Here in broken California, we can’t hardly get Cal-Trans to complete regular asphalt roadways on time or on budget. While this is a nice idea, and in a perfect world…
Month: February 2011
More Stupid Environmentalist Tricks
With apologies to David Letterman’s “Stupid Human Tricks”…it’s like a manifest of David Parkers “cool parks” reverse UHI urban myth. Maybe it had something to do with this ongoing threat…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Quote of the Week: “Climate change deniers cloak themselves in scientific language, selectively critiquing aspects of mainstream climate science.” “… no research results have produced any evidence that challenges the…
Earthly cloud similarities seen in solar CMEs
New SDO images show CMEs exploding from the Sun ripples like clouds do on Earth. It looks a lot like this photo, showing the well known Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. =============================================================== From…
On being a scientist – a manual
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…
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…
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