China’s CO2 emission in millions of metric tons from 1980 to 2009: Source, EIA: http://www.eia.gov/countries/img/charts_png/CH_co2con_img.png From Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences: Atmospheric scientists release first “bottom-up” estimates of China’s…
Month: July 2012
University of Nebraska claims record drought in the USA? Not so fast…
From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln comes a news release about the 12 year old U.S. Drought Monitor dataset, proclaiming “record worst ever” as if this has some relevance in history.…
July sea ice outlook submitted to ARCUS
The WUWT Extent Projection: 4.55 million square kilometers. Readers polled, 142 responded with 22.11% of responses in the range of 4.5 to 4.6 million square kilometers. 4.6 million sqkm 11.21% (72…
Putting Piers Corbyn to the test
I’ve been given a link in email today to a public forecast page for July by weather prognosticator Piers Corbyn, which you can investigate in full yourself here. I find…
WUWT sea Ice forecast poll, just a few hours left
The poll closes at 12PM PST, Thursday, July 5th. If you have not voted, get your vote in now here. The deadline for submission to ARCUS is today.
Linking the ENSO and PDO induced rainfall of the Pacific Northwest to proxy data in tree rings and lake sediments
From Penn State , another Mann paper with proxy sets, and a divergence problem. At least they are talking about the MWP, or as they call it, the Medieval Climate…
'Doppler radar' for solar storm detection
Rice researcher part of team that used Doppler shifts to ID phenomenon; may help predict space weather HOUSTON – (July 2, 2012) – Doppler measurements that help track storms on…
Fired OSU instructor challenges job loss
You may recall WUWT’s coverage of Nick Drapela, a climate skeptic who was fired from his teaching job at Oregon State University. My friend and fellow climate skeptic, nationally syndicated…
Higgs Boson Hysteria – but no fireworks on the 4th of July
From CERN, another science press release with a “could” and “preliminary” caveat. Sigh. I expected fireworks. It is encouraging though. 5 sigma isn’t anything to sneeze at. I have to…
Some vexing vexillology – don't forget to fly your flag today
As I put out my flag this morning (seen at left), I recalled this interesting story in the WSJ the other day about vexillology – the study of flags, and…
Another regime change indication – this time in solar data
Note: See also the 1997 regime change in global climate data by the same method, here I’m happy to report that something I recognized and reported back in 2008 related…
Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaever asks ‘is climate change pseudoscience?’
Readers may recall this story: Nobel laureate resigns from American Physical Society to protest the organization’s stance on global warming. He’s back. From the Observations, Scientific American Blog Network Lindau…
More on the 2012 US heat wave – not so hot if you look around at other locations
From Joe D’Aleo via email: It will be remembered for the heat wave and dryness in a large area, but some facts may surprise you. June actually ended up cooler…
Detecting regime shifts in climate data – the modern warming regime ended in 1997
The Analysis of the Global Change using Hurst Re Scaling S.I.Outcalt : Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography, University of Michigan Abstract: Three data sets used to document the case for…
I get mail: strange sciency spam
People send me stuff. I get about 1000 emails a day now, between all my different accounts. A lot of it is spam. Today I got an email from “Tesla…
The Kevin Trenberth / Seth Borenstein aided fact free folly on the USA heat wave
I cringe every time I see stories like the one being pushed in the Associated Press today by AP science writer Seth Borenstein. My Way News – This US summer…
Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 7 – The next ARCUS Sea Ice Outlook forecasting poll for 2012 is online
NOTE: Poll closes at 12PM PST, Thursday, July 5th. First, in case you missed it over the weekend, the WUWT Sea Ice page has gone through an upgrade. A number…
Tisdale on the Curious Northern Hemisphere Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Patterns
Guest post by Bob Tisdale This post will serve as the Preliminary Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Update for June 2012, since we’ll be using preliminary June 2012 data in it.…
USA CO2 emissions may drop to 1990 levels this year
I graphed the EIA data, shown below. What is most interesting is that this is market driven, not mandate driven. Amazing Shale: US CO2 Emissions Plummet Towards 1990 Levels by…
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