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…
Month: May 2011
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?
Indirect Solar Forcing of Climate by Galactic Cosmic Rays: An Observational Estimate
By Dr. Roy Spencer, PhD (reprinted from his blog with permission) UPDATE (12:35 p.m. CDT 19 May 2011): revised corrections of CERES data for El Nino/La Nina effects. While I…
Google fails the "Don't be evil" maxim when it comes to climate censorship?
First the background on “Don’t be evil” as reported by Wikipedia: In their 2004 founders’ letter prior to their initial public offering, Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Brin explained that…
Friday Funny – Hansen's Horror Scopes
The motivation for this cartoon comes from this essay on The Hockey Schtick, which was prompted by a post on David Stockwell’s blog Niche Modeling, which I highly recommend bookmarking.
Truly surprising science discovery – free floating planets
This is the last thing I expected, we live in an amazing age of discovery. From the AAAS:
IPCC's species extinction hype "fundamentally flawed"
Before you read this, I’ll remind WUWT readers of this essay: Where Are The Corpses? Posted on January 4, 2010 by Willis Eschenbach Which is an excellent primer for understanding the…
Sea Ice News – Call for Arctic sea-ice forecasts, plus forecast poll
It has been awhile since I’ve done a sea-ice report. That said, not much of note has been going on in the sea-ice arena, we are in that time of…
Canada finds climate sanity
Back from the brink A sudden outbreak of sanity seems to have taken hold Canada. Firstly the idea of a carbon tax appears to have been killed off for good: Conservatives…
NOAA hurricane outlook indicates an above-normal Atlantic season
Looks pretty much the same as Mann’s hurricane season predictions The Atlantic basin is expected to see an above-normal hurricane season this year, according to the seasonal outlook issued by NOAA’s…
According to the best-sited stations, the diurnal temperature range in the lower 48 states has no century-scale trend.
It seems that a number of folks have missed one of the more important conclusions from our first paper on the surfacestations project. Co-author Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon has some things…
Perth's summer- hottest or not?
Perth temperature history Guest post by Chris Gillham It’s worth digging a bit deeper into claims by the Bureau of Meteorology that Perth endured its equal hottest summer in 2010/11…
If NASA science was this easy to hack, CRU must have been child's play
We still have no final report from the Norfolk police on whether the ClimateGate files were a hack, or an inside job by a whistleblower. However, we do have another…
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