Shear Ice Decline

By Steve Goddard JAXA shows the area immediately west of Barrow, Alaska as ice free. And it appears to be melting away from the shore. The animation below shows the…

Australia's Victorian government creates seminar to "deal with denialism"

Whoo boy. It must be rough out there when CSIRO has to have seminars on how to deal with us rowdy ruffian “deniers”. I’m surprised though, a 15 million budget,…

In Which I Go Spelunking …

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my usual peripatetic wandering around the web, I came across an interesting paper called “Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over…

Live Video of BP "Top Kill" Procedure

BP MC252 well gushing oil – environmental disaster video courtesy of British Petroleum Later today, BP is expected to try to reduce the flow of oil from their MC252 well…

The Western Snowpack is 137% of normal

From The Declining Spring Snowcover Department Experts tell us that spring snowcover has seen rapid declines in the Northern Hemisphere over the last 20 years. As of today, western US…

Past the tipping point

By Steve Goddard In 2007, Dr. Hansen boldly declared “…defying government gag orders. Hansen told Reuters, quote, “The reason so much (of the Arctic ice) went suddenly is that it…

Romm's Mosquito Bomb

Most of us just ignore Joe Romm. Because, well, even the fresh prince of Wikipedia, William Connolley, described him once as “foaming”. When members of his shared climate viewpoint say…

Modeling the Polar Bear Tipping Point

After reading this BBC article on modeling the “tipping point” of polar bear populations, it seemed this photo summed it up well, especially since modeling was substituted in lieu of…

Climate alarmism in Britain: "…the poll figures are going through the floor."

Excerpts from the New York Times article. Climate Fears Turn to Doubts Among Britons By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL LONDON — Last month hundreds of environmental activists crammed into an auditorium here…

Lord Monckton wins global warming debate at Oxford Union

I’m waiting for actual photos of the event from the official photographer, but for now I’ll make do with what can be found on the Internet. For those who don’t…

New radar sees tornadic details like never before

From a University of Oklahoma press release, a view of a hook echo like never before. Norman, Okla.—At the University of Oklahoma, researchers captured unprecedented high-resolution radar data during the…

Climate Craziness of the Week: Denmark evicting citizens to clear cut forests for wind turbines

I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t read this message of a Danish group opposed to the plan. Greens clear-cutting trees in a national park and evicting people, whoda…

The Sea Ice Monster: it's a scaly thing

By Steve Goddard and Anthony Watts If you zoom in far enough, most anything looks scary, like this picture of a human head louse. But when you look at it…

Cause for alarm?

Why do scientists and news stories blame everything on global warming? Fortune and glory. Guest post By Paul Driessen, Willie Soon, and David R. Legates We’re often asked, What really…

WUWT Arctic Sea Ice News #6

By Steve Goddard The Arctic is still running well below freezing, and as a result there just isn’t much happening, except for an odd discrepancy that has developed between NSIDC…

On Being the Wrong Size

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach This topic is a particular peeve of mine, so I hope I will be forgiven if I wax wroth. There is a most marvelous piece…

Mann's 1.8 million Malaria grant – "where do we ask for a refund'?

Thomas Fuller of the San Francisco Examiner has a great piece which summarizes the issue of climate and malaria and Mann. Like with the imagined increase in hurricane frequency due…

Editorializing about the Editorial

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I just got my printed copy of the May 7th issue of Science Magazine, and I read their Editorial. This is the issue that contained…

Visualizing Arctic Coverage

By Steve Goddard In recent articles, I have have been discussing GISS’ claim that their divergence from Had-Crut over the last decade is due to better Arctic coverage. They use…

Pew poll: 2 of 3 Americans think Congressional action on climate change is not a priority

From the Pew Research Center. I wonder if Senator Kerry has seen this. Once again, climate change is dead last. Since energy comes in second, watch now as “climate change”…