UPDATE: Easy come, easy go, the sharp decline has popped back up to near normal in the space of a couple days. See the end of the story for update.…
Month: January 2010
New tool for solar flare prediction
From NOAA news: NOAA Scientist Finds Clue to Predicting Solar Flares Forecasters at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) For decades, experts have searched…
American Thinker on CRU, GISS, and Climategate
Climategate: CRU Was But the Tip of the Iceberg By Marc Sheppard Not surprisingly, the blatant corruption exposed at Britain’s premiere climate institute was not contained within the nation’s borders.…
Statistics expert Briggs: Actually, Weather Is Climate
Guest post by William M. Briggs professional statistician It is statistically appropriate to point to this year’s frigidity as evidence that the theory of man-made global warming is suspect. Sure…
UK Parliament to investigate Climategate and CRU data issues
From the Science and Technology committee of the UK Paliament press release here. The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia Terms…
Flashback – Bob Tisdale's November prediction on GISS exploiting the "warmest decade on record"
To help understand the context of the NASA GISS announcement, I’m reposting Bob Tisdales’s excellent analysis from 2009 which ran on WUWT on November 10th Global Temperatures This Decade Will…
Polar bear forecast
From Ontario, evidence that above freezing weather may affect polar bear populations.
Warmest decade on record*
From NASA’s press release NASA Research Finds Last Decade was Warmest on Record, 2009 One of Warmest Years From NASA GISTEMP- Click image for original source WASHINGTON — A new…
EPA's CO2 endangerment finding challenged today in the U.S. Senate
Excerpts from the: Murkowski tries anew to block EPA regulators By ERIKA BOLSTAD WASHINGTON — Sen. Lisa Murkowski took her battle with the Environmental Protection Agency to the floor of…
Tiny bubbles…in the brine…affects the climate…all the time
URI bubble physicist counts bubbles in the ocean to answer questions about climate, sound, light From a University of Rhode Island press release NARRAGANSETT, R.I. – January 21, 2010 –…
Climategate Analysis From SPPI
by John P. Costella | January 18, 2010 From SPPI INTRODUCTORY ESSAY Why Climategate is so distressing to scientists by John P. Costella | December 10, 2009 The most difficult…
EU MPs get the message (an earful)
One thing about British politicians, they tend to deliver fiery speeches. Here’s one just like that. He must have had some experience with an MP bench position in London. This…
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…
Save the planet from GHG's – use astroturf?
Now according to this press release from UC Irvine, green spaces in cities are bad for the planet….but wait, what about the UHI offset? Can I buy grass credit certificates?…
Quote of the week #26
It’s been awhile since I posted this feature, Climategate got into the mix and there was so much going on I simply forgot to look for interesting quotes. This week’s…
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