Story submitted by Robert Bateman In just a few hours from now, NASA rolls the STEREO BEHIND solar satellite to have a look at Comet Elenin (P/2010 X1), and if…
Month: July 2011
The "Row to the Pole" publicity stunt looks doomed to failure by a sea ice block
Regular readers may recall that back on June 15th, I pointed out the absurdity of this “Row to the Pole” publicity stunt sponsored by the whisky company “Old Pulteney” which…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Quote of the Week: It is scientists, not sceptics, who are most willing to consider explanations that conflict with their own. And far from quashing dissent, it is the scientists,…
What do sea measurements reveal about Earth's temperature trend?
From the AGU highlights Despite the fact that average temperatures on land have been increasing from year to year, globally averaged surface temperatures from 2000 to 2010 have shown only…
The Parthenon of Climate
I can’t improve on the description offered by Steve McIntyre on the most recent taxpayer funded %&#@^*! from NOAA: their sponsorship of the display Pillars of Climate at the recent…
Connecticut's new short lived all time high temperature record corrected – but was it ever a record at all?
The recent heat wave in the Midwest and the eastern United States has been characterized by all sorts of exaggerated claims. One even made it into Wikipedia as an “official”…
Fallout from Our Paper: The Empire Strikes Back
by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. LiveScience.com posted an article yesterday where the usual IPCC suspects (Gavin Schmidt, Kevin Trenberth, and Andy Dessler) dissed our recent paper in in the…
Carbon Tax needs a sunset clause
Sunset Clause for the C-Tax? Letter to the Editor Watts Up With That? 30 July 2011 Australians must insist that the monstrous carbon dioxide tax legislation has a sunset clause…
Riding a Pseudocycle
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Loehle and Scafetta recently posted a piece on decomposing the HadCRUT3 temperature record into a couple of component cycles plus a trend. I disagreed with…
Tropical Storm Don — disintegrates on landfall
For those in SE Texas hoping for some drough relief from Tropical Storm Don, so far early Saturday morning after landfall, a trace or scant rainfall is to be found. …
New Berkeley study on grass and global warming misses one very important issue
Caveat, no, it isn’t about “grass use” in UC Berkeley, and note the press release with the key word, “could” in the title. From the University of California – Berkeley…
Federal Official: Monnett suspension unrelated to "drowned" polar bears
As some WUWT readers theorized yesterday, something, perhaps even more egregious is the root of the suspension. The AP obtained an internal memo from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy…
Inspector general's transcript of drowned polar bear researcher being grilled
This fellow, Charles Monnett has been suspended pending an investigation into his polar bear research. You may recall that he single-handedly inspired Al Gore (not that it takes much) into…
Rationalizing Trenberth's missing heat
By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. Additional Information On The “Ocean’s Missing Heat” By Katsman and van Oldenborgh 2011 I discussed the papers C. A. Katsman and G. J. van Oldenborgh, 2011:…
Spencer and Braswell on Slashdot
This is how Slashdot breaks the news from Forbes article: “New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism”. When it hits Slashdot, you know it has gone viral.…
Wind energy -vs- wildlife, public comments sought
John Droz writes in with this today: Anthony: A US federal agency, the Fish & Wildlife Service, is currently debating whether or not there will be national wildlife rules for…
Solar industry on the rise
Via Slashdot Hugh Pickens writes: According to Rhone Resch, the last three years have seen the U.S. solar industry go from a start-up to a major industry that is creating…
Al Gore’s “drowned polar bear” AIT source under investigation
According to AP/Anchorage Daily News, he’s on leave pending results of investigation. It seems everywhere you look, there’s some sort of fakery going on with the polar bear issue. For…
New paper: UHI, alive and well in China
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 116, D14113, 12 PP., 2011 doi:10.1029/2010JD015452 Observed surface warming induced by urbanization in east China Key Points The rapid urbanization has significant impacts on temperature…
Antarctic ice – more accurate estimates
Guest post by Verity Jones @ Digging In The Clay Cracking ice shelves make headlines, but ice loss estimates that are revised downwards don’t. While there is great hand wringing…
UEA/CRU releases their climate data under ICO order, but there are a few holdouts
From Climate data released Wed, 27 Jul 2011 All data sent to the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia by National Meteorological Services around the globe…
August ARCUS forecast poll – What will the September NSIDC Arctic minimum extent be?
Once again, I’m going to give WUWT readers an opportunity to make a forecast for submission, based on voting. See the poll at the end. I’ll run this poll each…
Quote of the Month – Nature disses skeptics
I already have a quote of the week, but since the fact that Nature decided to pay any attention at all to the Heartland Conference in Washington, D.C. which ended…
Sheep study confirms a premise of McIntyre & McKittrick 05
Yesterday, I published a press release titled Tree ring widths more affected by sheep than temperature in which researchers in Norway published a peer reviewed study stating: “We found tree ring widths…
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