Skeptical Science takes 'creepy' to a whole new level

People send me stuff. Yesterday Skeptical Science owner John Cook announced to the world that he thought Willis’s open letter to the new editor of Science was “creepy” and “sexist”.…

Law of Unintended Consequences Number Eleventy-Zillion

By charles the moderator We missed this story in May, but in order to replace the use of coal in the UK, power stations are being refitted to burn wood…

The WUWT Hot Sheet, August 5th 2013

Warning Signs: Hot Lies Disputed by Cold Facts I have always found a stark contrast in the way the forecasts of meteorologists on television and radio are limited in accuracy…

The sun is about to have a flipping magnetic field reversal

We’ve been watching the progress on the WUWT solar reference page in this plot from Dr. Leif Svalgaard: Solar Polar Fields – Mt. Wilson and Wilcox Combined -1966 to Present…

Pielke's response to AGU Statement on Climate Change

The American Geophysical Union has just published its new Statement on Climate Change, here is the press release.   Here is how they describe it: “AGU has a responsibility to…

UAH July global temperature, significantly down

UAH v5.6 Global Temperature Update for July, 2013: +0.17 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2013 is +0.17…

Global Warming: speed round

From the University of Maryland: Looking to the past to predict the future of climate change FROSTBURG, MD (August 5, 2013)—Climate changes how species interact with one another—and not just…

Willie Soon on Sea Level Rise – along with some climate ugliness

This is a video of presentation given in July at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness conference in Houston, which I also had the honor of attending. Note the beginning of…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was: 2013-08-03 (August 3, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “Half the harm that is…

An Open Letter to Dr. Marcia McNutt, new Editor-In-Chief, Science Magazine

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dear Dr. McNutt: As a somewhat unwilling subscriber to Science, let me start by welcoming you as the latest editor of Science magazine. You’ve stated…

Climate Craziness of the Week: 'A great flood will punish the disbelievers'

Some days you just have to laugh. The map, is quite something; perhaps it is the product of a bender or a psychotic episode of some sorts. Maybe its a…

Quote of the Week – 'high school' climate science

A poll follows, a first for QOTW. Sometimes in the climate wars when things get ridiculous and emotional we often ask or see asked “what is this, high school”? A…

Weekend Open Thread

Other duties call today, feel free to discuss any topic within site policy.

About that 'warmer temperatures increase violence' claim…real world crime data doesn't support it

Readers surely recall the wild claim yesterday made by researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley who reported in the journal Science that even slight spikes in temperature…

About that almost 'Carrington Event' two weeks ago

Lots of people talking about this article in the UK daily Mail: A near miss for Earth: Solar flare that could have knocked out power, cars and phones came so…

The Tol Poll – rating climate denizens

Take this at your leisure, answer honestly. Link follows.

Observations From The WUWT Sea Ice Page

Image Credit: Cryosphere Today – University of Illinois – Polar Research Group By WUWT Regular Just The Facts Global Sea Ice Area, shown above, has remained quite average this year.…

Hot times near Svalbard – Volcanic range discovered

Jorge of Norway writes: Researchers have found a 1,500 km volcanic mountain chain hidden off the coast of Svalbard, which could soon break the surface to form a new island…

The Most Important Sea Level Graph

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In a post here on WUWT, Nils-Axel Morner has discussed the sea level in Kwajalein, an atoll in the Marshall Islands. Sea levels in Kwajalein…

Notes from a 'mole' in Al Gore's Climate Leadership Training

A person who is actually a climate skeptic (and WUWT regular) applied for and was granted a training slot in Chicago this week. http://climaterealityproject.org/leadership-corps/ and has graduated as one of…