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…
Month: September 2010
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…
Plight of the Thompsons takes top 5 in WordPress
The call to action hasn’t yet been picked up by MSM, but at least it’s taken a top position on wordpress. See below.
We're Burning Money
Guest Post by Thomas Fuller A lot of energy efficiency innovations save money on utility bills for businesses, homeowners and even governments that adopt them. So why aren’t they all…
NOAA it's 12AM, do you know where your metadata is?
For example, until surfacestations volunteer Juan Slayton photographed it, there was no metadata to record the fact that this official USHCN station of record is sited over a tombstone. From…
URGENT – A call to action for the WUWT community
NOTE: Updates have been posted below, including the tally. I need your help, because they need your help. Please read this whole story and consider if you can help. WUWT…
Quote of the week – zzzzz
Some weeks we are given gifts from on high. This week was one of them. Give thanks to George Monbiot for this gem, from his essay: Climate change enlightenment was…
Walrus-gate 2.0: media recycles climate change claims from exactly year ago
One year ago [Sept 19, 2009], WUWT reported upon the alarming problem of walrus stampedes and dead carcasses washing up on beaches. Now, exactly one-year later, the NBC Today Show…
Pollution monitoring? There's an app for that.
USC lab releases smartphone app that measures particulate air pollution ‘Visibility’ now available for download; developers hope users can help fill in the many blanks in existing air quality maps…
Physicist says fossil fuel burning is insignificant in the global carbon pool
Physicist Dr. Denis Rancourt, a former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa, has officially bailed out of the man-made global warming movement, calling it a ‘corrupt…
Low-tech garbage heap makes for simplest carbon sequestration
From the Washington Post By Hugh Price In New Haven, W.Va., the Mountaineer Power Plant is using a complicated chemical process to capture about 1.5 percent of the carbon dioxide…
New Zealand's ETS law will surely fix this
It has been just 2.5 months since the carbon Emissions Trading Scheme kicked in for New Zealand. I’m sure if they give it a little more time, spring snows like…
Sea Ice News #23, plus a bonus NOAA sea ice blunder
NOTE: This post has several images, including two animations. Those on slower connections, please be patient while they load. This week, I suppose the best word to describe the status…
Jupiter closest this week, not again until 2022
Been outside at midnight lately? There’s something you really need to see. Jupiter is approaching Earth for the closest encounter between the two planets in more than a decade–and it…
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