Solar UV linkage to earth's atmosphere confirmed

From the “you don’t know everything about the sun and earth yet so stop telling us the sun doesn’t matter” department and National Science Foundation: Shrinking atmospheric layer linked to…

UHI study of the UK Armagh Observatory

Via Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. and with a h/t to Erik, I found this most interesting, because it demonstrates the even small things like hedges can influence temperature readings. This…

Obama SG urges tossing CO2 ruling, greens howl

Obama Admin Urges Supreme Court to Vacate Greenhouse Gas ‘Nuisance’ Ruling By GABRIEL NELSON of Greenwire The Obama administration has urged the Supreme Court to toss out an appeals court…

Attention codgers! Get with the program!

I wouldn’t have believed this if I hadn’t read it for myself. This is an actual study and press release from the University of York.  I’m surprised they didn’t issue…

Ecological Footprints – a good idea gone bad

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In “Another day, overshot to hell” Anthony Watts commented on the “Overshoot Day” promoted by Mathis Wackernagel and the Global Footprint Network (GFN). This is…

Pielke Senior on the surfacetemperatures.org effort

Like me, Dr. Pielke was queried for this article in the Economist, and like me, he responded. Like Dr. Pielke, I documented some of the responses that were not printed…

Hurricane Danielle back to Cat 2, Earl disintegrating

Note the eye forming on Danielle, Earl is disorganized: Latest bulletins:

Fizzing out with Rutgers

From a Rutegers press release Rutgers researchers find a ‘great fizz’ of carbon dioxide at the end of the last ice age Relevance for geo-engineers: What fizzed once, can fizz…

Be a closet climate modeler with Climate@home

First there was SETI@home where you could use spare CPU cycles to look for extraterrestrial signals. Now we have Climate@Home, running NASA GISS modeling software in distributed computing, but no…

Nothing runs like a Deere – company bails on cap and trade

By Bob Tita Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- Deere & Co. (DE) has quietly dropped out of a coalition of large companies that has supported a cap-and-trade program…

First images from deformable mirror telescope at Big Bear

See amazing new sun images from NJIT’s Big Bear Solar Observatory Caption: The most detailed sunspot ever obtained in visible light was seen by new telescope at NJIT’s Big Bear…

Union of Concerned Scientists start media watch program

I guess Media Matters wasn’t enough? Interesting that they specifically target Fox News via the “Rupert Murdoch” mention. But I’d take their advice and send them alerts, there’s plenty of…

Read this about Mars, pass it on, stop the hoax

I get questions about Mars every summer, and they are always related to this same silly chain email. So this year, I felt that being proactive by placing a story…

Surfacetemperatures.org

Readers may recall some months ago that the Met Office planned to “do over” the surface temperature data sets: Met office pushes a surface temperature data “do over” The effort has…

Climate Craziness of the Week: Study shows carnivore species shrank during global warming

Any number of factors 50 million years ago could cause an animal to change, but surely CO2 must be the culprit according to these folks. They don’t even have a…

Danielle a Hurricane again

But just barely…see Danielle in lower right of image Latest news:

The biggest environmental scandal in history

A UN board could rein in $2.7 billion carbon market to prevent the double dipping of CFC manufacturing incentives and carbon credit sales, as discovered to be happening in China.…

Danielle now downgraded to tropical storm

From the “no headlines for you!” department, Danielle loses definition. It goes from TS to Hurricane Cat1, Cat2, and back to TS in less than 24 hours…see the image below…

Connolley may be out at Wikipedia

For those who don’t know, William Connolley, a Real Climate founding contributor, has been the most prolific climate information gatekeeper at Wikipedia, and was the subject of this Lawrence Solomon…

WUWT adminstrative note

I’m pleased to announce that with a new WordPress.com upgrade now available, sharing of WUWT posts is now much easier. I’d like to ask WUWT readers to take a moment…