From the University of Hawaii at Manoa, more of the “more heat = more hurricanes” meme. Threshold sea surface temperature for hurricanes and tropical thunderstorms is rising IMAGE: The average…
Month: November 2010
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) The US news this week was dominated by the elections during which the Republicans won convincing…
60,000,000
Congratulations are in order for hitting the 60-million mark in page-views. As you can see from the Alexa traffic rank, WUWT has remained steadfastly popular since that pesky ClimateGate story…
AGU backs away from "climate rapid response team" citing faulty reporting
The inaccurate LA Times story AGU cites was excerpted (via a Chicago Tribune reprint) and linked here yesterday at WUWT. AGU issued this press release today, which is repeated in…
New essay from Dr. David Evans and SPPI
This has just been released today, and it carries on the cover a well known USHCN station photograph. You’ll probably recognize a number of the surfacestations.org photos in it. Unfortunately,…
Public carbon trading dead in the USA
Gore’s grand experiment has flatlined. As we reported almost two weeks ago, the Gore and Pachauri advised Chicago Carbon Exchange (CCX) has closed. Closing price? A nickel per ton of…
Metadata fail: 230 GHCN land stations actually in the water
Why is this important? Well if you are calculating UHI for stations by looking at satellite images of nightlights, like GISS does (see my post on it at CA) ,…
John Abraham panics, apparently he and the AGU are forming a "Climate rapid response team"
UPDATE! See this new press release: AGU backs away from “climate rapid response team” citing faulty reporting Gosh. A “Climate rapid response team” from Minnesota? What will they be armed with?…
A Lazy Rainy Metadata Sunday
Guest post by Steven Mosher I’m feeling lazy today, after a few months of writing code around the metadata question, I have a post to write up about 230 land…
Phil Jones and the Chinese weather station corruption
WUWT readers may recall the bizarre saga of Douglas Keenan’s attempt to bring the research data of CRU’s Dr. Phil Jones and SUNY’s Dr. Wei Chyung Wang to sunlight, which…
Why Mitigation Should Not Be the Climate Change Policy of Choice (Even if it’s a Real Problem)
AMS [American Meteorological Society] Policy Statement on Inadvertent Weather Modification Illustrates Fuzzy and Flawed Thinking on Public Policy By Indur M. Goklany The AMS has a new policy statement on…
Another letter from Hal Lewis to the American Physical Society
Dr. Harold Lewis sent this today via email with a request to make it public here. I’m happy to oblige. Read the letter to understand the movie poster.- Anthony Date:…
Climate Change: The Keywords (Part 1 of 3)
Written by Geraldo Luís Lino, special to Climate Change Dispatch – reposted here at WUWT by request – Note: the opinion of this author is not necessarily the same as…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Soylent Green Earth Sim
Ecotretas writes in with another stranger than fiction idea, now coming to PC near you: I’ve put up a post regarding a game that is being launched: Fate of the…
Diminishing returns on climate models
Diminishing Returns From Multi-Decadal Global Climate Model Simulations By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. I have posted that the NSF is funding grants which as part of (or all) of their focus is to…
California's Prop 23 and the "big oil money" campaign – outspent 3 to 1
You and I know it was never about facts, it was about hyping the green dream. Just look at the numbers. First from the opposition: Of course they don’t dare…
Oh, that's gotta hurt
The results are in, and even though Joe Romm suggested: “Please click here and freep this poll until the magazine has the decency to take it down.” He apparently had…
Friday Funny – Congressional Frosh
Elmer Beauregard of Minnesotans for Global Warming writes in with today’s funny: M4GW’s Newest Song – I’m a Denier He writes: It’s a parody of “I’m a Believer” written by…
Should our biggest climate change fear be fear itself?
Historian Matthias Dörries reveals the role of fear in our understanding of climate change From apocalyptic forecasting to estimates of mass extinctions, climate change is a topic which is filled…
Clouds: The Wild Card of Climate Change
I guess they really don’t have a full handle on the science and consensus after all. NSF Releases Online, Multimedia Package Titled, “Clouds: The Wild Card of Climate Change” Reader-friendly…
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