I can’t ever recall seeing a more stunning image of a volcanic eruption. The ash plume from it has spread quite a bit. What effect will it have?
Month: June 2009
Updates from West Virginia on Jim Hansen's protest and debate
Our WUWT correspondent (and surfacestations.org volunteer surveyor) Michael Caplinger reports in. Marsh Fork Elementary and the coal operation nearby. More here at WV Public Broadcasting. Media coverage so far has…
Pushback on Waxman-Markey – now is the time for all good citizens to come to the aid of their country
House to Vote on Climate Bill By Friday http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090622-716255.html If you have not contacted your legislator yet, consider doing so after reading this. – Anthony Left Pushback on Waxman-Markey: Is…
WUWT Tips & Notes page installed
Finally, a way to communicate without cluttering threads. Just click on TIPS & NOTES TO WUWT on the menu under the masthead and leave a comment. See the instructions there.…
Archibald – The Ap Index says: "There will be no sunspots"
Guest post by David Archibald Frank Hill’s summoning up of sunspots from the vasty deep of the Sun’s convection zone reminds me of some Shakespeare (Henry the Fourth): Glendower: I…
LAST DAY: The June 23rd EPA CO2 endangerment public comment deadline is TODAY
I just sent my comments in, and have included excerpts from them below for structure and ideas. If you have not done it yet, get your comments in. I did…
Eco group calls for volunteers to "Get Arrested with James Hansen to stop MTR!"
That headline is NOT a typo, that’s what they say: If there was even any doubt about Hansen changing from scientist to advocate, that doubt is now shattered. Meanwhile, amazingly,…
Surfacestations update – help needed for the final stretch
I’m pleased to announce that after a quality control review of all stations surveyed so far we are now at the 80.4% mark. 982 stations out of 1221 of the…
Quote of the Week #11
Our QOTW comes from the newly minted Wikipedia page of the late, great Dr. Jack Eddy. Jack had a way with words, he liked them immensely and wielded them in…
Global cooling – hail to the chief!
“He’ll stop the globe from getting warm; fuel your car with nuts and corn” (h/t to Tom Nelson) The link for the YouTube video is below. It is very well…
Modeling sunspots during times when few are seen
(h/t to Michael Ronayne) Sunspots Revealed in Striking Detail by Supercomputers BOULDER—In a breakthrough that will help scientists unlock mysteries of the Sun and its impacts on Earth, an international…
Getting crabby – another missing NASA GISS station found, thanks to a TV show
A couple of days ago, I located the “long lost” Honolulu Observatory GISS weather station on the Island of Oahu with just a couple of hours of digging. That one…
Interesting times at the "North Pole"
There is a webcam at the “North Pole” (at least it starts out very near there) that reports via satellite data uplink at regular intervals. They also have a weather…
Historic parallels in our time: the killing of cattle -vs- carbon
From our perspective as a modern society, the actions of the Xhosa would seem foolhardy, even insane. First let me say, I’m not at all against alternate energy, or improved…
Hansen's at it again
No longer content to be a scientist, and apparently now a full time protesting advocate, Dr. James Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies joins forces with deep…
Historic Variation in Arctic Ice
Historic Variation in Arctic Ice Guest post from the Air Vent by Tony B The following is a guest post by Tony B on the history of Arctic ice. I…
The Met Office brings doom to a place near you
The Met Office brings doom to a place near you Guest post By Tony Newbery, Harmless Sky On Thursday, the Met Office launched its new report on global warming, UK…
This is your Honolulu Temperature. This is your Honolulu Temperature on ASOS. Any questions?
This graph got rather buried at the end of a long explanatory post showing the twists and turns I had to take to get the data. I think it needs…
More on NOAA's FUBAR Honolulu "record highs" ASOS debacle, PLUS finding a long lost GISS station
In my previous post I pointed out how when Warren Meyer asked a simple question; “is this chart representative?” of himself, he needed only one phone call to disprove that…
Note to NCDC climate report authors: try using the telephone next time
Yesterday I reposted one of Warren Meyers essays on the hilariously flawed GCCI report from NCDC suggesting that the electrical grid is at risk due to increased weather related events…
NOAA: FUBAR high temp/climate records from faulty sensor to remain in place at Honolulu
WUWT readers will probably remember yesterdays’ story about the malfunctioning temperature sensor at the ASOS station at Honolulu airport next to an asphalt access road. Well guess what? Even though…
Solar Cycle 24 lack of sunspots caused by "sluggish solar jet stream" – returning soon?
I got a tip by email from JohnA who runs solarscience.auditblogs.com about this NASA press release. John’s skeptical about it. He makes some good points in this post here. What…
Just where are those grid killing tornadoes anyway?
John Kerry and Tornadoes – not a good mix Warren Meyer over at climate-skeptic.com is a bit fired up over the NCDC sponsored, Los Angeles PR firm processed, Global Climate…
The climate science elephant footprint in the room
Even though written from a biased perspective, with comments such as “raving from a fringe minority”, this article speaks clearly to things like the absurdity of the Catlin Artic Ice…
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