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…
Month: September 2010
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…
Bad news for green technology
From Slashdot: The NY Times reports that the Chinese government has placed a trade embargo on all exports to Japan of a crucial category of minerals used in products like…
More dirty pool by NCDC's Karl, Menne, and Peterson
I’ve mentioned more than once in the past how the Tom Karl managed National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) team has taken to using my data without my permission. They even…
Surprise: Peer reviewed study says current Arctic sea ice is more extensive than most of the past 9000 years
While Joe Romm and Mark Serreze bloviate about the current Arctic sea ice being “lowest in history”, science that doesn’t have an agenda (or paying thinktank) attached says otherwise: “More…
Obituary: Ernst Georg Beck
Benny Pieser of the GWPF writes: Edgar L. Gärtner, a German climate blogger, has written an obituary for Ernst George Beck./ It’s a translation from a German article here. I…
BBC questions if Pachauri's continued presence "is still serving the best interests of the IPCC"
Roger Harrabin of the BBC writes: UN climate chief resignation call Several environmentalists, UK MPs and scientists has called for the resignation of Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN’s climate…
RC's response to McShane and Wyner: a case of orange cones
Gavin Schmidt, Michael Mann, and Scott Rutherford have written a comment letter to the Annals of Applied Statistics to the Hockey Stick busting McShane and Wyner paper covered on WUWT…
Ocean cooling contributed to mid-20th century global warming hiatus (and so did the PDO)
NOTE: As is typical these days, and in keeping with co-author Phil Jones tradition of not giving up anything, the publicly funded scientific paper is not included with the news,…
The planet Mercury has a comet like tail
Via Eurekalert: Mercury found to have comet-like appearance by satellites looking at sun ROME and BOSTON – Scientists from Boston University’s Center for Space Physics reported today that NASA satellites…
Arctic isolated versus "urban" stations show differing trends
I’ve reposted this here in entirety with permission from Pierre Gosselin of “No Tricks Zone“, and it is well worth the read. Much of this work was inspired by posts…
And the Lord said: "Go forth and model Moses"
I guess with Climate change enlightenment was fun while it lasted. But now it’s dead (George Monbiot) there’s not much for those modelers and supercomputers at NCAR to do. So…
NOAA/NCDC – USHCN is broken please send 100 million dollars
While this would certainly put an end to the poor siting problems discovered by the surfacestations.org project, I can’t help but think almost everything related to climate can be solved…
Unsustainable cow manure
Since we are watching the plight of the Thompsons in Australia over cow manure, this submission titled “Unsustainable cow manure” on sustainable energy sent to me by Paul Driessen seemed…
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