From July 13th 2013 in Houston. I was invited to give a presentation, and I adapted Dr. Matt Ridley’s excellent essay: A Lukewarmer’s Ten Tests and added supporting graphs and…
Month: August 2013
IPCC's Pachauri channels Al Gore
People send me stuff. Here is slide 1 of a recent presentation in Finland by Rajenda Pachauri, head of the IPCC. I’ve added Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth for comparison. What…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for August 17th, 2013
Cook's latest data release casts further doubts on his consensus paper http://t.co/MV4KaihOYB — Richard Tol (@RichardTol) August 17, 2013 ============================================================= Fox News Channel features Climate Depot on Obama’s bypass of…
Has Google seen the light?
by David Archibald Google’s motto is “Don’t be evil”. Well, a couple of years ago Google had sided with the forces of darkness in the global warming battle – a…
The IPCC's new certainty is 95% What? Not 97%??
Just 2% short of the magic 97% number, I’m sure the SkS kidz will be devastated. From Reuters: Drafts seen by Reuters of the study by the U.N. panel of…
NOAA's claim on El Reno tornado may not hold up
Tornado Widths– NOAA Makes Changes In Procedure By Paul Homewood NOAA have claimed that the El Reno tornado, in Oklahoma in May, was the widest tornado on record. As I…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for August 16th, 2013
Who needs a constitution or congress when you alone know what’s good for the American people? New EPA boss promises dictatorial action on global warming While speaking at the University…
Historic variations in temperature number Four-The Hockey stick
Guest essay by Tony Brown Section 1 Summary of a previous article; A short while ago I published an article on ‘Noticeable climate change’ during the past 500 years, based…
Oh Mann! Paper demonstrates that tree-ring proxy temperature data is 'seriously compromised'
Michael Mann won’t be happy about this. A new paper now in open review in the journal Climate of the Past suggests that “modern sample bias “has “seriously compromised” tree-ring…
Vicious Carbon Cycles
From the Helmholtz Association Extreme weather, climate and the carbon cycle Extreme weather and climate events like storms, heavy precipitation and droughts and heat waves prevent the uptake of 3…
The Effect of Climate Change On The Arizona Quadrat
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony recently pointed out a new paper called “Dramatic Response of Montane Plants to Climate Change in the Southwest” by Brusca et al., available here. In…
I wonder where the plants were during the Medieval Warm Period?
From the University of Arizona Warming climate pushes plants up the mountain Comparing plant communities today with a survey taken 50 years ago, University of Arizona-led research provides the first…
New Cape Verde tropical storm forms
One of the Cape Verde waves coming off Africa has resulted in a new tropical storm. Of course it is well away from North America at the moment, but this…
Mid-August Hurricane Development Region Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Update
According to the NOAA National Hurricane Center, there are two low pressure systems in the tropical North Atlantic with good chances of becoming tropical storms. See Figure 1. In fact,…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for Thursday August 15th, 2013
Keith Olbermann: Current TV Co-Founder And Former VP Al Gore Was a ‘Clod’ – TVNewser “When you’re working for somebody whom you admired politically, who turns out to be a…
Lomborg: Renewables are stuck, although green hopes keep rising
Guest essay by Bjørn Lomborg Globally, renewables have been *declining* for the last two centuries, and have remained stuck at about 13% for the past 40 years. People expect them…
Current Crop of Computer Models “Close to Useless”
From the Institute for Energy Research: … It is this second class of models, the economic/climate hybrids called Integrated Assessment Models, that Pindyck discusses. Pindyck’s paper is titled, “Climate Change…
Claim: CO2 ended the last ice age
From Oregon State University Study explains early warming of West Antarctica at end of last ice age CORVALLIS, Ore. – West Antarctica began emerging from the last ice age about…
The Elusive Absolute Surface Air Temperature (SAT)
Here’s an interesting Q&A on issues with trying to determine the SAT of the Earth that I have not seen before. There’s a surprise at the end as to who…
More low climate sensitivity
This paper A lower and more constrained estimate of climate sensitivity using updated observations and detailed radiative forcing time series from Skeie et al is now in open peer review…
The early chill in the Arctic continues
Temperature above 80 degrees north drops below freezing early, and continues to drop. Many people have been watching the remarkable early drop in air temperature at the DMI plot here:…
The US Corn Belt and the summer chill
Guest essay by David Archibald A correspondent in the Corn Belt emailed on 10th August: “Here in north central Illinois at exit 56 on I-80, most of the corn was…
In the Arctic, nearby soot may be a larger forcing than CO2
From the AGU Weekly Highlights, something I’ve pointed out more than a few times. See this photo of a moulin in upper Greenland, where carbon soot has collected at the…
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