Guest Post by Reed Coray On Dec. 6, 2011 12:12 am Lord Monckton posted a comment on a thread entitled Monckton on sensitivity training at Durban that appeared on this…
Year: 2011
Solar-Terrestrial Power Update
By Paul L. Vaughan, M.Sc. The amplitude of Earth’s zonal winds is modulated by the solar cycle. Here’s a concise visual update based on the latest data: LOD’ = rate…
Merry Christmas – open thread
Above: Christmas trees in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres As of this post, I’m offline until late Monday PST. Moderators, don’t be shy about taking time off too.
Mann hockey stick co-author Bradley: "it may be that Mann et al simply don't have the long-term trend right"
Tom Nelson spots a gem in the Climategate 2 emails: Hockey stick co-author Ray Bradley: “it may be that Mann et al simply don’t have the long-term trend right”; “I…
Great Circle Route over the pole cleared for Branson's Virgin Air
This will shave six hours off a flight from London to Fiji, which had to either stop in Los Angeles or Seoul en-route. There’s a good side and a bad…
Spaceballs – the debris
Curious story in AFP yesterday: Full story here – Click the image above for a large view of the object. Me thinks it is from either of these spacecraft:
Friday Funny – New NOAA supercomputer "Gaea" revealed
From the Atomic City Underground Blog of knoxvillenews.com comes word that a big kahuna of komputing is about to go online. The Cray XK6 supercomputer is a trifecta of scalar,…
UK police seize computers of skeptic blogger in England
UPDATE: 12/21/11 4PM -BBC covers Tallbloke, finally, Richard Black still silent- Norfolk constabulary to share hand-off Climategate investigation, and Greg Laden caves – see below Dec 14th -The first blogger…
NYT reporter engages in zany conspiracy theory – suggests bloggers "knew" FOIA emails were coming
This is almost as clueless as the raid on Tallbloke by the police looking for scraps. But it does underscore one thing – investigators are clueless and so is the…
China Warns EU's Green Fanatics Of Global Trade War
Via the GWPF, the great war of flying carbon credits appears to be massing on the border. China has warned the European Union to abandon its controversial carbon tax on…
Climate craziness of the week – the last one, really!
The Telegraph goes full stupid with this headline. The craziness is that this photo essay has to be done every year, a point apparently lost on both the Telegraph and…
In where I get my own nuclear explosion for Christmas
It’s getting onto the time when we just let other cares fall away and focus on family and friends, and what holiday season would be complete without some fireworks when…
Nothing is Sustainable
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach People have this idea that sailing is cheap, because of the low fuel costs. But blue-water sailors have a saying that goes like this: The…
The Two Koreas, 1950–2008: An Unplanned Experiment in Economic Systems, the Carbon Footprint and Human Well-Being
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Lately, North Korea has been very much in the news. Its population—or should I say, “captive population”—greets the passing of the baton from…
Shocker – Ken Caldeira resigns as IPCC AR5 lead author
(via Tom Nelson) Ken Caldeira resigns as IPCC lead author, saying: “…it is not clear how much additional benefit there is to having a huge bureaucratic scientific review effort under…
Ben Santer's "damage control" on UAH global temperature data
The post below on Dr. Roy Spencer’s blog that contains responses from Spencer and Christy deserves wide distribution and attention, because it shows just how badly Ben Santer and John…
Shocker: BP quits solar power industry
BP Exits the Solar Industry (via Planet Gore) By Greg Pollowitz Bloomberg: BP Plc, Europe’s second-largest oil company, will shut its solar power unit and quit the business entirely after 40…
Senseless about sensitivity
The speculative press release below is from the University of Gothenburg. After having a paper published earlier this year in Science that argues climate sensitivity might be lower than the…
Hansen's Arrested Development
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach James Hansen has taken time off between being arrested to produce another in the list of his publications. It’s called “Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Implications“.…
Another alarming climate myth bites the dust – mosquito borne malaria does NOT increase with temperature
Back in 2001, the University of Florida wrote one of those “science by press release” thingy’s in Eurekalert where they speculated that global warming would increase ranges, and thus the…
Greg Laden caves – makes nice with Tallbloke
Tom Nelson points out that Laden seems to have caved to impending legal action. His essay now is a world apart from the angry and accusatory rhetoric of a few…
Job opening for: Environment Program Officer
People send me stuff. This WUWT reader (who shall remain nameless) writes of a job opening that some of our readers may very well be suitable for. The letter says…
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