Guest post by Steve Goreham Hurricane Sandy has come and gone, leaving a path of destruction. More than 100 people have been killed and 8.5 million lost power. Nineteen states…
Month: November 2012
New paper from Markonis and Koutsoyiannis shows orbital forcings signal in proxy and instrumental records
Climatic Variability Over Time Scales Spanning Nine Orders of Magnitude: Connecting Milankovitch Cycles with Hurst–Kolmogorov Dynamics Yannis Markonis • Demetris Koutsoyiannis Received: 9 November 2011 / Accepted: 15 October 2012…
Quote of the week, bonus edition
There was so much quotable material flying around this week due to Hurricane Sandy, I could probably have a QOTW every day. But I thought this one was particularly well…
Why I no longer subscribe to Popular Science
I actually stopped subscribing some time ago, but this would be enough to justify it all over again. Over at the magazine Popular Science, they’ve taken to shaming volunteers on…
A note to Bill McKibben: get used to it, few care enough to pony up money for your concerns
While paid political activist Bill McKibben wails about the “new normal” of supposed climate change driven severe weather stated here on CNN, buoyed by emotion but which is totally unsupported…
The hybridization of hurricane Sandy
by Bob Henson, NCAR News with contributions from Dr. Ryan Maue Every so often, a quiet corner of research suddenly grabs the spotlight. Such was the case this week when…
Frankenstorm-itis: Five degrees of Separation from Reality and Eleventy Gazillion Joules Under the Sea
Guest post by David Middleton This is a sort of sequel to my most recent guest post. Any and all sarcasm is purely intentional. I ran across this really bizarre…
The IPCC weighs in on the Mann Nobel dilemma, and throws him under the bus
This statement was issued today from the IPCC, which appears to be inspired by the recent claims of Dr. Michael Mann in the lawsuit against NRO that we discussed here…
Next time somebody tries to tell you hurricane Sandy was an "unprecedented" East Coast hurricane, show them this
All one need to do to explode the memes that paid political activists Bill McKibben and Brad Johnson are pushing is to look at a history book. In this case,…
Friday Funny – global warming home experiment kit
People send me stuff. My friend Rick was in Eugene, OR recently for a Ducks game and saw this in a store on the shelf. Of course, he had to…
A Reply to Hurricane Sandy Alarmists
A suggestion the Great Gale of 1821 was worse than Hurricane Sandy, and Alarmists are wrong to suggest otherwise. Guest post by Caleb Shaw While I am often humbled, when…
Why Seas Are Rising Ahead of Predictions?
GSA Annual Meeting Presentation: Could Estimates of the Rate of Future Sea-Level Rise Be Too Low? Boulder, Colorado, USA – Sea levels are rising faster than expected from global warming,…
Helping Bloomberg understand 'stupid'
This cover today is making the rounds in the alarmosphere, where a single storm, a single data point in the hundreds of hurricanes that have struck the USA during its…
Hurricane Sandy's 'Unprecedented' Storm Surge
Guest post by David Middleton Funny thing… Hurricane Sandy’s unprecedented storm surge was likely surpassed in the New England hurricanes of 1635 and 1638. From 1635 through 1954, New England…
Global Temperature Update–September 2012
Guest post by Paul Homewood The HADCRUT data has now been released for September, so we can have a look at the latest figures for the four main global temperature…
Pielke Jr. on Hurricane Sandy – 'not the new normal'
Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. has authored an excellent essay in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal that put the kibosh on the “new normal” meme seen here . As Pielke clearly shows, hurricanes…
Gavin's explanation of Climategate's early hours – then and now
According to The Mosher Timeline we have this email from NASA’s Dr. Gavin Schmidt to Lucia Liljegren at 3:48PM eastern standard time: Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:48:21 -0500 From:…
'Their finest hour'
Meteorologist Mike Smith, over at Meteorological Musings has a great story to relay. While the source of the quote is from Churchhill, it makes me think of Apollo 13 and…
Some new climate surprises blow in with the dust
From NASA: Dust’s Warming Counters Half of its Cooling Effect Dust that routinely rises above the world’s deserts causes a more significant localized warming effect than previously thought, a new…
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