Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Yeah, I know Nature doesn’t have human emotions, give me a break. I’m aware it is unscientific and dare I call it atavistic and perhaps…
Month: October 2010
The age of "civilization in peril"
Warren Meyer runs the website climate-skeptic.com and has been one of our early surfacestations project volunteers, getting that famous photo of the climate monitoring weather station in the hot parking…
Pielke Sr. defends Judith Curry in SA "heretic" characterization
Misleading Text In A Scientific American Article That Judy Curry Is A “Climate Heretic” I was very disappointed to read erroneous information, in an otherwise very informative article, in the Scientific American by Michael D. Lemonick…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) On Monday President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic gave the inaugural lecture of the Global Warming Policy…
Errors in global precipitation measurement
Mother Jones news has an “alarming” article called “Our Coming Mega-Drought” in which they say “…virtually all of the world except for China and Russia will experience increased drought by…
The stupefying pace of glacier melt in the 1940s
Here’s a bit of research that you don’t normally see in the MSM stories about glacier melt. It is backed up by a second and very interesting article (below) from…
NPR weighs in on climate change policy, predictably
NPR helpfully weighs in on climate change and the upcoming election. Even though a certain party has had super-majority control of the Congress and the Executive branch for the past…
Major Winter Storm headed for the US West Coast
Snow will come to California’s Sierra Nevada a bit earlier than usual. Animate this image >>> Ryan Maue adds: “as this storm pulls eastward, it will “bomb” out or explosively…
More Oddities with the IPCC Numbers
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A number of people have said Hey, in your previous post, the missing forcing is going into the ocean, so it’s still “in the pipeline”.…
Breakthrough at Scientific American
Vincent Gray advises me via email: Dear Folks I have been a subscriber to the “Scientific American” for as long as I can remember. I have been bitterly disappointed at…
Discovery: more than just water in moon's craters
From Science@NASA: Nearly a year after announcing the discovery of water molecules on the moon, scientists have revealed new data uncovered by NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or…
A Strange Problem with the IPCC Numbers
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach ABSTRACT The IPCC says that the expected change in temperature arising from a change in forcing is equal to the change in forcing times the…
Mike Mann's "secret" meeting on the Medieval Warm Period
While not really “secret”, one might describe it that way because unlike the many things Dr. Mann has been doing lately, there wasn’t one peep of press coverage about it.…
Plants Play Larger Role Than Thought in Cleaning up Air Pollution
From the National Science Foundation: “Plants clean our air to a greater extent than we had realized,” says NCAR scientist Thomas Karl, the lead author. The National Arbor Day foundation…
Friday Funnies: Global Rounding
Since we all enjoy some some humor at Al Gore’s expanse, I bring you the comedy of my weird and wacky libertarian friend, Will Franken. No he’s not related to…
Climatism: That Climate Change Chameleon
Guest post by Steve Goreham Climatism, the belief that man-made greenhouse gases are destroying Earth’s climate, is a remarkably flexible ideology. Calling it “global warming” for many years, advocates then…
Eight tenths of a degree? Think of the Grandchildren!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach James Hansen and others say that we owe it to our Grandchildren to get this climate question right. Hansen says “Grandchildren” with a capital G…
Spencer on the Lacis-NASA GISS CO2 paper
Does CO2 Drive the Earth’s Climate System? Comments on the Latest NASA GISS Paper by Dr. Roy Spencer There was a very clever paper published in Science this…
On Bradley: Blackmail or Let’s Make a Deal.
Guest Post by Steven Mosher Not the funniest Monty Python sketch, but for me it illustrates what the climate wars have finally come down to: blackmail. The examples range from…
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