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…
Month: August 2009
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…
UAH global temperature anomaly up significantly this month
Hot off the press from Dr. Roy Spencer. After being essentially zero last month, we have a jump to .410°C in July. This was not unexpected, as a El Nino…
A note on the SOHO MDI outage
The sun is blank–no sunspots. Several WUWT readers have inquired about why the SOHO MDI and magnetogram image has not been updated in several days. The last update was on…
A link between the Sun, cosmic rays, aerosols, and liquid-water clouds appears to exist on a global scale…
Svensmark has a new paper and it is a doozy: Cosmic ray decreases affect atmospheric aerosols and clouds (full text PDF). The major conclusion: “A link between the Sun, cosmic…
McCain realization: “[The Waxman-Markey] 1,400-page bill is a farce.
McCain Echoes Hansen: Waxman-Markey is a ‘Farce’ (The Civil War widens among climate alarmists) by Robert Bradley MasterResource August 3, 2009 “[The Waxman-Markey] 1,400-page bill is a farce. They bought…
Scafetta: Benestad and Schmidt’s calculations are “robustly” flawed.
Nicola Scafetta Comments on “Solar Trends And Global Warming” by Benestad and Schmidt From Climate Science — Roger Pielke Sr. On July 22 2009 I posted on the new paper on…
A simple analogy on climate modeling – looking for the red spot
This simple visual analogy that Ron House has designed can help readers not familiar with a contentious atmospheric modeling issue get a primer on the it. While not a perfect…
Cherry Picking Climate Catastrophes: Response to Conor Clarke
Cherry Picking Climate Catastrophes: Response to Conor Clarke, Part II WUWT Guest Post by Indur Goklany Conor Clarke at The Atlantic blog, raised several issues with my study, “What to…
Update on Arctic sea ice melt – "Ice pockets choking Northern Passage"
First let’s get a look at the current NSIDC graph: and now the JAXA graph:
Hadley CRU to merge surface and satellite climate data in new program
I was poking around the Hadley site and found this interesting announcement. It seems Hadley CRU / Dr. Phil Jones is looking for a candidate to do this project, with…
Roundup of some interesting July weather records
See more maps here Coldest July ever for Grand Rapids, Michigan (Grand Rapids Weather Examiner, August 1, 2009) http://www.examiner.com/x-16403-Grand-Rapids-Weather-Examiner~y2009m8d1-A-new-record-by-01 Coldest July on Record for Huntington, West Virginia (WOWK-TV, August 1, …
Publicly available data being purged at UK's Hadley Climate Centre
While I’ve been getting lots of attention for “take down” of a single file that infringed on my copyright, another, much more broad and serious event is unfolding in the…
Some speculation that solar cycle 25 has already begun
Leif Svalgaard writes: Some speculation that solar cycle 25 has already begun: http://xrt.cfa.harvard.edu/resources/pubs/savc0707.pdf Graph source: NASA News This would be stunning, because it suggests that the sun has skipped a…
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