I may just divert to Toronto from Chicago and pay this writer a visit so I can tell him to his face what an idiot he is, or have my…
Month: May 2010
GISTEMP is High
By Steve Goddard Satellite data vs. normalised surface data during the 1998 El Niño A few days ago I discussed the amplification of satellite temperatures relative to surface data. And…
Livetooning the ICCC
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I’m at the International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago, where I’m one of the speakers. Since I’m a cartoonist, rather than liveblogging the…
ICCC Conference day 1 – Chicken of the Sea and BBC
Sunday was speaker orientation and the evening reception/dinner. I met up with Willis Eschencbach, watched and listened to him play the piano in the lobby. I took some photos with…
Volcano Update
By Steve Goddard Eyjafjallajokull continues to erupt and is again shutting down British airspace: A statement on the Nats website said the no-fly zone will be extended between 1pm and…
WUWT Arctic Sea Ice News #5
By Steve Goddard Arctic non-warming since 1938 The Catlin Arctic Survey arrived at the North Pole this week. Described as three of ‘the world’s toughest’ explorers, Ann Daniels, Charlie Paton…
Kerry Emanuel and Richard Lindzen: the climatic odd couple
I had dinner with Richard Lindzen (along with Lucia, Steve McIntyre, Jeff Id, and others) last night after a hectic day of airline roulette. He’s easy to talk to and…
Extraterrestrial Global Warming
People send me stuff. Alan Siddons writes in an email: Researching for a paper that Martin Hertzberg, Hans Schreuder and I are writing, I chanced upon a chart that might…
Hey dude, where’s my solar ramp up?
Guest post by David Archibald The prognostications based on spotless days are now a distant memory. From here, given that the green corona brightness indicates that solar maximum will in…
Sea Ice Graphs Have Limited Predictive Value
By Steve Goddard I like to watch the sea ice graphs as much as anyone, and have wondered how much value they have in forecasting the summer minimum. So I…
Off to the conference
I’m about to leave for ICCC4, which is predictably being billed as “denialpalooza” by our friends in alarmist world. Heh. Maybe smearapalooza might be a good label for their response.…
NIWA's Kiwi Kaper
It should be noted that NIWA is not the official Meteorological Service of New Zealand. From their FAQs: Is NIWA the Met Service? No, the MetService is a separate company…
Now it's caterpillar outbreaks caused by global warming
I recall one summer when I was a boy in the 1960’s where we had a tent caterpillar outbreak in our town. Global Warming wasn’t on anybody’s mind then. This…
Satellite Temperatures and El Niño
By Steve Goddard RSS April 14,000 Foot Anomalies UAH and RSS satellite data have been showing record warm temperatures in 2010, despite the fact that many of us have been…
A surprising change in the 'eye roller' public slogan of NOAA
I got this regular press release from NOAA this morning announcing an upcoming press conference. Ho Hum…but wait, buried at the bottom of the copy is a little nugget that…
Climate Craziness of the Week – New Scientist: The Denial Depot Edition
New Scientist has a barrage of articles on “denialism”, including one from DeSmog Blog misinformer Richard Littlemore, who runs with the tired old comparisons of today’s skeptical public to tobacco…
Now it's more CO2 that will threaten crops
Sometimes I wonder if science hasn’t been infected with some sort of mass delusion about CO2. Watch this amazing video on CO2 and plant growth from CO2Science.org, then read below…
R.I.P. El Niño
By Steve Goddard El Niño made it’s last gasp this week. Note that SST’s in the equatorial Pacific went from above normal to below normal during the past few days.…
Now it's lizards going extinct due to climate change
From a press release from Villanova University, more worry. I don’t know about the researchers experiences, but my property is overrun with the Western Fence Lizard. I can hardly avoid…
October Through March Was the Snowiest On Record In The Northern Hemisphere
By Steve Goddard Guardian Photo The experts at East Anglia and CRU told us in 2000 that : (March, 2000) According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at…
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