ESA shows movement of Petermann berg

The “deniersberg” is on the move. Chances are though it will not leave Nares strait before the refreeze occurs. Like most everything to do with Arctic ice, winds are the…

Drifting Back to the Center

Guest post by Thomas Fuller Climate Central’s interview with Harold Shapiro, head of the InterAcademy Council which reviewed the IPCC, had the money quote–but it didn’t come from Shapiro, it…

NASA probe to 'touch, taste and smell' the sun.

From Science @NASA: Let’s hope it doesn’t taste like chicken or smell like feet. NASA’s daring plan to visit the sun took a giant leap forward today with the selection…

New climate change mitigation schemes could benefit elites rather than the rural poor

It’s nice to see somebody worried about elitism and climate change. The Climate Change Conference (COP16), to be held later this year in Cancun, Mexico may be yet another demonstration…

UM report labels Discovery Channel incident "politically inspired terrorism"

Via Press release (Eurekalert) Report from START: Discovery Networks Hostage-Taking a Rare Terror Event U.S. Violent Terror Rarely Against Media, Capital; Rare for Environmentalists COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A new…

UAH August Global Temperature, still in a holding pattern

Up slightly from .489 last month to .511 a change of .022 degrees C August 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.51 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer While the global-average…

New York Post: Meltdown of the climate 'consensus'

Excerpts: Meltdown of the climate ‘consensus’ By MATT PATTERSON If this keeps up, no one’s going to trust any scientists. The global-warming establishment took a body blow this week, as…

Stop the Hysteria

Guest Post by Thomas Fuller After the tragic events in Maryland on Wednesday of this week, where a man  took three hostages and tried to make The Discovery Channel a…

Latest Hurricane Earl Info

As a service to my readers, here is a collection of related satellite graphics, loops, and other info about Hurricane Earl now skirting the East Coast. You can animate the…

Where are the solar power projects?

From the Ventura County Star: ROACH DRY LAKE, Nev. — Not a light bulb’s worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set…

Study: Ammonium as ice core proxy shows strong Medieval Warm Period in the tropics

The MWP has been vigorously argued to be a regional northern hemisphere phenomenon only, but this new study finds it in South America. In this new paper they write: “The…

Open Sea Ice Thread

With Sea Ice News # 20 closed here is a place for ongoing discussing the 2010 season. That’s it. I may add a picture later.

New weather satellite passes shakedown, operational

It’s always a bit of a worry when you have development times of years, and the lifetimes of operational satellites are just about as long as the development and launch…

Personalized energy systems

Could be another pie in the sky idea, but one could always hope. – Anthony A new catalyst could help speed development of inexpensive home-brewed solar energy systems for powering…

When warmistas attack

Note: There’s a response and analysis to this post here. NOTE: Predictably, Joe Romm has turned this post into a personal bashing of me over at his Climate Progress blog.…

Study: Goodbye to Spanish cold nights

We’ve also heard that “snow will be a thing of the past” too. Via Euerkalert and the University of Salamanca, some heated worry, sans UHI, and AMO: Given the impact…

Global Energy Use in the 21st Century

Guest Post by Thomas Fuller This is a great time to talk about energy use worldwide. Not because it’s topical, or politically important, or anything like that.   It’s a…

Klotzbach and Gray: "the next two weeks will be near climatology"

Guest Post by Ric Werme The CSU Klotzbach/Gray Sep 1-14 hurricane forecast (PDF) is out. This period is the peak of the hurricane season and average conditions are pretty active:…