The Week That Was: 2013-02-23 (February 23, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “Unless we take action on…
Month: February 2013
NWS station at Corinna, Maine: same old problems, now with global impact
In Anthony’s recent post about the new snowfall records, the record high at Jal, New Mexico caught his eye. I live in New Hampshire, so the lonely red dot in…
Behind Bars Again
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve written about my time in the US Army, and about spending time behind bars getting out of the Army, in my story called It’s…
Crowdsourcing the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page
Image Credit: Jo Nova – David Lappi – GISP2 Your help is needed in building the new WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page. Below I’ve posted all of the credible 3rd party…
Open Thread Weekend
Traveling today to meet a friend of WUWT right about the time this post auto publishes.
Over 650 snow records set in USA this week – another wonky surface station located
UPDATE : The NWS responds about the station issue, see below. – Anthony Almost 60% of the contiguous USA covered in snow. While pundits spin attempts at linking snowfall in…
Fishing the Mighty Kenai
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach When I was 62, I had the great pleasure of working once again in Alaska. I love Alaska, I’ve starved and frozen there, worked there…
New model says more snow at poles, less elsewhere due to CO2
From Princeton and the I haven’t looked out the window lately department: Forecast is for more snow in polar regions, less for the rest of us (Journal of Climate) Posted…
'Let me say it as simply as I can: Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.'
That headline is from this article in The Atlantic. Below is from Globalwarming.org What EPA Transparency Looks Like in Most Open, Honest Administration Ever This time, we got actual emails…
IPCC Railroad engineer Pachauri acknowledges 'No warming for 17 years'
Guest post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Following my statement at the Doha climate conference last December that there had been no global warming for 16 years, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri,…
Snowjobs are just a thing of the past…er, present
While we have a major winter snowstorm barreling through the USA Midwest, we know that the usual suspects will jostle for position to tell the media that this is just…
Klotzbach et al revisited, a reply by John Christy
Reposted with permission from Marcel Crok’s blog: De staat van het klimaat Recently Jos Hagelaars published a very extensive blog post (on the blog of Bart Verheggen) about a widely discussed…
Another geoengineering idea – gaming coalition modeled
From the Carnegie Institution comes a nutty consensus type idea, modeled in game-theory, implemented by an equally nutty future coalition. Law of unintended consequences anyone? Geoengineering by coalition Washington, D.C.—Solar…
Harvesting Fog: The No-Regrets Option
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve written before about the “no-regrets” option when one is faced with uncertainty. It relates to one of my favorite rules of thumb. I often…
Pot, Kettle, James Hansen, censorship, NASA and EPA
Readers may recall this oh so terrible squashing of free speech by the White House limiting NASA public employee Dr. James Hansen’s ability to talk to the media. It seems…
New Climate Central writer tries to connect climate and extreme weather with love of bigger destructive storms
From the weather is not climate unless we say it is department comes this disturbing admission. From Tom Nelson, an illustration of the sort of defective thinking we see in…
Pielke Jr. appears to get booted from a journal for giving an unfavorable peer review to some shoddy science
UPDATE: Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. leaves this comment: Submitted on 2013/02/21 at 8:28 am Neil Adger sent me a response for posting. You can see it as an update on…
Modeling sea level rise is an 'uneven' proposition
From the British Antarctic Survey New projections of ‘uneven’ global sea-level rise Reporting in the journal Geophysical Research Letters researchers have looked ahead to the year 2100 to show how…
Now what is 'death train' Hansen going to do? Clean coal process developed to extract energy without burning or CO2
From James Hansen’s, Bill McKibben’s and Joe Romm’s worst nightmare department, comes this uplifting science story from the Ohio State University. Basically they found a way to oxidize coal and…
Paging Chuck Rice at Kansas State – real data is calling you, collect
Oh Dear, Another Climate Scientist Makes A Fool Of Himself Guest post by Paul Homewood I sometimes get accused of being too dismissive of Climate Scientists, probably with justice. However, there…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Harvard's McElroy: 'Bridges may be in the wrong place' for climate change
From Harvard University , where you can’t tell them much, comes this laughable press release. I loved this line “Bridges may be in the wrong place“. Then the author, Michael…
It's the Sun stupid – The minor significance of CO2
Guest post by Dr. Norman Page 1 The IPCC’s Core Problem The IPCC – Al Gore based Anthropogenic Global Warming scare has driven global Governments’ Climate and Energy Policies since the turn…
You must be logged in to post a comment.