Updated 9AM PST Friday 8/21 Bill continues to weaken and is looking less organized. It now has 115 mph sustained winds. Bill is visible in the center of the image…
Month: August 2009
NSIDC on arctic ice: It is now unlikely that 2009 will see a record low extent
From NSIDC sea ice news During the first half of August, Arctic ice extent declined more slowly than during the same period in 2007 and 2008. The slower decline is…
Scafetta: New paper on TSI, surface temperature, and modeling
Nicola Scaffetta sent several people a copy of his latest paper today, which address the various solar TSI reconstructions such as from Lean and Rind 2008 and shows contrasts from…
Global Wining: French wine "in danger", climate change "must be tackled"
Hmmm, maybe there’s something to that “Wines grown in England during the Medieval Warm Period” after all. I think maybe the French are upset that Scottish wine might be served…
Study: Ocean net heat flow is connected with climate shifts – CO2 not correlated – no "warming in the pipeline"
Related to this story: The Pacific Decadal Oscillation Time Series from the University of Washington, seen below. Emphasis points mine. h/t to WUWT reader Richard Heg. – Anthony Monthly Values…
A new video from CEI: Policy Peril
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis explains why we have more to fear from global warming policies than from global warming itself. I thought this video might be a…
Stopping Climate Change
Guest post by Richard S. Courtney There is need for a new policy on climate change to replace the rush to reduce emissions. The attempts at emissions reduction have failed…
Burt Rutan: engineer, aviation/space pioneer, and now, active climate skeptic
Recently after some conversations with a former chemical engineer who provided me with some insight, I’ve come to the conclusion that many engineers have difficulty with many of the premises…
Quote of the week #16
It has been a couple of weeks since I posted a QOTW. This is mainly due to me being somewhat disengaged from the normal blogging pace due to some travel…
Getting "Steamed" about Global Warming – not coming to a theater near you
Whooda thunk it? A movie with a plot line that is reminiscent of Dr. James Hansen’s testimony before congress in June 1988. If any of you have ever been in…
Livingston and Penn in EOS: Are Sunspots Different During This Solar Minimum?
Leif Svalgaard writes to inform me that Livingston and Penn have published their article recently in EOS, TRANSACTIONS, AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION. As WUWT readers may recall, we had a preview…
Wyoming set for Late Summer Mountain Snowstorm
Roger Pielke Sr. passes this on to me with the note: Hi Anthony, This is quite unusual! Source: NWS, Riverton, WY URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON…
Another UK climate data withholding scandal is emerging
As many WUWT readers know, Steve McIntyre’s tireless quest to get the raw data that makes up the gridded Hadley Climate Research Unit HadCRUT dataset has been fraught with delays,…
Pielke Sr. on warm bias in the surface temperature trend – "provides evidence of the significant error in the global surface temperature trend analyses of NCDC"
New Paper Documents A Warm Bias In The Calculation Of A Multi-Decadal Global Average Surface Temperature Trend – Klotzbach Et Al (2009) Guest post by — Roger Pielke Sr. When…
Mann hockey-sticks hurricanes: Hurricanes in the Atlantic are more frequent than at any time in the last 1,000 years
Just when you think it couldn’t get any more bizarre in Mann-world, out comes a new paper in Nature hawking hurricane frequency by proxy analysis. I guess Dr. Mann missed…
Evidence that Global Temperature Trends Have Been Overstated
Evidence that Global Temperature Trends Have Been Overstated Dr. Pielke has a new paper, and asked if I’d help “get the word out” I’m happy to oblige – Anthony Guest…
Australia Rejects Climate Cap-and-Trade Bill
Australia Rejects Climate Cap-and-Trade Bill — Senators voted 42 to 30 against it: “It is a dog of a plan” Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) — Australia’s Senate rejected the government’s climate-change…
Is Global Temperature a Random Walk?
Guest Post by Basil Copeland Figure 1 Each month, readers here at Watt’s Up With That, over at lucia’s The Blackboard, and elsewhere, anxiously await the latest global temperature estimates,…
Ocean heat content and Earth’s radiation imbalance
This paper is to be published on-line on Friday in Physics Letters A Dr. Douglas graciously sent me an advance copy, of which I’m printing some excerpts. Douglas and Knox…
NOAA: More tropical storms counted due to better observational tools, wider reporting. Greenhouse warming not involved.
As I’ve been saying for some time when it comes to the imagined link between AGW and more tornadoes – there is none. I blame Super Mega Doppler StormTracker 7000…
"Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I’m flying"
From Planet Gore: Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Energy Leader [Henry Payne] from http://stabenow.senate.gov/ Detroit, Mich. — Michigan just experienced its coldest July on record; global temperatures haven’t risen in more than…
SOHO and Solar update
A couple of interesting tidbits from NASA’s Spaceweather.com First: Spotless Days Current Stretch: 31 days 2009 total: 173 days (78%) Since 2004: 684 days Typical Solar Min: 485 days Second:…
NHC gets work
BULLETIN TROPICAL DEPRESSION TWO ADVISORY NUMBER 2 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL022009 1100 AM AST TUE AUG 11 2009 …DEPRESSION MOVING WESTWARD…NO CHANGE IN INTENSITY… AT 1100 AM…
NOAA: July Temperature Below-Average for the U.S.
From NOAA/NCDC The July 2009 temperature for the contiguous United States was below the long-term average, based on records going back to 1895, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA’s…
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