UPDATE: A prescient comment from Willis Eschenbach has been added to the body of the story, see below. There’ an article in Nature Magazine which is an interview with Phil…
Month: November 2010
Quote of the Week – 20/20 hindsight
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr writes in the “$82 billion prediction” post Katrina: The Sarasota Herald-Tribune has an revealing article today about the creation in 2006 of a “short-term” hurricane risk…
French give the boot to the "Super Ministry of Environment"
From Pierre Gosselins “No Tricks Zone”, some encouraging news; the French have surrendered to common sense. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has pulled the plug on the French prestige project, a…
The Constructal Law of Flow Systems
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach One of the most fundamental and far-reaching discoveries in modern thermodynamics is the Constructal Law (see the wiki entry as well). It was first formulated…
Himilayan Melting Glacier Alarm Version 2.0
No mention of the IPCC’s flawed 2035 date, but still many of the same talking points are used. It pays to recycle I suppose. This statement: “But climate change is…
Complaints against Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
WUWT readers may remember Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg from when I had a tussle with him during my speaking tour in Australia in Brisbane. Then, the good professor thought his opinion…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Amusment park or Ecopolis?
I can see where something like this might work as a resort. But 250 million “climate refugees”? Really? From job-maldives.com where they are “celebrating three years of service”: LILYPAD, A…
Inconvenient eco bags – now with lead
From the New York Times: Even Reusable Bags Carry Environmental Risk By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM They dangle from the arms of many New Yorkers, a nearly ubiquitous emblem of empathy…
A suggestion to Dr. James Hansen: go protest coal in China
Over at the Air Vent, Jeff Id has a very interesting story by Roddy Campbell, and in particular one graph that struck me as thought provoking. When I first saw…
Sea Ice News #29
In sea ice news this week, Arctic sea ice continues its inexorable climb toward the summit, to be reached sometime in March 2011. At present the ice growth is tracking…
Fighting ice at the nano level – a promise for improved safety
This is a really neat discovery. As we all know, ice is a big killer and safety hazard, especially on airplanes. This new material prevents supercooled droplets from freezing, sticking,…
Climate Change: The Keywords (Part 2 of 3)
Climate Change: The Keywords (Part 2 of 3) Part 1 here Written by Geraldo Luís Lino, special to Climate Change Dispatch – cross posted at WUWT The second keyword for…
Investors Business Daily: A New Consensus
IBD picks up on the SciAm poll WUWT covered here. Global Warming: Wouldn’t the followers of Scientific American have a pretty good understanding of what’s really going on with the…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Distinguished physicist Hal Lewis caused a furor when he submitted his letter of resignation to the…
Booker: The climate change scare is dying, but do our MPs notice?
The collapse of the warmist position on climate change has not impinged on politicians in Britain or Brussels, says Christopher Booker. Nothing more poignantly reflects the collapse of the great…
Small town news gets it: The "green dream" in California is bankrupt, CARB is arrogant, state lawmakers clueless
From home of the weather station that started it all, Marysville, CA their small town newspaper writes a scathing opinion on the California Air Resources Board. They get it. The…
New Felis Catus; humans drool, cat rules
UPDATE: felis catus reacquired – see below. In the middle of all the recent family medical troubles, we also lost our cat of 15.5 years, “Minners”, due to age related…
Comparing CO2 in warm and cold periods in geologic history
I recall a conversation I had with Dr. Bob Carter at a restaurant in Townsville, QLD after our public presentations there in June 2010 where he lamented the fact that…
Gore's Movie in the UK – behind the scenes battle
This is an interesting analysis of the laws and behind the scenes posturing related to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and broadcasting rules. Lest anyone ever think that Wikipedian William…
Save the Sunburnt Whales
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like…
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