Oh the irony! Pine Beetle outbreaks help cool the planet

From Oregon State University College of Forestry some news that some people who want to blame pine beetle outbreaks on global warming won’t like.  It seems there is a benefit.…

The Incredible Shrinking Frog

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the New York Times, there’s an article on some research that suggest a slight shrinkage of plants and animals with warming. In the “you…

Replicating Al Gore's Climate 101 video experiment shows that his "high school physics" could never work as advertised

This will be a top “sticky” post for a day or two. New stories will appear below this one. Readers may recall my previous essay where I pointed out how…

Holy irony, Batman!

Let’s see, they put up windmills to save the planet, then end up killing off endangered species, then have to limit the turbines to half days.  FAIL The Indiana bat…

Ruling: Polar bears can't be used to regulate CO2

Some good news on the ridiculous polar bears are endangered because of climate change front. It seems the linkage to CO2 has been..ahem, denied. I like this part:

The 500 year FUD about sea levels

Ah, once again in response to a fearmongering press release, we see the obligatory “NYC is flooded” photoshop trick. But guess what? I’ve already debunked that photo as impossible for…

Mid-October 2011 SST Anomaly Update

by Bob Tisdale NINO3.4 NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies (a commonly used El Niño-Southern Oscillation Index) are still hovering within weak La Niña range. For the week centered on…

More shootdown of the "severe weather is increasing" hype

From World Climate Report: No Change in Storminess As we enter the winter season, we all realize that if a large snow storm forms anywhere on the planet, someone will…

This is seriously fluxed up

From Yale University  pick which one is the true message of this press release: 1. The title of the press release: US rivers and streams saturated with carbon. 2. The…

RealClimate.org – down

UPDATE: As of 10PM PST, RC is back up and running, no mention of the outage though – Anthony I figured I’d better note this since a number of people…

Would You Give This Man a Ride?

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As I mentioned in my last post, I’d planned to hitchhike for a couple days. My plan was to hitch up to Grant’s Pass, Oregon…

NCEP ensemble forecast shows deep La Niña coming

We know that we are currently in a La Niña pattern by the various maps and graphs we have on the WUWT ENSO page, for example this one: But have…

BREAKING: An IPCC backchannel ‘cloud’ was apparently established to hide IPCC deliberations from FOIA.

UPDATE: (9:20 PST 10-17) the FOI request has been released, a copy of which is now linked below. This story will remain at the top of WUWT for a day…

Donna Laframboise's new book causing reviews in absentia amongst some AGW advocates

I had to laugh after reading the reviews on Amazon.com for Donna Laframboise’s book: The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate ExpertThere’s some double fun here,…

Repeat after me… I [state your name]

Hilarious video clip of climate crusader turned opportunistic occupier Bill McKibben leading a flock of protestors in chant. It reminds me of this classic scene…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week:You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. – Attributed to Galileo – – – – – – – –…

Skeptics are invited to a public meeting with Dr. Kevin Trenberth

UPDATE: this meeting is canceled, I will not be attending – Anthony I’m pleased to announce that I and the entire WUWT community have been invited to a meeting and…

Another satellite re-entry and burnup expected, this one may have been brought down by hackers

This is interesting. The ROSAT X-ray observatory is expected to burn up in about a week and it has quite a checkered and colorful history. According to Wikipedia, ROSAT was…

It's all relative: superluminal neutrino discovery explained

Update: October 17 00:00 UTC:  whether this supposed explanation out of at least 80+ different papers attempting to debunk the neutrino FTL results has a shred of truth will take a while…

Shifting Sun-Earth-Moon Harmonies, Beats, & Biases

Paul L. Vaughan, M.Sc. – October 2011 This post has no introduction, per the author’s request, start with the graphs. A PDF of a more complete paper is linked at…