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,…
Month: August 2009
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…
Open hardware handheld computing platform for custom applications
I haven’t blogged on technology in quite awhile, so this is past due. My friend and regular WUWT and Climate Audit commenter Steve Mosher has started out on an open-source/open…
New Study Casts Doubt on Cause of Himalayan Glaciers Melting
Weather variations, not global warming cause glacier melt From the The Hindu, 9 August 2009 excerpts: New Delhi (PTI): Himalayan glaciers, including the world’s highest battlefield Siachen, are melting due…
NOAA Lowers Hurricane Season Outlook
While NOAA is lowering forecasts, the Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) from FSU COAPS is also quite low. Ryan Maue’s Tropical web page at Florida State University has this graph that…
Sunspotless 30 day stretch possible in the next day
At the risk of triggering a new sunspot by talking about it, I’ll cautiously mention that by GMT time midnight tomorrow, August 10th, we will possibly have a 30 day…
How Sensitive is the Earth’s Climate?
Guest Post By Steve Fitzpatrick Introduction Projections of climate warming from global circulation models (GCM’s) are based on high sensitivity for the Earth’s climate to radiative forcing from well mixed…
Multiple Wrongs Don’t Make A Right on ENSO Impacts
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Multiple Wrongs Don’t Make A Right, Especially When It Comes To Determining The Impacts Of ENSO The 2009 Foster et al paper (In Press) “Comment…
Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages – solar and earth wobble – CO2 not main driver
From an Oregon State University Media Release (h/t to Leif Svalgaard) Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages – may also help predict future The above image shows…
The climate science credit crunch
Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit has a very interesting discussion on the giving of credit. Update: Roger Pielke Jr. blogs on this in rather frank terms: The short story is…
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