UPDATE: 930AM PDT 8/14/12 now at 71% 80% (at 530PM) 90% (8AM 8/15) 96% – just $700 to go, (11AM) of the goal. 2:26 PM 8/15 GOAL MET, and EXCEEDED!…
Month: August 2012
Announcement – Robert Phelan, WUWT moderator, has died
UPDATE: Details on the wake, funeral, and memorial fund are below. Given the circumstances that I’ve just now learned about, I ask WUWT denizens to help the Phelan family with…
Not so hot – ocean temperatures around the USA are not anywhere near record levels
While there’s wailing and gnashing of teeth over the US CONUS surface temperature being the “hottest ever” a cursory review of the sea surface temperatures in U.S.Coastal waters shows no…
Oxburgh's Climate Madness
Lord Oxburgh (Of the famed Oxburgh non-inquiry of Climategate) was interviewed on Australia’s ABC radio recently Simon at Australian Climate Madness, has the audio, transcript, and story. Well worth a…
Friday Funny – Climate Olympics
There’s too many scientific sports to include in one panel. I was really looking forward to seeing Josh’s rendition of the 400 Meter Skeptics Hurdles.
More "Fracking" Nonsense About Earthquakes
Are the science journalists ignorant of science? Or are they intentionally misleading the public? Earthquakes triggered by fluids injected deep underground, such as during the controversial practice of fracking, may…
Wind power not coming through for California – power alert issued by the CAISO
I called the media support line for this press release issues today, to ask a couple of questions, here are the answers: 1. Q: Besides the heat wave, what other…
Of Coconuts, the Sun, and Small Isolated Islands
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach For a few years, I managed a combination of businesses on a very remote 100 hectare (250 acre) South Pacific island. The main businesses were…
Cliff Mass pans Hansen's PNAS paper
Cliff writes to me to tell me about this essay: Climate Distortion. I’m happy to draw attention to it. He writes: This week, with great fanfare, NASA scientist James Hansen…
A fascinating new interview with Prof Richard Muller, quote: On Climategate – "What they did was, I think, shameful. And it was scientific malpractice"
Guest Post by Barry Woods The Progressive Radio Network website had a fascinating interview with Prof Richard Muller last week following his ‘man of the moment’ opinion piece – “The Conversion…
Not Quite Friday Funny – Hansen's hot product
Josh is in fine form today, saying: “New Hansen cartoon.. a bit of a mix a whole load of news stories together and see what happens cartoon.”
An 'inconvenient result' – July 2012 not a record breaker according to data from the new NOAA/NCDC U.S. Climate Reference Network
I decided to do myself something that so far NOAA has refused to do: give a CONUS average temperature for the United States from the new ‘state of the art’…
Dear NOAA and Seth, which 1930's were you comparing to when you say July 2012 is the record warmest?
The press release is out, and the usual serial bloviators are rushing to trumpet the news. July 2012 was the hottest ever on record! “Yikes! We’re gonna roast! Global Warming!”…
About that missing USHCNv2 data…
Some correspondence from NCDC on that missing data from 2008 to the present:
M4.1 Earthquake in Los Angeles area
From USGS: Earthquake Details This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Quote of the Week – Harry Reid's Cherry Blossom Picking: FAIL
Senator Harry Reid’s Press Release: Time To Stop Acting Like Climate Change Deniers Have A Valid Point Of View – They Don’t ‘If skeptics had taken a stroll along Potomac…
Earth, with some MSG added
PR 25 2012 – Today, the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) instrument on MSG-3 captured its first image of the Earth (August 7th). This demonstrates that Europe’s latest…
Editorial: 'Hansen is simply wrong' and 'his hypothesis is a complete and abject failure'
UPDATE: 9:55 AM PDT 8/8/12 A graph of Palmer Drought Severity Index -vs- GISTEMP data has been added from Dr. Michaels. Looks like another “GISS miss”. There’s a lot of…
Letter: Climate change and the Tooth Fairy
Sam Outcalt: Climate change and the Tooth Fairy 08/06/2012 09:18:37 AM MDT The Boulder Daily Camera, also submitted to WUWT. Within Boulder County there is a strong and widespread belief…
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