Heh, it seems it touched a sensitive spot. Tom Nelson pretty much nails this one. In response to a tweet made today by self admitted document thief Peter Gleick where…
Month: May 2013
Quote of the Week – dogmatic 'mannerisms' of science
Judith Curry is featuring a report by Emil Røyrvik of Norwegian organization SINTEF, which has taken a semi critical look at the “climate wars”. Dr. Curry highlighted this passage:
A Brief Introduction to the Detection of Climate and Weather Transitions using Hurst Rescaling
Guest essay by Sam Outcalt Introduction: The object of this document is to present a brief and concise introduction to Hurst ReScaling. More detail is presented in a paper by…
SkepticalScience Still Misunderstands or Misrepresents the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
The author of the recent SkepticalScience post Distinguishing Between Short-Term Variability and Long-Term Trends, Dana Nuccitelli, still misunderstands or misrepresents El Niño and La Niña processes. Either way, he’s missed…
Model says Hawaii will get 2-3 times the number of hurricanes – in contrast to other models saying the opposite
From the University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST, coin flip climatology? More hurricanes for Hawaii? News of a hurricane threat sends our hearts racing, glues us to the Internet for updates,…
With these two guys leading, what could possibly go wrong?
From banning supersize drinks to banning supersize storms? Bill Clinton and Bloomberg unveil ‘climate risk’ project NEW YORK—Former President Bill Clinton and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a…
A case of the vapors – another global cooling mechanism found
From the University of Manchester Organic vapors affect clouds leading to previously unidentified climate cooling University of Manchester scientists, writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, have shown that natural emissions…
Monday Mirthiness – John's cooked up Skeptical Science survey
When I was first contacted by Skeptical Science proprietor John Cook about his request to have WUWT host a survey, I asked him several questions because I had misgivings about…
By Land and By Sea
Guest post by Willis Eschenbach Bob Tisdale has discussed a variety of issues with the hemispheric and basis-by-basin Levitus summary of the ARGO data in his excellent post here on…
Tastes Great, Less Incinerating!
Guest post by Kevin D. Knoebel How much stupidity is needed to win a Pulitzer? The competition is fierce, apparently certain writers are piling it on high and deep in…
Lewandowsky et al 2013: surveying Peter to report on Paul
Guest analysis by Shub Niggurath In 2012, Stephan Lewandowsky and co-authors submitted a paper to the journal Psychological Science, generating widespread publicity. Here, I address a simple issue/question that has…
Benchmarking IPCC's warming predictions
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The IPCC’s forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report continues to suggest that the Earth will warm rapidly in the 21st century. How far are its projections short…
Were Late Season Snowstorms and the Long Cold Winter Caused by Anthropogenic Global Warming or a Cold Northern Polar Region?
Image Credit: Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” I recommend that everyone watch this brief Weather Channel segment titled “Blame Climate Change for Long Winter“, the…
UAH global temperature, down significantly
Dr. Roy Spencer reports: Our Version 5.5 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for April, 2013 is +0.10 deg. C, down from +0.18 deg. C in March (click for…
Severe Weather Drought: Tornadoes drop to a new all time record low, major hurricane absence is setting a new record every day
In a blow to those that want to link increased severe weather with global warming/climate change, a new record low has been set according to NOAA tornado data. At the…
Periodic climate oscillations
Guest essay by: Horst-Joachim Lüdecke, EIKE, Jena, Germany Alexander Hempelmann, Hamburg Observatory, Hamburg, Germany Carl Otto Weiss, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig, Germany In a recent paper [1] we Fourier-analyzed central-european temperature…
Monckton asks IPCC for correction to AR4
4 May 2013 IPCC Secretariat, Geneva Gentlemen, Request for correction of a serious inaccuracy in the contribution of Working Group 1 to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report As an…
Open Letter to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Dear WMO: Thanks for furnishing the lovely graph of global temperature anomalies in your WMO Statement on Status of the Global Climate in 2012. I’ve reproduced it here. The caption…
Newsbytes: Climate Sceptics Win Rocks Britain's Political Landscape
From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser Green Lobby Concerned The UK Independence Party has overtaken the Liberal Democrats as the third party of British politics, Nigel Farage declared today…
John Cook's new survey – lots of questions, no answers
I and (according to Cook) 50 other blogs (with a supposed 50/50 skeptic to advocate split) have received this invitation: Hi Anthony As one of the more highly trafficked climate…
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