From Vanderbilt University, scientific serendipity swats smell: New insect repellant may be thousands of times stronger than DEET by David Salisbury Imagine an insect repellant that not only is thousands…
Month: May 2011
UAH global temperature anomaly – up in April
As La Niña fades, this is not surprising. Dr. Roy Spencer is back at work and reports the new lower troposphere number. Note also the global sea surface temperature graph…
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This is the five thousandth published post on WUWT, since this is a computer written blog, publishing the number in binary seemed appropos. 1388 for you hexadecimal fans. I don’t…
Latest solar cycle update from the Space Weather Prediction Center
SWPC updated their solar cycle progression page…looks like the levels have held since the big uptick in March.
Failing to make his case, James Hansen uses children as legal pawns
From LiveScience, another reason for NASA to fire Jame Hansen now: Here’s the basis for his actions in a nutshell:
The Magic Cookpot
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach This one is for fun and also for real. The theme of this post is “There’s never enough time.” I worked in the villages of…
New solar reconstruction paper suggests 6x greater solar forcing change than cited by the IPCC
This is interesting. This recent paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics here has done a reconstruction of TSI using Beryllium 10 isotope records combined with sunspot records. The paper…
Greenpeace loses charity status in New Zealand
With the way they operate, can the rest of the world be far behind? From the WUWT tips and notes we have this news. Will and also John from New…
April 2011 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update
Guest post by Bob Tisdale WEEKLY NINO3.4 SST ANOMALIES The weekly NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies have just risen above the threshold of a La Niña, and are just…
First Light on the Ozone Hockeystick
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach After many false starts, thanks to Steven Mosher and Derecho64 I was able to access the forcings used by the CCSM3 climate model. This is…
Princeton: Direct removal of carbon dioxide from air likely not viable
From the Princeton news website By Steven Schultz Technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are unlikely to offer an economically feasible way to slow human-driven climate change for…
UK Climate Resilient Infrastructure: billions needed to combat climate change effects on Wi-Fi signals
News Post by Ryan Maue A government issued report from the UK Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) sounds the alarm about the incredible impacts of climate change…
NOAA CSI: no attribution of climate change to tornado outbreak
All the bloviation from Think Progress, Climate Progress and the rest of those people that want to turn any disaster into a link to climate change are doing is just…
The Vatican gets involved in climate change
From Scripps: Vatican Science Panel Calls Attention to the Threat of Glacial Melt Pontifical Academy of Sciences working group of leading scientists to present report to Pope Benedict XVI Scripps…
The surfacestations.org paper – accepted
After months of work, I’m pleased to announce that the paper that I have jointly written with several co-authors, including Dr. Roger Pielke Senior (who acted in the capacity as…
The GISS divergence problem: Ocean Heat Content
Bob Tisdale points out the reality versus projection disparity. It would seem, that we have a GISS miss by a country mile. Where’s the heat? – Anthony First-Quarter 2011 Update…
Solar Max – So Soon?
Guest post by David Archibald Dr Svalgaard has an interesting annotation on his chart of solar parameters – “Welcome to solar max”: Graphic source: http://www.leif.org/research/TSI-SORCE-2008-now.png Could it be? It seems…
Visualizing the "Greenhouse Effect" – Light and Heat
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein Solar “light” radiation in = Earth “heat” radiation to Space out! That’s old news to those of us who understand all energy is fungible (may…
Nenana 2011 Ice Classic result
In case you missed it, the official result for 2011 is in: The Tanana River officially broke up on May 4, 2011 at 4:24 PM and here’s the clock Here’s…
ROTFL – dog lovers will appreciate this one
This came to me via Facebook, and it has absolutely nothing to do with any topic I normally cover on this blog, but it is so hilarious that I still…
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