From USA Today: Report: Climate change behind rise in weather disasters 12:53PM EST October 10. 2012 – The number of natural disasters per year has been rising dramatically on all…
Month: October 2012
Measuring UHI on a bike produces a new paper
While NCDC’s Dr. Thomas Peterson tries to ignore UHI, from Hans Von Storch at Die Klimazwiebel (h/t to Jos de Laat) we learn that many other people are actively measuring…
PBS airs special on green rooftops, cites NCDC's Thomas Peterson, who fumbles the UHI ball
From PBS last night: From Rooftop to Alleyway, Chicago Fights Extreme Urban Heat With Greener Ideas One of Chicago’s most beautiful and hidden gardens is located on top of City…
UAH Global temperature up slightly in September
UAH V5.5 Global Temp. Update for Sept. 2012: +0.34 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer As discussed in my post from yesterday, the spurious warming in Aqua AMSU channel 5…
Death by Stoat
Elevated from a comment by Tom Rude. Chronicle of an announced death, Wikipedia style. I had not posted on this road movie for a while but the occasion is too…
Thinning Arctic Ice; More Al Gore Aided and Abetted Misinformation?
Guest post by Dr.Tim Ball Al Gore did more to bring melting Arctic ice to global attention and concern than anyone. Polar bears became victims and poster animals for destructive…
New technology enables CO2 emissions tracking down to the level of individual buildings
I wonder what sort of reactions will occur when the CO2 police come knocking on individual doors saying “you need to turn off your heater, you are killing the planet”?…
Now, alarmists are making the public believe in the extreme weather boogeyman
A new survey has been released by Yale in cooperation with George Mason University. In it, 74% surveyed say “global warming is affecting weather in the United States”. Personally, I…
Trenberth still hyping extreme weather events and climate change
Despite the recent editorial in Nature saying that there’s no current connection between the two, NCAR’s Dr. Kenneth Trenberth is going to pitch connections between extreme weather and climate change…
Journey to the Center of the Mirth
You may have heard about this project: Jeff L. writes in WUWT Tips and Notes: You have to see this version of climate insanity – using climate alarmism to justify…
Low temperature records overwhelm highs in the USA this past week – where's the media to tell us how this should be viewed?
If this had been summer, and the numbers reversed, you’d see Seth Borenstein writing articles for AP telling us this is ‘what global warming cooling looks like’. Maybe Bill McKibben…
The Department of Energy's mushroom research
OK, from the title I’ll bet you are thinking: a. Mushroom clouds b. Keep me in the dark and feed me …. c. WTF If you answered “c”, you might…
Another model failure – seeing a sea of red where there is none
Seeing red just took on a whole new meaning – Anthony Model-Data Comparison – Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies – November 1981 through September 2012 Guest post by Bob Tisdale This is…
More 'truth is stranger than fiction' from Seinfeld
I’ve always said that the global warming story is just like another product of Vandelay Industries, as some of the more alarming parts foisted on us are simply sitcom variety…
'On climate time scales there is no indication of increasing incidence of tornadoes…'
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. points out a new paper for which he is a co-author. Normalized Tornado Damage in the United States: 1950-2011 in press, Environmental Hazards Kevin M. Simmons,…
More medicalization attempts of climate skeptics by psychiatry professionals
Sigh, for some reason some people seem to think climate skeptics hate their children and grandchildren. I wonder if they’ve ever polled to compare with concerns for that other “pass…
A paper unifying cosmic ray interaction, CFC's ozone, and warming
On Cosmic-Ray-Driven Electron Reaction Mechanism for Ozone Hole and Chlorofluorocarbon Mechanism for Global Climate Change Qing-Bin Lu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo Abstract Numerous laboratory measurements have…
Al Gore's palm oil train wreck gets worse
From Stanford University , more bad news coming from Al Gore’s failed Goldman Sachs palm oil fantasy. Stanford researchers show oil palm plantations are clearing carbon-rich tropical forests in Borneo…
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 great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by…
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