Merry Christmas! The best numerical weather prediction models in the world have been churning out 5-day forecasts for the past few days that will make someone pull their hair out. The main question is how far east will the major extratropical cyclone or blizzard develop over the Atlantic off of New England. The track details…
Old, but untold. Trenberth treated us to a trick in his Halloween interview with Bill Sweet by changing the sign on his own most famous quote. As Trenberth now tells it: One cherry-picked message saying we can’t account for current global warming and that this is a travesty went viral and got more than 100,000…
I’ll be offline Christmas through News Years day, until about Jan 2nd but may check in from time to time. Those of you that signed up to be guest authors, and have been approved, check your email for instructions. If you don’t see it check your spam filter as there were many links. If you…
Josh from Cartoons by Josh offers this cheerful holiday message…
From the Independent, March 20th, 2000: However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a…
By Charles The Moderator, I have lived in California all my life, the first half in SoCal, the second half in NorCal. A funny thing happens ever year. If we have a below normal amount of rain, in the spring we get warnings that it’s going to be severe wildfire season, because the brush is…
Happened on the Willis Energy thread. And the winner is…
This is a web formatted version of the PDF found here on Dr. James Hansen’s Columbia.edu web site. I don’t have much respect left for Dr. Hansen, particularly when he uses the word “deniers” nine times in this interview. The interview itself is like pal-review, since McKibben isn’t capable of being an unbiased interviewer/interviewee, and…