Guest post by Guillermo Gonzalez I recently happened upon the SORCE/TIM website and decided to look up the plot of the full total solar irradiance (TSI) dataset (http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/data/tsi_data.htm#plots) The SORCE…
Month: April 2009
Waxman bribes Mr. Gene Green? – private deal "allowances" if Dems will vote for cap and trade bill
It seems our future is being bargained away for a few pieces of silver as this passage from the article indicates. Those of you that have an interest in this,…
Antarctica's Bipolar Disorder
Guest post by Steven Goddard Two days ago I questioned how Antarctic ice could be both “melting faster than expected” and “expanding” at the same time. Yet (as WUWT has…
New Zealand sacks its top climate researcher for speaking with the media
WUWT reader “Purakanui” emailed me: “I have just read an extraordinary news item. Jim Salinger is the voice of global warming as far as New Zealand is concerned. Until recently…
Monckton not allowed to debate with Gore today
SEE UPDATE BELOW FROM MONCKTON I’m out of the political loop, and have no way of judging the merit of the claim, so I’m just going to link to this…
A possible correlation between the Southern Oscillation Index and the Solar Ap Index
I was pointed to this graph by an email from WUWT reader Phil Ravenscroft and I’m reposting it here for discussion. While the correlation looks plausible, it seems almost too…
The Left Hand Knows Not What The Right Hand is Doing
Guest Post by Steven Goddard Last weeks’ top Antarctic AGW story was : Antarctic ice melting faster than expected due to CO2, of course. This week the #1 story is…
Catlin Arctic Ice Survey: paid advertising of results before they are even off the ice!
Sharp eyed WUWT reader Rick K spotted this advertisement on Yahoo News: I double checked what Rick K reported, and yes, they are running this ad. Either they just don’t…
Ice Target Zero
Shooting At a Rapidly Moving Target Guest post by Steven Goddard Arctic ice area has recovered to normal (one standard deviation) levels, so ice area no longer matters. The issue…
WUWT Poll: What should we call the current solar minimum?
Although we’ve been covering this quiet sun issue for over a year on WUWT, the light bulb seems to have gone on for mainstream media right about now. There is…
IBD Earth Day Editorial: The Late Great Planet Girth
From Yahoo News Feed Earth Day: We are now told that obesity causes global warming. Maybe that’s why belief in human-caused climate change is at an all-time low. That and…
Are today's poorer generations morally obliged to solve problems that may or may not confront tomorrow's much wealthier generations?
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany http://Goklany.org Some people argue that we are morally obliged to reduce greenhouse gases aggressively because otherwise the world’s current development path would be unsustainable,…
CBS' Charles Osgood on the Sun – and a surprising suggestion
Holy Cow! Charles Osgood, a skeptic? A QUIET SUN DOESN’T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. excerpts: I know you’ve already got a lot to worry about as it is, but something rather odd…
Possible "habitable zone" planetary system discovered only 20 light years away
From RedOrbit and Science News Astronomers Discover Lightest Exoplanet Yet Astronomers claim to have discovered an exoplanet that is the most similar to Earth in terms of mass than any…
Leaving The Ice Pack Behind
Leaving The Ice Pack Behind Guest post by Steven Goddard 2009 Arctic ice extent has jumped into a big lead over the previous four years. Danish Meteorological Institute Ice Cover…
Solar ISN mean dips below 1.00 –
While the sun still struggles to form cycle 24 spots like seen in this weak plage area (upper right) in today’s SOHO MDI and Magnetograms (shown below) Paul Stanko of…
Another "weather is not climate story" – some new record highs in California, but wait for the punchline.
Since we talk about record cold events with regularity here, I thought I’d talk about some record heat events that occurred near me. Here’s a roundup of some highs:
Making your opinion on CO2 and climate change known to the EPA
As you may have already read about, the EPA is set to declare CO2 as a “public endangerment”. While the EPA declaration indicates “An endangerment finding under one provision of…
NSIDC's Dr. Walt Meier on Catlin and Ice Survey Techniques
Walt sent me this essay unsolicited, and I think it is very useful for establishing some baseline techniques. There’s more useful information on techniques here than in the entire Catlin…
Catlin Arctic Ice Survey first report offers no original drilling data, but anecdotally confirms satellite measurement
Note: One of the many integrity issues with Catlin is that none of their photos can be dated. Even embedded EXIF information (including date/time done by most digital cameras in…
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