excerpts: From Joe’s European Weather Blog: The current unseasonable cold across northwest Europe is not the only place where the arctic hound is calling as yet another blast of reality…
Month: June 2009
Short Circuiting The Scientific Process – A Serious Problem In The Climate Science Community
Guest post from Roger Pielke Sr., originally posted on Climate Science There has been a development over the last 10-15 years or so in the scientific peer reviewed literature that is…
Met Office Summer Forecast Drowning Again?
By Steven Goddard For the third straight summer, the UK Met Office has forecast hot weather using their state of the art computer models. Summer 2007 and 2008 were complete…
Nansen Corrects Sea Ice Data – Sea Ice Extent Now Greater, Near Normal for Most of April/May
By Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts From Steve: In May, WUWT reported on an apparent error in the Nansen ice extent data. It appears that we were correct, as Nansen…
Steig's Antarctic Peninsula Pac-mann
WUWT readers may recall a couple of weeks ago that I suggested that the weather stations with different climatic influences of the Antarctic peninsula, which might very well merit its…
A new study on predicting maximum hurricane intensity using lightning
David L. Hagen writes in with an interesting new paper, Maximum hurricane intensity preceded by increase in lightning frequency (PDF). I find it fascinating. It was published in Nature Geoscience…
Dickinson ND sees first June snowfall in 60 years
Updated with a photo, Daryl Ritchison writes: If you want pictures of the Dickinson snow, here are a couple of pictures sent from a viewer of mine. They reported 1.5″…
Pielke Senior: Comment on Joe Romm's weblog on El Nino and global warming
Reposted from Dr. Roger Pielke Sr’s Climate Science Climate Progress has a weblog by Joesph Romm titled “Breaking: NOAA puts out “El Niño Watch,” so record temperatures are coming and this…
Another Look At Polar Amplification
Posted by invitation, from Bob Tisdale’s website – original here. Photo/caption below added by Anthony. Guest post by Bob Tisdale On two occasions I’ve attempted to leave a comment at…
An update on the NSIDC satellite sensor issue
I missed this June 2nd NSIDC announcement while traveling this week, but here it is now, just a few days late. For those of you that have been inquiring about…
A significant editorial on weather stations and data quality
I was surprised to learn today, that one of the most prominent newspapers in the USA, the Orange County Register in the Los Angeles area, carried an editorial of which…
RSS Global Temperature Anomaly also down in May, halving the April value
Click for a larger image The RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA) Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data for March 2009 was published yesterday…
UAH global temperature anomaly for May – down again, near zero
Graph by Anthony (click for larger image) text by Dr. Roy Spencer from his blog here May 2009 Global Temperature Update +0.04 deg. C June 4th, 2009 by Roy W.…
George Will: The Green Bubble Has Burst
From the Mt. Pleasant, MI Morning Sun. Graphic by Anthony WASHINGTON – There once was an Indianapolis concert featuring 50 pianos. Splendid instruments, pianos. Still, 50 might have been excessive.…
NASA Goddard study suggests solar variation plays a role in our current climate
NASA Study Acknowledges Solar Cycle, Not Man, Responsible for Past Warming Report indicates solar cycle has been impacting Earth since the Industrial Revolution From the Daily Tech, Michael Andrews. (h/t…
Gavin Schmidt's new climate picture book: Anti-Science?
Reprinted here by request from Harold Ambler – Anthony What follows is an open letter to the Salon writer Peter Dizikes, who recently published an article about a new book…
Sunspot Minimum May Be at Hand
By Joseph D’Aleo ICECAP The sun has become more active in recent days with cycle 24 spots in middle latitudes. See sunspot group number 11019 for group of red spots.…
A response to the IPCC
I spoke at this conference in Washington DC yesterday, and presented preliminary findings of my surfacestations.org report which you can see here. I was also privileged to hear MIT’s Dr.…
Air France Flight 447: A detailed meteorological analysis
NOTE: This writeup is from an acquaintance of mine who wrote some powerful meteorological software, Digital Atmosphere, that I use in my office. He used that software (and others) to…
The Interplanetary Magnetic Field: lowest point since 1913?
David Archibald writes to tell me that the IMF has hit “rock bottom” and may go lower still. Watching the IMF is a good indicator of the activity of the…
Lindzen's Climate Sensitivity Talk: ICCC June 2, 2009
Quick post, I’m in between sessions here in Washington DC. Dr. Richard Lindzen just gave a keynote talk on climate sensitivity and the state of climate science. Here is the…
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