From Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF Europe’s ability to compete against the US as a manufacturing centre is being damaged by rising energy costs as North America benefits from…
Month: November 2012
Notes on the upcoming WUWT Gore-a-thon
As many are already aware, I’ve announced a first ever effort to do a 24 hour webcast to counter Al Gore’s upcoming “dirty energy = dirty weather ” campaign. Last…
'Paleotempestology' – the new Mann science
I missed this announcement yesterday, but when I saw the word “paleotempestology” today, I immediately thought of Dr. Michael Mann, mainly because he throws tempests and everybody else studies them…
Fashionable words and climate science
From the University of Bristol some research you have to wonder about how it ever got funded. One new fashionable word set I think they should add to this is…
Job candidate tells Bloomberg to 'take this job and ….. ..' over global warming cover
People send me stuff. This one, submitted to WUWT’s “submit a story” is quite something in that I’ve never seen someone take such a principled stand before getting a job.…
Next IPCC report will ‘scare the wits out of everyone’
Former UN Official says climate report will shock nations into action John Gardner writes in with an entry from the “worse than we thought” department:
Here it comes–a carbon tax
Obama May Levy Carbon Tax to Cut the U.S. Deficit, HSBC Says By Mathew Carr – Bloomberg News Barack Obama may consider introducing a tax on carbon emissions to help…
Pielke Sr. interviewed about the surfacestations project
Dr. Roger Pielke writes: I was invited to answer a set of questions motivated by Anthony Watt’s excellent surface temperature project [see www.surfacestations.org] project by James Wynn of the English Department at…
Making Hay of sea level rise estimates
People send me stuff. You may recall this story from last week that raised a number of eyebrows due to the claims made within it by author William Hay. Dave…
Earth on a bad acid trip?
Don’t laugh, that’s what the Geological Society of America is pushing these days to describe the “ocean acidification problem”…from their press release: Earth on Acid: The Present & Future of…
UAH global temperature for October, unchanged
By Dr. Roy Spencer (See the graph an summary comparison below to RSS. – Anthony) Our Version 5.5 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for October, 2012 is +0.33…
Solar cycle 24 continues weakly, perhaps weakest of the space-age
NOAA SWPC has updated their plot page of solar metrics, and the slump continues. At spaceweather.com Dr. Tony Phillips writes: SO THIS IS SOLAR MAXIMUM? Forecasters have long expected the…
Curiosity: no methane found on Mars – yet
From NASA JPL, no evidence of Methane found in first tests. PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much…
Sea Ice News Volume 3 #15 – Arctic sea ice doubles in October
In Sea Ice News #14, we noted that the Arctic refreeze was the fastest ever. According to NSIDC, Arctic sea ice extent doubled in October. Arctic rapidly gaining winter ice…
Claim: Trigger for Earth's last big freeze identified
From the University of Massachusetts at Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – For more than 30 years, climate scientists have debated whether flood waters from melting of the enormous Laurentide Ice Sheet,…
An Inconvenient Truth: Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies along Sandy’s Track Haven’t Warmed in 70+ Years
Guest post by Bob Tisdale I was visiting family in the Northeast U.S. when Sandy came ashore, so I was without power for most of last week. Since my return…
New paper in GRL shows that a 60-year oscillation in the global tide gauge sea level record has been discovered
Results suggest that global mean sea level may also be affected, though not yet fully confirmed. Hot off the heels of an admission by NASA JPL that the satellite derived…
Did Global Warming Reduce the Impacts of Sandy?
Guest post by Chip Knappenberger (above graphic by Anthony) The press has been quick to jump on the idea that post-tropical cyclone Sandy (it was not a hurricane at landfall)…
Dogmatism in Science and Medicine: How Dominant Theories Monopolize
Guest post by Henry H. Bauer WUWT readers might find some interest in my new book, Dogmatism in Science and Medicine: How Dominant Theories Monopolize Research and Stifle the Search…
Geological Society of America goes wild for meteorological Mann
Gosh, a breakout session on hurricane Sandy with Michael Mann, and they label it “breaking news”. From the Geological Society of America website: BREAKING NEWS: GSA Session to Address Hurricane…
Insurance Industry…No Consensus on Sandy?
The insurance industry does not agree that Sandy was evidence of climate change. Story submitted by Robert Bissett I happened to be listening to NPR this morning through my pillow…
Dissing skeptics hits prime time CBS drama "The Good Wife"
Global warming zinger in CBS “The Good Wife” I was just watching the episode “The Art of War” in the drama “The Good Wife” on CBS and was shocked to…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “…[EPA concluded] that most of the observed increase in global average temperature since…
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