CO2 and ocean uptake – maybe slowing

While this article makes a strong case, looking at SST and CO2 can also be revealing: A review of this WUWT post might also be instructive: A look at human…

Wall Street Journal on McIntyre: Global warming's most dangerous apostate

Revenge of the Climate Laymen   Global warming’s most dangerous apostate speaks out about the state of climate change science. By ANNE JOLIS Barack Obama conceded over the weekend that…

Greening your mileage with better tires

Here’s technology doing something useful. Who wouldn’t like tires with better mileage? It comes from a new chemical additive, shown below. I chuckled when I saw the chemical structure, which…

Climate Craziness of the Week: What's more idiotic than holding a cylinder of CO2 for a photo op in the snow? – Calling it "art".

People email me stuff. Sometimes its just too bizarre to ignore. We have another person on an “expedition” with a camera and artistic license to foist upon the world:  …

CO2 still going up, but temperature not following the same trend

Here’s the latest global temperature plot from UAH: From Eurekalert: Human emissions rise 2 percent despite global financial crisis IMAGE: Human emissions rise 2 percent despite the global financial crisis.…

AMS TV weathercaster survey on climate raises eyebrows

From Alabamawx.com by Bill Murray A survey of weathercasters’ feelings on global warming was published in this month’s edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. It had some…

The Steel Greenhouse

Guest post by Willis Eschenbach There is a lot of misinformation floating around the web about the greenhouse effect works. It is variously described as a “blanket” that keeps the…

Gore has no clue – a few million degrees here and there and pretty soon we're talking about real temperature

This is mind blowing ignorance on the part of Al Gore. Gore in an 11/12/09 interview on NBC’s tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, speaking on geothermal energy, champion of slide…

Monckton climate change video goes viral

Video of Lord Monckton Warning of Copenhagen Climate Treaty Exceeds 3.5 Million Views in a Single Month Lord Monckton giving a presentation – photo by Derek Warnecke   Minneapolis –…

Hall of record ratios

A Critique of the October 2009 NCAR Study Regarding Record Maximum to Minimum Ratios Guest post by Bruce Hall, Hall of Record This is a critique of the October 2009…

Why NCAR's Meehl paper on high/low temperature records is bunk

One wonders why the story of a new paper covered on WUWT:  NCAR: Number of record highs beat record lows – if you believe the quality of data from the…

More on the record high-low temperature debacle

U.S. Record Temperatures—A Closer Look From World Climate Report: A new paper that is soon to appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds that across the U.S. daily record…

Northern Sierra Trees Falsify Claim of 'Unprecedented' Global Warming

Guest post by Larry Fields The last Ice Age razed all of the coniferous forests in Finland. After the ice sheet retreated, trees from elsewhere–like the Scots Pine–gradually colonized the…

The Delayer in Chief? – Obama backs Copenhagen postponement

I always have to chuckle when somebody uses the phrase denier/delayer to label somebody for even the slightest transgression on climate /action/justice/activism/alarmism/pick a word. Briefly, this appeared on Google News:…

Winds of change – Gore gets booed – maybe they shouldn't have billed him as "president of the planet"

Gore’s presentation on climate change draws 800 as 200 protestors gather outside By George Bennett Palm Beach Post Staff Writer   Confused Palm Beach County voters helped thwart Al Gore’s…

Reference: 450 skeptical peer reviewed papers

Andrew at Popular Technology has taken the time (quite a bit of it) to compile a list of papers that have skeptical views. It is reproduced in full here. My…

Unbelievable pollution in China – yet the US is the baddie at Copenhagen

We’ve made so much progress in the USA. 75 years ago, we may have witnessed some scenes like this in today’s China. Unfortunately, the de-industrialization of the west just moved…

Little Ice Age thermometers – History and Reliability

Little Ice Age thermometers – History and Reliability Guest post by TonyB How reliable are The Little Ice Age thermometers ? The Little Ice age thermometers project is an attempt…

Every cloud has a silver lining – Antarctic glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store

From a British Antarctic Survey Press Release. Next time some alarmist wails about ice melt in Antarctica, point them to this story that shows nature has self regulating features for…

Open Thread #3

I’m off this weekend and part of next week– talk quietly and politely amongst yourselves. Don’t make me come back here. If you have something worth posting on the front…

Pielke Sr. on the Record Highs -vs- Record Lows story

From Roger Pielke Senior: Bias In News Reporting There is a press release on a paper yesterday from NCAR titled Record High Temperatures Far Outpace Record Lows Across U.S. I plan…

Water confirmed on the moon

LCROSS Impact Finds Water on the Moon Enlarge   The visible camera image showing the ejecta plume at about 20 seconds after impact. Credit: NASA (PhysOrg.com) — The argument that…

American Physical Society rejects climate policy plea from 160 physicists

From Physics World: APS rejects plea to alter stance on climate change The American Physical Society (APS) has “overwhelmingly rejected” a proposal from a group of 160 physicists to alter…

El Niño gaining strength

From the “WUWT never reports on anything warm department”, JPL reports El Niño looks like it is on schedule to make a Christmas appearance as “The Boy”. The good news…