Looks to me like a system ripe for hacking and fraud that will turn ordinary citizens into criminals. The New York Times reports that the Netherlands is testing a new…
Month: August 2011
Open Thread
I’m off on a small adventure today, chasing and logging a USHCN weather station which had been misidentified in the early days of the surfacestations project.
Pielke Sr: Climate Includes Extreme Events
A Forecast Extreme New Zealand Weather Cold and Snow Event By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. While it is common to state that weather is not climatology, the reality is that…
Hey – how much Thorium you got under the hood?
Much like “flying cars”, atomic powered cars were a campy futuristic meme of the 50’s, for example, there was the Ford Nucleon concept: From Wikipedia: The Ford Nucleon was a…
Four Possibilities for the Next Atlantic Tropical Storm
TRMM Satellite Sees Four Possibilities for the Next Atlantic Tropical Storm On Friday, August 12th, there were no named tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic Ocean. However, the National Hurricane…
Row to the Pole – "don't comment or reply to skeptics"
Gee, let’s not talk to the other people who think maybe, just maybe, this was a bad idea gone even badder? I had to laugh when I saw this on…
The fight deepens over the Carbon Tax in Australia
There is quite a fight brewing in Australia between regular folks and the Gillard government. It will come to a head when a big nationwide convoy of truckers descend on…
Bastardi: Science and reality point away, not toward, CO2 as climate driver
Guest post by Joe Bastardi, WeatherBell With the coming Gorathon to save the planet around the corner ( Sept 14) , my stance on the AGW issue has been drawing…
The newest hockey stick
Yes that blue line is retractions in scientific journals. Dr Roger Pielke Jr. notes on his blog that: The Wall Street Journal reports that retractions of scientific papers have surged…
Friday Funny – I can see technicians from my house
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. points out this nifty visual on the social order of science from Matúš Soták. Well worth a look if you’ve ever been anywhere in the realm.
Penn State on "the consequences of thawing"
From Penn State Polar climate change may lead to ecological change Ice and frozen ground at the North and South Poles are affected by climate change induced warming, but the…
Row to the Pole – backtracked and iced in
UPDATE: see the latest excuse below. The satellite tracking map has been like this for two days. Follow the yellow brick road for an about face and head to land.
Multi-tentacled Mann o' war raging over UVA emails
ATI Responds to Union of Concerned Scientists’, et al, Efforts to Stop Agreement with UVA to Turn Over Michael Mann Records Thursday, August 11, 2011 Contact: Paul Chesser, Executive Director, paul.chesser@atinstitute.org FOR…
From NCAR an "unexpected new result" – "Arctic ice… likely to expand as it is to contract"
It seems that the Serreze “death spiral” might be on hold. From UCAR/NCAR: Arctic ice melt could pause in near future, then resume again BOULDER—Although Arctic sea ice appears fated…
Global warming – step changes driven by ENSO?
Story submitted by Jens Raunsø Jensen The IPCC dismisses in its AR4 report of 2007 natural climate variability as a major reason for the global temperature increase in the second…
The new IPCC economic models
The new IPCC economic models show that economic growth is part of the solution Story submitted by Tim Worstall The IPCC has just released details of the economic models that…
Undersea volcanoes might be more common than previously thought
Reader “Mark” in Tips and Notes writes: Surprise Underwater Volcanic Eruption Discovered Excellent 3D graphic representation of the lava. Note this particular volcano was previously report by Scarlet- yesterday. Click…
Dueling conclusions on global methane flatness puzzle
From UC Irvine: UCI studies find different reasons for global methane riddle One cites less dependency on oil, the other new farming practices Irvine, Calif. – Two new UC Irvine…
Biases in Antarctic weather stations reported up to 10°C
This paper just published in the AMS Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology has some broad ramifications for the claim (Steig et al, covered here) that Antarctica is warming. It…
Another round of questions for polar bear researcher
From National Public Radio Polar Bear Scientist Faces New Questions by Nell Greenfieldboyce A wildlife biologist is continuing to face questions about an influential paper he wrote on apparently drowned…
Seeds of life on Earth may have originated in space
NASA finds proof that amino acid components in meteorites originate in space. This is exciting news. NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries…
Facebook feed feature enabled
Just a short good news housekeeping announcement. FINALLY, wordpress.com has enabled an automatic “publish to Facebook page” feature so I can get the WUWT Facebook page updated regularly.
[Gore] did not know, as the others did, that the conference was being streamed…
As reported by the NYT. Oops. Now we know why we heard the real Gore speaking, not just the made for TV version of Al. And… due to this story…
Latest Solar Cycle Numbers: the doldrums continue
Even with the recent triple CME and X class solar flare, overall the sun is still in a funk for cycle 24. Below I have the latest solar cycle progression…
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