Theories for the pause include that deep oceans have taken up more heat with the result that the surface is cooler than expected, that industrial pollution in Asia or clouds…
Month: April 2013
Revisiting Temperature Reconstructions used in Climate Change Modeling
Guest post by Neil Catto When considering historical temperature reconstruction there are three areas which need further examination; historical instrument readings and adjustments for UHI, tree-ring proxies, other paleoclimate proxies…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2013-04-13 (April 13, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: I say that’s also important…
Fireworks in the EU Parliament over "the pause" in global warming
It seems the debate is getting a bit testy in the land of watercress sandwiches and doilies*. “Man-made global-warming hypothesis is dead in the water” says Godfrey Bloom MEP, but…
NCDC omits inconvenient data in public climate releases?
The NCDC Goes Ahistorical Guest post by Ken Meyercord On March 19th last I sent the following email to Derek Arndt, Chief of the Climate Monitoring Branch at the NCDC:…
On the scales of warming worry magnitudes–part 1
A few weeks after my paper came out I have received quite unexpected but greatly appreciated offer from Anthony to write a summary of the paper for his blog site.…
NCAR says targeting specific pollutants would slow SLR
From the National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research I can see the EPA jumping all over this one. Black carbon is likely a contributor, as it changes…
Quote of the Week – an interesting admission at RealClimate
Models: some are good, some are not so good, some are useless.
Recent climate, glacier changes in Antarctica at the 'upper bound' of normal
From the University of Washington some walkback? In the last few decades, glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning, and research has shown the…
More on Trenberth’s Missing Heat
In the post Trenberth Still Searching for Missing Heat, we discussed the recent Balmaseda et al (2013) paper “Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content”, of which…
Another Internet poll goes horribly wrong
[self snip] I was given a tip, and didn’t realize that this poll is over a year old and didn’t recall WUWT had previously covered it. Neither did Tom Nelson…
A Different Perspective of the Equatorial Pacific and ENSO Events
by Bob Tisdale It’s difficult to express how enormous El Niño and La Niña events are. Often, when discussing them, I’ll display a map of the tropical Pacific (see example…
My response to Delingpole over invoking Godwin's Law
Last weekend I posted an essay on what I considered to be a pointless invocation of Godwins Law by my friend James Delingpole: The battle of the pointless Nuremberg insults:…
A Big Picture Look At “Earth’s Temperature” – "The Pause" Update
Image Credit: NASA and BP.Blogspot.com By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Recently there has been significant attention focused on “The Pause” in Earth’s warming, the length of “The Pause” and…
Don Easterbrook's response to a smear by WWU geology faculty
Readers may recall that WUWT published this defense of Dr. Don Easterbrook last week: Rebuttal to the attack on Dr. Don Easterbrook by Dr. David Deming I enjoyed this passage…
Modeling future CO2 sequestration
From the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) CO2 removal can lower costs of climate protection According to the analysis, carbon dioxide removal could be used under certain requirements…
Give the Iron Lady a State Funeral
In deference to our Open Thread on Saturday, Monckton submitted this for WUWT readers. It is insightful and worth a read IMHO – Anthony By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, courtesy…
Spurious Varvology
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As Anthony discussed here at WUWT, we have yet another effort to re-animate the long-dead “hockeystick” of Michael Mann. This time, it’s Recent temperature extremes…
Crowdsourcing the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page – Disputed Graphs – Alley (2000)
Image Credit: Photobucket.com – GISP2 – Alley, 2000 By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” In building WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page during these crowdsourcing threads (1, 2) there have been a…
Everything in Moderation
It has taken Anthony a lot of hard work to make WUWT the success it is, and success comes at a price, which in blogging terms means even more hard…