Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach When I’m analyzing a system, I divide the variables into three categories—first-, second-, and third-order variables. First-order variables are those variables that can change the…
Month: October 2011
Can anyone in Colorado attend this tomorrow?
Reposted from Climate Audit. William Brune, who acted as a “consultant” to the Penn State Inquiry Committee will be discussing the Mann misconduct “inquiry” in Boulder tomorrow Wednesday, October 5,…
UAH monthly global temperature, down again slightly, daily data closing in on record cold territory
UAH Global Temperature Update for September 2011: +0.29 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for September, 2011 retreated a little again, to +0.29…
Global Warming Policy Foundation Calls On Government To Suspend Unilateral Climate Targets
London, 4 October – The Global Warming Policy Foundation has welcomed the promise by Chancellor George Osborne that the government will no longer be bound by unilateral targets that cut…
The TV show where my character gets punched out by a climate scientist
UPDATE: The connection in Crownies to me is unmistakeable now, see update below. Stranger than fiction shades of Ben Santer: “Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting,…
Malaria and global warming – no linkage
From World Climate Report: Malaria Declines Despite Local Warming “Spreading tropical disease” is high on the list of bad things that are going to happen as the world warms—if you…
Electric airplane
No, that’s not the name of a rock band. But there is a real twin fuselage motor glider featuring a 145 kW electric motor, lithium-ion batteries, and retractable landing gear.…
Surprising things and places in science, engineering and geography named "niggerhead"
By now we are all probably aware of the media flash-mob that has erupted over presidential candidate Rick Perry’s badly named hunting ranch leased plot near Haskell, Texas. There’s quite…
Possible earthquake early warning signal discovered
From the AGU: An atmospheric precursor to the recent Japan megaquake Most scientists believe that earthquakes are inherently unpredictable, and reports of various kinds of earthquake precursor signals have been…
Back to the "drawing board" on glacial period carbon sinks
From Oregon State University News, more news of unsettled science. Nature study: Rising CO2 levels at end of Ice Age not tied to Pacific Ocean CORVALLIS, Ore. – At the…
Arctic cold yields "unprecedented Arctic ozone loss"
“What was different about this year was that the temperatures were low enough to generate ozone-depleting forms of chlorine for a much longer period of time.” And it is worth…
Hansen rakes it in
Disclosure Obtained by ATI Environmental Law Center Shows the Wealth Keeps Flowing for Dr. James HansenFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, October 3, 2011Contact: Paul Chesser, Executive Director, paul.chesser@atinstitute.orgAs it waits for the…
Electric Cars in Alaska
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I recently had the great pleasure of going back for a week to Alaska, where I’ve spent many exhilarating summers. I was reminded of the…
Global Warming Potentials
Global Warming Potentials fail because gas concentrations are not “well-mixed” Guest post by Dr. Vincent Gray I came across this revealing statement on page 247 of the IPCC Third Assessment…
Thanks to Michael Mann's response, a newspaper censors a letter to the editor ex post facto
UPDATES below – some confusion afoot by differing newspaper versions has been discovered. The print version appears to be online. ================================= Letters to the editor are one of the oldest…
Canadian Contretemps
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Driving home today, I heard about a new report from one of those Canadian “we work for the Government but we’re actually really truly independent,…
Icy skepticism hits Slashdot
I noted yesterday this story in Slashdot: Canadian Ice Shelves Halve In Six Years The CBC reports on new research that shows thousand-year-old ice shelves (much different than sea ice)…
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