From LiveScience.com Here’s something you don’t see every day — hundreds of new islands have been discovered around the world. The Earth has 657 more barrier islands than previously thought,…
Month: April 2011
A new "low" for desperation ?
Wow this merits a NOAA press release, there’s a low in the Atlantic! GOES-13 sees an extraordinarily early Atlantic low in the tropics Hurricane season doesn’t start in the Northern…
Oh noes! Now its global warming killing Pikas
Only one small problem with this press release below. From Wikipedia: In 2010, the US government considered, then decided not to add the American pika under the US Endangered Species…
Bias In the Peer Review Process: A Cautionary And Personal Account
by Dr. Roger Pielke Senior There is an informative article by Ross McKittrick McKitrick, Ross R. (2011) “Bias in the Peer Review Process: A Cautionary and Personal Account” in Climate…
Do CFL twisty bulbs explode?
Here’s a story that suggests that they can. Like any poorly manufactured or quality controlled product, failures can occur. But with CFL bulbs, there’s additional things that can go wrong…
Americans believe climate change is occurring, but disagree on why
This must be “polarization week” in social science, as this is the second study published this week on political polarization of the global warming issue. See the previous story on…
NASA takes AIM on noctilucent clouds
From AIM. High up in the sky near the poles some 50 miles above the ground, silvery blue clouds sometimes appear, shining brightly in the night. First noticed in 1885,…
Democrats and Republicans increasingly divided over global warming
Gosh, we never would have figured this out on our own. The conclusion is stunning: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION In response to our first research question, we find a sizable political…
Why it seems that severe weather is "getting worse" when the data shows otherwise – a historical perspective
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr on his Blog, April 18th writes: A new analysis of floods around the world has been called to my attention. The new analysis is contrary to…
US Greenhouse gas emissions drop to lowest level in 15 years
As first highlighted by World Climate Report and later by WUWT last week: Now its your electric ice maker in your fridge that’s killing the planet, meanwhile CO2 emissions fall…
Satellite-Era Sea Surface Temperature Versus IPCC Hindcast/Projections – Part 2
Guest post by Bob Tisdale THE INDIAN AND ATLANTIC OCEANS INTRODUCTION This post is a continuation of Part 1 – Satellite-Era Sea Surface Temperature Versus IPCC Hindcast/Projections. It examines the differences…
Pielke Senior on Climate Science Misconceptions #3
Guest post by Dr. Roger Pielke Senior Climate Science Myths And Misconceptions – Post #3 On Multi-Decadal Regional Climate Predictions Of Changes In Decadal And Longer Statistics Of Extreme Weather This…
Are biofuel policies to help Mother Earth killing her most vulnerable children instead?
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany I have a new paper — Could Biofuel Policies Increase Death and Disease in Developing Countries? — which suggests that global warming policies may…
And now…something refreshing
Time to take a break from global warming. Link to the full video follows. Terje Sorgjerd writes: This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure…
Summary of the April 14-16 US tornado outbreak
While Mike Smith over at Meteorological Musings has a great post on predicting the recent tornado outbreak in the eastern USA, NOAA has this postmortem summary of the event below,…
Another inconvenient web posting "disappeared"
Revkin of NYT takes back his statement that skeptics are more knowledgeable about the science From “the Hockey Schtick” Tom Nelson featured a surprising quote from warmist/alarmist Andrew Revkin of…
New paleo study "leaves" me skeptical of the claim
From Baylor University, a suggestion that leaves are a better paleo-proxy than tree-rings: New Baylor Research Shows Using Leaves’ Characteristics Improves Accuracy Measuring Past Climates NSF-funded study shows high promise…
Charles Manson becomes an advocate for global warming
From the Daily Mail, probably the worst alliance you could hope for if you are in the global warming movement. Manson says in a from prison interview: ‘Everyone’s God and…
Another significant land use effect found – sugar cane
It has long been known that changes in land use can affect local temperatures. Switching from forest to pastureland to a concrete jungle has a measurable effect. Here, we see…
The current US drought is not a surprise.
Guest post by David Archibald A large part of the US is currently in drought. A recent paper by Springer et al – “Solar forcing of Holocene droughts in a…
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