"The good news is, if this sucker blows, global warming is not going to be a problem. "

Some worrisome news from Greg Laden’s Science blog, also in the running for Best Science Blog Note: Image below was not part of the original story Seismic Activity at Yellowstone…

Surfacestations UK project getting started

As many readers know, I’ve been working with a team of dedicated volunteers on the US www.surfacestations.org project since June 2007. We now have over 50% of the 1221 station…

Here's an odd one: dogsled race canceled because there’s too much snow

How’s this for odd? Minnesota sled dog race canceled because of too much snow Patrick Springer, Forum Communications Bemidji Pioneer – 01/06/2009 Here’s another entry for the annals of noteworthy…

The new NASA solar goalpost: Cycle 24, maybe not so big

A few days ago I wrote in State of the Sun for year end 2008: all’s quiet on the solar front – too quiet that “No new cycle 24 predictions have…

Coal Creek, Colorado Coop Observing Station Cooling The Last Decade

reposted from ICECAP By Dr. Richard Keen, University of Colorado I’m the NOAA co-op observer for Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado, elevation 8950 feet, in the foothills NW of Denver.  Here…

UAH is out, like RSS it is down a bit

Although the webserver file for the UAH dataset has not been updated yet, the man who is “in the know” because he’s a major part of the process has released…

My picks for the weblog awards

This weblog awards contest has few people up in arms because WUWT is currently leading. Lucia points out some of the dynamics of silliness that go on related to it.…

From Belgium: New twist on the 'Gore Effect'

Jos, one of WUWT’s readers abroad writes: “It is very cold here in Beligium. This is from today’s edition of the flemish newspaper ‘De Standaard’:” You can find in online…

Accuweather's Bastardi: Global Cooling Reason for Putin Shutting off Gas Pipeline

Expert forecaster sees Putin’s moves with energy as a power play in anticipation of global cooling 20-30 years out. By Jeff Poor Business & Media Institute 1/6/2009 8:23:25 PM It’s…

RSS is out for December, down slightly

Click for a larger image RSS Data Source is here The RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA) Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data for…

NCDC updates database for Dec08 – NCDC's own graphic shows decadal cooling trend

One of the best things about WUWT is the number of eyes and minds at work, multiplying the efforts. This is interesting. Now that the 1998 El Nino is disappearing…

Cold streak sets new record – Saskatoon experiences 24 consecutive days of -25 C or lower

For those of you that don’t know where Saskatoon is, I have it on my city temperature map: Cold streak sets new record City experiences 24 consecutive days of -25…

VOTING OPEN: WUWT Nominated for Best Science Blog

Voting is now open, for anyone who wants to vote for any of the blogs below. A note about voting. Since you can vote once every 24 hours, this is…

Solar Geomagnetic Ap Index now at lowest point in its record

As many regular readers know, I’ve pointed out several times the incident of the abrupt and sustained lowering of the Ap Index which occurred in October 2005. The abrupt step…

State of the Sun for year end 2008: all's quiet on the solar front – too quiet

The NOAA Space Weather Prediction center updated their plots of solar indices earlier today, on January 3rd. With the exception of a slight increase in the 107 centimeter radio flux,…

Shocker: Huffington Post carries climate realist essay

Congratulations to Harold Ambler, who frequents here in comments, for breaking the climate “glass ceiling” at HuffPo. This essay is something I thought I’d never see there. Next stop: Daily…

4000-Year O18 Histories of New Zealand's North and South Islands

This is a review from CO2Science.com of an interesting paper looking at Oxygen 18 records in water driven cave  formations (stalactite, stalagmite or flowstone) than span a 4000 year period.…

Where Thermometers Go To Die – How not to measure temperature, part 80

In my 30 years in meteorology, I never questioned how NOAA climate monitoring stations were setup. It wasn’t until I stumbled on the Marysville California fire station and its thermometer…

An Opportunity for Europe in 2009

Guest post by Steven Goddard Climate Activist Glues Himself to the Smiling Prime Minister at #10 Consider the conflicted UK, where the government is dominated by people who claim to…

Looking more like La Nina every day

Click for larger image Source:  http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/climo.html h/t Arthur Glass About a month ago I posted: La Nina is back…and was criticized by a few folks. Well compare the above to…