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…