SDO First-Light Briefing Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun and its dynamic behavior. The spacecraft will provide images with…
Month: April 2010
Prominent Climategate Figure Threatens Lawsuit over Spoof Video – No Cap-and-Trade Coalition Says “Bring it on”
PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, April 20th 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jeff Davis No Cap and Trade Coalition Washington, DC — Penn State University’s Michael Mann, one of the central figures in…
Of Hawks and Handsaws
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach “I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw” William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii Following…
Another indication of MWP and LIA being global
From CO2 Science, another peer reviewed paper with a paleoclimatology reconstruction based on cores containing plankton shells, show that both the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little Ice Age…
Doug Keenan finally gets the tree data
Climate sceptic wins landmark data victory ‘for price of a stamp’ Belfast ecologist forced to hand over tree-ring data describes order from information commission as a ‘staggering injustice’ by Fred…
Is Fossil Fuel CO2 Different From Volcanic CO2?
Guest Post by Steven Goddard We have all seen lots of pictures of the Eyjafjallajokull eruption now, with steam and ash billowing up in the air. The eruption started one…
New pix of Iceland volcanic plume
From ESA (zoomed image below the read more line) New satellite image of ash spewing from Iceland’s volcano 19 April 2010 In this image taken [at] (14:45 CET) by ESA’s…
Royal Ash: Royal society jumps on magma driven worry express
Guest post by Steven Goddard Wikipedia Image of Disaster Movie poster While volcanic ash falls on Britain, in yet another assault on reason, the Royal Society has warned : In papers published…
Ash cloud models – overrated? A word on Post Normal Science by Dr. Jerome Ravetz
“We sent ten Boeing 747 and Airbus 340 jets on transfer flights from Munich to Frankfurt,” Lufthansa spokesman Klaus Walther told the paper. The planes were moved in order to…
Clean air, a problem?
Here’s a headline I thought I’d never see. In the 60’s and 70’s we were bombarded with images like these: Now we hear that may be a good thing. Make…
Volcanoes and Water
Guest Post by Steven Goddard The Guardian image below taken this week near Iceland has the caption “Smoke and ash billows from a volcano in Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland Photograph: Ingolfur Juliusson/Reuters”…
New weekly feature: WUWT Sea Ice News
There’s a lot of interest in the blogosphere in sea ice, and the leading authority, NSIDC, only updates one a month. Yet when we reach things like peak ice, or…
Come Rain or Come Shine
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [Updated, see end of article] One of the claimed dangers of a few degrees warming of the Earth is increasing drought. Drought is a very…
GISS & METAR – dial "M" for missing minus signs: it's worse than we thought
Here’s a story about how one missing letter, an M, can wreck a whole month’s worth of climate data. It is one of the longest posts ever made on WUWT,…
Volcanoes Cause Climate Change
Guest post by Steven Goddard Scientific American recently reported on the dodgy concept that climate change causes volcanoes, when in fact it is quite the opposite. Wikipedia : An early…
Which NASA climate data to believe?
Over on Climate Audit, Jean S points out a curious anomaly in the March GISS Temperature data for Finland. Maybe that’s where all of Trenberth’s “missing heat” went. Note the…
Reply to: "Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes"
Guest post by Steven Goddard Scientific American has reported that global warming may cause an increase in volcanic eruptions, due to increased magma formation at lower pressures as glaciers melt. This caught my…
NCAR's missing heat – they could not find it any-where
From Dr. Roger Pielke Senior’s Climate Sci blog, a discussion on the “missing heat” in Earth’s climate system gives me a motivation to write some silly prose: The heat is…
We knew, it was only a matter of time…
From “Scientific” American via Reuters, proof positive that global warming is omnipotent and is intertwined into anything you choose it to be. Why, even the inner Earth bends to its…
Where's the Climate Beef?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A while back in the US there was an ad for a hamburger chain. It featured an old lady who bought a competitor’s hamburger with…
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