You’ve probably heard the forecasts already, watch it advance on radar below: Animate this image: >>> Look at all of the warnings below, the red area from Oklahoma to Lake…
Month: January 2011
Carbon Dioxide and Earth's Future
by Craig and Sherwood Idso Special Issue This week we announce the release of our newest major report, Carbon Dioxide and Earth’s Future: Pursuing the Prudent Path. Based on the…
Breaking – Court refuses to block EPA climate rules
Green Hell Blog writes: The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused late Friday to stop the EPA’s greenhouse gas rules from going into effect on January…
Some People Claim There’s a Human to Blame (GW Tiger)
Guest post by Ira Glickstein Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame, But I know, it’s my own damn fault.. The original Jimmy Buffet lyrics say “woman to…
CRU's shifting sands of global surface temperature
Excerpt from The Inconvenient Skeptic by John Kehr The longer I am involved in the global warming debate the more frustrated I am getting with the CRU temperature data. This…
Queensland bracing for monster tropical cyclone Yasi
Flood ravaged Queensland is preparing for a monstrous South Pacific Ocean Tropical Cyclone Yasi. Forecast to reach Category 4+ strength on the familiar Saffir-Simpson scale, there really is nothing inhibiting…
China announces thorium reactor energy program, Obama still dwelling on "Sputnik moments"
President Obama in his recent SOTU address said that “this is our generation’s sputnik moment” referring to the need to use science and technology to develop cheaper clean energy (among…
New pages at WUWT and the preview function
I have two new (well one and a half, rounded up) pages to announce for WUWT readers. First, we have the new Atmospheric Reference Page, available on the pulldown menu…
Reconciling the irreconcilable in Lisbon
Since I did not attend Lisbon even though invited and initially accepted, (other business and family obligations took precedence) the very least I can do is to help elevate the…
Quote of the Week
It is no secret that we don’t think much of carbon trading here in the USA. Witness the fact that the much ballyhooed Chicago Climate Exchange has closed up trading…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) President Obama began an effort to show his administration is business friendly. The administration appointed GE…
Pielke Sr. The Westerlies Explain The Recent Extreme Winter Weather, Not “Global Warming”
There have been a number of news articles that claim that a global average surface temperature trend (i.e. “global warming) explains the extreme cold weather and snow that has occurred recently; e.g. see…
Booker on BBC's Science Under Attack
Christopher Booker on BBC and The Royal Society bias, ClimateGate, The Met cold winter forecast and 2010 hottest year ever: Horizon’s “Science Under Attack” turned out to be yet another…
PokéMobile takes 1st place in den, 2nd in pack
A personal diversion from weather and climate. Readers may recall my earlier reference to this: I’m proud to say that team Watts did pretty well today: William won first place…
Record monthly snowfalls in the northeast
According to The Winter of 95-96: A Season of Extremes, National Climatic Data Center, Hartford typically receives about 45 inches (114 cm) of snow in an average winter. The record seasonal…
Removing The Effects of Natural Variables – Multiple Linear Regression-Based or “Eyeballed” Scaling Factors
Guest post by Bob Tisdale This is the second of a series of follow-up posts to Can Most Of The Rise In The Satellite-Era Surface Temperatures Be Explained Without Anthropogenic…
New paleo reconstruction shows warmer periods in Alaska over the past 3000 years
For those worried about tundra melt and methane outgassing, this study might dampen those worries a bit. A new peer-reviewed study by Clegg et al. demonstrates that modern global warming…
Frequency of Big Snows: Northeast U.S. and Colorado
Guest post by Richard Keen, PhD I’m sure by now every snow freak in the Northeast U.S. has pored over the “Billboard Top 40” (actually, 41) list of major snow…
PokéMobile -vs- Lisbon
I had to make an important choice this week, one that I don’t regret: Attend the Lisbon conference or stay at home and attend to my business and do something…
The Met office and the BBC- caught cold
From the blog autonomous mind, a cold ill wind blows from Britain. At least this time, FOI requests weren’t quashed like they were with CRU. Below are excerpts. The photocopy…
Metrology crisis – the grand kilo loses mass
From the Wall Street Journal – By JEANNE WHALEN In a vault beneath a 17th-century pavilion on the outskirts of Paris sits a platinum cylinder known as Le Grand K.…
USGS on their mission to explore African drought
From the USGS here, I thought their mission was the United States, hence the US in USGS. Seems they’ve expanded the mission to Africa now. Disappointingly, there’s no mention of…
UAH prelim – January temp may be below normal globally
Note the black dot: Source: http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/ Looking at Dr. Roy Spencer’s daily UAH plotter, comparing to last year at this time, globally we are nearly a full degree Fahrenheit cooler:
The Cold Equations
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve tried writing this piece several times already. I’ll give it another shot, I haven’t been happy with my previous efforts. It is an important…
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