NOAA – NWS on continuing midwest flood risks

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rachel Hoch  301-713-0622 July 6, 2011 Widespread flood threat to continue through summer 2011 could rival Great Flood of 1993 Many rivers in the upper Midwest…

Amateur hour: National Journal experts on extreme weather mostly flacks

Guest Post by Ryan Maue Over at the National Journal, we get an insider’s view of the climate crisis:  a so-called debate about the effects of global warming on extreme…

Gee, ya think? Proof of what many have said for years

From Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News Mercury vapor released from broken compact fluorescent light bulbs can exceed safe exposure levels New Rochelle, NY, July, 6, 2011—Once broken, a compact…

Now it's dust storms that are caused by "climate change"

When I first saw this photo in news stories today, my first thought was “how long before somebody idiotically links this to global warming aka climate change aka climate disruption”…

Climate and electoral success

Yesterday, I was quoted in a US News and World report article about ICCC6 and the effect of climate on candidates. This is the start of the article. I was…

Nils-Axel Mörner: Arctic Environment by the Middle of this Century

Guest Post by Ric Werme Nils-Axel Mörner, best known for his career of studying sea level and sea level records, reported in the April 2011 issue of the journal Energy…

Solar showdown: weeds -vs- silicon

Pierre Gosselin points out this absurdity on his website: Weed-Covered, Neglected Solar Park: 20 Acres, $11 Million, Only One And Half Years Old! German solar skeptic website SOLARKRITIK.DE here provides the…

Scientific American launches new blog network, sans climate

From Scientific American, Press release, July 5th 2011: Blog Network Launches on ScientificAmerican.com Today Scientific American launched a new blog network which unites editorial, independent and group blogs under the…

New peer reviewed study discovers that when CO2 was higher in the past, not as hot as previously thought

How hot did Earth get in the past? By Judy Holmes, Syracuse University (press release) The question seems simple enough: What happens to the Earth’s temperature when atmospheric carbon dioxide…

La Niña on the way out, "La Nada" on the way in

From NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab: La Niña’s Exit Leaves Climate Forecasts in Limbo It’s what Bill Patzert, a climatologist and oceanographer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., likes…

The IPCC and high biased climate sensitivity

Nicholas Lewis (who with Jeff Id and Ryan O’Donnell rebutted Steig et al and the flawed Antarctica surface temperature analysis) writes in with a note about a post on Climate,…

Roy Spencer's new book

Dr. Roy Spencer has a new book out, and I’m happy to give him space on WUWT with a plug for it. Josh of cartoonsbyjosh.com did the cover art. Looks…

Study: solar activity lull increases chances of cold UK winters

From the Institute of Physics More than 1 in 10 chance of colder UK winters As the Sun enters a period of low solar activity over the next 50 years,…

On this July 4th, thank "climate disruption" for saving the USA in 1814

This is a little known story about how a tornado saved the United States from the British in the War of 1812 as they started to burn Washington, DC. Just…

Breaking: A peer reviewed admission that "global surface temperatures did not rise between 1998 and 2008" – Dr David Whitehouse on the PNAS paper Kaufmann et al. (2011)

The Kaufmann et al 2011 paper (Note: Michael L. Mann is a co-author, not the same as Michael E. Mann of hockey team fame) was embargoed until 8PM GMT (12PM…

Fly your flag

As always, I always put up a reminder for Americans to fly your flag on national holidays that are honoring our nation and those who served. Today is no exception.…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “Urgent and unprecedented environmental and social changes challenge scientists to define a new social contract… a commitment on the part of all scientists to devote their…

Wow, Lynas tells it like it is.

This is in the UK Daily mail today, and it’s like sacrilege to the greens to have one of ther own say this:

Climate change hype – it's turtles all the way down under

From the Society for Experimental Biology via Eurekalert, now making the rounds on websites like ScienceDaily, worrisome news that climate change will possibly, maybe, could, put the endangered Mary river…

Bastardi on outdoor grilling, 4th of July, AGW, and all that

Here’s a 4th of July message from Joe Bastardi of WeatherBell regarding this idiotic piece in the NYT. Click the image at left for the story. He’ll be on Fox…