Image from WUWT reader “Boudu” This QOTW is from Pen Hadow, leader of the now farcical Catlin Arctic Ice Survey: “It’s never wise to imagine that either man or technology…
Month: April 2009
Bullseye Over Boulder – Another "Weather is not Climate" Story
Guest post by Steven Goddard “April comes in like a lion, and stays that way.” The University Of Colorado in Boulder and nearby Colorado State University are hotbeds of climate…
What happens to Steig et al's warming when you divide Antarctica into two distinct climate zones?
A week ago I made this comment to Jeff Id on The Air Vent regarding his reconstruction of the Steig et al Antarctic temperature trends paper. The idea was to…
Only 34% of USA Voters Now Blame Humans for Global Warming
On the day the EPA declares CO2 a “dangerous pollutant” we have the from Rasmussen Reports Just one-out-of-three voters (34%) now believe global warming is caused by human activity, the…
The Antarctic Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapse: Media recycles photos and storylines from previous years
Those masters of disaster are at it again, and it appears our friendly scientists at that National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) help this story along each year. Thanks…
CO2, EPA, Politics, and all that
In a stunning act of political kowtowing, the EPA caved to special interest groups and politics and declared CO2 a “dangerous pollutant”, even though it is part of the natural…
Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking
Greg Roberts | April 18, 2009 Article from: The Australian ICE is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental…
New Milepost for Arctic Sea Ice Extent
Arctic Springtime Ice On The Mend Guest post by Steven Goddard http://www.catlinarcticsurvey.com/ Two of the Arctic ice sites show April 16 ice at recent record levels. The Japanese site IJIS…
Principia Mannomatica
For readers unfamiliar with this work, this illustrates one of the mathematics techniques (tree ring proxy data inversion) Dr. Michael Mann uses to divine the famous “Hockey Stick” cited by…
Consensus climate science: What would Thomas Huxley say?
Guest Post By Paul MacRae “The evidence … however properly reached, may always be more or less wrong, the best information being never complete, and the best reasoning being liable…
Busted: Catlin Arctic Ice Survey "Didn't Expect" To Find First Year Ice
The farcical account of the Catlin Crew continues. You don’t even have to dig deep anymore to find as many holes in their stories as they say they are drilling.…
Climate Models -vs- Climate Reality: diverging or just a dip?
Here’s something really interesting: two comparisons between model ensembles and 3 well known global climate metrics plotted together. The interesting part is what happens in the near present. While the…
Why Third Year Arctic Ice Will Increase Next Year
Guest post by Steven Goddard In spite of the excess global sea ice area and the freezing Catlin crew, AGW proponents have recently ramped up the rhetoric about “melting ice…
Update: Sun and Ice
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM The sun remains in a deep slumber. Today we are 15 days into April without a sunspot and with 603 sunspotless day this cycle minimum, 92…
Sir John Maddox (1925-2009)
Story here John Maddox, a former editor of the journal Nature, who attended yesterday’s meeting, said the sceptics might have a point. He did not dispute that carbon dioxide emissions…
The oceans as a calorimeter and solar amplification
For those who don’t know, a calorimeter is a device to measure heat capacity. There is an entire science called calorimetry devoted to this measurement. Scottish physician and scientist Joseph…
Rommulan Sudden Acceleration
I found this article well researched and clearly written, so I thought I’d repost it here for all to enjoy. Warren Meyers was one of the first volunteers for the…
Catlin Artic Ice Survey bio telemetry status: "demonstrational"
After being called out by WUWT on the fake biotelemtery readings presented as “live” but were actually from March 8th looping repeatedly, Team Catlin had changed the website to say:…
Gore's "WE" campaign cap n' trade call to action
I was recently forwarded this email from Al Gore’s WE Repower America website. They have a call to action based on their belief that a majority of Americans support carbon…
GISS Global temperature anomaly – coldest March since 2000
While I have reservations about the GISS dataset due to the many adjustments it endures, the GISS global temperature anomaly data for March 2009 has been published. The March 2009…
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