“West Nile virus spreads faster,” reads the USA Today headline on a story that doesn’t actually say anything about rate of spread, just that the virus is spreading, as one…
Month: August 2012
Newly declassified document from Inspector General: U.S. climate change spending abroad is a mess
… more concerned with spending money than in monitoring its effectiveness.” From Fox News, which has the exclusive story: Inadequate oversight, lax bookkeeping, sloppy paperwork, haphazard performance agreements and missing…
NASA seeing sprites
From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center High above the clouds during thunderstorms, some 50 miles above Earth a different kind of lightning dances. Bursts of red and blue light, known…
The GWPF and Jo Nova web sites down
Many people have emailed me to ask what is going on, here’ s what I’ve found out.
Little Ice Age Thermometers- Historic variations in temperatures Part 3 -BEST confirms extended period of warming.
Guest post by Tony Brown This short paper is a preliminary examination of BEST data to 1753, as compared to the Central England Temperature Record (CET) to 1660 (instrumental record)…
Texas A&M says freshwater hurricanes grow stronger
From Texas A&M University , a claim that fresh water intensifies hurricanes. At first blush, the concept seems wonky to me, as I don’t think there’s much difference between the…
National Weather Service buying hollow point bullets?
UPDATE: Via Business Insider, my posit that this was a typo is confirmed. See below. At first I didn’t believe this, but there it is on the Federal bids page,…
Steve McIntyre to speak in London on Climate Issues
Steve McIntyre writes: I’m speaking in London on August 16: When: Thursday, 16 August 2012, 3pm Where: Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DB
Why We Need Debate, Not Consensus, on Climate Change
NOTE: This op-ed was rejected by the New York Times. It was submitted as a response by The president of The Heartland Institute in reply to Fred Krupp’s Wall Street…
Sea Ice News – Volume 3 Number 10 – ARCUS August Sea Ice Outlook posted, plus worries over Arctic storm breaking up sea ice
In the latest ARCUS Sea Ice Outlook, WUWT, Stroeve (NSIDC), and Meier (NSIDC) agree at 4.5 million square km. Whether those values turn out to be high due to the…
Apparently Governor Brown, you've never visited the weather station at Lake Tahoe
I had to laugh. Governor Jerry “moonbeam” Brown has created a comical clone of the Skeptical Science website at his state office website, and announced it today in lake Tahoe…
Martin Hoerling on James Hansen's 'game over' thinking
This is a word document prepared by Dr. Martin Hoerling of NOAA and provided to the New York Times is response to Dr. James Hansen’s “Game Over for The Climate”…
Twitter disappears Bill McKibben commentary on #poisonedweather
[See the Update below. While the Tweets did in fact disappear from my view from one hour to the next using the same method to view them as before, and…
July hottest ever, but U.S. tornado count – lowest since 1951: 'poisoned weather' meme falsified by Nature
“Connect the Dots” for this one. Mother Nature has just proven how idiotic some one the arguments trying to link global warming and severe weather are: in this case, the…
BEST, Volcanoes and Climate Sensitivity
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve argued in a variety of posts that the usual canonical estimate of climate sensitivity, which is 3°C of warming for a doubling of CO2,…
When will it start cooling?
Guest post by David Archibald My papers and those of Jan-Erik Solheim et al predict a significant cooling over Solar Cycle 24 relative to Solar Cycle 23. Solheim’s model predicts…
A quick look at temperature anomaly distributions
R code to look at changing temp distributions – follow up to Hansen/Sato/Ruedy Story submitted by commenter Nullius in Verba There has been a lot of commentary recently on the…
The "Toxic Twenty": Keeping America's Lights On
Guest Post by David Middleton The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is out with their latest “Toxic Twenty” list… The NRDC’s report is standard green claptrap. Kentucky led the Toxic…
NASA's James Hansen is just wrong: Proof that there is no increased drought in the USA tied to temperature
From the James Hansen is just wrong department comes some inconvenient data, data that Dr. Hansen or anyone in the media could have easily looked up for themselves before writing…
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