Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In yet another futile attempt to explain away what I see as the reasonable and justified skeptical American reaction to the unending stream of nonsense…
Month: September 2011
IPCC: Resistance is futile
Donna Laframboise has an excellent piece on how the IPCC has been assimilated by influence from the WWF. Apparently hawking the threat of dead panda bears is quite lucrative, Donna…
Your [wasted green] tax dollars at work
From the Fiscal Times: Solyndra Went on a Spending Spree After Getting Loan Former employees of Solyndra, the shuttered solar company that exhausted half a billion dollars of taxpayer money,…
The Amazing Decline in Deaths from Extreme Weather in an Era of Global Warming, 1900–2010
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Summary Proponents of drastic curbs on greenhouse gas emissions claim that such emissions cause global warming and that this exacerbates the frequency and intensity…
A modest proposal to Skeptical Science
UPDATE: Some new data has come to light, see below. As Bishop Hill and WUWT readers know, there’s been a lot of condemnation of the way John Cook’s Skeptical Science…
Solar activity on the upswing, big sunspot rotating into view is producing x-class solar flares. Large CME expected soon, may hit earth.
From Spaceweather.com: New sunspot 1302 has already produced two X-flares(X1.4 on Sept. 22nd and X1.9 on Sept. 24th), can another be far behind? NOAA forecasters put the 24-hour probability at…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Quote of the Week: “Can We Really Call Climate Science A Science?” Paul Roderick Gregory – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –…
They had to burn the village to save it from global warming
From Wikipedia: One of the most famous quotes of the Vietnam War was a statement attributed to an unnamed U.S. officer by AP correspondent Peter Arnett. Writing about the provincial…
Another resignation over bad behavior over climate skepticism
From Bishop Hill, news via Pierre Gosselin that the decision by SEII to disinvite speakers to a conference (including Dr. Fred Singer) has backfired, badly. Gosselin is reporting that a…
Open Thread Weekend
This post serves two purposes. 1. A forum for open discussion in a civil manner 2. A test for Windows Live Writer to see how well it does for creating…
The anti-science battle of Green -vs- Mooney
Heh, gotta love this. Get popcorn. I was tipped off to this by Chris Mooney in a Tweet where he’s calling for reinforcements: Kevin Green of the American Enterprise Institute…
Monckton's letter to the journal Remote Sensing
Christopher Monckton writes in email: I sent the attached commentary to the journal a week back and have not had so much as an acknowledgement. So do feel free to…
UARS is down, but NASA doesn't know where
UPDATE: a later statement from NASA below says N. Pacific off the U.S. West coast, teleconference scheduled. See below. NASA confirms that the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) has entered…
Model predicts Arctic sea ice extent
From the University of Washington , some great news if it holds predictive power over time in the face of a cyclic, noisy, non-linear system. Model provides successful seasonal forecast…
Let the inhaler hoarding begin
First, let’s go back a month, this from the Will Steger Foundation: On Tuesday [August 2nd 2011], State Senator Torres Ray said, “I’m delighted to participate in the air quality…
It's all UARS
UPDATE from NASA 11:PM Fri: NASA says it continues to wait for final confirmation of re-entry. “If debris fell on land (and that’s still a BIG if), Canada is most…
Friday Funny – The Times Atlas of the world, it is a changing
Josh writes: There has been a considerable fuss about the feel-good 14th Edition of the Times Atlas of the World even in the Guardian, which did elicit an apology from the Times. Subsequently James Delingpole…
Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
From the National Science Foundation Scientists probe Indian Ocean for clues to worldwide weather patterns Study shows how tropical weather brews in the Indian Ocean and moves eastward along the…
Where is Science?
Guest post by Erl Happ The Southern Oscillation Index is a reference point for the strength of the Trade winds. It represents the difference in atmospheric pressure between Tahiti and…
The Maldives can't take a joke
But they can sure act like one: From the BBC: Maldives government complains of spoof atlas omission The government of the Maldives has complained after the London Daily Telegraph website…
IPCC, models, HadCRUT, and cherrymandering
The Rest of the Cherries: 140 decades of Climate Models vs. Observations by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Since one of the criticisms of our recent Remote Sensing paper was…
A disturbance in the force – CERN finds faster than light particles?
From Yahoo News: CERN claims faster-than-light particle measured GENEVA (AP) — Scientists at the world’s largest physics lab say they have clocked subatomic particles traveling faster than light, a feat…
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