From the Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the…
Month: July 2011
Tree ring widths more affected by sheep than temperature
From Wiley-Blackwell, via Eurekalert, something just plain surprising. Nibbling by herbivores can have a greater impact on the width of tree rings than climate, new research has found. The study,…
Quote of the week: from the reductio ad absurdum file
This story is about why laws bowing to sea level worries will make signs like this at left more common in one Australian town. I’ve seen stupidity from local city…
Pielke Sr. on new Spencer and Braswell paper
Reposted from Dr. Roger Pielke Sr’s blog New Paper “On the Misdiagnosis Of Surface Temperature Feedbacks From Variations In Earth’s Radiant Energy Balance” By Spencer and Braswell 2011 There is a…
Antarctic Ice shelf collapse – "worse than we thought"
Researchers Provide Detailed Picture of Ice Loss Following Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelves An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet…
Volcano found on the Moon's farside
Non-mare silicic volcanism on the lunar farside at Compton–Belkovich Bradley L. Jolliff,Sandra A. Wiseman,Samuel J. Lawrence,Thanh N. Tran,Mark S. Robinson,Hiroyuki Sato,B. Ray Hawke,Frank Scholten,Jürgen Oberst,Harald Hiesinger, Carolyn H. van der…
Prey and predator model of clouds
From the Weizmann Institute of Science – Eat, Prey, Rain Photo: Tamar Deutsch What do a herd of gazelles and a fluffy mass of clouds have in common? A mathematical…
Curiosity – coming to Mars – maybe
When I was in Washington a couple of weeks ago for ICCC6, I took the family to the National Air and Space Museum on the mall. While everyone was gazing…
Law of unintended carbon consequences
From Oregon State University Northwest Forest Plan has unintended benefit – carbon sequestration CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Northwest Forest Plan enacted in 1993 was designed to conserve old-growth forests and…
David Appell denies he has any class
Normally, I ignore David Appell who runs a blog called Quark Soup where he spends a good portion of his time hyperbloviating about things that make him upset. A lot…
Weekly Weather and Climate News Roundup
Quote of the Week: “From the household perspective, reductions in energy expenditures act like a tax cut for the Pennsylvania economy, increasing discretionary income.” Penn State report on natural gas…
Greenpeace and the IPCC – The Edenhofer Excuse
Guest post by Shub Niggurath It has been a recurring pattern that the most dramatic of conclusions arrived by the IPCC, are shown to arise from unsubstantiated or exaggerated claims…
The "great dying of thermometers" – helping GISS find the undead thermometers, complete with code
Guest post by Walter Dnes. There was phenomenon known as “the great dying”, where most of the Canadian stations being used for GISS world monthly temperatures disappeared, at least according…
The Texas centered drought versus 1918, 1956 and 1934
Guest post by Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow, WeatherBell Co-Chief Meteorologist June temperature and precipitation rankings are in. Enlarged. Warmest in Texas, Second warmest in Oklahoma. Enlarged Driest in New…
Corruption in the carbon trading market
Corruption and crime already taking place in the carbon market Opinion piece by Julie Bishop, Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Australia) 20th July 2011 Carbon offsets have already run out…
Even Further Down "The Borehole"
Yesterday we had an enlightening guest post by Ian Rons titled Further Down the “Bore Hole” which presented some comment data and graphs, along with some observations about that nature of…
The BBC Endeavours to Provide More Biased Coverage on Climate Change
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” The BBC’s governing body, the BBC Trust, has released a report on its coverage of climate change, that is based partly on “an independent review”…
Paywallgate: hacker breaches MIT, downloads millions of papers
While Joe Romm and Keith Olberman spin the most absurd conspiracy theory imaginable related to Climategate, that it was the work of “News of the World”, Murdoch, and/or Wallis, we…
Bastardi: Just Say No to El Nino, at least till 2012
Guest post by Joe Bastardi I did not say boo at some of the “shoot the messenger posts” on my “Say No to El Nino”, including one person who wanted…
Galactic sized bathtub of water found in space
From NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena: Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in…
Fools gold as paleo-atmospheric proxy
From the University of Edinburgh Fool’s gold gives scientists priceless insight into Earth’s evolution Fool’s gold is providing scientists with valuable insights into a turning point in the Earth’s evolution,…
Heat index update, Mid-Atlantic states experience Middle East climate
Weather Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue As the ridge of high pressure slowly edges eastward over the eastern USA, dewpoints in the 80sF and temperatures over the century mark…
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