Carbon Dioxide Storage in East Coast U.S. Rocks

From Science Daily Scientists Target East Coast U.S. Rocks for Carbon Dioxide Storage ScienceDaily (Jan. 5, 2010) — Scientists say buried volcanic rocks along the heavily populated coasts of New…

Tax Support of Approved Climate News

Steve Janke: Empowering tax-supported local media to peddle ‘approved’ climate news Posted: January 06, 2010, 1:15 PM by NP Editor From The National Post Internews is an organization devoted to…

Solar geomagnetic index reaches unprecedented low – only "zero" could be lower – in a month when sunspots became more active

Back on December 12th 2009 I posted an article titled: Solar geomagnetic activity is at an all time low – what does this mean for climate? We then had a string…

CRU 3b – Urban Warm Bias in GHCN

Reposted from The Air Vent Posted by Jeff Id on January 5, 2010 So I’ve learned a great deal playing around with the GHCN data, I think this is a…

Galactic GPS from Nature's Clocks

From NASA Nature’s Most Precise Clocks May Make “Galactic GPS” Possible 01.05.10 Pulsars slow down their rotation as they age and eventually cease their characteristic emissions. That can change if…

This WUWT article from 2008 was on Fox News tonight

From WUWT on March 16, 2008, we found this article and it is now just getting national news exposure. I’m bringing it forward again since there has been a lot…

Winter kills: Excess Deaths in the Winter Months

108,500 Deaths in the US in 2008; 36,700 in England and Wales Last Winter; 5,600 in Canada (2006); 7,000 in Australia (1997-2006 Average); Thousands in Other Developed Countries Indur M.…

Cold Killing Iguanas

Extended cold could kill invasive iguanas Dropping temperatures slow down lizards Photo credit Bjørn Christian Tørrissen This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Official license From Sunsentinel.com With this…

Climategate: Michael Mann's very unhappy New Year

By James Delingpole Read original story here with comments. As I said yesterday, one of our jobs this year is to wipe the complacent smiles off the smug faces of…

Stat Model Predicts Flat Temperatures Through 2050

Doug L. Hoffman The Resilient Earth Friday, Dec 18th, 2009 While climate skeptics have gleefully pointed to the past decade’s lack of temperature rise as proof that global warming is…

Gore’s a bust – a frozen one

‘Frozen Gore’ sculpture returns in Fairbanks to fuel climate change debate Fairbanks Daily Miner  | January 5, 2010 | Jeff Richardson FAIRBANKS – In what might become an annual tradition,…

Socioeconomic Impacts of Global Warming are Systematically Overestimated–Part II

Socioeconomic Impacts of Global Warming are Systematically Overestimated Part II:  How Large Might be the Overestimation? Indur M. Goklany A major argument advanced for drastic GHG emission reductions is that,…

London Times forced to recant ads touting NE passage

From WUWT on October 7th:  The surprising real story about this year’s Northeast passage transit: The media botched it One newspaper is making the most of this “first ever event”, according…

The frigid hit parade – over 1200 new cold and snow records set in the last week in the USA, more in progress

From the “weather is not c..c..cl..climate” department, cold and snow hits hard. Meanwhile, Hot Weather Convinces Media of Climate Change; Cold Weather Ignored. And it heads far south too. A…

G.P. Bear goes to Washington – Final Part 12

By Bill Steigerwald “G.P. Bear for president” Of all the animals the Inuit traditionally hunted, Nanuk, the polar bear, was the most prized. Native hunters considered Nanuk to be wise,…

Socioeconomic Impacts of Global Warming are Systematically Overestimated

Socioeconomic Impacts of Global Warming are Systematically Overestimated Part I: Why are Impacts Overestimated? Indur M. Goklany [Note to the Reader: For the sake of argument, in this post I…

December UAH global temperature anomaly – down by almost half

December 2009 UAH Global Temperature Update +0.28 Deg. C by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The global-average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly fell back to the October level of +0.28 deg.…

Shades of Fahrenheit 451 – British retirees burning books to stay warm

Remember these chaps? This time they’ll be putting out the book fires rather than starting them. From Benny Peiser’s daily newsletter, it appears to be time for a revolt in…

G.P. Bear goes to Washington – Part 11

By Bill Steigerwald “Polar Bear Manifesto” U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING With a bang the Senate hearing room’s double-doors suddenly flew open. A SWAT team of 12 Navy SEALs in full riot…

Coal Creek Redux

Guest post by Richard Keen, Ph.D. To paraphrase Led Zeppelin, “It’s been cooling, I ain’t fooing…” December was a chilly month across much of the U.S., and at my site…

Where Are The Corpses?

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Abstract The record of continental (as opposed to island) bird and mammal extinctions in the last five centuries was analyzed to determine if the “species-area”…

Christopher Monckton of Brenchley replies to readers

Note: I posted this originally early this morning, something happened with wordpress.com hosting (I’m not sure what) and it disappeared, here it is again. – Anthony Christopher Monckton of Brenchley…

The 2009 weblog awards – zilched

Kevin Aylward makes a surprising announcement. Guess I’ll have to settle for “nominee with a boatload of nominations“. Update – The 2009 Weblog Awards are off 4 Jan 2010 It…

BBC swaps "coldest December since 1981" headline

BBC reported: Coldest December since 1981 (BBC, January 3, 2010) It is still showing up in Google, but changes are afoot, odd that a headline like that can’t stand on…