This speech at the 22nd Annual UVU Symposium on Environmental Ethics, held April 1st and 2nd at Utah Valley University is one of the most sensible and pragmatic ones I…
Month: May 2009
Your chance to tell NOAA/NWS what you think about "climate services".
A letter from the NWS: Greetings, You are invited to take part in the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Climate Services Customer Satisfaction Survey open until Wednesday, June 10^th 2009.…
Arctic (Non) Warming Since 1958
Guest Post by Steven Goddard From time to time we hear that various places on earth have been “warming much faster than the rest of the planet – as predicted…
Leaked OMB CO2 memo: "no demonstrated direct health effects"
All is not well in CO2 regulation land. You may have heard about a leaked memo from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that questions the EPA findings on…
La Niña fading, El Niño may soon return
Source: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data/anomnight.5.11.2009.gif Bill Illis writes in comments: The newest Ocean SST map shows the La Nina conditions have gone away and we are in slightly positive ENSO conditions. Also interesting…
'90% of the last million years, the normal state of the Earth's climate has been an ice age'
From the American Thinker The Coming Ice Age By David Deming Those who ignore the geologic perspective do so at great risk. In fall of 1985, geologists warned that a…
Snow in Saudi Arabia in May?
From the Saudi Gazette In one of the rare occasions, Saudis enjoy the snowfall in Al-Baha city south-west of Riyadh, Tuesday. Torrential rains pouring down on Al-Baha accompanied by gusty…
NCDC's USHCN2 paper: some progress, some duck and cover
The fact that my work is mentioned by NCDC at all is a small miracle, even if it is “muted”, as Roger says. However, I’m pleased to get a mention…
Caption this photo
WUWT reader David Summers sends this photo along taken a few days ago in 2007 in Australia from a colleague that “returned there for the summer”. I thought it might…
Spencer on an alternate view of CO2 increases
This interesting essay by Dr. Spencer is reposted from his blog, link here: Global Warming Causing Carbon Dioxide Increases: A Simple Model May 11th, 2009 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph.…
PDO — ENSO, Aleutian Low, or some of each?
PDO — ENSO, Aleutian Low, or some of each? Guest Post by Basil Copeland Introduction In a recent post here at WUWT, as well as on his own blog, Bob…
Another "weather is not climate" story
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOAA: April Temperatures Slightly Cooler Than Average for U.S. May 8, 2009 The April 2009 temperature for the contiguous United States was below the long-term average, based…
Catlin Arctic Ice Survey Packing It Up – What Have They Accomplished?
Guest Post by Steven Goddard http://www.surfersvillage.com/gal/pictures/ArcticSunbathe-Francois_Len.jpg According to the Catlin website, the team plans to leave the Arctic later this week. I believe that they have done a fantastic job…
Quote of the week #7
Image from WUWT reader “Boudu” WUWT commenter “philincalifornia” writes about Lockwood’s comment in National Geographic about the state of our sun and predictions of a quiet period and possibly a…
A report on the Surfacestations Project with 70% of the USHCN surveyed.
I know many of you have wondered when I would post an update about the www.surfacestations.org project. That wait is over. You can now download the PDF of the publication…
Solar Scientist Ken Tapping: "No sign of the new cycle yet"
Ken Tapping: One year on into the minimum From John A’s solarscience.auditblogs.com I’ve just been in e-mail correspondance with Dr Kenneth Tapping, asking him to comment on the progress of…
Post an Opinion, Go To Jail
There are times when I really don’t enjoy living in California, this is one of them. The idea for a law, by Rep. Linda Sanchez, Democrat, of California is sheer…
The "precarious state of the U.S. polar bear population"
Today’s MSM is woefully inept at catching mistakes. Worse, reporters are often woefully inadequate at getting facts straight in the first place. And, with instant electronic distribution, it is much…
Global Warming clause won't be used to protect polar bears, ecos plan to sue
On one hand, we have a sensible decision, on the other, no good deed goes unpunished. – Anthony From the Los Angeles Times U.S. global warming rules won’t change to…
Our Current Minimum is More Maunder than Dalton
Guest Post by David Archibald This is a plot of three year windows on the Maunder and Dalton Minimum and the current minimum: What it is showing is how the…
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