Renowned agricultural scientist Dr. Norman Borlaug has died at the age of 95. Borlaug, known as the father of the “Green Revolution” for saving over a billion people from starvation…
Month: September 2009
Oh no, not this rubbish again: "Recent projections suggest polar bears could be extinct within 70 years"
Count the number of ifs, mays, and coulds in this story, then look the rebuttal and other supporting information. The Telegraph is repeating alarmism. From the Telegraph By Kate Devlin,…
Large eruption at Russian volcano Shiveluch
It appears that a major eruption is underway at the Shiveluch volcano in the Kamchatka peninsula. Here is the location from Google Earth: Here is a recent photo (August 27th) …
El Niño is expected to strengthen and last through the Northern Hemisphere winter 2009-2010
Here is the current SST map: From NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center: EL NIÑO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION issued by CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER/NCEP/NWS 10 September 2009 ENSO Alert System Status: El…
Tornado Threat Increases as Gulf Hurricanes Get Larger
There have been lots of claims about hurricanes since Katrina, many of them linking “global warming” to hurricane frequency, which is of course flat wrong. This study however is in…
Skeptic reporter John Stossel leaves ABC for Fox
I can understand how frustrating it must have been for Stossel at ABC, given that he’s on the other side of the global warming issue from the news department there,…
NOAA: Summer Temperature Below Average for U.S.
NOAA: Summer Temperature Below Average for U.S. Source here September 10, 2009 The average June-August 2009 summer temperature for the contiguous United States was below average – the 34th coolest…
Svensmark: "global warming stopped and a cooling is beginning" – "enjoy global warming while it lasts"
UPDATED: This opinion piece from Professor Henrik Svensmark was published September 9th in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Originally the translation was from Google translation with some post translation cleanup of…
More oxygen – colder climate
If this is true,with the biomass photosynthesis of CO2 and converting it to oxygen, it would seem to point to a self regulating effect of the biosphere on climate.The new…
Solar wind surprise: "This discovery is like finding it got hotter when the sun went down,"
This gives a whole new meaning to “Total Solar Irradiance”. Instead of TSI, perhaps we should call the energy transfer that comes from the sun to the earth TSE for…
AccuWeather's Joe Bastardi makes mincemeat of Greenpeace claim that California Wildfires are caused by Global Warming
For those of you who don’t know him, Joe Bastardi is one of the lead forecasters for AccuWeather. He’s also a global warming skeptic. Fox news invited Greenpeace to come…
Market Confidence Low: Carbon Credits now worth 25 cents, were at $7 in 2008
From Tom Nelson: Plunging prices at the Chicago Climate Exchange ABOVE: CCX CFI End of Day Summary: Offsets now selling for 25 cents each Back on September 2nd, 2006/2007 instruments…
Forecasting the Earth’s Temperature
Forecasting the Earth’s Temperature by David Whitehouse via Benny Peiser’s CCnet The recent spate of scientific papers that are attempting to predict what the earth’s temperature might be in the…
Arctic Temperatures – What Hockey Stick?
Circling the Arctic What sudden recent warming? What Hockey Stick? I don’t see any. By Lucy Skywalker Green World Trust Click for a full sized image to click on graphs…
Oh, the tree huggers won't like this…exploiting trees for electricity
Electrical circuit runs entirely off power in trees From the University of Washington by Hannah Hickey hickeyh@u.washington.edu University of Washington Electrical engineers Babak Parviz and Brian Otis and undergraduate student…
"This is barking mad. We're an island – how else are we going to leave it from time to time? By rowing boat?"
The title was from a comment in the London Times on this story about Carbon Taxes on air travel to/from Britain. h/t to Leif Svalgaard. Passengers face new tax to…
2nd Atlantic hurricane of the season: Fred, plus free update service
Fred has become a Cat1 hurricane about 445 miles WSW of the Cape Verde Islands. The Cape Verde Islands are a breeding ground for tropical storms. This is where hot…
NASA video tour of the Cryosphere 2009
WUWT commenter Ray tips us to a new video from NASA “The Tour of the Cryosphere 2009”. With all the interest in sea ice right now, it seems like a…
Global Oceanic Climate Update for August 2009
Global Oceanic Climate Update for August 2009 Dr. Roy Spencer September 1st, 2009 This is the first of what might turn into a series of monthly updates of some maritime…
Guardian: Global warming to trigger "earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches and volcanic eruptions."
You can’t make this stuff up. It’s worse than we thought. Related: Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing Climate change: melting ice will trigger wave of natural…
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