Steve McIntyre comments on Wegman’s work and Deep Climate’s recent dissing of the Said et al paper. It seems there’s a clique of too close for comfort relationships that may…
Month: May 2011
Media accurately reporting links between climate change and tornadoes
Post by Ryan Maue We all pray for the survivors and victims of the tornado tragedy in Joplin. Headline story from USA-Today The mainstream print media has done an excellent…
The University of East Anglia – doing something useful for a change
When we hear “University of East Anglia” we automatically associate it with ClimateGate, Dr. Phil Jones, and the sorts of childish shenanigans recently reported by Bishop Hill where they break…
NOAA strives for scientific integrity
From their own press release here NOAA Scientific Integrity “Scientific integrity is at the core of conducting ethical science. By being open and honest about our science, we build understanding…
Scientific American's interview with Dr. Richard Muller
Scientific American has an interview in “Science Talk” with Dr. Richard Muller, who is spokesman for the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. I enjoyed the photograph, particularly for the…
Some flights cancelled due to Iceland volcano
In our earlier coverage on the subject, we reported from a Xinhua story that: But scientists in Iceland believed that the new eruption in Grimsvotn could be small and would…
Little Ice Age thermometers – History and Reliability
This is an excerpt of a larger document by Tony Brown (Tony B on WUWT and other blogs) that he will be happy to make available. He writes: Some months…
Study on paleo rainfall records clearly shows existence of MWP and LIA in Southern Hemisphere
This study from the University of Pittsburgh and SUNY-Albany set out to illustrate how rainfall patterns changes with global temperature in South America. They found the link they were looking…
Value Adding in Australia – the Beginning of the End?
News Alert: Smelting and Refining of Mount Isa copper in Queensland to cease. Guest post by Viv Forbes The first industries of Australia were farming and mining and these two…
California's global warming law gets court go-ahead – except for cap and trade
Time to get outta Dodge:
Atlantic 'conveyor belt' current – still going strong
From the American Geophysical Union: Study suggests no slowing of Atlantic ‘conveyor belt’ current The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), which carries warm water to high northern latitudes near the…
Puzzling shape – adventure in bulldozing?
Now that we all survived the rapture, readers are invited to help figure out what this is. Details here:
Arctic Cycles – AMO+PDO corresponds to Arctic station group
The following figure shows the AMO+PDO (black line above changed to red below) superimposed on the Arctic average annual temperature shown at the beginning of this document.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
DON’T FORGET: Heartland Institute is sponsoring the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-6) to take place in Washington, DC from breakfast Thursday, June 30, to noon Friday, July 1,…
Iceland volcano eruption not likely to disrupt air travel
STOCKHOLM, May 21 (Xinhua) — An eruption has started in Iceland’s most active volcano Grimsvotn, according to reports reaching here from Reykjavik on Saturday. The smoke from the eruption can…
ENSO color tricks from NOAA's Environmental Visualization Lab
Or, “how to hide the decline with color”. Here’s the image and press release from NOAA NNVL this week to push their hurricane season announcement. Notice anything odd? Weakening of…
Happer on The Truth About Greenhouse Gases
The dubious science of the climate crusaders. by William Happer (from First Things) William Happer is the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics at Princeton University. The object of the…
Super Storm on Saturn
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and a European Southern Observatory ground-based telescope are tracking the growth of a giant early-spring storm in Saturn’s northern hemisphere so powerful that it stretches around the…
Weekend open thread – What are you doing for the rapture?
Somehow, standing in line for this just doesn’t do it for me. So the world ends tomorrow, May 21st, so some people say. What will you do?
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