“Sometimes, we hear that global warming causes cooling. In this case, global warming causes global averageness. In all three cases, it is bad news.” – Luboš Motl in UAH global…
Month: July 2009
Key West, FL sets new subzero "record low" temperature – Update: now snowing!
That windchill is vicious, be sure to dress warmly going outside at Key West. Cold kills. Actually the new record low was colder than that shown above. It hit -27F…
How not to measure temperature, part 90
People send me stuff. My Inbox bursts daily with ideas, suggestions, papers, and photos. Here is a climate monitoring station in Tremonton Utah. Notice anything peculiar about the placement of…
Cooler weather bringing the "luck of the Irish" to the USA
While we don’t have to worry about starvation like the Irish due to lack of crop diversity, it is interesting that we are seeing the same mold that caused the…
RSS Global Temperature for June 09, also down
Both Lucia and Steve McIntyre beat me on this story, so I’ll defer to them. That’s what I get for going to dinner with relatives last night and sleeping in.…
Study: Media and environmental doomsday – like peas and carrots
In TV there’s been this saying forever: “if it bleeds it leads” referring to what story would be the lead story in the TV newscast. It stands to reason then…
Chicago – coolest July 8th in 118 years
Another entry from the weather is not climate department, this time courtesy of Tom Skilling, WGN-TV meteorologist. Chicago has its coolest July 8 in 118 years By Tom Skilling July…
Hansen unhinged on G-8 failure – "Waxman-Markey bill, a monstrous absurdity"
From the Huffington Post, Dr. Hansen is more than a little upset over the failure of G-8 to produce any meaningful CO2 cuts. Once again he tries to take the…
NOAA announces the arrival of El Niño
Contact: Christopher Vaccaro FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 202-536-8911 (cellular) July 9, 2009 El Niño Arrives; Expected to Persist through Winter 2009-10 NOAA scientists today announced the arrival of El…
NSF "blurring the lines between journalism and PR"
The Observatory — July 01, 2009 10:23 AM NSF “Underwriting” Coverage… And other controversies from the World Conference of Science Journalists By Curtis Brainard LONDON — The sixth World Conference…
"…frost has never been reported before in July"
Frost in July hits P.E.I. from CBC News Temperatures dropped to a record low in Prince Edward Island overnight Tuesday, with reports of frost throughout the province. An official record…
G-8 Summit drops CO2 targets, keeps 2 degree temperature goal
Legislating temperature limits to 2°C will surely be more effective than legislating alcohol. Right? Developing Nations Rebuff G-8 on Curbing Pollutants By PETER BAKER New York Times L’AQUILA, Italy —…
Greenpeace defaces Mount Rushmore
More civil disobedience and vandalism along the thinking of Dr. James Hansen of NASA GISS, who advocates such things. From Ecorazzi and Treehugger Greenpeace took a unique approach today and…
The Medieval Warm Period linked to the success of Machu Picchu, Inca Empire
According to Wikipedia, the Medieval Warm Period was a time of warm weather around AD 800-1300 during the European Medieval period. Initial research on the MWP and the following Little…
EPA's Jackson and Energy Sec. Chu on the Senate hot seat
In case you missed the debate on the Senate floor today over the Waxman-Markey bill, here is a video segment of interest. Jackson agrees that the USA effect on global…
Climate projections: Past performance no guarantee of future skill?
Forecasting accuracy of Global Climate Models is something that has been at the very heart of the global warming debate for some time. Leif Svalgaard turned me on to this…
Gore and Nazis
Gore / Nazis – two words I thought I’d never see together, and never wanted to. Yet here it is in a story in the Times Online. Surprisingly, Hollywood has…
UAH global temperature anomaly – hitting the slopes
Mathematician Luboš Motl takes on the new UAH data (source here) and some current thinking about slopes in global climate by adding his own perspective and analysis. Be sure to…
El Nino – same but different
There Is Nothing New About The El Nino Modoki Guest post by Bob Tisdale The press release… http://media-newswire.com/release_1094000.html …for the Hye-Mi Kim, et al (2009) paper “Impact of Shifting Patterns…
More on RC Misinformation from Pielke Sr.
Real Climate Permits The Continued Presentation Of Misinformation Part II Filed under: Climate Change Forcings & Feedbacks, Climate Science Misconceptions — Roger Pielke Sr. @ 8:42 am There are comments…
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