Lindzen: Deconstructing global warming

From Globalwarming.org Yesterday the Cooler Heads Coalition hosted Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Video of Dr. Lindzen’s presentation,…

Copenhagen hits the brakes – announcement of "scaling back expectations"

UN signals delay in climate change treaty By EDITH M. LEDERER (AP) Excerpts below. UNITED NATIONS — Just weeks before an international conference on climate change, the United Nations signaled…

Climate Craziness of the Week #2: Steak Watch

Last week we had a people in New Zealand saying we need edible pets. This week we have England’s “premier climatologist” saying we need to give up meat.  You first,…

Pielke Senior on the Borenstein AP statistics article

Comments On AP Story “Statistics Experts Reject Global Cooling Claims” There is a news report titled “Statistics experts reject global cooling claims” by Seth Borenstein which appeared today. The article reads “WASHINGTON…

How not to measure temperature, part 91: find the official climate thermometer in this photo

It has been awhile since we’ve looked at stations in the United States Historical Climatology Network. Last night I was doing quality control and updates to the database and came…

Not scary enough: more Americans believe in haunted houses than human caused global warming

Oh this is funny. There’s not even any Gore involved. We’ve seen that man-made global warming has taken some hits in the opinion polls lately, and that its 10 minutes…

"Maybe the sun really means business this time!"

After months of malaise and anemic sunspecks, the sun finally creates a respectable spot.While lower towards the equator than expected, it has been identified as a cycle 24 spot. From…

Newsweek: Green subsidies aren't working

This is a surprise from Newsweek. Some recent examples of green subsidy: Fisker Automotive will receive a $529 million subsidy from the US government to build hybrid cars for the…

On the Vikings and Greenland

Discussions on the Viking settlements on Greenland are seen from time to time on WUWT, and its is often in the context of the Medieval Warm Period. While this article…

Monday Funny

From The Chilling Effect They encourage redistribution.

Is Climate Change 10 minutes of fame over?

From NetNewsledger.com Has Climate Change had its “Ten Minutes of Fame”? Written by James Murray THUNDER BAY – Yesterday was the International Day of Action on Climate Change. In Ottawa,…

Bob Carter with a down under view of climate science

The science of deceit Guest post by Dr. Bob Carter, originally posted at Quadrant online Science is about simplicity A well-accepted aphorism about science, in the context of difference of…

What does a reduction to 350 PPM of CO2 get you?

With some hubub recently over the 350.org day (designed to highlight the opinion that we must return the Earth to a 350 parts per million atmospheric CO2 level) I thought…

The "cold war" hits home – October in like a lion, out like a fridge

It’s not looking good for the coming Halloween. Button up those trick or treaters. Fall, we hardly knew ya. Here’s a roundup of interesting cold weather events in the last…

Spencer: AGW has most of the characteristics of an "urban legend"

An Expensive Urban Legend by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. About.com describes an “urban legend” as an apocryphal (of questionable authenticity), secondhand story, told as true and just plausible enough…

350 day fails to impress

Or as my friend down under, Andrew Bolt, calls it: “Day of apathy” Sydney yesterday demonstrated the depth of international passion about global warming through several highly pictorial stunts: It…

Why does Ocean Heat Content diverge from GISS projections?

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale: Why Are OHC Observations (0-700m) Diverging From GISS Projections? INTRODUCTION My post “NODC Corrections to Ocean Heat Content (0-700m) Part 2” illustrated the divergence between…

Climate Craziness of the Week #1

I think single-handedly, artist, photographer, and intrepid dirt pile explorer Alex Hartley has launched a new WUWT feature. A fine addition to his list of accomplishments I think. His project:…

Cold start to fall continues, 252 more low temperature records set in the USA this week

More new record lows, lowest max temperature, and snowfall this week. The new low records outnumber the high records. There were an impressive number of Lowest Max Temperature records set…

Where are the Hurricanes Mr. Gore?

By Alan Caruba, Warning Signs That god among men and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore, told us in “An Inconvenient Truth”, his Oscar-winning documentary, that we had to brace…