By Steven Goddard There is that green jacket again In Wednesday’s Guardian, their lead environmental story made this bold claim about The Whitelee Wind Farm: Europe’s largest onshore wind farm,…
Month: May 2009
A look at human CO2 emissions -vs- ocean absorption
Steve Fitzpatrick writes in with a short essay: Graphic by NASA Ocean CO2 absorption On May 11 you reposted a blog from Dr. Roy Spencer, where he suggests that much of…
Steig et al 'Antarctica Warming Paper' process is finally replicated, and dealt a blow to "robustness".
Jeff Id emailed me today, to ask if I wanted to post this with the caveat “it’s very technical, but I think you’ll like it”. Indeed I do, because it…
Roll 'em Roll 'em Roll 'em…keep that snow a rollin!
Some of our younger readers may not get the title, and may never have seen a TV show in black and white. The answer is at the end of the…
The Audacity of Cap and Trade
Guest post by Steven Goddard http://media.economist.com/images/20090418/D1609FN1.jpg Yesterday, president Obama announced emission standards which he said would raise the cost of automobiles by $1300. While the new fuel and emission standards…
Comparing the Four Global Temperature Data Sets
Reposted from Jennifer Marohasy’s website. THERE are four official global temperature data sets and there has been much debate and discussion as to which best represents change in global temperature.…
New Honda Hybrid: "to get an idea of how awful it is, you’d have to sit a dog on a ham slicer"
Don’t get me wrong, I like new technology, and improved fuel economy too, but I just had to show this auto review excerpt from the Sunday Times because, well, it’s…
Recent Differences Between GISS and NCDC SST Anomaly Data And A Look At The Multiple NCDC SST Datasets
OR…. There are Increases in Trend with Each Update While The Causes of Downward Biases Are Deleted Guest Essay by Bob Tisdale: In the recent WUWT post Something hinky this…
Why the SWPC F10.7 radio flux graph is wrong
Leif Svalgaard writes: “Several people asked why I said that the SWPC F10.7 graph was ‘just wrong’. And I promised a follow up on that. Here it is.” Happy to…
Glasgow Looking To Freeze In The Dark
Guest post by Steven Goddard What Is Wrong With This Picture? The Telegraph has an article today about the latest addition to the UK wind energy grid, described as “Europe’s…
Something hinky this way comes: NCDC data starts diverging from GISS
I got an email today from Barry Hearn asking me if I knew what was going on with the NCDC data set. It seems that it has started to diverge…
Catlin Artic Ice Survey: An Annie Hall Moment
Guest post by Steven Goddard http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080424/annie-hall_l.jpg In Woody Allen’s classic 1977 movie “Annie Hall,” there is a wonderful scene in a theatre queue where he is having a heated argument…
Quote of the week #8 – Monbiot: "looks like I've boobed"
Image from WUWT reader “Boudu” The Guardian’s George Monbiot suffers (at his own expense) from excessive zeal in trying to disprove a statement by Telegraph Columnist, Christopher Booker, in his…
The Guardian Relocates The North Pole By 500km
By Steven Goddard The Catlin crew was picked up this week, after completing less than 50% of their planned journey to the North Pole and coming up about 500km short.…
The rubbish is coming! One if by land, two if by sea
This post on sea level reality came up in comments, posted by the author of the Climate Sanity website, Tom Moriarty. Tom did an excellent job of visually illustrating the…
Scientific Jargon – "Would" "Will" "Could" "Might" "Maybe"
Guest post by Steven Goddard http://gothamist.com/attachments/jake/2006_1_bigwave1.jpg The BBC has perfected the use of weasel words to create alarm. They have a lead story today : The collapse of a major…
Audio from the NOAA/SWPC press teleconference
Well, it took me a week to get it, and finally here it is. Last Friday, May 9th as you may recall NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center had a teleconference…
Uh, oh. 50 year old ocean thermohaline model sinking fast, climate models may be disrupted
Another “observations are not models” story is emerging. For more on the status quo of thermohaline circulation, see this Wiki article – Anthony Deep Ocean Conveyor Belt Reconsidered From Peter…
Natural petroleum seeps release equivalent of eight to 80 Exxon Valdez oil spills
Public release date: 13-May-2009 (from EurekAlert) Contact: Stephanie Murphy media@whoi.edu 508-289-3340 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Natural petroleum seeps release equivalent of eight to 80 Exxon Valdez oil spills Study off…
The Solar Radio Microwave Flux
UPDATE: The SWPC press conference audio is now available, hear it here Shortly after SWPC dropped on their website their still invisible “press conference” ( I have yet to get…
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