Climate change readings ‘inaccurate’ TREVOR QUINN A climate change group has taken the National Institute for Atmospheric and Water Research (NIWA) to court over what they say are inaccurate temperature…
Month: July 2012
By its actions, the IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Unreliable
Foreword: Readers may recall that we covered the InterAcademy Council finding here on WUWT, in IAC slams IPCC process, suggests removal of top officials followed by IPCC’s Pachauri should resign…
Tornado Season Statistics Update – 'remarkably quiet'
Guest post by Paul Homewood It does not seem long since the February outbreak of tornadoes had Joe Romm noting :- The unexpectedly fierce and fast tornado outbreak so early…
Tisdale: How Does the Evolution of the 2012/13 El Niño Stack Up Against the Others since 1982?
Guest post by Bob Tisdale In addition to the title discussion, this post will serve as the Mid-July 2012 Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Update. It also includes a status update…
WUWT smeared by Scientific American's Bora Zivkovic
This tiff started because of this story by Tom Nelson yesterday, followed by this today. This post is my first involvement as all this happened without my involvement or comment…
Caution needed with new greenhouse gas emission standards
From the University of Calgary New model provides lifecycle analysis of ‘well-to-wheel’ oil sands emissions Policy makers need to be cautious in setting new ‘low-carbon’ standards for greenhouse gas emissions…
Texas Tall Tales and Global Warming
“…extreme heat events were roughly 20 times more likely in 2008 than in other La Niña years in the 1960s” It is this statement that has made headlines across the…
Parts 5 and 6 John Nielsen-Gammon's 'Skeptics are not deniers'
Click titles for each full essay. Skeptics Are Not Deniers: A Conversation (part 6) This is Part 6 of my six-part discussion with Robert G. Brown on paleoclimate, climate dynamics,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “Consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually”…
German “mad scientist” wants to rule the world…
Hmmm, sounds like a bad “B” movie plot. From Pierre Gosselin at No Tricks Zone: Why German Prof. Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber & Co. Will Become The Object Of Ridicule For Future…
Willis on why Piers Corbyn claims such a high success rate
(elevated from a comment on the Putting Piers Corbyn to the test thread ) Willis Eschenbach says: Martin Gordon says: July 15, 2012 at 5:31 am I note that Piers…
California Air Resources Board cap and trade program circumvents state open meeting laws with a Moonbeam assist
Strong headline, I know, but I didn’t believe this was true until I researched it myself. First some background; I once served as an elected official on my local school…
AGU Letter: Journals Should Ask Authors to Publish Results
Dr. Leif Svalgaard directs my attention via email to this letter in Eos, Vol. 93, No. 29, 17 July 2012, which calls for more “open science” in the role of…
Newly found weather records show 1930's as being far worse than the present for extreme weather
The Heat Was On—Before Urbanization and Greenhouse Gases By Patrick Michaels on World Climate Report Sure is hot out! And what better time for a paper to appear in the…
See if you can find the 'legal threat' to David Karoly
Steve McIntyre has posted his letter to David Karoly regarding Karoly’s book review, covered by WUWT here. Karoly responds with a suggestion he’s been given a ‘legal threat’. After reading…
Still waiting for the CME from the X Class flare
Spaceweather.com writes: (link mine) The CME launched toward Earth by the July 12th X-flare has not yet arrived. However, we are still within the forecast window set by analysts at…
Study: Wolverines need refrigerators
[That headline is from the Wildlife Conservation Society press release, printed as is. And why do Wolverines need refrigerators? The climate is getting warmer of course. – Anthony] Will insects…
X class flare CME arrival updated
From Spaceweather.com The CME launched toward Earth by yesterday’s X-flare is moving faster than originally thought. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab have revised their forecast accordingly, advancing the…
Coldest July in history for Anchorage?
From the Alaska Dispatch and the weather is not climate unless it’s 100 degrees outside department comes this report: Could this be the coldest July in history for Anchorage? According…
After pointing out an airplane got stuck in heat softened asphalt, Al Gore misses the fact that many of the surface temperatures used in climate come from airports
From Al’s Journal, some seriously dysfunctional thinking using props he doesn’t understand. Al brings attention to the fact that at Washington Reagan National Airport some tarmac asphalt got soft on…
Friday Funny Bonus – the company you keep
Post Climategate, we’ve seen a fall of sorts lately. Papers like Gergis et al are retracted for errors, then we have Michael Oppenheimer’s trainwreck of claiming climate change induced crop…
Climate science and nuclear weapons research: Another conflation of weather and climate
From The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists via SAGE Publications comes this press release claiming that because nuclear fallout was tracked by meteorological instrumentation and synoptic scale models, it somehow…
Friday Funny: Dr. Michael Mann keeps interesting company
I had to laugh when I saw this post from climate blog regular caerbannog666 re-tweeted by Dr. Michael Mann: That iron lung comment piqued my interest, and I wondered who…
Of Simple Models, Seasonal Lags, and Tautochrones
Guest post by Joeseph H. Born Many of us laymen were fascinated by Willis Eschenbach’s recent post that touched on how insensitive to oscillation period the phase lag between insolation…
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