From the University of Arizona UA astronomers take sharpest photos ever of the night sky Using a new camera and a telescope mirror that vibrates a thousand times each second…
Month: August 2013
Friday Funny: Fracking protestors and their petro-sourced belongings
There’s been a lot of hullabaloo in the UK over the Balcombe fracking protests. WUWT reader Eric Worrall writes in with this comparison photo. Original picture source: http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-08-16/anti-fracking-activists-camp-without-permission/ Here is…
Limiting scientific debate: A change in the AGU policy on Presenting Alternative Scientific Viewpoints
Guest essay by Roger A. Pielke Sr. In the August 20 2013 issue of EOS both the AGU Statement on Climate Change [ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013EO340006/pdf ] and my comment on the…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for August 23rd, 2013
While NASA says sea ice probably won’t set any records this year, we have this horrible news: Sea ice decline spurs the greening of the Arctic Sea ice decline and…
NASA says Arctic sea ice 'Unlikely To Break Records' in 2013
A video animation follows. Note also that Dr. Walt Meier is now with NASA Goddard, after leaving NSIDC at the end of July. This is his first report from NASA.…
Access to Energy: Not the Entire Story
Guest essay by Roger E. Sowell, Esq.5 Recently on WUWT, a post1 by Willis Eschenbach was made advocating the almost doubling of energy consumption worldwide, by increasing energy use per…
The Medieval Warm Period in the Arctic
Since the IPCC AR5 is again making news in talking about the Medieval Warm Period, this review from Craig Idso at CO2Science.org seems appropriate. -Anthony Medieval Warm Period (Arctic) —…
Mad Mann
From Dr. Michael Mann’s Twitter feed today: What is he mad about? Probably the same thing a bunch of the same people were mad about last year when I was…
Open water at the North Pole
Remember these stories? Al Gore’s “Reality Minions” think the North Pole is melting – except that’s NOT a photo of the North Pole and Follow up: the bogus ‘North Pole…
Al Gore makes a Category 6 level blunder
UPDATE: 8/23/13 1:00PM PDT Its seems there’s blunders to go around. The Washington Post now says they “misquoted” Gore. Given his penchant for saying and doing dumb things in the…
Hindcasting climate shifts in the Pacific
From the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) The potential for successful climate predictions Hindcast experiments capture long-term climate fluctuations Will there be rather warm or cold winters in…
How global warming research is like pot research
While pro-warming political pundits like to demonize climate skeptic research by comparing it to that of tobacco company research and marketing, it seems there is a parallel between the story…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for August 22nd, 2013
I don’t think that headline means what they think it means: Separating Science From Spin on the Global-Warming ‘Pause’ What’s causing a temporary slowdown in planetary warming, and why should…
Double the Burn Rate, Scotty!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Lots of folks claim that the worst possible thing we could do is to allow the third world to actually develop to the level of…
Al Gore compares climate skeptics to anti abolitionists, racists, homophobes, and alcoholic families
UPDATE: I missed this in the interview, since it wasn’t in the publicist release, it would be a shame not to highlight it. Would there be hurricanes and floods and…
Hump Day Hilarity: Great moments in planet saving energy engineering
British fracking protestor Prajna has it all figured out. Tom Wilson interviewed this guy at the fracking protest in Balcombe England. A cartoon from Josh follows. Prajna Have you protested…
IPCC throws Mann's Hockey Stick under the bus?
While the media circulates the talking points pre-release “leaked draft” of IPCC’s AR5 amongst themselves, there are a few nuggets of interest coming out here and there we can write…
Stalking the Rogue Hotspot
[I’m making this excellent essay a top sticky post for a day or two, I urge sharing it far and wide. New stories will appear below this one. – Anthony]…
National Geographic’s Junk Science: How long will it take for sea level rise to reach midway up the Statue of Liberty?
Assuming that it can actually get there? Today on the WUWT Hot Sheet, we reported that there was more fear-mongering imagery from National Geographic, as seen at right. Steve Wilent…
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