Steve McIntyre uncovers another hockey stick trick – where are the academic cops?

NOTE: since this is clearly an important finding with far reaching implications, this will be a “top post” at WUWT for the next couple of days. I urge other bloggers…

Show us your tests: Australian drought models

Guest post by Dr. David Stockwell In Australia, the carbon-tax juggernaut rolls on, justified in part by fear of droughts, increasing in frequency and severity as CO2 increases. I have…

The Earth's biosphere is booming, data suggests that CO2 is the cause, part 2

The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the Seastar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life…

Energy sucking illuminated wind turbine may be torn down to make way for a coal loader

Oh the irony… First, a flashback from  June 18, 2010: I was in Newcastle, NSW AU on Wednesday night to give another lecture as part of the Australian speaking tour…

No joke: Air Force actually creates supercomputer from Playstations

We’ve routinely joked in the past about “playstation® Climatology”, a phrase coined by JunkScience.com a few years back in response to the constant barrage of model output from supercomputers worldwide…

New paleo paper shows solar impact on past temperatures

From C3 headlines – Scientists Say Norwegian Sea Research Confirms Large, Robust Solar Impact On Temperatures Read here. Map source here. (click on image to enlarge) There are multiple factors…

Climate Craziness of the Week: IPCC's Pachauri claims 17cm of sea level rise made the Tsunami worse, but let's check

From this article in The Hindu: (h/t to WUWT reader Adam Gallon) “In the 20th century, sea-level rise was recorded at an average of 17 centimetres. If the sea-level was…

Not Whether, but How to Do The Math

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) team is making a new global climate temperature record. Hopefully this will give us a better handle on what’s…

Photos: No Carbon Tax rally in Australia

From the Facebook account of Ruth Bonnett, these photos taken March 23rd in Brisbane, QLD Link to interactive album below:

ABC news asks: Is the phrase "climate change denier" offensive?

  If you were to ask Joe Romm, Jim Hansen, Bill McKibben, Al Gore, and some of the other hard core angry people who use this word daily, they’d probably…

A blog status note

Some news about what went down today.

The gases of the early atmosphere and the primordial soup

I find this very interesting, partly because I recreated Stanley Miller’s famous experiment for my high school science fair. It brings back fond memories of basement science projects. – Anthony…

California's AB32 global warming law put on hold by judge

From the LA Times, some “climate justice” for the poor:

Does solar activity have to KEEP going up to cause warming? Mike Lockwood responds

Guest post by Alec Rawls My first post on this subject remarked on the number of scientists who assert that late 20th century global warming cannot have been driven by…

The "Not Evil, Just Romm", 2% solution

ERRATA: I made a mistake regarding the 2% figure, I misheard what was being presented during my visit with the BEST team at Berkeley. As many of you may know…

Canadian Harp Seals In New England ("prediction" of cooling?)

Canadian Harp Seals may have “read” the predictions of the coming decades of stabilization of global temperatures and perhaps some cooling. Animals like the Harp Seal have experienced many millions…

Ten Major Failures of So-called Consensus Climate Science

By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow INTRODUCTION The US congress sub-committee on Energy and Commerce Committee held hearings on whether to restrict in some way the EPA’s regulatory authority relative…

Non-quote of the week

Usually I have “Quote of the week, but in this case, the silence says far more than any words the Goreacle might utter. At least somebody outside of the blogosphere…

"…there is no greater truth than global warming, with its threat of a shrinking snowpack…"

Guest post by Russ Steele  I am sure that you all remember this article in the San Francisco Chronicle in October of 2006. (10-27-2006) 04:00 PDT Norden, Nevada County —…

Kilimanjaro regaining its snow cap

Paging Dr. Lonnie Thompson and Al Gore. From ETN: “Global warming” has nothing to do with this, it’s all about rainfall, deforestation, and evapotranspiration. I’m not ashamed to say: “We…