NOAA goes for National Press Club with hurricane outlook

It looks like they aren’t monkeying around. After delaying the release this week, NOAA plans to showcase the news in a more “robust” setting. Contact:          Susan Buchanan, NOAA FOR IMMEDIATE…

A "warmist" scientist embraces the Heartland Conference

As many know, I recently returned from ICCC4. It has taken me a couple of days to get back on track and I want to share over the next couple…

Spencer: Global Average Sea Surface Temperatures Poised for a Plunge

Global Average Sea Surface Temperatures Poised for a Plunge by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Just an update…as the following graph shows, sea surface temperatures (SSTs) along the equatorial Pacific…

Tom Karl – Hiding the Decline (at both ends)

By Steve Goddard As Bob Tisdale pointed out, Tom Karl’s NCDC trend claims don’t match his graph. The trend line is less than either of the claimed V2 or V3…

The Gulf oil slick from space – NOT

UPDATE: The press release from Goddard Space Flight Center showing sunglints suggesting they are all from the oil slick is wrong. Satellite specialist Dr. Roy Spencer writes in to show…

GISS Arctic Trends Disagree with Satellite Data

By Steven Goddard GISS has explained their steeper temperature slope since 1998 vs. Had-Crut, as being due to the fact that they are willing to extrapolate 1200 km across the…

Tanganyika Revisited

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The new Nature Magazine article on Lake Tanganyika, “Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500”, discussed a couple days ago by Anthony Watts here,…

Founder of Oregon Petition wins house primary race

First stage win for science in US House of Representatives Guest post by Russ Steele There has been a lot of discussion of the election results in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kentucky…

So much for robust x2: Tom Karl’s GHCN3 Trends Are Wrong – At Least in Slide 21

Tom Karl’s Trends Are Wrong – At Least in Slide 21 Guest post by Bob Tisdale A number of bloggers on the WattsUpWithThat thread “Tom Karl’s Senate Dog & Pony…

America's Climate Choices: missing an option

I’m providing these links for publications “America’s Climate Choices” issued today by the National Resource Council of the National Academy of Sciences without any comments other than this one: The…

Tom Karl's Senate Dog & Pony Show – it's worse than we thought, again

Well, the Kerry Lieberman cap and trade fiasco has brought Tom Karl to give a Senate briefing last week. Predictably, they couldn’t wait to spring more adjustments du jour on…

NOAA delays due to monkey business?

Yesterday I posted an announcement about this odd press release: Think-Tank Says Trained Chimp Can Predict Hurricanes Better Than NOAA… And Puts it to the Test Today, in a strange twist…

Unprecedented Warming in Lake Tanganyika

Well here we go again, you know the drill. Global warming at fault, other possibilities ignored, multiple press releases. Lake Tanganyika is the second largest lake in the world for…

"It Was 30 Years Ago Today"

… Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play … by Steve Goddard I remember May 18, 1980 like it was yesterday.  I was skiing behind Taos Ski Valley in ten…

Livetooning the ICCC, Day 2

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Fewer cartoons today, I presented my paper (which was well received) and there were fewer sessions. The Conference is over now, it was very successful.…

Consensus? What consensus?

The 4th International Conference on Climate Change – Chicago, Il., USA Consensus?  What consensus? by Roger Helmer MEP I’m writing this in the Marriott Hotel in Chicago, where I’m attending…

Think-Tank Says Trained Chimp Can Predict Hurricanes Better Than NOAA… And Puts it to the Test

Chimp Predicts 6-8 Atlantic Hurricanes in 2010 Via press release: Washington, DC: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s track record in predicting the number of Atlantic hurricanes is so abysmal…

Leaked Doc Proves Spain’s Green Policies an Economic Disaster

Christopher Horner reports that Pajamas Media has received a leaked internal document confirming Spain realizes its green failures, just as Obama pushes the American Power Act based on Spain’s program.…

Dr. Richard Lindzen's Heartland 2010 keynote address

At the ICCC4 conference yesterday, I had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Richard Lindzen give his keynote address at the luncheon. As always, he made some very salient points.…

GISTEMP -vs- HadCRUT

By Steven Goddard As discussed in my last post, GISS claims to have better Arctic coverage than Had-Crut, and uses that as an explanation of why they are trending upwards…