If the looming spectre of rising electricity prices due to CARB’s upcoming “cap and trade” isn’t enough, now the Department of Water resources has opted to be less efficient by…
Month: June 2012
Satellite imagery of Colorado's High Park Fire
To hear and read the MSM reports about this fire, you’d think that the entire states of Colorado and Wyoming were ablaze. Meanwhile, the usual paid advocates are already wailing…
New modeling analysis paper by Ross McKitrick
Dr. McKitrick’s new paper with Lise Tole is now online at Climate Dynamics. He also has an op-ed in the Financial Post on June 13. A version with the citations…
ARCUS June Sea Ice Outlook – The 'New Normal'
From ARCUS: I’m late getting this posted, apologies. WUWT comes in third highest, same position we were last year. My thanks to Helen Wiggins for allowing us to enter again…
Sea Ice News: NSIDC's Dr. Walt Meier on this Arctic ice season
Guest post by Dr. Walt Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center Winds, Temperatures, and Arctic Sea Ice Extent As the summer sea ice melt season gets into high gear,…
Dr. Paul Bain Responds to Critics of Use of "Denier" Term
UPDATE: Dr. Robert G. Brown of Duke University, the commenter rgbatduke, made a response that was commented on by several here. It is eloquent, insightful and worthy of consideration. See…
The plot thickens at UVa – Kington resigns
The man whose namesake “Kington Chair” (Joe D. and Helen J. Kington Professorship in Environmental Change) that was supposedly to be given to Michael Mann, has resigned from UVa amid…
Dear Woods Hole and NCAR, maybe you missed this trend in Antarctic sea ice?
More modeling madness projecting the future, but the actual data for the past 30 years says otherwise, with a positive trend. Regular commenter Julienne Stroeve of NSIDC is one of…
Lord Leach of Fairford weighs in on Nature's 'denier' gaffe
I’ve still not received any reply from Nature Climate Change editor Rory Howlett to my query about why he allowed the term “deniers” in scientific literature (Bain et al), and…
Researchers calculate size of particles in Martian clouds of CO2 snow
Mars’ carbon dioxide ‘snowflakes’ are about the size of red blood cells. In the dead of a Martian winter, clouds of snow blanket the Red Planet’s poles — but unlike our…
Keeping track of NOAA's ENSO data changes
The NOAA Weekly ENSO Sea Surface Temperature Indices Webpage Has Changed Location By Bob Tisdale There has been concern expressed recently around the blogosphere that NOAA hasn’t updated their weekly El…
30 years of soil moisture imaged from satellite data
From the Vienna University of Technology, a first. A very cool video follows. Since soil moisture is an indicator of evapotranspiration, I’d love to see a closeup around Mount Kilimanjaro,…
The Intriguing Problem Of The Younger Dryas—What Does It Mean And What Caused It?
This is a follow up posting to Younger Dryas -The Rest of the Story! Guest post by Don J. Easterbrook Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University. The Younger Dryas was…
Rio+20 Final Draft
From Craig Rucker at CFACT: Here is the final draft of the Rio+20 outcome document “The Future We Want.” You can examine the entire document at CFACT.tv and decide for…
A Demonstration of Negative Climate Sensitivity
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, after my brief digression to some other topics, I’ve finally been able to get back to the reason that I got the CERES albedo…
Just a reminder, these are still available
Readers may recall my family trip to photograph the annular solar eclipse in May 2012, and the stunning image captured and uploaded to WUWT from a Starbucks in Fernley, NV.…
UVa board meeting ends in heckling
Readers may recall my earlier report on the strange weekend ouster of UVa president Teresa Sullivan last week where I suggested there might be a Michael Mann connection because supposedly…
“Sustainable justice” = redistribution of scarcity
The UN Rio+20 agenda means less freedom, happiness, true justice and human rights progress Guest post by Paul Driessen and Duggan Flanakin Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised that his Administration…
NASA: Study Finds Ancient Warming Greened Antarctica
It seems Antarctica once had vegetation and had a lot of rain. This artist’s rendition created from a photograph of Antarctica shows what Antarctica possibly looked like during the middle…
Time Lags in the Climate System
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Did you ever sit on a hot sand beach and dig your hand down into the sand? You don’t have to dig very far before…
Sea Surface Temperature Approaching the Threshold of El Niño
Guest post by Bob Tisdale This post will serve as the sea surface temperature update for mid-June. The post also provides an update on the progress I’m making with my…
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