The season of disinvitation continues

As we’ve seen previously this week: Enviro and Media Agenda on Extreme Weather – State Climatologist Invited, then Uninvited to Rally …”disinvitation” seems to be the latest tool for stifling debate.…

Cancel all your European travel and vacation plans – carbon trading extortion is here

This is idiotic. The EU carbon trading cabal has decided to extort the rest of the air travel world starting in 2012. In a nutshell, they’ll ban flights from landing…

Rebuild California! Vote for your favorite Jerry Brown commercial idea

The California governor’s race is heating up with former governor Jerry Brown (D) running against former EBay CEO Meg Whitman (R).  Brown, after decades in government has apparently run out…

Los Angeles laughs at recent "invisible summer" AP article

Downtown Los Angeles scorches with temperatures 110+ F … NWS Current temp at USC [UPDATE: 2:30 PM Pacific: USC station no longer reporting?- Ryan  2:52 FIXED LINK – Anthony]   WUWT: …

Examining Trenberth's 'The heat will come back to haunt us sooner or later' statement

Inspired by a WUWT comment from Bill Illis in the Maybe they’ve found Trenberth’s missing heat thread, I’ve elevated this to full post status and provided the relevant graphics from the…

Skeptical Science? John Cook – embarrassing himself

Another fall from grace.

New discovery may lead to a malaria vaccine

WUWT recently carried a guest post from Indur Goklany titled Smacking Down Malaria Misconceptions which generated a lot of contentious comments, inflammatory rebuttal posts, and even a permanent ban of Ed…

Wasted Opportunities

Guest post by Thomas Fuller Although I’m a big fan of solar power and think it has a bright future, I must admit that our focus on the Big Three…

More follow up on the solar-neutrinos-radioactive decay story – experimental falsification

Getting out of the solar core, neutrinos are speed demons, photons are slugs. h/t to Leif Svalgaard for the graphical annotation inspiration. Solar core image from NASA. In August, WUWT…

Bilderberg Group discusses "Global Cooling" at 2010 meeting

James Delingpole has found something interesting: He writes: Bilderberg. Whether you believe it’s part of a sinister conspiracy which will lead inexorably to one world government or whether you think…

A MUST READ: European climate, Alpine glaciers and Arctic ice in relation to North Atlantic SST record

In my opinion, this essay is a must read because it clearly illustrates correlation between ocean cycles to; Arctic ice loss and gain, glacier advance and retreat, and land surface…

An update on the plight of the Thompsons

Just one week after the A Call To Action for the WUWT Community the latest tally is: $ 30,017 USD On behalf of the Thompsons, thank you WUWT readers for…

Sea Ice News #24

After a false start that fooled even the experts, it appears that sea ice has turned the corner, for real this time. NSIDC issued an update this week: Update: 21…

Maybe they've found Trenberth's missing heat

NOAA: Scientists Find 20 Years of Deep Water Warming Leading to Sea Level Rise Sea-level rise has the potential to reshape the coastal environment. Credit: NOAA) Scientists analyzing measurements taken…

Where Consensus Fails – The Science Cannot Be Called 'Settled'

Guest Post by Thomas Fuller Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch have just published the findings of a survey conducted with practicing climate scientists. The survey was conducted in 2008…

Enviro and Media Agenda on Extreme Weather – State Climatologist Invited, then Uninvited to Rally

As we’ve previously seen with Professor Bob Carter in “The phenomena of disinvitation and the brotherhood of silence“, the surfacetemperatures.org meeting in Exeter, where the people that raised the issues about…

New paper in Nature on ocean cycles finally causes recognition in media

Our sceptical connection in Germany, Pierre Gosselin, has taken notice of an article in Der Spiegel that speaks of the link to ocean cycles for climate. Of course we’ve known…

Climate science solar shock and awe

I saw this yesterday, but I decided to wait a day just in case it disappeared. It’s quite the surprise to see the New Scientist dedicate a story, much less…

Igor cool ocean

As I’ve written before, hurricanes are natural heat engines. They transport surface heat to the upper atmosphere for dissipation to space. They do a splendid job of cooling the ocean…

Wood fired power plants help reduce climate change

A retro idea in the UK is already in the US, I’d say it is a better method than some traditional power plant operations, but only works if you have…

Google Earth leads to spectacular meteor crater find

From the European Space Agency via press release, the modern meteorite enthusiast’s dream – finding a crater on Google Earth and seeing it through to full discovery. As more and…

Engelbeen on why he thinks the CO2 increase is man made (part 4).

Foreword: This is the final entry in a four part series by Fedinand Engelbeen. While the narrative is contrary to the views of many of our readers, it is within…

NASA discovery: solar storms don't always travel in straight lines

Once again, Nature surprises us with a “curve ball”. It makes sense to think that a flare/CME off the sun would head in a straight line outward. But as we…

Where the particulates are (and aren't)

This press release from NASA has the usual FUD in it, particularly with the “health-sapping” title. But what I find most interesting is the lack of 2.5 μm particulates in…