Guest Post by David Middleton The Gorebots are all atwitter about this new paper… Science 8 March 2013: Vol. 339 no. 6124 pp. 1198-1201 DOI: 10.1126/science.1228026 A Reconstruction of Regional…
Month: March 2013
Pending WUWT milestone – closing in on 1 million comments
Who will be the lucky winner? This screenshot from my WordPress control panel shows we are closing in on comment number 1 million. We’ll reach that is a few days.…
Validity of “A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years”
It seems that Marcott et al isn’t all that it is cracked up to be. Dr. Easterbrook takes a good hard look at the paper. Guest post by Dr. Don…
Is Ocean Heat Content Data All It’s Stacked Up to Be?
Figure 1 Ocean Heat Content data represents the heat stored of the oceans to specified depths. As such, it is an important global warming metric. The Introduction to Levitus et…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2013-03-09 (March 9, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “…scientists are neither saints nor…
Claim: amplified greenhouse effect in the far north making it greener
From Boston University Amplified greenhouse effect shaping North into South BU-led international team shows significant reduction in temperature and vegetation seasonality over northern latitudes BOSTON—An international team of 21 authors…
In Which We Kidnap Reagan, And He Wins Anyway!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach After I got out of the Army, I became involved in the anti-war movement as well as the other main causes of the time, women’s…
It has come down to this – climate science has become a stick fight
I have to chuckle at the battle going on with stick graphs this weekend. Choose your weapon, flat or vertical blade, real data, or proxy data with an arbitrary extension…
Science, Surfing, Stratification, Overturning, and Timing
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Surfing When I was a kid, swimming in the ocean was a rarity. We kids spent summers with my Dad, and once, maybe twice over…
Stephan Lewandowsky and John Cook – making things up
Fabricated quotes and gross distortions are used to paint skeptics as conspiracy nuts. The question is, is it a conspiracy, or is it just incompetence? Guest post by Brandon Shollenberger…
Bish on the Lindzen debate at the Oxford Union – plus cartoon by Josh
I was invited to attend this debate and to participate by Noha El-Sayed of Al Jazeeera, but the notice was too short, and arranging travel from California to England was…
When Alaska Was Cold
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Temperatures are generally referred to some kind of long-term, often 30-year average. This is called the “climatology”, meaning the long-term average values of various climate…
A bridge in the climate debate – How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change
This is one of the most important posts ever on WUWT, it will be a top “sticky” post for a few days, and new posts will appear below this one…
Did Global Warming Prevent a Record-Breaking D.C. Snowstorm?
Guest post by Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels We haven’t seen any media stories relating global warming to the Wednesday’s weather in D.C. We are certain that…
Statistical physics applied to climate modeling
From Brown University: Statistical physics offers an approach to studying climate change that could dramatically reduce the time and brute-force computing that current simulation techniques require. The new approach focuses…
The carbon footprint of alternate energy technology
From Stanford University Stanford scientists calculate the carbon footprint of grid-scale battery technologies Americans take electrical power for granted whenever they flip on a light switch. But the growing use…
Marcott et al claim of 'unprecedented' warming compared to GISP ice core data
The very first sentence of the Marcott et al (which is getting heavy press) abstract says: Surface temperature reconstructions of the past 1500 years suggest that recent warming is unprecedented…
Global warming is epic, long-term study says
Image Credit: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center From CNN with comments below by WUWT regular Just The Facts: Global warming has propelled Earth’s climate from one of its coldest decades…
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