In Memoriam Harold (“Hal”) Warren Lewis (October 1, 1923 – May 26, 2011) Before his dramatic resignation from the American Physical Society on October 6, 2010 over the society position…
Month: July 2011
While the Sun's in a funk, no hint of resumed ocean warming
Global SST Update: Still No Sign of Resumed Warming by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Here’s the global average sea surface temperature (SST) update from AMSR-E on NASA’s Aqua satellite,…
Best wishes to Andy Revkin for a speedy recovery
I don’t know how I missed this, perhaps it was all the ICCC6 business, travel, and work catch-up. NYT Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin has suffered a stroke. He’s “ok”…
Solar activity report: the sun is still in a funk
UPDATE: New graphs from David Archibald added. See below. The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has released their latest charts on solar activity and the news is not encouraging…
Katla: Let's get ready to ruuuummmbbbbllle
Russ Steele writes: Iceland Update: Katla is rumbling again I wrote about the possibility that Katla is Iceland might become active again in this decade here, based on a swarm…
Censorship or salesmanship?
Mark Lynas makes a complaint about what he describes as possible censorship related to the release of his new book The God Species. Apparently, it got pulled from Amazon.com in…
The Met Office, eyes wide open
There’s an extraordinary admission about solar activity and cold winters in the UK from the Met Office in an article in FT Magazine. It is as if the blinders have…
Friday Funny- Gavin Schmidt on: Polar Bears, Martha Stewart, and Me
Oh, I found some comedy gold posted on the NASA website What on Earth is That? It features a talk by NASA GISS warmist Gavin Schmidt, who apparently took a…
Giant storm on Saturn has massive lightning activity caught on tape
PASADENA, Calif. – Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth. On…
The end of an era
As someone who grew up with the NASA manned space program as a beacon of innovation, strength, and hope for the future, it is a sad day for me, and…
On the Divergence Between the UAH and RSS Global Temperature Records
By Dr. Roy Spencer …or, OMG! HAS UAH BEEN BOUGHT OFF BY GREENPEACE!? Over the last ten years or so there has been a growing inconsistency between the UAH and…
World War II bombing raids offer new insight into the effects of aviation on weather
From Wiley-Blackwell via Eurekalert Wartime weather records reveal impact of contrails caused by USAAF raids Climate researchers have turned to the Allied bombing raids of the Second World War for…
Record highs? – NOAA staffers are beginning to doubt the accuracy of the measurement system
While Joe Romm squawks about record highs being “obscenely hot” over at Think-Climate Progress, there’s a quiet bit of questioning going on within NOAA about the veracity of the surface…
UAH global temperature, up this month to 0.31C
UAH Global Temperature Update for June, 2011: +0.31 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer Post-La Nina Warming Continues The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for June, 2011 increased to…
NOAA's new normals – a step change of 0.5 degrees F
This from NOAA, which I missed last week while I was at ICCC6. But wait, there’s more! Have a look at the maps I produced below the “Continue reading>” line…
Quote of the week – CRU is now a candidate for publication in the Journal of Irreproducible Results
From Andrew Orlowski, the Register UK: In Parliament’s enquiries into the Climategate Affair, Graham Stringer MP was surprised to learn that the CRU team couldn’t produce the same result twice.
A mini-movie in blackboard form – Why The Left's Global Warming Agenda Is Wrong
A “visual broadside”, so to speak, in a short but sensible and entertaining video. This is based on Roy Spencer’s work and it is a must watch. I highly recommend…
Driest place on Earth: Atacama desert in Chile buried under feet of snow
Weather Post by Dr. Ryan Maue The Atacama desert in Chile described as the driest place on Earth just got walloped by an extreme cold front (climate change) and was…
San Francisco Chronicle uncorks a vintage climate science article
Weather Post by Dr. Ryan Maue Those reading the San Francisco* Chronicle on Wednesday were treated to a front page story on California’s Climate: Warmer interior leads to cooler coastline.…
McIntyre calls on PNAS & Michael Mann to issue retraction
Steve McIntyre’s analysis of contaminated data used by Mann et al 2008 demonstrates that relevant criteria for retraction has been met based on PNAS publication policy. Dirty Laundry II: Contaminated Sediments…
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