Dr. Roger Pielke Senior writes: Ben Herman of the University of Arizona has responded to the post… News Article “Aircraft Condensation Trails Criss-Crossing The Sky May Be Warming The Planet…
Month: April 2011
New quake, Tsunami warning for Japan
From AP via chicoer.com TOKYO — Japan was rattled by a strong aftershock and tsunami warning Thursday night nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern…
Solar warming and ocean equilibrium, Part 3: Solanki and Schuessler respond
Guest post by Alec Rawls Solar physicist Sami Solanki and his colleagues at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research helped pioneer the use of cosmogenic isotopes from ice…
What's delaying UC sea level data from being updated?
The University of Colorado at Boulder releases satellite based altimetry of sea level change several times a year. This graph below is dated December 15th according to the image timestamp.…
The Nuclear Winter of our Discontent
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony recently discussed a recent paper called “The Role of Atmospheric Nuclear Explosions on the Stagnation of Global Warming in the Mid 20th Century” (PDF, author’s…
Climate Change: Bigger health threat than AIDS, malaria
UPDATE: Holy moly. Dr. Richard North over at the EU Referendum points to this, (screencap below) which makes Ric’s article (further below) look tame. Add this to what’s going on…
Warming or Cooling? Heads or Tails?
At left, Two Headed Quarter from Doublesidedcoins.com This article, originally published in the Wall Street Journal, is now republished here, with the author’s permission, using his website post. Mathematician Doug…
Energy content, the heat is on: atmosphere -vs- ocean
Jeff wrote to me with this article which visually illustrates his point quite well. Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. has given his take on it here, saying: The post on The…
Whoa, windfarms in UK operate well below advertised efficiency
It’s damning, and published by a green group. The study cited by the BBC is from the John Muir trust of all places. This would be a good place to…
Stratospheric water vapor may have contributed about a third of the warming 1980-2000 but now is in decline
Don’t Ignore Nature From the Global Warming Policy Foundation by Dr. David Whitehouse How many times have you seen, read or heard some climate ‘expert’ or other say that mankind’s…
Icelandic volcano exonerated for harsh winter of 1783–1784
From AGU’s Geophysical Research Letters: In June 1783 the Laki volcano in Iceland began to erupt, and continued erupting for months, causing a major environmental disaster. The eruption spewed…
The Climate Change Blues
Via Eurekalert, and from the “Department of Population Color Doppler Shift”, comes this story of the bluing. Next comes the violet. After that, well, I don’t even want to talk…
Arctic Ozone "Hole" in March
From the European Space Agency, a story of significant cold and wind patterns that have created an ozone “hole” in the Arctic where there normally isn’t one. The last time…
Bastardi: no return of El Niño til 2012
No No to el Nino ( till 2012) By Joe Bastardi (from his WeatherBell blog) I was going to write something about the dreaded back door front and how while…
Global temperature still headed down- UAH: negative territory
The global temperature has fallen .653°C (from +0.554 in March 2010 to -0.099 in March 2011) in just one year. That’s a magnitude nearly equivalent to the agreed upon global…
Courtillot on the solar UV climate connection
From the HockeySchtick Video: Geophysicist explains how the Sun controls climate, not CO2 Dr. Vincent Courtillot is a professor of geophysics at the University Paris-Diderot and Chair of paleomagnetism and geodynamics of…
Climate Craziness of the week – Claim: nuclear tests stopped global warming in the mid 20th century
People send me stuff. Never mind the other aerosol sources, it was the Fat Man and Little Boy. From the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics April 2011, these claims:…
All the climate news that's fit to misprint
While Krugman wails at the NYT, giant Elk die in print for all the wrong climatic reasons. In Tips and Notes, P J Brennan says: All the news that’s fit…
An investigation of USHCN station siting issues using a cleaned dataset
While BEST is making a public relations train wreck for themselves by touting preliminary conclusions with no data analysis paper in place yet to support their announcements, there have been…
Quote of the Week – it's a doozy
Finally, a scientist gets it, speaks out about it, and a reporter in a major media outlet publishes the words that say in even stronger terms what I said last…
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