Anomalies are unsuitable measure of global temperature trends Guest post by David M. Hoffer An anomaly is simply a value that is arrived at by comparing the current measurement to…
Month: August 2012
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing.…
FOI email: science is only influenced by 'big oil' if they do it
Here’s a stunning juxtaposition of two emails (released under FOI request and supplied by Christopher Horner to me) from the University of Arizona’s climate scientist Dr. Jonathan Overpeck regarding ‘big…
Isaac takes aim – look out New Orleans and Biloxi
The track models have all been pointing to the Gulf coast rather than central Florida, this plot of 10 meter wind velocity through August 31st is from WeatherBell’s newly setup…
Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon: 1930-2012
UPDATE: As a boy of 11 years old, I watched much of this in utter awe as many of you did on that Sunday in July, 1969. It is well…
Historical climate artifacts, collect your complete set here
Chris Horner writes in with this. This is pretty funny. It is window into their possibly half-joking, still overly earnest view of their historical importance in choosing a gift for…
Stalking the Wild Hiatus
I’ll be out of contact for the next couple of weeks. I’m going to investigate the climatic conditions on the Black Rock dry lake bed in Nevada… … if anyone…
A Different Take on the "Hottest Month on Record."
Guest post by David Middleton “NCDC Releases July 2012 U.S. Monthly Climate Report: July 2012 Marked the Hottest Month on Record for the Contiguous United States.” The headline was, of…
The Maldives Emily Littella sea level moment – never mind…
(For those of you who aren’t familiar with Emily Littella) From Tom Nelson: Current Maldives president: Remember when the previous Maldives president claimed that CO2 was going to cause our…
Poetic license – UEA's Creative Climate Writing Prize
People send me stuff. Here’s one about UEA offering a prize contest for “creative climate writing”. – Anthony To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: UEA Magazine – Climate Writing Clanger… An article on…
Friday Funny: Hilarious Mann email, IPCC icon 'pretty cool'
Chris Horner sends us another Michael Mann Email from the NOAA FOIA release. One should remember this statement from Dr. Mann before continuing: Mann: ‘I always thought it was somewhat…
AR5 Climate Forecasts: What to Believe
Guest post by Pat Frank The summary of results from version 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) has come out. [1] CMIP5 is evaluating the state-of-the-art general circulation…
Yay! Mike Mann took the bait, intends to file lawsuit against Steyn and NRO
UPDATE: Uh oh, looks like Mann will have to sue Investors Business Daily too, because they say that: It’s been the greatest fraud of all time, and Michael Mann has…
More NOAA FOI emails – A question for Bill Lambrecht of the Post Dispatch
After reading this email to the late climate scientists Steven H. Schneider (released from the 2 year FOI effort to NOAA) below… …I have this question for Bill Lambrecht of…
Make your own Michael Mann hockey stick at home
Following yesterday’s first look at emails from the 2 year effort to get NOAA to release emails from FOIA requests, where we learn that some scientists felt ‘Hit on the…
AGU: Link found between cold European winters and solar activity
“Skaters can only do this race every 10 or 11 years because that’s when the rivers freeze up,” Sirocko said. “I thought to myself, ‘There must be a reason for…
Hansen’s Temperature Analysis: Today’s Normal is Yesterday’s Extreme–and Nobody Cares
From Master Resource, by Chip Knappenberger Yesteryear’s climate extremes are today’s climate normals. Yet we are largely oblivious and better off. A hundred years from now the same will be…
Antarctic peninsula was 1.3°C warmer than today 11,000 years ago
From the British Antarctic Survey New climate history adds to understanding of recent Antarctic Peninsula warming Results published this week by a team of polar scientists from Britain, Australia and…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
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First look: 'Hit on the head with a hockey stick' – some selected emails from the recent NOAA FOIA release 2 years later
Readers may recall this yesterday: NOAA releases tranche of FOIA documents – 2 years later. I have a few to share from CEI now. Here’s one email, right after Climategate1,…
Best Michael Mann headline evah
Readers may recall Dr. Mann’s emotional hullabaloo over an NRO published Mark Steyn editorial here. NRO responded to Dr. Mann’s legal threat today, and the headline is priceless. NRO’s headline…
GISS responds to my complaint
As predicted, Gavin Schmidt did not respond, but I did get a nice letter from Dr. Reto Ruedy after Gavin forwarded the complaint. To his credit, Dr. Ruedy has now…
DC Circuit Tosses Out EPA’s Cross-State Pollution Rule
From the SPPI blog: DC Circuit Tosses Out EPA’s Pollution Rule Source: Madison Project Amidst Obama’s inexorable war on American energy, consumers, jobs, and prosperity, his EPA is in the…
McIntyre nominated for the Maddox Prize
Bishop Hill reports that one of his readers, Paul Matthews, has nominated Steve McIntyre for the Maddox Prize:
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