A new paper just published in the Geophysical Review Letters finds a significant correlation between the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and the water temperature of the Barents Sea. This was…
Month: October 2009
A bad climate for development – rebuttal to the Economist
Guest post by Indur Goklany The Economist’s print edition has published my letter taking it to task for a pretty uninformed piece it published on the impacts of climate change…
What climate news you aren't seeing in the American press but can in Iran
It’s really rather sad that you can read about Svensmark’s climate research in an Iranian news outlet (FARS) but you won’t see any mention of it in American press, such…
Operation ice bridge in Antarctica
While we have no mention in press of the record amounts of ice for the entire Antarctic continent as shown here, scientists are focusing on the one part of the…
Antarctica's ice story has been put on ice
From World Climate Report: Antarctic Ice Melt at Lowest Levels in Satellite Era Where are the headlines? Where are the press releases? Where is all the attention? The ice melt…
More goofery: UN Climate Report Confuses Arctic and Antarctic
Yesterday I pointed out how the hockey stick graph had been removed from the United Nations Climate Report. Now Harold Ambler shows us the document has even more errors. Guest…
Live in Ontario Canada? – help find this meteorite
Astronomers from The University of Western Ontario have released footage of a meteor that was approximately 100 times brighter than a full moon. The meteor lit up the skies of…
September 2009 Global Temperature Update for UAH and RSS
September 2009 UAH Global Temperature Update +0.42 deg. C October 7th, 2009 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. YR MON GLOBE NH SH TROPICS 2009 1 +0.304 +0.443 +0.165 -0.036…
The surprising real story about this year's Northeast passage transit: The media botched it
First, let’s get our bearings. Unlike the Northwest passage, which traverses the icy north above Canada, the Northeast passage is an entirely different route, shown on the map in red.…
New Svalgaard paper – reconstructing the heliospheric magnetic field since 1835 – with insight into the peer review process
Leif Svalgaard writes in comments: We plan to submit tomorrow to JGR the following… http://www.leif.org/research/IDV09.pdf (preprint) …showing the run of the heliospheric magnetic field since 1835 [not a typo]. I…
Aerosols and "cloud lifetime effect" cited as "enormous uncertainty" in global radiation balance
From a Press Release from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Do dust particles curb climate change? A knowledge gap exists in the area of climate research: for decades, scientists…
NSIDC still pushing ice free Arctic summers
NSIDC seems to be saying: It’s slightly less worse than we thought. For another view, see Dr. Tony Berry’s sea ice analysis on WUWT yesterday. From a University of Colorado…
United Nations Pulls Hockey Stick from Climate Report
WUWT readers may recall that Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit blog discovery of UNEP’s use of a Wikipedia “hockey Stick” graphic by “Hanno”, was the subject of last week’s blog postings.…
Interesting analysis of IARC-JAXA Arctic sea ice data
Analysis of the AMSR-E data on Arctic Ice Guest post by Dr Tony Berry, 4th October 2009 The Arctic Ice extent prepared IARC-JAXA demonstrates the cyclical annual trend of freezing…
Music of the rings: the Yamal tree ring controversy continues
From Roger Pielke Jr.’s blog, some strong advice. Better Come Prepared UPDATE: Dot Earth on the debate. If you want to know why Steve McIntyre has a large following and…
Man made air pollution helps iron deficient ocean
From a University of Leeds Press Release Acidic clouds nourish world’s oceans Published Friday 2nd October 09 Acidic clouds are feeding bioavailable iron to the oceans – a discovery which…
Spencer on finding a new climate sensitivity marker
The Search for a Short Term Marker of Long Term Climate Sensitivity By Dr. Roy Spencer. October 4th, 2009 [This is an update on research progress we have made into…
Trees named "Tyranny and Freedom" – which tree in the photo below is the older one?
While researching for one of WUWT’s previous posts by Caleb Shaw, which is a must read essay on the simple things that can explain tree ring records to scientists that…
A borehole in Antarctica produces evidence of sudden warming
From a Louisiana State University Press Release Oct 1, 2009 Algae and Pollen Grains Provide Evidence of Remarkably Warm Period in Antarctica’s History Palynomorphs from sediment core give proof to…
The Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty Draft – wealth transfer defined, now with new and improved "dignity" penalty
This is the draft of the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty currently out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change working group dated September 15th. Thanks to Alan MacRae…
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