By Paul Homewood http://news.fsu.edu/More-FSU-News/Researchers-develop-model-to-correct-tornado-records [Note Update Below] Quantification of long term tornado trends has been hampered by the fact that many more tornadoes are reported today than was the…
Month: September 2013
A window into academia – via a resignation letter
This post contains excerpts of a letter sent to staff at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, English: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) is one of the…
The Wheel Of Fortune
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Due to good fortune and the WUWT readership, we got the chance to not only see the Falkirk Wheel, but to take a ride on…
BREAKING: IPCC AR5 report to dial back climate sensitivity
Update: the IPCC edifice is crumbling, see The state of climate science: ‘fluxed up’ See also Willis’ article One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, and Lomborg: climate models are running way too hot…
Claim: atmosphere heats the oceans, melts Antarctic ice shelf
From Penn State Underlying ocean melts ice shelf, speeds up glacier movement Warm ocean water, not warm air, is melting the Pine Island Glacier’s floating ice shelf in Antarctica and…
National Academy of Sciences: climate models still 'decades away' from being useful
From the National Academy of Sciences report A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling: Computer models that simulate the climate are an integral part of providing climate information, in particular…
Friday Funny – let's get ready for science name calling
Josh writes: Every other alarmist tweet these days seems to have the ‘D’ word in it – is there something happening soon that they are getting excited about?
IPCC AR5 Renews Demands For Governments Buy Their Climate Change Pig In A Poke
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Buying “a pig in a poke” refers to buying an unseen piglet in a sack. The piglet was actually a cat, so when you…
Like 'the pause' in surface temperatures, 'the slump' in solar activity continues
The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center has updated their monthly graph set and it is becoming even more clear that we are past solar max, and that solar max has…
A Video Preview of “Climate Models Fail”
Note: The video has been updated to reflect the fact that Climate Models Fail is now available for sale in Kindle and pdf formats. I also replaced the word “employed”…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for September 12th, 2013
Climate models wildly overestimated global warming, study finds Can you rely on the weather forecast? Maybe not, at least when it comes to global warming predictions over short time periods.…
On the cover of the Rolling Stone? Not quite, but I did get a single word in
Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell demonstrates what a biased journalist he is. My first impression was to ignore the request for interview from Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell last week, after all,…
Making up historical tornado data
From the “if a tornado hits a cornfield in Kansas, does it make a sound?” department comes this story. It isn’t enough that climate researchers have to constantly adjust the…
More settled science: Climate change/warming speeds up tree life cycles instead of causing migration
From Duke University and the “I was sure those tree rings were linear indicators” department, comes this news: Climate Change May Speed Up Forests’ Life Cycles DURHAM, N.C. – Many…
RSS global temperature data: No global warming at all for 202 months
Guest essay by Christopher Monckton As soon as the BBC/Maslowski forecast of no sea ice in the Arctic summer by 2013 has been disproven (see countdown on right sidebar), WUWT…
The WUWT Hotsheet for Wednesday Sept 11th, 2013
So very close but not quite – Humberto came within about 2 hours of beating the satellite era lateness record for formation of Atlantic hurricane, though it looks to me…
The Romans Be Stylin'
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As we were driving north today from the Lake District, we passed through the town of Troutbeck, and I was reminded how much of my…
Digital Signal Processing analysis of global temperature data time series suggests global cooling ahead
This DSP engineer is often tasked with extracting spurious signals from noisy data. He submits this interesting result of applying these techniques to the HadCRUT temperature anomaly data. Digital Signal…
Breaking deep-sea waves reveal a potential mechanism for global ocean mixing
From the “Trenberth’s hidden heat” department and the University of Washington comes this story about waves nobody ever sees in the sea that may mix water and transport heat. Waves…
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