Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Professor Muller of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project is always interesting, but he just keeps digging his personal hole deeper. He recently gave…
Month: April 2011
Adventures in journalism: from llama fish to carbon neutral bras
Louise Gray, who wrote this amazing piece of journalism in the Telegraph the other day… Fish carried up a mountain on backs of llamas to escape global warming …has boobed…
Stockwell asks: Is the Atmosphere Still Warming?
Guest post by Dr. David Stockwell I suspect that the only really convincing evidence against global warming is a sustained period of no global warming or cooling — climate sensitivity…
Final words on the 2010 Russian heat wave from AGU: weather, predictable
The map above, from the NASA Earth Observatory Picture of the Day website, shows how the temperature on July 27 departed from the 2000 to 2008 average. Download large image (1…
George Mason University "Climate Change Communicator of the Year" – where only one viewpoint is allowed
Heh, what can you say? Read some of the glowing nominations at the links below. It’s pure self aggrandizement wrapped in a delusional comedy. I got the biggest chuckle from…
Caltrans abandons weather, embraces "climate change" as the reason for washed out roads
I just finished reading: Turning a More Vivid Shade of Green: Caltrans Takes a Stand on Climate Change, Global Warming from the Caltrans website. The road sign below (from this…
Yellowstone's supervolcano – worse than we thought
From www.unews.utah.edu via Eurekalert Electric Yellowstone Conductivity image hints volcano plume is bigger than thought SALT LAKE CITY, April 11, 2011 – University of Utah geophysicists made the first large-scale…
Climate Change Craziness of the Week: a fish story from llama land
This is just….just…ah heck I can’t even begin to describe it. The stupid, it burns. Here’s the odoriferous essence of this publicity stunt story:
Heated worries? Be alerted about temperature and humidity
As many know, I create instrumentation and display systems that do a wide variety of weather monitoring tasks. Usually I focus on weather and climate measurement in situ. Now, I…
Zeroed out: NOAA Climate Service funding axed in budget CR
From the House Appropriations Committee: Summary — Final Fiscal Year 2011 Continuing Resolution: PDF Page 2: Commerce, Justice, Science: “This section of the CR also prohibits funding for: the establishment…
California's giant sucking sound
Time to leave California? Governor Moonbeam may be the best salesman Texas has. While there’s a state delegation in Texas (including former SFO mayor Gavin Newsom) trying to figure out…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Quote of the Week: “Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.…
NCDC's March Madness
To read this report, one might conclude that at 1.4 degrees F above the long-term (1901-2000) average, things are looking really bad for US temperatures…that is, until you look at…
One data set discontinued, NCDC to offer free daily data access to another
I’m not sure what the motivation for this is, none was given in the announcement. The historical data contained in the 3200 directory will remain on ftp3 for a limited…
Pielke Senior: Climate Science Myths & Misconceptions
Climate Science Myths And Misconceptions – Post #1 On The Global Annual Average Surface Temperature Trend By Dr. Roger Pielke Senior There are a remarkable number of myths and misconceptions about…
A headline I thought I'd never see
It seems that the media down under is turning on newly appointed climate change commissioner Tim Flannery and his ideas. We need a Flannery FAIL blog to keep track of…
Steig on Antarctic warming: "Rossby wave trains"
From the University of Washington, comes this upcoming paper by corresponding author Dr. Eric Steig (and co-authors)that the mechanism for warming of the Antarctic Peninsula is mostly weather pattern driven.…
Satellite-Era Sea Surface Temperature Versus IPCC Hindcast/Projections – Part 1
Guest post by Bob Tisdale GLOBAL AND PACIFIC OCEAN SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE OVERVIEW This series of posts examines the differences between multi-model mean of the IPCC 20C3M (Hindcast)/SRES A1B (Projection)…
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