Burt Rutan on Innovation

WUWT readers may recall that aviation pioneer Burt Rutan gave an engaged and interesting presentation on WUWT.TV last month. He’s now added to his online presence with a new video…

A Cool White Christmas – almost two thirds of the continental USA has snow cover

Where’s that “global warming” when you really want it? 😉 This map from NOAA’s National Snow Analyses page shows the snow depth data:

Global data doesn't support Reuters "fracking" Google search trend claim

Tom Nelson pointed this out this morning. ‘Fracking’ overtakes ‘climate change’ in Google searches | The Dickinson Press | Dickinson, North Dakota This year, for the first time, U.S. online…

'climate' being teed up for a big comeback this year by Obama administration

People send me stuff. This comes from a Washington insider. Not for attribution but a relative of mine of some seniority at State [Department] indicated to me an understanding within…

Tornadoes at Christmastime – Note to McKibben and Romm – not that uncommon

Before alarmists like Bill McKibben and Joe Romm start caterwauling about the tornadoes in the south yesterday as being a signature of “global warming”, I caution them not to make…

Kerry as Secretary of State: Global warming first, world hunger, disease, and nuclear arms second

Guest post by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times With barely a whimper from the media, John Kerry is President Obama’s official nominee for Secretary of State. Mr.…

Bethlehem and the rat-hole problem

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley In the closing minutes of the final plenary of the U.N.’s Doha climate summit, when no one else had anything further to add, I spent…

Sailing On The Moon Wind

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I grew up on a remote cattle ranch surrounded by miles of forest, far from street lights. The nights were large and silent and very…

Some Christmas gift notes for Dr. Michael Mann

As reported this past weekend, we had a hilarious case of Mann overboard! Since then, it has become the #1 story on WordPress worldwide. It stems from a $10 calendar…

Scientists Report Faster Warming in Antarctica

Photo Credit: NC State From the New York Times: West Antarctica has warmed much more than scientists had thought over the last half century, new research suggests, an ominous finding…

IPCC AR5 Chapter 11 – Maintaining the Spin

Guest post by David M. Hoffer In my first article on the leaked AR5 Chapter 11 draft, I focused on the extraordinary lengths to which the IPCC has gone to…

Beyond bizarre: University of Graz music professor calls for skeptic death sentences

[Update, Parncutt has pulled his page, the webcite link still works, 1:00 am PDT 12/24/12 ~mod] UPDATE2:  9AM PST 1/24 The Parncutt page now gets a 404 “file not found”…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was: 2012-12-22 (December 22, 2012) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “Is this what science has…

IPCC Chapter 11 – Bankruptcy Protection

Guest post by David M. Hoffer IPCC reports AR1 through 4 were published in relative obscurity. ClimateGate and the emergence of the blogosphere as the primary forum for debate of…

The Higgs boson takes science center stage for 2012

From the American Association for the Advancement of Science  the winner and many worthy runners up in science for this year. No mention of Climate/AGW. Science’s Breakthrough of the Year:…

Too Funny! I send Michael Mann a free WUWT calendar as a Christmas gift, and he goes full conspiracy theory

Some days, you just have to laugh. As WUWT readers know, we’ve had the Josh 2013 Skeptic Calendar done independently in the UK via Bishop Hill, and of course we…

Stupidest global warming/climate change story of the past decade

While Matt Ridley makes mincemeat of über alarmist Joe Romm’s latest ridiculous claims, I started doing a search for stories to do a “year in review” for such things. I…

Joe Romm demonstrates himself to be an angry know-nothing in his attack on Matt Ridley’s WSJ essay – Ridley responds

Guest post by Matt Ridley Joe Romm of ThinkProgress described my Wall Street Journal op-ed as: riddled with basic math and science errors Yet he fails to find a single…

Friday Holiday Funny: The Twelve Days of Climategate

Concept and wording by Anthony, art and prose tweaking by Josh of CartoonsByJosh.com (be sure to visit his tip jar) As sung to the tune of The Twelve Days of…

NOAA Mixing Their Niños

Guest post by Paul Homewood In their attempts to disguise the fact that 2012 will likely turn out to be one of the colder years this century, NOAA have made…