Inconvenient questions will not be tolerated in Durban or other climate crisis conferences Guest post by Kelvin Kemm British Viscount Christopher Monckton of Brenchley parachuted with me into Durban,…
Month: December 2011
Tisdale on IPCC Models Versus Sea Surface Temperature Observations During The Recent Warming Period
Guest post by Bob Tisdale OVERVIEW This post compares satellite-based Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies to the hindcasts and projections of the multi-model mean of CMIP3 models. CMIP3 is the…
Enron Romm
Most WUWT readers know Joltin Joe Romm by his trademark over the top rhetoric and his outright hatred of skeptics on parade every day at his Center for American Progress…
Global Warming and Walnut Trees: a Case Study in Deception
Guest post by Dr. David Deming The science of global warming is allegedly “settled.” The American Physical Society has declared that “global warming is occurring” and that the “evidence is…
Don't Tax Development, It Hurts The Poor
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was reading an interesting article, paywalled sadly, called “Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets“, by David N. Reshef et al. It describes a subtle…
For "the team", may the farce be with you
Fenbeagle pens a masterpiece in the theme of The Empire Strikes Back. I loved this one: After watching Mann’s TEDx presentation, I think the above is the scene right before…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Quote of the Week: We’ll fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass. Our goal is…
CO2 Sensitivity is Multi-Modal – All bets are off
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein A multi-modal probability distribution, such as the graphic below [from Schmittner 2011], cries out “MULTIPLE POPULATIONS”. Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (expected temperature increase due to a…
Frank Lansner on Foster and Rahmstorf 2011
This is a repost from Lansner’s website, since Tamino aka Grant Foster won’t allow it to be discussed on his own website, I thought I’d give a forum for discussion…
Congressman Rohrabacher's speech on climate issues
Remarks given by Mr. Rohrabacher of California on December 8, 2011 on the floor of the House, a matter of public record. Mr. Speaker, tonight, as a strong advocate of…
Tallbloke to take to torts
I’ve received this email from Roger Tattersall’s attorney (known as a solicitor in England) with the request that I post it. I’m happy to do so. Please see in the…
NASA checking TERRA/AQUA satellite observations against citizen observer ground reports
S.D. Maley writes of an interesting and somewhat surprising NASA program trying to fill in observation gaps where satellites are getting cloud cover wrong: NASA is in the process [1]…
Durban Dementia
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A range of proxy records, supported by contemporaneous descriptions of the weather, all agree that the earth went through what is called the “Little Ice…
Post COP 17 – The Road to Nowhere
Guest post by Professor Will Alexander Roadmaps The key word used during the COP 17 discussions was ‘roadmap’ used by the European Union delegation. The following is a map of…
Polar bears becoming a problem in some Arctic towns – survey accuracy questioned
This interesting article shows the information and perception gap between scientists that do helicopter surveys of polar bears and the native people who co-exist in their presence.
Comet Lovejoy survives a brush with Sol
From Physorg.com Comet Lovejoy was only discovered a couple of weeks ago. It was supposed to melt as it came so close to the sun that the temperatures would hit…
A little security help for my friends
More than a couple of people have asked me about computer security in the last couple of days, especially after the Tallbloke raid incident.
Don't sell your coat!
This guest post is well worth a read – Anthony Guest post by Harold Ambler What follows is an excerpt from my new book Don’t Sell Your Coat, available here: I…
The IPCC gives me a shock
Yesterday I did something that I never expected to get any results on. My lucky number 1029 paid off.
Polar amplification works both ways
Guest post by David Archibald When I started out in climate science in 2005, the prevailing view in the sceptic community was that carbon dioxide-caused global warming was real but…
To the Guardian: You cannot make good public policy on mistaken premises
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Damian Carrington’s Environment Blog at the Guardian proclaims: Climate deal: A guarantee our children will be worse off than us. This myth —perhaps myth-take…
Congress suspends light bulb ban funding
UPDATE 2: 12/16/11 9AMPST It appears early reports were wrong, junkscience.com now reports that The deal agreed to in Congress merely deprives the Department oF Energy the funds to enforce…
EU carbon trading in freefall
Looks just like what happened to the Chicago Carbon Exchange is about to repeat in Europe. Source: http://www.barchart.com/charts/futures/CKZ11 By Thomson Reuters Point Carbon LONDON | Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:01pm…
UAH global temperature – holding steady in November
UAH Global Temperature Update for Nov. 2011: +0.12 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for November, 2011 remained about the same as last…
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