By Bill Steigerwald “Junior gets brainwashed” Of all the animals the Inuit traditionally hunted, Nanuk, the polar bear, was the most prized. Native hunters considered Nanuk to be wise, powerful,…
Year: 2009
No statistically significant warming since 1995: a quick mathematical proof
Physicist Luboš Motl of The Reference Frame demonstrates how easy it is to show that there is: No statistically significant warming since 1995 First, since it wasn’t in his original…
Voyager tells us we live in a "fluffy" interstellar cloud
December 23, 2009: The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal…
Satellite measurements show our quiet sun is cooling the upper thermosphere
From NASA News. New measurements from a NASA satellite show a dramatic cooling in the upper atmosphere that correlates with the declining phase of the current solar cycle. For the…
G. P. Bear goes to Washington: The true story of a freedom-loving carnivore
A writer friend of mine, Bill Steigerwald, has created an interesting serial story, a Christmasy “docu-fable” as he calls it. I’ll be running this over the next 12 days. Here’s…
Three Cheers for Holiday Lighting
Guest post by Robert Bradley of Master Resource House in Boston with 250,000 lights – see Boston Globe story here -Photo by Paul Keleher Environmentalists critical of electrified America must…
Steam train rescues stranded passengers in Britain where electric trains failed
Both my father and grandfather, both of whom had connections to steam locomotives in their life are undoubtedly cheering this story(wherever they are) from the BBC. So am I. Inconveniently,…
Nearly two thirds of the continental USA gets a white Christmas
I don’t know if this is a record or not for Christmas coverage, but it is certainly reminiscent of the winter of 1977-78 where we had similar bouts of cold…
"Global Warming" Cancels Christmas for Many Travelers – Breaks Records
From the “weather is not climate” department, inconvenient travel: Here’s a sample of headlines related to difficult if not impossible holiday travel:
Choose a winner for the caption contest
This post, showing a photograph from Doug Mills of The New York Times generated over 1000 comments. To pick the best caption for this, I have a voting poll below.…
BBC botches grade school CO2 science experiment on live TV – with indepedent lab results to prove it
WUWT readers may recall this story from November 3rd NOAA deletes an “inconvenient” kids science web page where NOAA took down a web page called “It’s a gas, man” that talked…
Climate Craziness of the Week – Why I'm a Pepsi* tea drinker now
I used to love the Coca-Cola Polar bear TV ads at Christmastime. I marveled at the quality of the CGI animations when they first came out, like this one: They…
The Climategate Timeline: 30 years visualized
The always sharp Jo Nova tips us to this: Here’s a Spectacular Poster of ClimateGate covering 3 decades You have to see this to believe it. Look up close and…
Von Storch op-ed in the WSJ: 'Climategate reveals a concerted effort to emphasize scientific results useful to a political agenda'
Some excerpts: We—society and climate researchers—need to discuss now what constitutes “good science.” Some think good science is a societal institution that produces results that serve an ideology. Take, for…
Unbearable Global Warming Hype Threatens the North Pole at Christmas
It’s one thing when you are bombarded daily by news articles, it’s quite another when you want to buy a custom teddy bear and are treated to a video lecture…
Met Office and CRU bow to public pressure: publish data subset and code
Just over a month after Climategate started, we have breaking news from Climate Audit Steve McIntyre writes: The UK Met Office has released a large tranche of station data, together…
Texas State Climatologist: "IPCC AR4 was flat out wrong" – relied on flawed WWF report
Even though these clean cut dudes (by today’s standards) may be favorite sons of 60’s alarmism, at least they can add years correctly. Their signature song telling tales of doom…
A story of conversion: Global Warming Believer To Skeptic
Bradley Fikes writes in the NCtimes.com A few years ago, I accepted global warming theory with few doubts. I wrote several columns for this paper condemning what I thought were…
Study shows CFCs, cosmic rays major culprits for global warming
From the University of Waterloo press release. WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, Dec. 21, 2009) – Cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), both already implicated in depleting the Earth’s ozone layer, are also…
William Connolley and Wikipedia: Turborevisionism
UPDATE2: There’s now some question about who is who regarding the editing of the Connolley page at Wikipedia.One of the problems with Wikipedia is the use of handles. In the…
See sunspots run
From Spaceweather.com The sun is showing signs of life. There are no fewer than five active regions on the sun’s surface, shown here in an extreme ultraviolet photo taken this…
Hansen on the surface temperature record, Climategate, solar, and El Nino
The Temperature of Science (PDF available here) James Hansen My experience with global temperature data over 30 years provides insight about how the science and its public perception have changed.…
Global warming on blogs outshines MSM in interest
From the Pew Research Center No Denying the Heat of Global Warming Debate in the Blogosphere Global warming has of late been a very hot topic in social media, and…
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