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Month: May 2011
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…
Nielsen-Gammon interviews North and others on Wegman – plagiarism may be related to a cultural misunderstanding by foreign exchange student
I’m surprised too, at the reaction of North and others. They may have a point. Wegman: A Surprising Reaction by Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon at the Houston Chronicle’s Climate Abyss I…
Joe Bastardi's hurricane season
The Hurricane Season ( a rehash of what I have had so far) By Joe Bastardi, WeatherBell I see Dr Mann has a forecast out for 16 storms plus or…
Mann's hurricane season predictions
Hockey team science wonk Dr. Michael Mann has released his hurricane predictions, just in time to pre-empt NOAA’s planned release of their forecast ,Thursday, May 19, 2011 – 11:30 a.m.…
IPCC agrees to "major" reforms
From the “I’ll believe it when I see it” department comes this story in Nature News: I thought this was interesting:
Siting related temperature bias at the Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
“This a complicating factor for the homogenization of daily temperature series.” WUWT first reported on the issues with the KNMI De Bilt weather station in October 2009 here. About that…
Western snow pack is well above normal, Squaw Valley sets new all time snow record
From the “weather is not climate” department: All of the western states have snowpacks that are currently 110 to over 180 percent above normal with the exception of southern Colorado.…
Wind farm ordered dismantled
Mark Duchamp writes in with this news from the Lerida, Autonomous Community (state) of Catalonia, Spain: A judge ordered the removal of 45 wind turbines on the grounds that planning…
GWPF on Huhne's "green spin"
Press Release (via email) Conditional Climate Targets Are A Step Back From Blind Unilateralism LONDON, 18 May – The Global Warming Policy Foundation regards the UK’s conditional adoption of post-2020…
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