By Dr. Roger Pielke Senior There is a weblog called “Skeptical Science – Getting Skeptical About Global Warming Skepticism” that has a misleading post on ocean heat content titled Ocean cooling:…
Month: September 2010
Ninety Eight Point Six (Thirty Seven)
Guest Post by Thomas Fuller If you type ‘the planet has a fever’ into Google, it will return 3,120,000 results. And none of them are about Peggy Lee. Or even…
An Open Letter to Mr. Bill Gates
The Quality of Life for the World’s Poorest Can Be Advanced Farther, Faster, Cheaper and More Surely Through Adaptation than Through Zero-Carbon Technologies Guest Post By Indur M. Goklany A…
Unbearably stupid polar bear advertising
First let me say this: I like electric cars for city use. I own and drive one. That said, this has got to be the stupidest professionally produced commercial I’ve…
Study: worst climate threat machines still to be built
Main climate threat from CO2 sources yet to be built From press release Stanford, CA— Scientists have warned that avoiding dangerous climate change this century will require steep cuts in…
Friday Funny – Lord Oxburgh's CRU Pie
One of our always sharp WUWT commenters made this excellent Oxburgh pie in response to the story: Lord Oxburgh’s whirlwind whitewash tour ====================================================== stevenlibby says: September 10, 2010 at 10:31 am…
[Climate] War, what is it good for?
Climate Change Not Linked To African Wars Excerpts from: Quirin Schiermeier, Nature News, 6 September 2010 In his popular 2008 book Climate Wars, the US journalist and military historian Gwynne Dyer…
Sea Level Rise: Hype and Reality
UPDATE: The feckless gold digger weighs in here with a chorus of usual suspects. It is quite humorous to watch. Guest post by Thomas Fuller At the conclusion of the…
Study: "Arctic was 5C warmer during the (LIG) Last InterGlaciation than at present"
Wikipedia says: The Eemian was an interglacial period which began about 130,000 years ago and ended about 114,000 years ago. It was the second-to-latest interglacial period of the current Ice…
Nature uses the D-word
From an editorial from nature.com, and published in the journal, they seem to think the d-word is proper vernacular. Science scorned Volume: 467, Page: 133 Date published: (09 September 2010)…
Another hockey stick – meanwhile, the death of light bulbs
Kate at SmallDeadAnimals.com points out that there’s a new hockey stick afoot. With some homogenization and principal components analysis, I’m sure the past can be smoothed out. From: United States…
Lord Oxburgh's whirlwind whitewash tour
When Oxburgh produced a 5 page report on the UEA/CRU Climategate issue, we immediately say it as “spartan”, while some called it “efficient”. We wondered how such a small report…
Deconstructing the Icons
Guest post by Thomas Fuller I wrote earlier that a series of symbolic images have been stamped on the professional communications sent out by those most interested in very active…
NAS report: "There is an apparent plateau in our ability to make accurate seasonal forecasts"
I have not had time to read this report, but I have gathered both the short form and long form version of the report and placed links in the University…
I Am So Tired of Malthus
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Daily we are deluged with gloom about how we are overwhelming the Earth’s ability to sustain and support our growing numbers. Increasing population is again…
New irrigation effects study counter to what Christy discovered
This press release below from Columbia University shown below suggests that irrigation cools the region undergoing irrigation. However, a study published three years ago of California’s central valley by Dr.…
Inconvenient Ice Study: Less ice in the Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 years ago
Since there is so much worry about the Arctic Sea Ice extent this time of year, it is always good to get some historical perspective. According to this study, our…
Watch recent hurricanes cool the Atlantic
The Atlantic has been running warm lately, but that’s because there’s been little happening with Nature’s natural heat transporters. WUWT commenter SteveM pointed out something interesting in the latest SST…
Working 9,25 What a way to make a livin (at AGW)
9,25 – a factor that could close the global warming debate Guest post by Frank Lansner (hidethedecline) The CO2-sensitivity describes the warming effect induced by a doubling of the CO2…
Arctic in the Holocene, narwhals, and all that
UPDATE: Apparently Joe Romm can’t handle this information. Ecotretas records the action here. Readers may have seen this BBC story: BBC – Earth News – Climate change threatens slow swimming…
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