From Geekosystem: [This is a must watch video / safe for work] On Wednesday, thousands of Springfield, Ohio residents were left without power when a 275-foot smokestack being demolished fell…
Month: November 2010
Drought, Titicaca, Poopo, and Local Tipping Points
Press Release 10-216 Catastrophic Drought Looms for Capital City of Bolivia Historical ecology of the Andes indicates desert-like setting on the horizon Catastrophic drought is on the near-term horizon for…
A bad news week for AGW proponents
This is a collection of news story excerpts this past week. AGW proponents and environmentalists is general are taking hit after hit in the media this week. – Anthony From…
Stubborn Antarctic Ozone Hole refuses to change
Maybe it is because the major catalyst isn’t CFC’s after all? See this story: Galactic Cosmic Rays May Be Responsible For The Antarctic Ozone Hole In the conclusions of the paper…
My Comments On The Andy Lacis Post On CO2 As A Climate Thermostat
By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. Andy Lacis has posted two guest contributions on my weblog; Guest Post “CO2: The Thermostat That Controls Earth’s Temperature” By Andy Lacis Further Comment…
Study: CO2 sequestration may contaminate groundwater
From the “MTBE is perfectly safe department” and Duke University: Leaking underground CO2 storage could contaminate drinking water DURHAM, N.C. — Leaks from carbon dioxide injected deep underground to help…
Germany's Greens get ugly with climate skeptics
When I first saw this I thought to myself “maybe posting this isn’t appropriate on Veterans Day”. Then, after additional reflection, I realized this is exactly what our American veterans…
The best shot?
Guest post by Matt Ridley (with permission, from his blog The Rational Optimist h/t to Indur Goklany) UPDATE: David MacKay’s letter is now up in a separate post here Some…
"Extreme global warming" in the ancient past
Ancient global warming: but which came first, the temperature or the CO2? From the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) Variations in atmosphere carbon dioxide around 40 million years ago were…
Cassini's CIRS Reveals Saturn Is on a "Cosmic Dimmer Switch"
From Science @NASA – Study suggests changes in Saturn’s emitted power are related to varying cloud cover. Like a cosmic light bulb on a dimmer switch, Saturn emitted gradually less…
Mount Merapi SO2 plume headed for Australia
Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano put a lot of ejecta into the air; ash, CO2, and SO2. Here’s a recent news report showing the eruption: Tracked by satellite, now the Sulfur…
"Climate-Ready" Rice
From the “I love the smell of rice-a-roni in the morning” department and the Global Rice Science Partnership, we have adaptation to a warmer more CO2 laden world. It’s another…
"Gross" Data Errors in GHCN V2. for Australia
UPDATE: 11/11/10 An errata has been posted, see the end of this essay – Anthony Guest post by Ed Thurstan of Sydney, Australia Synopsis This study shows that the NOAA…
35 years ago: The Witch of November Come Stealin
Today is the 35th anniversary of the sinking of the Great Lakes ore carrier, the Edmund Fitzgerald. The shipped was sunk by “The Witch of November”, a strong Lake Superior…
Mystery "missile launch" off California – solved?
UPDATE: Contrail Science writes: Note to the media – since this was almost certainly Flight AWE808 (US Airways) from Hawaii to Phoenix, why not have a camera crew somewhere in…
Turning UHI into harvestable electric power
From the University of Rhode Island, some ideas on putting waste city heat to good use. They seem to recognize what most climate scientists don’t. There’s a lot of heat…
Tom Fuller exits stage left, poetically
Frequent WUWT contributor Tom Fuller has decided to step away from blogging. His final post is below. Tom provided some greatly appreciated help in keeping WUWT humming while I dealt…
David Whitehouse: The Climate Coincidence: Why is the temperature unchanging?
From: The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 9 November 2010 It seems probable that 2010 will be in terms of global annual average temperature statistically identical to the annual temperatures of…
Peak Oil panic: Oil will run dry before substitutes roll out
Via press release: a forecast study of investor patterns from UC Davis. Stock prices suggest a 90-year gap At the current pace of research and development, global oil will run…
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