A couple of days ago WUWT carried a story, talking about intense cold in Antarctica, carbon dioxide, and the icecap of Mars. This one passage stirred up a significant debate:…
Month: June 2009
Common Sense and The Perils of Predictions
Guest essay by Michael R. Smith, C.C.M. Forbes, “Absolute Return” column, April 21, 2008, page 246: Here’s another name you should own, Freddie Mac ($29 per share)…Freddie is cheap at…
Suggestions of "strong negative cloud feedbacks" in a warmer climate
I thought this post on clouds and climate modeling below from Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit was interesting, because it highlights the dreaded “negative feedbacks” that many climate modelers say don’t…
Jack Eddy – discoverer of the Maunder Minimum and LIA, 1931-2009
…it is with great sadness that I report that Jack Eddy passed away yesterday. – Dr. Leif Svalgaard in comments today “My reasons for taking this less-traveled road were many.…
Sea Ice Speed Bump: WUWT?
UPDATE: Dr. Walt Meier of NSIDC writes in with some information, seethe end of the article. I’m getting weary of answering this question in comments, so here it is front…
Mars Today widget now on WUWT
In the discussion thread about CO2 and Antarctic cold, some references to CO2 ice in the ice caps of Mars were part of that discussion. WUWT reader Lou Mackenzie sends…
Quote of the week #9 – "negative thermometers"
Image from WUWT reader “Boudu” Its has been awhile since I had a QOTW, but the last couple of weeks have been full of travel, and I’ve been out of…
An old friend put out to pasture: Marysville is no longer a USHCN climate station of record
WUWT readers who have followed this blog and the surfacestations.org project for a long time know that the USHCN climate station of record in Marysville, California, is the station that…
Another scientific consensus bites the dust
It has been said that “the science is settled” regarding what we know about Earth’s atmosphere and climate. But recently scientists discovered that something we had accepted as a basic…
CO2 condensation in Antarctica at -113F?
UPDATE2: The question has been resolved, please see this new WUWT story on the issue. – Anthony UPDATE: There is a debate raging in comments about the validity of the…
A look at: Solar Wind Flow Pressure – Another Indication of Solar Downtrend?
I initially wrote this article using data only from David Archibald, but within a couple of minutes I was given some broader data from Leif Svalgaard, so I have rewritten…
Revisiting Detroit Lakes
Some long time WUWT readers may remember this famous picture of the USHCN climate station of record in Detroit Lakes, MN. This is what I wrote on July 26th, 2007…
AccuWeather's Joe Bastardi: "the 'science is in' crowd does not want them to see facts" and parts of US to have "year without a summer"
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…
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…
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