Generating energy from ocean waters off Hawaii

This seems like an interesting idea, the feasibility may drop with scale though. College Park, MD (August 3, 2010) — Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa say that…

A color scheme change for the SST map

By Steve Goddard WUWT reader “Roy” astutely noted that the NOAA SST map shows a lot of hot yellow, in regions which are just barely above normal temperatures. So I…

Morphed Climate/Energy Bill is DOA in the Senate

From:  The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com Senate Democrats on Tuesday abandoned all hopes of passing even a slimmed-down energy bill before they adjourn for the summer recess, saying that they…

Earth Braces for Solar Storm Tonite

NASA announced that a massive solar flare that erupted Sunday should strike Earth some time tonite in the early AM hours (Correction, has struck Earth, details follow). “This eruption is…

New carbon dioxide emissions model: "carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced to around zero by the end of the century"

Via press release from the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science New carbon dioxide emissions model Meteorologists have determined exactly how much carbon dioxide humans can emit into…

Open Water At The North Pole

by Steven Goddard, We have been watching temperatures and webcam images closely at the NOAA North Pole drifting weather station this year. Except for a few days in early July,…

UAH Global Temperature – still in a holding pattern

While Sea Surface Temperatures are cooling sharply as shown here, global surface temperature is still oscillating around 0.40 to 0.50C for the last four months. This is not surprising as…

Global Sea Surface Temperature Cooling Continues

Above: Sea Surface Temperature anomaly map from NOAA/NESDIS.  Note the La Nina building in the Pacific. By Dr. Roy Spencer Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) measured by the AMSR-E instrument on…

A new must read paper: McKitrick on GHCN and the quality of climate data

This new paper by Dr. Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph is a comprehensive review of the GHCN surface and sea temperature data set. Unlike many papers (such as…

July average maxima in San Francisco coolest since 1971

Supposedly Mark Twain once asserted: “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” This July was cold, and Twain’s quote? Well, read on. My friend Jan…

Climatologists consensus on global warming: poll sample size 79

From the Hockey Schtick: The 97% “Consensus” is only 76 Self-Selected Climatologists The graphic [directly above] comes via our friends at skepticalscience, assuring us that while 97% of “climate scientists think…

NOAA to Issue Updated Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook

Here’s the last NOAA release on hurricane season:  NOAA Expects Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season from May 27, 2010. Now an update is coming. Still busy? We’ll see. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:…

25 years ago today: an event that changed meteorology and aviation

The 25th Anniversary of the Crash of Delta 191 By Mike Smith of Meteorological Musings. ( a video and reconstruction follows – Anthony) At 9:30am this morning, a long-overdue memorial…

Mallory and Irvine on Everest: Did extreme weather cause their disappearance?

Via Eurekalert and the “climate doesn’t kill people, weather does” department Research considers role of weather in historic Everest tragedy Their legend has inspired generations of mountaineers since their ill-fated…

NOAA graphs: 62% Of Continental US Below Normal In 2010

By Steve Goddard This map below is from the NOAA High Plains Regional Climate Center and shows the continental USA as “departure from normal for Jan1st, 2010 to July 31,…

Heidi Cullen doomcasts in new stemwinding sci-fi thriller

Dr. Heidi Cullen of Weather Channel fame but now CEO of Climate Central outfit is publishing a new book on August 3, so far #138,256 on Amazon’s bestsellers but sure…

A primer for disproving IPCC’s theory of man made global warming using observed temperature data

Guest post By Girma Orssengo, MASc, PhD Comparison of the claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of 1) “Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures…

Sea Ice News #16

By Steven Goddard, http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php Summer is rapidly winding down in the Arctic, and (based on DMI graphs) the region north of 80N appears set to finish the summer as the…

Kold in Kazakhstan

By Steven Goddard, There has been a lot of talk about the hot weather in Moscow over the last couple of weeks. This normally gets reported as the “hot weather…

The phenomena of disinvitation and the brotherhood of silence

Closing out dissent By Professor Bob Carter August 1, 2010, originally published at Quadrant Online, portions republished here with permission. The phenomena of disinvitation and the brotherhood of silence Scientists…