Title of new report from the Institute of Food and Resource Economics of the University of Copenhagen: Earth on Fire Hmmm. “E a r t h o n f i…
Month: August 2009
Reader poll results: Chamber of Commerce -vs- EPA on CO2
Related to our story on the US Chamber of Commerce challenging the EPA on CO2, we asked this question: Do you support the idea of putting “global warming” on trial…
Spencer: analysing alternate satellite data suggests July 2009 was not a record for sea temperature
TRMM Satellite Suggests July 2009 Not a Record for Sea Surface Temperatures August 26th, 2009 By Dr. Roy Spencer UPDATE ADDED: 8/26/09 13:30 CDT see below NOAA/NCDC recently announced that…
Satellite Imagery Shows Typhoon Vamco Has a Huge 45-mile Wide Eye
From NASA’s hurricane/tropical cyclone page Typhoon Vamco is being as stubborn in its quest to live in the Pacific Ocean as Bill is in the Atlantic Ocean this past week,…
Antarctica to get surface based space weather monitoring network
Of course the big question is, will they be able to keep the stations from becoming buried in snow like weather stations in the flawed Steig et al paper that…
What is angry, hot, and green?
First, apologies in advance. No, not Lou Ferrigno. Not Shrek either. Green Hornet? Monbiot? Romm? nuh uh. In marketing, they say “sex sells”. Global warming now “climate change” is all…
National Wildlife Federation predicts more Cleveland heat waves
People send me stuff. I’m thinking they must be worried about the urban animals. Why else would a wildlife federation be jumping into city public policy? Hmmm. I’m not against…
US Chamber of commerce wants trial on global warming issue. Reader poll inside
Excerpts from The LA Times story: U.S. Chamber of Commerce seeks trial on global warming By Jim Tankersley August 25, 2009 Reporting from Washington The nation’s largest business lobby wants…
Arctic temperature headed below freezing
There’s a couple of indicators that at least for Arctic temperature, the numbers are headed south. First the weather plot from the drifting buoy that is connected with NOAA’s North…
Atmospheric Temperature and Carbon Dioxide: Feedback or Equilibrium?
R. Taylor writes in to Tips and Notes to WUWT with this. Anthony: If you shift Vostok temperatures by reasonable time lags, and use reasonable parameters for an equilibrium between…
NASA powers up for the next UN IPCC
From NASA, new fossil fuel powered toys for the boys. Related: “Giant sucking sound” heard in Greenbelt, MD when the switch was thrown. Remember the day you got a brand-new…
Warming could cause tilt in Earth's axis
As if we didn’t already have enough to worry about…. Earth’s axial tilt (or obliquity) and its relation to the rotation axis and plane of orbit. Image from Wikipedia. Excerpts…
An update on Jeff Id's excellent sea ice video
Arctic Sea Ice Video Update by Jeff Id As we approach the Arctic Sea Ice minimum, a lot of eyes are looking and projecting what the minimum will be. In a…
Diane Feinstein: turbidity denier?
There was an interesting story in the Las Vegas Journal Review on August 20th. which had a passage and quote from California Senator Diane Feinstein (emphasis mine): Both U.S. Sen.…
Spencer: Something’s Fishy With Global Ocean Temperature Measurements
Dr. Roy Spencer sent me a notice of his most recent post in email. He offers an invitation for anyone to help “figure this one out”. The result could be…
UK: Schooling green costs a lot of green
From The Daily Telegraph, 17 August 2009 By Richard Savill A state school in Waterlooville, Hampshire, has been accused of potentially creating a “back-door selection” system by introducing a compulsory…
Record July 2009 Sea Surface Temperatures? The View from Space
From Roy Spencer’s blog (h/t to Ron de Haan) August 21st, 2009 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Since NOAA has announced that their data show July 2009 global-average sea…
Soot And The Arctic Ice – A Win-Win Policy Based On Chinese Coal Fired Power Plants
Via Roger Pielke Senior’s new and improved Climate Science Blog: Kiminori Itoh of Yokohama National University has prepared a guest weblog for us. It is titled: “Soot And The Arctic…
SOHO back up and running – didn't miss anything, sun still blank
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite is back in operation after some required downtime to keep it operating. Alas, it didn’t miss anything, the sun remains spotless. From Spaceweather.com…
Borenstein's AP Sea Surface Temperature Article Is Misleading
Guest Post By Bob Tisdale The Seth Borenstein AP article about the recent high sea surface temperature… http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jLv3LpI0fw21ULmgkJtinBFrwm7AD9A6OUF06 …is misleading. There is a significant difference between what Seth Borenstein reported…
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