Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I love the coral reefs of the planet. In my childhood on a dusty cattle ranch in the Western US, I decorated my mental imaginarium…
Month: October 2011
No global climate change in the past 20,000 years?
Guest post by Dr. Don J. Easterbrook Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA In a paper entitled “Current global warming appears anomalous in relation to the climate of…
Largest nuclear bomb dismantled to date in the US arsenal, the B53
According to Wikipedia, this warhead (9.1 megatons) was apparently never tested, although an experimental TX-46 predecessor design was detonated 28 June 1958 as Hardtack Oak, which detonated at a yield…
It's libel – except when Mike does it
This Mann-made global warming lawsuit could backfire on the Penn State alarmist Guest post by Paul Driessen Lewis Carroll died too soon. Just imagine the fun he’d have with the…
Aurora in Michigan last night – great time lapse video
As I mentioned on my post yesterday, low latitude aurora could be possible thanks to the CME that impacted Earth yesterday. Here’s a wonderful time lapse video from Michigan last…
Another Climate FAIL: New Research Casts Doubt on Doomsday Himalayan Water Shortage Predictions
Barry Woods writes via email: Previously: (at Copenhagen) Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: “In 25 years the glaciers that provide water for 3/4 of a billion people will disapear entirely”…
The IPCC "Delinquent teenager" gets air time
Donna Laframboise is interviewed on SunTV about her new book. 7:40, but well worth your time. Click image for the video. Tom Harris at ICSC writes: Toronto-based researcher Donna Laframboise…
Real Climate pans BEST and Muller
In a shocking development that may represent a singularity, I find myself in agreement* with parts of an opinion piece posted on Real Climate today called Berkeley Earthquake Called Off.…
What the BEST data actually says
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My theory is that the BEST folks must have eaten at a Hollywood Chinese restaurant. You can tell because when you eat there, an hour…
Big CME hits earth, low latitude auroras possible
From the Rice University Spaceweather listserv Our space weather alert system is in level yellow, and the CME input of energy to the Earth’s magnetosphere still continues. So, if you…
Tisdale on the new "hide the decline" version of ocean heat content data
Introduction To The NODC Ocean Heat Content Anomaly Data For Depths Of 0-2000 Meters by Bob Tisdale The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) recently posted a new Ocean Heat Content (OHC)…
Rina becomes a hurricane
I said yesterday to keep an eye on this storm, and now it has grown into a hurricane rather quickly. The big question is whether or not it reforms after…
Climate change to flood link – no evidence
Another climate FAIL. Add this to tornadoes and hurricanes not being linked either, and you find that the entire Joe Romm / Bill McKibben alarming industrial complex of doubtful linkages…
Quote of the Week – Grist thinks spontaneous human combustion might be a convincing bit of evidence for AGW
There’s been some wild claims out there the past few days since BEST released their results in a media blitzkrieg on October 20th prior to peer review. But this one…
WWF in denial over Donna Laframboise's new book
So upset they issued a press release. That’ll show ’em. Funny how they couldn’t delineate the title of the book in the text. You can get the full story here…
Unadjusted data of long period stations in GISS show a virtually flat century scale trend
Temperature averages of continuously reporting stations from the GISS dataset Guest post by Michael Palmer, University of Waterloo, Canada Abstract The GISS dataset includes more than 600 stations within the…
Keep an eye on Tropical storm Rina
BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM RINA ADVISORY NUMBER 2…CORRECTED NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL182011 1100 PM EDT SUN OCT 23 2011 CORRECTED DISCUSSION SECTION …DEPRESSION STRENGTHENS INTO A TROPICAL STORM…
Not Alarmist Enough
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Normally, I might not deal with a four year old paper by James Hansen, the NASA doyenne of serial doomcasters. However, I note that this…
Sunday Silliness – the new crop
Josh has a handle on the “best” practices for farming data and producing crops out of season. See below.
A preliminary assessment of BEST's decline
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach With altogether far too much fanfare for my taste, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project has not released its preliminary results. Or at least…
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