Image Credit: Met Office Hadley Centre By Just The Facts, Werner Brozek and Walter Dnes The Met Office Hadley Centre and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East…
Month: May 2013
Open thread Sunday
I have family duties today. In my last open thread I noted that “WUWT story submissions have been a dry hole lately”. I’m happy to report that I found out…
Lomborg: Californians are paying ridiculous subsidies for electric cars
Guest post by Bjørn Lomborg I’ve said electric cars get subsidized too much. Turns out I was wrong. In California, they are subsidized ridiculously too much. Tesla gets $45,000 for…
Is this what the beginning of glaciation looks like?
While ice fishing is still going on in some parts of Minnesota, other parts are having what looks like glacier advance in the back yards that is damaging some homes.…
Still waiting for spring in Minnesota
Guest post by A. Scott Even though we all know “weather is not “climate,” that rarely stops CAGW’s fiercest proponents, so we might as well have a little fun with…
The 400 PPM FUD Factory: T-shirts now available
Steve Milloy at JunkScience points out what is above the fold in the NYT today – FUD Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt Here’s his scan of the front page at right: Readers…
IPCC's AR5 Frankenscience – bringing proxies back from the dead
Josh writes: Steve McIntyre has a hilarious post on the desperate measures needed to get some non peer reviewed papers into the IPCC’s AR5. I am not sure where the phrase…
A step in the right direction? Major shift in the UK’s government attitude to climate change
Story submitted by D.McNeil I’d like to bring some points to the attention of your readers that were raised in an article in the Independent published on 11th May 2013 …
The Spencer Challenge to Slayers/Principia
Dr. Roy Spencer has made a challenge to the Slayers/Principia folks who keep insisting the greenhouse effect doesn’t exist at all. For example, see the front page claim at right…
Why Reanalysis Data Isn't …
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was reading through the recent Trenberth paper on ocean heat content that’s been discussed at various locations around the web. It’s called “Distinctive climate…
A mean study of Australian temperature
Mean and reported “Mean” temperatures and the consequences of the difference Guest essay by Tom Quirk The convention in meteorology is to report mean temperatures as the average of minimum…
Mauna Loa hits 400 PPM of CO2, alarmists wail and gnash teeth, Earth survives
Source: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/weekly.html Al Gore calls for a day of prayer and reflection, and bothering your neighbor: So please, take this day and the milestone it represents to reflect on the…
The Way Back
Guest essay by Dr. Vincent Gray, Wellington, NZ For over 30 years the world has been saturated with the environmental fallacy. It has taken over the media; newspapers, radio, TV;…
Friday Funny: Prince Charles struck by irony meteorite
Apparently, Prince Charles recent pronouncement has created a riff in space-time, and an irony meteorite was ejected, striking the prince in the head. A photo follows. From Raw Story: Prince…
Introduction to the Hadley Centre’s HadCRUH Specific Humidity Dataset
UPDATE: I’ve added an animation to the end of the post. It illustrates the changes in specific humidity anomalies in response to the 1997/98 El Niño and the 1998-01 La…
Cirrus Cloud seeds identified – will help in climate knowledge
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , a fairly important discovery, one that will help us understand the role clouds play in the Earth’s energy balance. The fact that mineral…
The Layers of Meaning in Levitus
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There have been a lot of electrons sacrificed on the altar of the discussion of the Levitus ocean heat content data. The oddity seems to…
The Faults, Fallacies and Failures of Wind Power
Guest essay by Viv Forbes Wind power is not free. All natural energy resources such as coal, wind and sun appear “free” – no one has to incur costs to…
New NSF paleo research claiming Arctic was warmer fails to take major ocean circulation changes 3 million years ago into account
I covered this story earlier today, and it was presented much differently in that press release. This press release takes a different tack. IMHO, it looks like a big “ooops”…
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