WUWT Arctic Sea Ice News #8

By Steven Goddard The quest for the Holy Grail. I have been looking for a reliable early predictor of September area/extent based on June ice data, and have found it…

Spencer on climate sensitivity and solar irradiance

Updated: Low Climate Sensitivity Estimated from the 11-Year Cycle in Total Solar Irradiance By Dr. Roy W. Spencer NOTE: This has been revised since finding an error in my analysis,…

Western Snowpack Update, June 2010

By Steve Goddard From the Declining Spring Snowpack Department: Mammoth Mountain, California June 2, 2010 This week’s leaderboard:

Under the Volcano, Over the Volcano

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In 2006, I lived for a year in Waimea, on the Big Island of Hawaii. From my house I could see the Mauna Loa Observatory…

New Scafetta paper – his celestial model outperforms GISS

Dr. Nicola Scafetta writes: Anthony,   I believe that you may be interested in my last published work. This paper suggests that climate is characterized by oscillations that are predictable.…

WUWT at the top of the heap?

UPDATE: 6/5/10 All of the tech issues from yesterday have been resolved. WUWT is now listed as the Top blog in the Sciences category by Wikio. My thanks to everyone…

May UAH Global Temperature Anomaly – holding steady

May 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.53 deg. C. By Dr. Roy Spencer The global-average lower tropospheric temperature remains warm: +0.53 deg. C for May, 2010. The linear trend since…

Noctilucent clouds may be more visible during this summer

From SpaceWeather.com Every summer since the late 19th century, Earth’s polar skies have lit up with gossamer, electric-blue clouds, twisting and rippling in the twilight sky. They’re called noctilucent (“night-shining”)…

Deep Purple Haze – the orginal sunscreen

Early Earth haze likely provided ultraviolet shield for planet, says CU-Boulder study. See press release here. Earth’s thick organic haze 3 billion years ago likely similar to haze hovering over…

The Irony, It Burns …

Anthony commented yesterday on the question of atolls and sea level rise here, and I had previously written on the subject in my post “Floating Islands“. However, Anthony referenced a paper…

Is 2010 Heading For A Record?

By Dr. David Whitehouse, the Global Warming Policy Foundation Today’s Times says, “Nasa analysis showing record global warming undermines the skeptics.” However, a closer look at the information which the…

Wasted watts: Are we heating the Earth too much – with heat?

Guest post by Ron House As readers will know, I have been thinking about the hullabaloo about CO2 and global warming and I quickly concluded that CO2 is no threat,…

Icy consensus: least ice "at least the last few thousand years"

From Ohio State, alarming news about ice, sediments, proxy algae, and other worrisome stuff. It has a familiar ring to it, plus some luck. ARCTIC ICE AT LOW POINT COMPARED…

Tuvalu and many other South Pacific Islands are not sinking, claims they are due to global warming driven sea level rise are opportunistic

Nils Axel Morner and Don Easterbrook told them so. So did Willis, who had some very similar ideas. We’ve mentioned several times here on WUWT that the claims about sea…

The undeath spiral

By Steve Goddard Over the last three years, Arctic Ice has gained significantly in thickness. The graph above was generated by image processing and analysis of PIPS maps, and shows…

The chasm between Apollo and the Gulf

There is no valid analogy between the Gulf spill and Apollo 13 I am honored to present this guest post by Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist Dr. H. Harrison Schmitt…

PIOMAS (non) Verification II

By Steve Goddard In my previous PIOMAS verification piece I noted that PIOMAS volume trends don’t correlate with extent trends over the last three years. PIOMAS has gone down since…

Greenhouse emissions lawsuit dismissed

From the SPPI blog Fifth Circuit Dismisses Comer v. Murphy Oil Source:  Troutman/Sanders Advisory Fifth Circuit Dismisses Comer v. Murphy Oil — A Victory for Industry In Climate Change Tort…

Hot Air in Washington DC- More ASOS Failures?

WUWT readers may recall last summer when the ASOS weather station at the Honolulu Airport malfunctioned, giving a whole series of shonky readings that resulted in a string of new…

The Ice Who Came In From The Cold

Guest post by Willis Eschenbach A few days ago, Steve Goddard put up a post called “Does PIOMAS Verify?” In it, he compared the PIOMAS computer model estimate of the…