Over at Bishop Hill’s blog, he posted this graph below which is an output from a special Google Labs search query. It lists the percentage of books that are about…
Month: January 2011
The Metrology of Thermometers
For those that don’t notice, this is about metrology, not meteorology, though meteorology uses the final product. Metrology is the science of measurement. Since we had this recent paper from…
New record cold temperatures in Minnesota
From NWS Duluth, MN, an old record beaten by five degrees: RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 518 PM CST FRI JAN 21 2011 …RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE SET…
The Air Vent closes shop
I’m dismayed to see this, but not at all surprised. People (like Jeff, like me) who own businesses and are self employed while trying to raise family have it tough…
What sort of forecast does the Met Office Supercomputer make?
WUWT readers may recall the story by the Daily Mail about the new supercomputer. The Met Office has caused a storm of controversy after it was revealed their £30million supercomputer…
An appeal to the climate science blogosphere
Can you keep an open mind on the cause of winds? Climate science needs your help! by Anastassia Makarieva Many of us who have become researchers have been attracted by…
Friday Funny
Josh from Cartoons by Josh writes: Following on from an earlier cartoon “What the Greens got wrong” this is about the plans for the next thing on the green agenda…
Shale gas boom on
IEA: Natural Gas Can Supply World For 250 Years Thursday, 20 January 2011 09:51 United Press International Supplies of natural gas could last more than 250 years if Asian and…
CSIRO – climate variability caused drought, not climate change
While this is a bit dated, from late last year, given all the attention given to the floods in Queensland supposedly being caused by global warming aka climate change, this…
Extreme cold warnings, Minnesota record lows below -40F
Brutal cold has invaded the upper-Midwest. A record low at International Falls is not an easy thing to break. No problem today (01/21/11), as temps have fallen into the minus…
New paper: Cosmic rays contribute 40% to global warming
From the Hindu Physicist U.R. Rao says carbon emission impact is lower than IPCC claim A key belief of climate science theology — that a reduction in carbon emissions will…
WMO: 2010 warmest, but no statistically significant difference between global temperatures in 2010, 2005 and 1998
See below for an interview from Dr. Bob Carter. Press Release No. 906 For use of the information media Not an official record 2010 equals record for world’s warmest year…
Another IPCC claim contradicted with new science
Remember this story bandied all over the press from 2008? Well, not so fast. In the IPCC Working Group 2 of the IPCC’s AR4, the “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” section…
Surface temperature uncertainty, quantified
There is a new paper out that investigates something that has not previously been well dealt with related to the surface temperature record (at least as far as the author…
Quote of the week: Genghis Khan should have driven a Prius
Ok that headline is not exactly what was said, but it is the flavor of the absurdity. The quote itself from the Carnegie Institution, distributed via AAAS’s Eurekalert news service,…
New paper on forcings of historical European temperatures
From Nature Geoscience Influence of human and natural forcing on European seasonal temperatures Gabriele Hegerl, Juerg Luterbacher, Fidel González-Rouco, Simon F. B. Tett, Thomas Crowley & Elena Xoplaki Journal name:…
Twittering Heights and Knife Fights
One of the bloggers over at ScienceBlogs, this happy looking guy at left, seems to have a real problem with people (me) interpreting Twitter feeds in ways that perhaps the…
"It’s as if our facts were losing their truth"
Below is an excerpt from an excellent article in The New Yorker which describes a recognition of curious phenomenon spanning many different fields of science: Different scientists in different labs…
Euro Carbon Market Fraud – trade suspended
From the Telegraph: European carbon market suspended over fraud fears The European carbon market has been thrown into turmoil after the scandal-hit scheme was suspended for a week over suspicions…
Breakthough solution for power plants – pump the CO2 into the sea…oh, wait
From the EPA might have something to say about that department…this press release from LNL suggests dumping tons of Calcium Bicarbonate as a byproduct of CO2 scrubbing into the oceans…
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