NSIDC Raises The Bar

Guest post by Steven Goddard In past years, NSIDC has referred to “declining multi-year ice” as the problem which the Arctic faces.  Mark Serreze at NSIDC forecast a possible “Ice Free…

Catlin Crew Officially Has Hypothermia (and Frostbite)

From the Catlin web site today – Hypothermia Posted by Gaby Dean Monday, 06 Apr 2009 15:58 In disadvantaged inner cities it’s known in medical circles as Urban Hypothermia.  GPs…

Sea Level Graphs from UC and some perspectives

I got a couple of emails today saying that I should take a look at the most recently posted sea level graph from the University of Colorado shown below: The…

Mt. Redoubt Eruptions – What Effect If Any on the Summer? Winter?

By Joe D’Aleo CCM ICECAP Monday, April 6, 2009 Starting on March 22, a series of major eruptions have taken place from Mt. Redoubt in Alaska. The biggest exceeded 65,000…

All-time Snow Records Tumbling Again for the Second Straight Year

By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, ICECAP Map of US weather records for week ending 4/6/09 click image to enlarge or here for source. Map created by HAMWeather, UPDATE: NOAA predicts the…

Quote of the Week #2

From “Pragmatic”, on the Lindzen on negative feedback thread: “What most alarmists don’t seem to fathom is that real people want balance in their decision/learning process. Balance arrives on the…

Bzzt! Welcome to the dark ages

Guest post by Steven Goddard The Effects of One Nuclear Bomb at High Altitude From Wikipedia Yesterday’s missile launch from nuclear power North Korea raised particular concern in the military,…

The 1998 Super El Niño: possibly a "rogue wave"?

In comments on WUWT, people often think freely and throw out all sorts of ideas. Like in any collection of people, some are bad, some are average, a few are…

Global Warming and "The Early Spring"

Guest post by Steven Goddard Following up on the cold spring story from Friday, one of the favorite mantras of the global warming community has been that global warming brings…

Redoubt volcano erupts again

From the Alaska Volcano Observatory: The significant explosive event at 06:00 AKDT has ended. Continuing seismic activity and web camera images indicate that low level emissions of steam, gas, and…

Bad news for Catlin Expedition: Satellite Data Shows Arctic Cooling in February and March

Guest Post by Steven Goddard As reported by Anthony, RSS satellite temperature data is out for March.  And as the Catlin adventurers have discovered, it has been “stupidly cold” in…

RSS and UAH Global Temperature Anomalies for March 2009

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 March 2009 was published today…

Spring voting chooses Blue States/Red States

Guest post by Steven Goddard Weather is not climate, but 49 out of 50 states agree – spring is getting off to a cold start. How will these blue states…

Recent NOAA Study: Climate change not all man-made

Cites Natural Causes Tom Spears, Canwest News Service It’s wrong to blame our warming climate on human pollution alone, says a major analysis by U. S. climate scientists who say…

Arctic Ice Summer Death Watch: 5, 30, or 100 years?

Gore says 5 years, now NOAA says 30 instead of 100 years.  Place your bets. Ice-Free Arctic Summers Likely Sooner Than Expected NOAA News April 2, 2009 Mean sea ice…

Global Warming At The Pole Since 1913

Guest post by Steven Goddard From the Catlin web site today – a first hand description of what motivates the explorers, and what they are learning about Arctic warming. Thursday,…

Readers: Your help needed to recover old satellite imagery

As WUWT readers know, I covered a fascinating project on 3/31 here showing how a team of dedicated technical archaeologists are trying the get old AMPEX 2″ reel to reel…

What's that smell? Bovine Fish Oil Methane Cure

Sometimes, you really don’t need to make up an April Fools joke. Truth can indeed be stranger than fiction, except for the part about “four gallons” which is part of…

NASA Headline: Deep Solar Minimum

NASA Science News, Dr. Tony Philips The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower. 2008…