Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It was hot here a couple of days ago. I walked past a huge aloe vera plant, taller than my head, that grows by our…
Month: September 2011
Principle of the Universality: responsibilities of scientists
From the International Council for Science, something for the beleaguered climate science community to consider. Responsibilities of scientists underlined by scientific community Rome, Italy – The General Assembly of the…
Congratulations to Alan Carlin on vindication
While the GAO issues a report today saying that the US Historical Climatological Monitoring Network has real tangible problems (as I have been saying for years) the Inspector General just…
GAO report on the poor quality of the US climate monitoring network
Senator Inhofe’s EPW office issued a press release today on the subject of USHCN Climate Monitoring stations along with links to this report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) …the…
The Telegraph finally figures out where the North Magnetic Pole is was, issues microscopically sized correction
WUWT readers may remember this story I wrote about the clowns from Old Pulteney’s “Row to the Pole” who had headlines blaring in Britain exclaiming they had rowed to the…
CDM-ania
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I wrote previously about the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. In that post, I pointed out an underlying irony of the CDM.…
Wikileaks: Major UN Climate Programme 'Basically A Farce'
Newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser at The Global Warming Policy Foundation A diplomatic cable published last month by the WikiLeaks website reveals that most of the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism…
Friday Funny – bug sex and beer
From the University of Toronto, where they didn’t blame the CO2 in the beer for this, thank goodness. University of Toronto Mississauga professor wins Ig Nobel Prize for beer, sex…
Getting ready for more global warming: Heathrow airport triples snow clearance fleet
It seem airport operator BAA has realized that Global warming has really dumped on them the last two years and rather than be caught with their pants down again, they…
Plants gobbling up CO2 – 45% more than thought
From the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres a clear indication for those “CO2 is plant food” scoffers that the plants don’t care what they think. Productivity of land plants…
1 K or not 1 K? That is the question
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley I am very grateful for the many thoughtful postings in response to my outline of the fundamental theoretical upper bound of little more than 1.2…
Warming Island / Greenland Sea Regional Climate and Arctic Sea Ice Reconstruction
Guest post by David Middleton The recent return of the Warming Island AGW myth inspired me to build a climate reconstruction for the Greenland Sea region. Temperature Reconstruction I performed…
Video analysis and scene replication suggests that Al Gore's Climate Reality Project fabricated their Climate 101 video "Simple Experiment"
UPDATE2 10/18/2011 – The experiment has been replicated several ways, see: Replicating Al Gore’s Climate 101 video experiment shows that his “high school physics” could never work as advertised UPDATE: New…
EPA Rules … and how they don't follow their own
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Most folks would not be surprised if I were to make the claim that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not properly consider the…
Comment of the week
It’s been long time since I featured one of these, but this one from James Delingpole’s blog really hit home for me. This comment from Amanda was about my exposing…
Just in time: shale oil use without creating carbon dioxide
From the American Chemical Society , something that will cause synapse arcing in Bill McKibben’s and Joe Romm’s brains. I guess Obama can build that Keystone XL pipeline after all.…
Report: EPA cut corners on climate finding, ignored Data Quality Act, flouted peer review process
From: The Daily Caller In a report released Wednesday (at Sen. Inhofe’s request, dating back to April) the inspector general found that the EPA failed to follow the Data Quality…
Cloud cools
Guest post by Erl Happ This post was generated in response to the Christopher Monkton thread. It is not a criticism of Christopher Monkton but of our tendency to imagine…
Delingpole on Reason.tv
James Delingpole and WUWT are inextricably linked in climate history. I broke the climategate story here at WUWT from my laptop at Dulles airport, Delingpole was the first in the…
Monckton on "pulling Planck out of a hat"
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley My commentary written for Remote Sensing on the empirical determination of climate sensitivity, published by the splendid Anthony Watts some days ago, has aroused a…
Honey, I shrunk the copepods
From the Queen Mary, University of London , there was shrinkage, of plankton no less. I’m sure it’s easy to extrapolate that right up to the top of the food…
Getting GRLed
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. recently submitted this paper to Geophysical Research Letters (GRL): A homogeneous database of global landfalling tropical cyclones Jessica Weinkle* and Roger Pielke, Jr. Center for Science…
Future wind
From CSIRO Australia New energy in search for future wind Scientists are taking the first steps to improve estimates of long-term wind speed changes for the fast-growing wind energy sector.…
Geomagnetic solar storm in progress
Spaceweather.com reports: A strong-to-severe geomagnetic storm is in progress following the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME) at approximately 12:15 UT on Sept. 26th.
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