It appears that the carbon offset market is dying in the USA. You may recall the WUWT story from 9/9/09 on the Chicago Climate Exchange trading price dropping to 25…
Month: September 2009
Treasury Department Releases Documents Showing Cap-and-Trade Costs Could Hit $300 Billion Annually
This passage from page 7 “justifying” the tax is telling: “Domestic policies to address climate change and the related issues of energy security and affordability will involve significant costs and…
Chinese Climate Wisdom
The Chinese civilization has existed survived intact far longer than any other in human history, and they have records of that civilization that span 2-3 thousand years BC. They’ve seen…
Carbon offset kiosk at SFO sells carbon credits at 60 times the market rate
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the SFO airport has now installed carbon offset purchase kiosks so that you can remove the guilt from your flight. Only one problem. The…
NCAR: "number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun's impact on Earth"
Solar Cycle Driven by More than Sunspots; Sun Also Bombards Earth with High-Speed Streams of Wind From an NCAR press release September 17, 2009 BOULDER—Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds…
NSIDC still pushing "ice-free Arctic summers"
This is the press release sent out by NSIDC today (sans image below). Instead of celebrating a two year recovery, they push the “ice free” theme started last year by…
NOAA's August global SST record is the result of one data set
Yesterday NOAA announced with much fanfare that: The world’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest for any August on record, and the warmest on record averaged for any June-August (Northern…
Man to walk 350 miles to highlight climate change – no mention of how he's getting there and back
This is a 350.org effort to highlight the perceived need to get below 350 ppm of atmospheric CO2. At left is the list of luminaries that make up the 350.org…
NOAA: Warmest Global Sea-Surface Temperatures for August and Summer
From the NOAA press release, just in time for Copenhagen. Of course the satellite record for August tells another story that is not quite so alarming as NCDC’s take on…
Mapping the Greenland ice cap thickness
From the University of Copenhagen press release. IMAGE: This is a map of the ice core drilling locations discussed in the article. Click for larger image. Will all of the…
U.S. Treasury: The Costs of Cap and Trade, $1761 per year per household.
Big differences seen compared to EIA estimate. Documents (link to PDF) obtained from the U.S. Treasury under the Freedom of Information Act by the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute were released…
Creating a timeline for Britain's ice sheet advance and retreat
From EurekAlert.com a look at the starting and ending factors of the last ice age in Britain from Dr. David Evans. Egg-shaped legacy of Britain’s mobile ice-sheet The ice sheets…
2nd day – Arctic sea ice is again on the rise
Yesterday I looked at JAXA data and ventured that: “Arctic sea ice melt appears to have turned the corner for 2009” The Sept 15th JAXA Arctic Sea Ice extent graph was…
El Niño Events Are Not Getting Stronger
I knew the moment I pressed the publish button yesterday, that Bob Tisdale would have something useful to add to this discussion on El Niño and influenza. He didn’t disappoint…
A significant SC24 spot may be in the making
Leif Svalgaard (via Frank Hill) writes to advise me that National Solar Observatory GONG is showing a significant spot on the far side of the sun that appear to have…
Arctic sea ice melt appears to have turned the corner for 2009
It appears Arctic sea ice has bottomed out and is now on the growth rebound. The NANSEN Arctic ROOS website shows that in terms of area, sea ice appears to…
Possible Linkage between the 1918 El Niño and the 1918 flu pandemic ?
Of course with H1N1 influenza concerns now reaching another peak in the media, this is bound to add fuel to the fire now that NOAA has announced we’ll likely see…
Research claim: dropping CO2 caused formation of Antarctic ice cap
Meanwhile today while CO2 is increasing, the Antarctic ice cap is also increasing. Bill Illis writes about it: Ice sheets formed in Antarctica about 35 million years ago when CO2…
Cryosphere Today: Arctic is now ice-free*, Antarctica unaffected
NSIDC’s Mark Serreze must be thrilled, as he’ll now be able to justify some of his press releases. Gore must be ecstatic that his 2013 “Entire north polar ice cap…
Some preliminary results from GOSAT – CO2 hot spots in interesting places
WUWT reader Anna V. alerts us to the preliminary report from the JAXA GOSAT Project. According to the project website: The Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) Project is a joint…
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