Gore gets oceanography prize

From KFMB San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography is awarding its first-even Roger Revelle Prize to former Vice President Al Gore. Gore will be in La Jolla Friday evening to…

What WILL they think of next? Conference labels skeptics as having mental disorder

From Spiked-online.com (h/t to Trevor Gunter) NOTE FROM ANTHONY: this topic is rather contentious, even though temptation abounds and emotions will run high, please refrain from playing climate gutter ball.…

Basic Geology Part 3 – Sea Level Rises During Interglacial Periods

Guest post by Steven Goddard One of the most cited “proofs” of global warming is that sea level is rising, as can be seen in the graph below. http://sealevel.colorado.edu/current/sl_noib_global_sm.jpg This…

Kepler blasts off in search of Earth-like planets

From the LA Times Email Picture Malcolm Denemark / Associated Press In a timed exposure, spectators watch from Cocoa Beach as the Kepler satellite launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force…

Pielke Sr: No Climate Heating In “The Pipeline”

From Roger Pielke Sr’s Climate Science Website Is There Climate Heating In “The Pipeline”? A new paper has appeared (thanks to Timo Hämeranta for alerting us to it!) Urban, Nathan…

IPCC 20th Century Simulations Get a Boost from Outdated Solar Forcings

Guest post by Bob Tisdale IPCC 20th Century Simulations Get a Boost from Outdated Solar Forcings Or The Sun Also Can’t Explain the Warming in the Early Part of the…

NOAA finds seven new corals to worry about

The real question  is: How long before Michael Mann does a ring study on it with RegEM to claim that the current pH of the ocean is “unprecedented”? Contacts:                                                                       …

Negative feedback in climate – empirical or emotional?

Here’s an interesting paper that breaks with consensus. The only problem is that it is being ignored for the most part by the mainstream climate community, even going so far…

U.S. Life Expectancy in an Era of Death Trains and Death Factories

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany In a recent op-ed in the Guardian that WUWT commented on, James Hansen of global warming fame, argued for closing coal fired power plants…

Looking at thermometer placement and heat in the infrared

Google can be a great aid to serendipity. Doing some Googling the other day I was surprised to find a couple of my images from How not to measure temperature,…

Final Score For The Met Office Winter Forecast

Guest post by Steven Goddard The UK Met Office famously forecast this past winter to be “milder than average.“ 25 September 2008 The Met Office forecast for the coming winter…

A Curiosity: Hot Peppers – Why Are They Hot?

Once in awhile I find something that piques my interest that is different from the usual WUWT fare. This was one of those. I like this fellows blog because 1)…

Pielke Jr's take on an amazing "Conversation with a Climate Scientist"

Gosh! Who would think a climate scientist could get so angry about people criticizing a politician? Here is an amazing exchange seen on Prometheus. Some highlights and excerpts follow Gore…

NOAA benefits from "spendulus"

Maybe they can buy some new thermometers and shelters: Contact:          David Miller                                         FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 202-482-0013                                      Mar. 3, 2009 202-329-4030 (cell) NOAA Receives $830 Million Through Recovery Act The Department…

Cooler heads at NOAA coming around to natural variability

Guest Post by Steven Goddard It appears that global cooling recognition may be starting to make headway in the scientific community. We have this Discovery/MSNBC article about a NOAA scientist…

Jim Hansen's newfound peers at the Capitol Climate Action

The Capital Climate Action protest went on today in Washington DC with a march on the coal fired power plant. Amazingly, NASA’s Dr. James Hansen actually showed up and took…

Poll and Polar Ice Trends

Guest post by Steve Goddard Yesterday, Dr. Walt Meier from NSIDC again graciously updated us about the NSIDC sensor problem, and also about his current thinking with respect to polar…

NSIDC's Walt Meier responds on the sensor issue

I assume that everyone has seen the post on our website discussing the changes that NSIDC has instituted to make our sea ice data available again. I don’t want to…

Hansen's Coal and Global Warming protest may get snowed out

Many WUWT readers have heard about this: UPDATE: Video report on the DC snow here h/t to Stefan P Here is my IntelliWeather Monday and hour by hour forecast for…