Global Food Prices Jump To Record Level Because of Higher Corn Prices – or the alternate title: Cornholing the future There’s lot of gloom and doom being pushed, trying to…
Month: March 2011
Stormchasing in Oklahoma
Well not exactly, there’s no storms here today, but there are a lot of vehicles like this one: I’m attending this conference, not as a storm chaser, but as a…
Another interesting sea ice interaction
Observing Arctic ice-edge plankton blooms from space False-colour satellite image of ice-edge phytoplankton blooms Ongoing climate-driven changes to the Arctic sea-ice could have a significant impact on the blooming of…
The Empire Strikes Out
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I guess having electricity when you need it is sooooo last century … UK families will have to get used to “only using power when…
SDO getting an eclipse
I noticed this in our sidebar SDO solar image and grabbed it. It has happened before, last year.
Bubbleheaded Barking Mad Met Office Modelers
From the organization that can’t forecast its way out of a paper bag, and then can’t bring itself to tell the public about long range forecasts anymore, it has come…
NASA'S Glory Satellite Fails To Reach Orbit
NASA reports that Glory, a satellite to monitor aerosols failed to reach orbit, apparently from a fairing that didn’t release. See update below on the massive budget overruns for this…
Weather Channel and Weather.com: the survey says…..
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow, First Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel Carl Parker, On Camera Meteorologist at the once watchable Weather Channel blogged a response dated March…
Negative water vapor feedback in plant evapotranspiration found
Rising CO2 is causing plants to release less water to the atmosphere, researchers say BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — As carbon dioxide levels have risen during the last 150 years, the density…
“Scientists” Pull a Snow Job on Reporters in Teleconference
Update: James Taylor’s positionForbes supports our position. A number of alarmists have been organized to team up on the comment section to defend the undefensible. Please add your voice of…
Hollywood's eco hypocrisy
Robert Redford is an eco-hypocrite, film claims Source: UK Independent Hollywood A-listers love to trumpet their green credentials. Guy Adams reports on a film-maker who’s out to expose them. For…
One more thing to worry about: cloud light pollution amplification
Clouds amplify ecological light pollution The brightness of the nightly sky glow over major cities has been shown to depend strongly on cloud cover. In natural environments, clouds make the…
Cash for clunkers: electric vehicle deliveries lag
Brief news by Ryan Maue The recent oil price shock likely hasn’t figured into the February sales numbers at GM or Nissan, which announced their electric vehicle sales numbers for…
Missing sunspots solved by NASA?
News from NASA that they believe they have solved the mystery of the missing sunspots and why the solar minimum was so prolonged: Researchers Crack the Mystery of the Missing…
Sea Ice News #35 – Less ice, more snow
This is NSIDC’s report, and since I’m on a road trip, I’m unable to do an in-depth analysis. However, the WUWT Sea Ice page has more, and you can draw…
New interpretation of Antarctic ice cores
Researchers at Alfred Wegener Institute expand prevailing theory on climate history Climate researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association (AWI) expand a…
Feb UAH global temperature anomaly goes slightly negative
From Dr. Roy Spencer: Latest Global Average Tropospheric Temperatures (Want to see how the current month’s temperatures are shaping up? Check this out.) Since 1979, NOAA satellites have been carrying…
New paper claims a value one seventh of the IPCC best estimate for Climate Sensitivity for a CO2 doubling
Paul Ostergaard writes via email: Here is an interesting new paper that Miklos Zagoni has pointed me to via Judith Curry’s blog. This researcher in Germany has carried out a…
In Which I Talk to the Thunderstorms
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Thunderstorms are great majestic beasts. If you had never seen one or heard of one in your life, imagine your surprise if a lovely peaceful…
News The Media Missed
Guest post by Willis Eschenbach Based on a model, unfortunately. Behind a paywall, unfortunately. Posted without comment, emphasis and formatting mine. The abstract says: Recovery mechanisms of Arctic summer sea…
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