On the Credibility of Climate Research, Part II: Towards Rebuilding Trust

Foreword – Below is  a guest post (by request) from Dr. Judith Curry on the issues we deal with every day here. While I and other like minded bloggers were…

Blog note

I’m having to do a personal computer upgrade. My Windows 7 RC1 (release candidate 1 for you non-geeks) that I installed last year is about to expire, and I have…

The Goracle Forecast: AGW=More snow

Sure looks like a heat wave, doesn’t it? Repower America Reports His View By Al Gore from his blog @ algore.com With all the climate deniers spreading lies about the…

Climategate Minority Report

While the Met Office announces a “do over”, the much anticipated report from Environment and Public Works (EPW) minority leader Senator Jim Inhofe has been announced in the Senate Committee…

Met office pushes a surface temperature data "do over"

From Fox News, word that the Met Office has circulated a proposal that intends to completely start over with raw surface temperature data in a transparent process. Here’s the proposal…

There's no business like snow business

Headlines yesterday mentioned yet another new snowfall record: Moscow Covered by More Than Half Meter of Snow, Most Since 1966 Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — Moscow’s streets were covered by 53…

Climate craziness of the week

“Art” is in the eye of the beholder. Global warming “art” is often lodged in another place in the body. From AOL News:, this artistic project is described as: “…off…

Bill O'Reilly hosts Bill Nye The Science Guy and AccuWeather's Joe Bastardi in Fox News Debate

Heh, this is entertaining. While Bill Nye argues for “in whose best interest is denial?” and brings up the ridiculous CO2 on Venus argument, Joe Bastardi runs circles around him…

NWS to adopt new snow forecasting techniques

Since we’ve discussed recent heavy snowfall, this seemed like a good story to cover. via Eurekalert: Better snowfall forecasting National Weather Service adopts U of Utah powder prediction method IMAGE:…

Jerry Ravetz part 2 – Answer and explanation to my critics

Dr. Ravetz’s first posting on WUWT created quite a controversey. You can read it here: Climategate: Plausibility and the blogosphere in the post-normal age. Answer and explanation to my critics –…

The most slimy essay ever from the Guardian and Columbia University

Opinion by Anthony Watts There has never been a time at WUWT that I’ve used the word “slimy” in a headline. This is a special case. I thought of about…

2009 paper confirming IPCC sea level conclusions withdrawn, mistakes cited

From the Guardian, finally some refreshing honesty in Science: Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels Study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to…

Fudged Fevers in the Frozen North

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [see Update at the end of this post] I got to thinking about the (non) adjustment of the GISS temperature data for the Urban Heat…

Bringing Skillful Observation Back To Science

Guest post by Steve Goddard Archimedes had his eureka moment while sitting in the bathtub.  Newton made a great discovery sitting under an apple tree.  Szilárd discovered nuclear fission while…

Pachauri's TERI institute golf course – water hog in a city desperate for fresh water

Richard North of the EU Referendum reports on this bizarre twist with IPCC Chairman Rajenda Pachauri’s use of land that was designated for public use, now runs afoul of the…

Must see: John Coleman's Global Warming Special #2 – now online at YouTube

I’m proud to be a part of this second one hour long special report done by KUSI-TV and veteran TV meteorologist John Coleman. John is, in my opinion, the “Walter…

Quote of the week #29

This QOTW is from an article in the Toronto Globe and Mail which focuses on the rise of skeptic blogs including CA and WUWT. The article contained this nugget from…

Setting the Record Straight on the IPCC WG II Fourth Assessment Report

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Nature News is carrying an interview with Professor Martin Parry, co-chair of IPCC WG II during the preparation of its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4),…

Spencer: developing a new satellite based surface temperature set

New Work on the Recent Warming of Northern Hemispheric Land Areas by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. INTRODUCTION Arguably the most important data used for documenting global warming are surface…

SDO whacks sundog

From NASA science news: Last week, on Feb. 11th, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) lifted off from Cape Canaveral on a five-year mission to study the sun. Researchers have called…