Guest post by Erl Happ Here’s a hypothetical: Let’s imagine that we have an atmosphere of two parts. The first 10 km of the atmosphere has no greenhouse gas. The…
Month: August 2011
Saturday Silliness – Concerned Cartoon Contest
People send me things. The story a couple of days ago about Union of Concerned Scientists (Be a concerned scientist – valid credit card required) has prompted some interest in…
Oh noes! Cities endanger the future environment
From Yale University Growth of cities endangers global environment New Haven, Conn.—The explosive growth of cities worldwide over the next two decades poses significant risks to people and the global…
Interpretation of the Global Mean Temperature Data as a Pendulum
By Girma Orssengo, PhD In his Caltech commencement address in 1974, Professor Richard Feynman advised students the following: “Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if…
Detecting sunspots before they form allows for better space weather forecasting
From Stanford University New method detects emerging sunspots deep inside the sun, provides warning of dangerous solar flares, say Stanford researchers Sunspots spawn solar flares that can cause billions of…
Ryan Maue's paper in GRL in AGU's weekly highlight
We’ve known this for quite some time, but I wanted to offer my congratulations to Dr. Maue. I’m thankful that you are a WUWT contributor. – Anthony AGU journal highlights…
Novel idea – arrange solar panels like Nature designed it
From Slashdot, something so obvious you wonder why nobody tried it before: arrange solar panels like tree leaves for better efficiency. See the story and graphs I’ve provided below. 13-Year-Old…
Another sea level rise fallacy falls short
Heat-driven expansion not a major source of sea level rise With the power to drown low-lying nations, destroy infrastructure, and seriously affect sensitive coastal ecosystems, sea level rise may be…
Space Storm Tracked from Sun to Earth for First Time
by Dr. Tony Phillips NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie,…
ODTRAN Moddities
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an online calculator called MODTRAN that calculates the absorption of longwave (“greenhouse”) radiation for various greenhouse gases (“GHGs”), and shows their resulting effect. It…
Bizarre, craptastic theory from the Guardian, Penn State, and NASA: "ET will kill us because global warming will tip them off that we are a bad species"
UPDATE: co-author admits it is a “horrible mistake”, see below – Anthony From the you’ve got to be effing kidding me department. First, I apologize to my readers for the…
Tisdale on 2011 sea level changes
1ST Quarter 2011 Sea Level Anomaly Update And An Initial Look At The Impacts Of ENSO On Global Sea Level Guest post by Bob Tisdale It’s been more than two years…
Denied: California Green School's charter revoked
This is a story about a charter school in my town of Chico, CA that had its charter revoked last night by the school board. I used to serve on…
Major flaw found in Arctic temperature reanalysis – exaggerates warming
This might put a kink in the RC posited “polar amplification of temperature” that is expected from AGW. A previous paper published in Nature (Screen & Simmonds 2010) said: The…
New GWPF Briefing Paper
The Truth About Greenhouse Gases London, 17 August – The Global Warming Policy Foundation today publishes an outstanding briefing paper by the distinguished physicist Professor William Happer of Princeton University…
Be a "concerned scientist" – valid credit card required
Reader DJ writes in Tips & Notes: Since becoming a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists when I found out all you needed was a valid credit card, my…
NASA squelches comet Elenin fears
NASA got tired of answering doomsday questions, so issued a statement and FAQs to deal with the nonsense. Comet Elenin Poses No Threat to Earth Often, comets are portrayed as…
Still no polar ice tipping points ahead
We covered this earlier, but this is a new press release on the subject today. From the University of Washington via Eurekalert Model shows polar ice caps can recover from…
Quote of the week – hump day hilarity
I busted out laughing when I saw this from the Pajamas Media Tattler.
NOAA's Weather Ready Nation
This press release from NOAA came in an email today. I’m not too impressed by the “2011 Ties Record for Billion Dollar Disasters” statement because as inflation and property values…
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