Bruce Foutch writes about this book in Tips and Notes to WUWT, Phil Jones might benefit from a gift copy. ON BEING A SCIENTIST A GUIDE TO RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT IN…
Month: February 2011
WUWT reference pages updated
There’s a bunch of additions and improvements to the Reference Pages (shown on the menu bar below) this week. Sea Ice Page – Added a Global Sea Ice Cover map…
Gavinology
Bishop Hill writes: Fred Pearce is on the receiving end of the full fury of the warmosphere for his article about the Lisbon conference in New Scientist. Pearce, discussing who…
Snowzilla post mortem – the 2011 Groundhog day blizzard in perspective
The nation is rather abuzz over the huge snowstorm (which I dubbed Snowzilla) this week, and I thought I’d put together a collection of loosley related news items. In light…
They're leaving…on a jet plane
This entry below is unashamedly pinched from Bishop Hill, who I don’t think will mind, since at the bottom I’m giving a link to him where a raging and somewhat…
Some interesting thoughts on Antarctic peninsula warming
Since there is a discussion going on over at RC on Eric Steig’s recent RC post here that criticizes the paper by O’Donnell et al. in the Journal of Climate,…
NOAA ENSO expert: "odds for a two-year (La Niña) event remain well above 50%"
Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) Last update: 4 February 2011 by Klaus Wolter The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of NOAA. El Niño/Southern…
Prop23 cap-n-trade gets tangled in environmental review
Oh this is delicious sweet irony…they adopted a plan but didn’t bother to make a complete environmental review like any other project in the state is required to do. That’s…
Pielke Sr. on the gang of 18 letter to congress
Comments On The Hill’s Post “Scientists Ask Congress To Put Aside Politics, Take ‘Fresh Look’ At Climate Data” By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/141453-scientists-put-aside-politics-and-focus-on-climate-science There is an article in The Hill’s…
Now it's Wolverines threatened by global warming
Wolverines make their home mainly in the boreal forests and tundra regions of North America, Europe, and Asia. (Photo by Vince Maidens, Creative Commons License.) No mention though of…
Ocean ridges and climate models
From USGS, who is now apparently in the climate business, because mapping and earthquakes are sooo 20th century. New Discoveries Improve Climate Models Underwater Ridges Impact Ocean’s Flow of…
RSS global temp drops, version change adjusts cooler post 1998
Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA has published the January 2011 global temperature anomaly. It is not far from zero, and dropped quickly much like Dr. Roy Spencer’s UAH…
The Temperature claims of 2010
By Dr. David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation Now that the relevant data for the temperature of the Earth’s surface for the past year are available, it is instructive…
Has the BBC broken faith with the General Public?
Guest Post by Barry Woods It is my opinion that the BBC in broadcasting the BBC 2 Horizon program ‘Science Under Attack’ did not treat the general public in the UK and…
The Almost Friday Funny
Josh from cartoonsbyjosh.com writes in that the emperor of the recent AMS convention has a new wardrobe…
Great moments in snow removal
With Chicago, New York, and Boston buried, they are trying the best they can to get the city out from under the thick blanket of snow, this well known satirical…
Tisdale tasks Tamino
Comments On Tamino’s AMO Post by Bob Tisdale Tamino’s AMO post is a response to my post Removing The Effects of Natural Variables – Multiple Linear Regression-Based or “Eyeballed” Scaling…
Chicago snow 2011 and 1967 – global warming then too?
Here’s the national snow depth, Chicago has between 20-30 inches of snow by this map: Source: http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/nsa/ Dr. Richard Keen writes in an email: I was a college student in…
Sea Ice News #34
It has been awhile since I posted a Sea Ice News. This one is a two parter. NSIDC’s Monthly Sea Ice News comes first, followed by some images and content…
New journal from Nature – "Nature Climate Change"
If you are interested, click the free subscription bar image above to start the subscription process. Further along, it gets interesting. I thought this page querying what online climate news…
We Spent Billions on Wind Power… and All I Got Was a Rolling Blackout
By Mike Smith, Meteorological Musings The Electric Reliability Council of Texas said 7,000 megawatts of generating capacity tripped [“tripped” means failed]Tuesday night, leaving the state without enough juice. That’s enough…
A few pet blogging peeves – please educate yourself with these issues
Running this blog is a lot of work. The comment moderation is the biggest portion of it and it is becoming oppressive. A lot of our volunteer moderators simply don’t…
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