We’ve all heard about Dwight D. Eisenhower’s warning to us about the “military industrial complex”. It’s practically iconic. But what I didn’t know was that same farewell speech contained a…
Month: February 2009
CO2 Does Not Drive Glacial Cycles
Guest post by Steven Goddard There are still people who insist that changes in CO2 can explain the pattern of glacial and interglacial periods. This article will present several arguments demonstrating that is incorrect,…
Climate Audit is down
While we are on the subject of hardware failure (such as has hit the DMSP satellite NSIDC and Cryosphere Today use) Climate Audit is down due to a file system…
Sea Ice Sensor Degradation Hits Cryosphere Today
You may recall that I posted about how the National Snow and Ice Data Center has an issue with the DMSP satellite sensor channel used to detect sea ice. Cryosphere…
How not to measure temperature, part 83: No smoking please
The USHCN Climate station of record in Milton-Freewater, Oregon. Note the beige smoking stand. The casual way that NOAA treats quality control of the measurement environment of the surface network…
Basic Geology Part 2 – CO2 in the Atmosphere and Ocean
Guest Post by Steven Goddard part 1 is here Ice cores clearly demonstrate the close relationship between atmospheric CO2 levels and temperature, as seen below. http://www.brighton73.freeserve.co.uk/gw/paleo/400000yearslarge.gif This relationship has been well…
Short term trends from GISS Model E: "The model would be off by about 0.15C in the first five years"
On occasion, comments posted on WUWT are backed up with data or graphs from the commenter, and are so germane that they merit their own post for discussion. This is…
When You Can’t Believe the Model
This article was sent to me by reader Peter Yodis. I found it interesting and germane to current events, so I’m sharing it here. Just a note for clarification, the…
NSIDC: satellite sea ice sensor has "catastrophic failure" – data faulty for the last 45 or more days
The DMSP satellite is still operating, but the SSM/I sensor is not Regular readers will recall that on Feb 16th I blogged about this graph of arctic sea ice posted…
The Trade Winds Drive The ENSO
Guest post by Bill Illis We have often wondered what really causes the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate pattern. It is generally understood and this post will demonstrate that…
William Schlesinger on IPCC: "something on the order of 20 percent have had some dealing with climate."
This is a bit disturbing, though in retrospect, not surprising. One of our local IPCC wonks at Chico State University, Jeff Price, is a biologist, but lectures me about climate…
Britain's Lessons From The Winter of 2008-2009
Guest post by Steven Goddard Stonehenge saw it’s heaviest snow in many years The UK has been experiencing the coldest winter in several decades, and hopefully policymakers have learned a…
The heliospheric current sheet as solar cycle proxy
Many readers are familiar with a number of solar proxies used to gauge the activity of the sun, the most familiar being sunspot counts and type. However they aren’t the…
Errors in publicly presented data – Worth blogging about?
In the prior thread I raised a question of why there was a large downward jump in sea ice extent on the graph presented by NSIDC’s Artic Sea Ice News…
NSIDC makes a big sea ice extent jump – but why?
Something odd is going on at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Look at this image: The image is directly from NSIDC’s Artic Sea Ice News page today. Of…
Hansen on "death trains" and coal and CO2
NASA’s Dr. James Hansen once again goes over the top. See his most recent article in the UK Guardian. Some excerpts: “The trains carrying coal to power plants are death…
Redoing Steig et al, with simple data regrouping, gives half the warming result in Antarctica
AWS Gridded Reconstruction From the Air Vent, reposted by invitation Posted by Jeff Id on February 15, 2009 Guest post by Jeff C Jeff Chas done an interesting and impressive recalculation…
The BBC Attempts to Patch Up the Cracks – botches it, citing AGW could set off "negative feedback"
UPDATE2: “404 Page not found” now at the BBC for this video on Monday Feb16th. It seems they’ve pulled it. Too much “negative feedback” I suppose. Readers be on the…
Code Blue: 10.7 centimeter solar radio flux is flatlining
I had written back in July 2008 about the 10.7cm solar radio flux hitting a new record low value. Part of that has to do with the inverse square law…
How not to measure temperature, part 82, Friday the 13th: the Temperature Shelter
The surfacestations project has now surveyed over 70% of the USHCN. I keep telling myself that there probably aren’t many surprises left. We’ve seen climate monitoring stations in parking lots,…
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