Readers may recall that I announced in early April that I have been working to make WUWT more accessible as well as more community oriented. Improvements so far have included…
Month: May 2013
Nenana Ice Classic continues to close on new record, meanwhile, lunar effects have been noted
People send me stuff. Readers have been watching the Nenana Ice Cam via a post here on WUWT this weekend, waiting to see if a new record will be set…
Why the new Otto et al climate sensitivity paper is important – it's a sea change for some IPCC authors
Yesterday, WUWT was honored to have a guest essay by co-author Nic Lewis on the new Otto et al paper that pegs Transient Climate Response (TCR) at 1.3°C along with Equilibrium…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2013-05-18 (May 18, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “The influence of mankind on…
New paper shows transient climate response less than 2°C
See also: Why the new Otto et al climate sensitivity paper is important – it’s a sea change for some IPCC authors New energy-budget-derived estimates of climate sensitivity and transient…
New paper from Otto et al and Nic lewis shows transient climate sensitivity less than 2C
UPDATE: this post has been superseded by the new guest essay from Nic Lewis which you can see here: New paper shows transient climate response less than 2°C
Nenana Ice Classic – closing in on all time record latest ice-out
According to the ice breakup log, the latest the ice has ever gone out was May 20th, 1964 at 11:41 AM Alaska Standard Time. As of this writing there is…
Hurricane Main Development Region Sea Surface Temperatures & Anomalies – Plus a Couple of Other Regions
OVERVIEW This post presents the annual cycle in sea surface temperatures for the hurricane main development region in the North Atlantic. It also presents the sea surface temperature anomalies for…
Good news: World’s biggest ice sheets likely more stable than previously believed – upsets previous estimates of melting and sea level
Researchers show that high ancient shorelines do not necessarily reflect ice sheet collapse millions of years ago From the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: For decades, scientists have used ancient…
Climate control – lather, rinse, repeat
We always talk about and are lectured to about how “weather is not climate”. Of course that’s a flexible meme, because now when the weather turns hot or bad, climate…
Are regional models ready for prime time?
Guest post by Marcel Crok A few months ago we made the launch of the international discussion platform . This week we start the third dialogue about the (added) value…
Mike Mann's global warming = tobacco claims on Al Jazeera
You just have to laugh. Mike, Dana, and some other guy named Rick Piltz, get face-time on Al Jazeera and the best they can do is cite “false balance” and…
Claim: How the IPCC arrived at climate sensitivity of about 3 deg C instead of 1.2 deg C.
UPDATE from Girma: “My title should have been ‘How to arrive at IPCC’s climate sensitivity estimate’ instead of the original” Guest essay by Girma Orssengo, PhD 1) IPCC’s 0.2 deg…
Friday Funny – great moments in 97% beliefs
Heh, this is from a commenter at Slashdot on Cook’s fatally flawed 97% consensus paper. While a bit harsh, it’s also funny. He responds to: Yeah! It’s like saying that…
Another blow to the 'extreme weather is climate' alarmism meme – Australian cyclone activity down
We’ve mentioned many times the lack of major landfalling hurricanes on the USA being in a record drought. When the Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1st, 13 days from…
Tropical lizards safe from climate change forced extinction
Some good news from Dartmouth College Climate change may have little impact on tropical lizards Dartmouth study contradicts predictions of widespread extinction A new Dartmouth College study finds human-caused climate…
An analysis of night time cooling based on NCDC station record data
Guest post by Mike Crow Figure 1 Night time temperature profile of a clear sky night in NE Ohio. 8:28pm Sunset/6:16am Sunrise Climate science is all about surface temperature trends.…
The Kepler spacecraft has a failure
Two of four reaction wheels seized up, critical for precise photometry Excerpt from the Kepler Mission Manager Update. (h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard) At our semi-weekly contact on Tuesday, May…
Washington Post Headline: “Worlds fish have been moving to cooler waters for decades, study finds”
This is an addition to the post Fishy Temperature Proxy by Anthony Watts. INTRODUCTION A new paper about fish migration patterns from 1970 to 2006 is getting some attention by…
Climate models getting worse than we thought
New paper finds climate models are getting worse rather than better Via the Hockey Schtick: A paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters finds that the latest climate models are…
Fishy temperature proxy
UPDATE2: To see what is fishy about this story, see Bob Tisdale’s update here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/16/washington-post-headline-worlds-fish-have-been-moving-to-cooler-waters-for-decades-study-finds/ From the University of British Columbia ‘Fish thermometer’ reveals long-standing, global impact of climate change…
Australia's ABC comes round to the sinking islands/floating islands issue
UPDATED: Note that this tip was spurred by this discussion at Andrew Bolt’s today, and I failed to note the date of the ABC story was in 2010, and I…
New research projects mitigation of sea level rise
Recent snowfall anomalies in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica Enhanced snowfall on the East Antarctic ice sheet is projected to significantly mitigate 21st century global sea level rise. In recent…
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