
New essay claims- "Not to Worry: Solar Magnetic Activity for Cycle 24 Is Increasing"
So far, SC24 solar magnetic activity has been in a relative funk. See my post on this very issue from last month. Leif Svalgaard points out this new paper in…
Creepy Climate Change for Halloween
I’m sure we’ll see other dead people talking about climate change soon. Jerry Garcia perhaps? Albert Einstein, John Lennon, why maybe even John Wayne could be utilized. I can see…
Hard lesson about solar realities for NOAA / NASA
Hard lesson about solar realities for NOAA / NASA Reposted here: October 30th, 2008 by Warwick Hughes The real world sunspot data remaining quiet month after month are mocking the…
How not to measure temperature part 73, in the middle of nowhere
The idea with measuring climate accurately, is to get as far away as possible from human/urban influences so that those things don’t bias the readings of the thermometer. For example,…
MIT scientists baffled by global warming theory, contradicts scientific data
Many people have pointed me to this story, I wanted to read about it a bit before posting it. Almost two years ago, when this blog was in its very…
NOAA: U.S. breaks or ties 115 cold and sets 63 new snowfall records
Of course many of you that live in this weather already know this, but there is an early start to winter this year, not only in the USA, but also…
Snow blankets London for Global Warming debate – first October Snow in over 70 years
Two Stories for you, one about the snow itself, and the other about climate law being debated and passed in the middle of the unusual snow.- Anthony London has first…
UHI is real, in Reno at least
A couple of days ago there was a guest post from Russ Steele citing a California study “Feeling the Heat” on global warming that just didn’t seem to add up. …
EcoAmerica Poll: Climate skeptics are the majority, not the minority
Only 18 percent of survey respondents strongly believe that climate change is real, human-caused and harmful. Yes you read that correctly, it is all in this article on the Nature…
Shocker: Solar panel manufacturing creates potent GHG's
I used to be really big on solar energy, putting panels on my house as well as a local school when I was on the school board. But that may…
Chill in the air: record low temps in 10 states
As many readers know, we’ve had an earlier than normal start to fall weather in the USA, and the cold just keeps on coming. Here is a summary of record…
New theory predicts the largest ozone hole over Antarctica will occur this month – cosmic rays at fault
From a University of Waterloo press release (h/t to commenter Rob) WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008) — A University of Waterloo scientist says that cosmic rays are a key…
Feeling the Heat, is it real or is it ASOS?
Guest post by Russ Steele (Note Russ was the very first volunteer for surfacestations.org, I’m traveling today, so I’ll comment later on this investigation. – Anthony) Feeling the Heat was…
A Gathering of “Skeptics”
Posted by Dee Norris Mark your calendars. The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change returns to New York City on March 8th, 2009. The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change…
Gore using his "We" website to "get out the vote"
I remember once having an argument on this blog with someone who claimed Al Gore was “no longer political” but now was “all about science”. Erasing all doubt, Gore’s “We”…
Scotch Tape emits X-Rays: film at 11
Now here’s a science story you don’t hear every day. Simple scotch tape pulled off it’s reel in a vacuum makes x-rays powerful enough to image this finger. NEW YORK…
Sea ice area approaching the edge of normal standard deviation
10/31 NEWS: See updated graphs here UPDATED: 10/22/08 The new images below are even closer Watching arctic sea ice rebound this year has been exciting, more so since a few…
Contributor/Blogger Prognostications of Future Temperature Trends
Guest post by Bob Tisdale Near the current end of the thread titled National Post: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof Allan asked, “What is your global average temperature prediction…
Grief: It's what's for dinner
What happens when food, dogma, a green chef, and a Ph.D. collide? Why a scientifically based feel good cookbook, that’s what. How this cookbook review ended up on the website…
Researchers find arctic may have had less ice 6000-7000 years ago
I love field work. I think any climate scientist that basically becomes a data jockey should be forced to go out and examine real world measurement systems and weather stations…
Tamino’s Folly – Temperatures did drop this past decade
Guest Post by Jeff Id: “Tamino” has made a couple of posts on how the last 10 year drop in temperature is not statistically significant, so it isn’t real. He…
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