U.N. abandons Copenhagen deadline – countries not signing on – spokesman says the deadline has gone "soft"

The COP15 balloon appears to have lost all it’s air. Nobody’s signing up. Excerpts from reports in the Guardian and the Financial Times From the Guardian Copenhagen deal falters as…

NASA GISS a temperature outlier again – this time for the southern hemisphere

Bob Tisdale shows us that GISS is once again, “way out there” in 2009 compared to other global temperature data sets. It is not surprising, we’ve come to expect it.…

IPCC admits error on Himalayan glacier melt fiasco

But…there’s that word again, “robust” used in the context of error admission. Now all we need is an apology from Chairman Dr. Rajenda Pachauri for statements that claims that this…

NASA to hold live web briefing on the SDO mission to the sun

WUWT readers may want to watch this webcast. From a media advisory – NASA to Hold Briefing on Advanced Mission to Study Our Sun WASHINGTON — NASA is scheduled to…

Scripps Institution of Oceanography cheapens itself by using the "D" word

Well, now there will never be any question about whether Scripps is political or not. They even made up a graphic to go with the story here. When a prominent…

Just crazy enough to work – shipping containers for emergency shelters in Haiti

I realize this is a bit OT of my normal fare here, but I thought it was interesting. Apparently island nations tend to have a surplus of these (more imports…