From the Department of amalgamated dumbasses who own mansions, comes this trailer via Newsbuster’s Noel Sheppard: Showtime announced last year that it had commissioned Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron to produce…
Month: October 2013
New paper shows Medieval Warm Period was global in scope
Andrew Revkin writes: Michael Mann can’t be happy about this work. Here’s a chat with two authors of an important new Science paper examining 10,000 years of layered fossil plankton…
New Primary GOES-R instrument will provide even better satellite imagery than Gore's old 'Triana' satellite idea
Imager will provide greater detail to forecasters – video follows A key instrument that will fly on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R (GOES-R) spacecraft, NOAA’s next-generation of geostationary…
An 'Uh Oh' moment in Nature – IPCC Climate panel is ripe for examination
It is fitting this is published near Halloween time in Nature, because the IPCC is full of scare stories. IPCC: Climate panel is ripe for examination Mike Hulme & Martin…
New paper suggests the sun's magnetic fields defines climate over the long term
Story submitted by Cornelis de Jager (past president ICSU;past pres. COSPAR) In a recent publication entitled Terrestrial ground temperature variation in relation to solar magnetic variability, including the present Schwabe…
September 2013 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) Temperature Anomaly Update
Sorry this is so late. The NCDC and GISS updates were delayed by the government shutdown. Because it is so late, it includes the September 2013 HADCRUT4 data from the…
How long before we reach the catastrophic 2°C warming?
Guest essay by Neil Catto The other day I conducted a presentation using the UK CET, like I have on several occasions. Along with explaining it as the longest recognised…
IPCC sea level exaggeration
NZCLIMATE TRUTH NEWSLETTER NO 319 by Vincent Gray, Wellington New Zealand Chapter 13 of the IPCC 5th WGI Report claims that sea level will rise by an amount between 0.26…
Claim: El Nino events get more extreme as globe warms
From the University of New South Wales and the “chicken or the egg” department comes this claim that El Niño events will increase in intensity. Meanwhile the milquetoast La Nada…
How to Cure a Climate Change Denier
Here is a book with a twist – an eco gone rogue and self modified into a climate change “denier”. His experience parallels many, actually, including some of mine (though…
Statistical Analyses of Surface Temperatures in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
Guest essay by Douglas J. Keenan Temperatures on Earth’s surface—i.e. where people live—are widely believed to provide evidence for global warming. Demonstrating that those temperatures actually provide evidence, though, requires…
Commonsense Climate Science and Forecasting after AR5
Guest Essay by Dr. Norman Page 1.The Demise of the IPCC and the CAGW Delusion. a) Overview. In the AR5 Summary for Policymakers the IPCC glossed over the developing cooling trend…
Quite possibly the world's dumbest Kickstarter project for climate
God help us. These “artistes” write: The scientific community can meet us in December when we bring the calendar to the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. This is the world’s…
Good news from NOAA: coral reefs can adapt to warming
NOAA is dialing back the alarm a bit with realizations that nature has equipped these organisms with adaptation strategies that have served them over the millennia. New study suggests coral…
WUWT: The newest entry on climate social media leaderboard
Welcome @wattsupwiththat: Straight in at #29 on @SustMeme Climate Change & Energy Top 500, with @solarcentury https://t.co/WvfJNNL85K — SustMeme Top 500 (@SustMemeTop500) October 29, 2013 The encouraging news is that…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for Tuesday Oct 29th 2013
Bill McKibben’s crazy logic: He says wind is cheap as coal. Jo Nova says “so who needs a carbon tax then?” To which I say, fantastic. If wind power is…
IPCC Adjusts Model-Predicted Near-Term Warming Downwards
This is another post that illustrates and discusses just how poorly climate models simulate one of the most important climate variables: global surface temperatures. I’ve included a copy of this…
Sat imagery of Bushfires in New South Wales, Australia
From NASA: NASA’s Terra satellite detected dozens of bushfires continued raging in the Australian state of New South Wales, outside of Sydney. Sydney is the state capital and the most…
The big stink 93.9 million years ago – blame CO2
From the University of California – Riverside , and the department of sulfurous odors, comes this “it must be carbon dioxide” moment: “Also associated with this event are high levels…
The UK Saint Jude's Day Storm – just another fall storm in a long line of many
By Paul Homewood It has been variously described as “The Storm of the Century”, “Unprecedented”, “Superstorm” and “A repeat of 1987”. I refer, of course, to the St. Jude storm…
Solar spectral irradiance, UV, and declining solar activity – a Maunder Minimum mechanism for cooler temperature?
Since Paul Hudson has made a bold claim at the BBC related to a recent interview with solar scientist Mike Lockwood: BBC – Real risk of a Maunder minimum ‘Little…
BBC – Real risk of a Maunder minimum 'Little Ice Age'
From BBC’s Paul Hudson It’s known by climatologists as the ‘Little Ice Age’, a period in the 1600s when harsh winters across the UK and Europe were often severe. The…
Do the Math – Count the cash
Al Gore, Bill McKibben and the color of money: A true religious experience Guest essay by Paul Driessen and Dennis Mitchell Some years ago, a telegenic televangelist built quite an…
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