In a statement made last Friday by EDF Energies Nouvelles (French Green Power Company), a power purchase agreement was terminated without explanation by Indianapolis Power and Light Company regarding the…
Month: March 2010
Response to Ravetz and post-normal science
People send me things. Here’s one from today’s mail. It is a response by Dr. Jaap Hanekamp to the essays by Oxford Professor Jerome Ravetz carried here on WUWT recently.…
Corned grief: biofuels may increase CO2
From the “damned if you do, damned if you don’t department”. More Maize Ethanol May Boost Greenhouse Gas Emissions From the American Institute of Biological Sciences Read the full article…
McIntyre accused by University of Queensland Prof of CRU break in
Image source here From Andrew Bolt’s blog at the Herald Sun: Professor John Quiggin complains of smears by sceptics: In recent years, science and scientific institutions have come under increasingly…
Academics fight back on climate issues
Readers may recall this story last week: Ad hoc group wants to run attack ads Here’s their formal response. I’m providing this from: http://www.openletterfromscientists.com for all to see here and to…
Gliese's Pieces
Forget global warming and 2012, the real worry is a solar system gravity death match between Sol and Gliese 710. From Russia’s RT News Star on course to meet Solar…
Dr. Nicola Scafetta summarizes "why the anthropogenic theory proposed by the IPCC should be questioned"
Dr. Nicola Scafetta has written an extensive summary of the state of climate science today. He’s done some very extensive analysis of the solar contribution that bears examination. Pay particular…
Hockey Stick Illusion: “Shut-eyed Denial”
By John A A shout-out for a review of Andrew Montford’s “The Hockey Stick Illusion” by Matt Ridley in Prospect Magazine. Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion is one of…
UK ads banned for overstating climate change
From The Times Ed Miliband’s adverts banned for overstating climate change by Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor TWO government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of…
IOP fires back over criticism of their submission to Parliament
WUWT reported on Feb 27th of the IOP submission here:Institute of Physics on Climategate IOP issued a no holds barred statement on Climategate to the UK Parliamentary Committee. Some criticism ensued.…
Quote of the week #30
From an AP story interview, we have a what I’ll call a “Lubchencoism”. “There is a well-orchestrated and fairly successful effort under way to confuse and sometimes cherry-pick information,” Lubchenco…
Hathaway on the solar conveyor belt and deep solar minimum
From NASA News: Solar ‘Current of Fire’ Speeds Up What in the world is the sun up to now? In today’s issue of Science, NASA solar physicist David Hathaway reports…
Aquatic 'dead zones' contributing to climate change
This alarming missive just in from the: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science As oxygen-deprived waters increase, they emit more greenhouse gasses into atmosphere Above graphic from NOLA.COM click…
Climategate.com shuts down
From the Facebook page of the Climategate.com operator: Climategate is closing down I am very sorry to bring you the news today that climategate.com is shutting down. It started out…
Gallup: Americans' Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop
Multiple indicators show less concern, more feelings that global warming is exaggerated by Frank Newport, Gallup News PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup’s annual update on Americans’ attitudes toward the environment shows…
Another WWF assisted IPCC claim debunked: Amazon more drought resistant than claimed
Via Eurekalert – New study debunks myths about Amazon rain forests – They may be more tolerant of droughts than previously thought (Boston) — A new NASA-funded study has concluded…
A UHI Tale of Two Cities
By Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts Fort Collins, Colorado is most famous for Balloon Boy, and Boulder, Colorado is most famous for Jon Benet and Ward Churchill. Both are hotbeds…
Big G panics
By Harold Ambler A new editorial in Nature is startling for what it reveals, especially the fact Paul Ehrlich is a go-to figure about how hard scientists have it when…
The global economy carbon yin yang
Anybody who has watched the march of jobs overseas already knows this, but it is nice to see science has finally caught up with what we already knew years ago.…
Paleo-clamatology
There’s a new article at Nature News where they report on an amazing new paleoclimatology breakthrough with temperature reconstructions using clamshells. The Nature article reports on a new paper in…
Spencer: Global Urban Heat Island Effect Study – An Update
by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. This is an update to my previous posts [here and here on WUWT] describing a new technique for estimating the average amount of urban…
IPCC announces "independent" review
A formal announcement was made in a press conference made at 12:30PM EST by the IPCC, which is getting press, for example here. But at the time of this writing,…
When the IPCC 'disappeared' the Medieval Warm Period
IPCC changed viewpoint on the MWP in 2001 – did this have effect on scientific results? Guest post by Frank Lansner Latest News (hidethedecline) A brief check indicates a “warm…
Himalayan Hijinks
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach According to an article in the Hindustan Times by someone for whom English is a second language, I find: Senior scientists at the Wadia Institute…
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