Bjørn Lomborg writes on hisFacebook page about this story on WUWT: Newsbytes: Japan Stuns UN Climate Summit By Ditching CO2 Target The last twenty years of international climate negotiations have…
Month: November 2013
Was Typhoon Haiyan the Most Intense Storm in Modern History?
Guest essay by Patrick J. Michaels Global warming buffs have been fond of claiming that the roaring winds of Typhoon Haiyan were the highest ever measured in a landfalling tropical…
Reality is Absent from Michael Mann’s Activist Article on Typhoon Haiyan
UPDATE: I’ve corrected a few typos that carried over into two of the graphs and, at the end, I’ve added a model-data comparison of the sea surface temperature anomalies for…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2013-11-16 (November 16, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: We have found it of…
Volcano discovered smoldering under a kilometer of ice in West Antarctica
From the Washington University in St. Louis Its heat may increase the rate of ice loss from one of the continent’s major ice streams It wasn’t what they were looking…
Climate and Human Civilization over the last 18,000 years
Guest essay by Andy May This document is meant to explain the accompanying poster and expand on the poster’s content. Some references to the images and data shown in the…
Severe weather likely to hit plains today
Particularly Dangerous Situation Tornado Watch in effect until 4:00 PM CST this afternoon for portions of eastern Iowa, Illinois, northwest Indiana, northeast Missouri, southeast Wisconsin, and Lake Michigan. For additional…
A view of science worth reflecting upon
After watching the movie “The Challenger Disaster” on the Discovery channel tonight, I thought it would be good for WUWT readers to read Feynman’s famous address. At the end, there…
Another known unknown – volcanic outgassing of CO2
It seems there’s really no complete measurements on how much CO2 is coming out of volcanoes, both active and inactive. From Livescience: Long Invisible, Research Shows Volcanic CO2 Levels Are…
2 degree target – a matter of policy guesswork
Success of climate talks vital for 2°C target From the Potsdam Institute – Achieving a global climate agreement soon could be crucial for the objective to keep global mean temperature…
Newsbytes: Japan Stuns UN Climate Summit By Ditching CO2 Target
From Dr. Benny Peiser of the GWPF Rich Nations Block Push To Count Past CO2 Emissions At UN Climate Summit Japan set a new target for greenhouse gas emissions that…
A Big Picture Look At “Earth’s Temperature” – Santer 17 Update
Image Credits: NASA, BP.Blogspot.com, Wikimedia.org By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” NOAA’s State of the Climate In 2008 report found that: The simulations rule out (at the 95% level) zero…
Climate Craziness of the Week: NBC: Polar Bears Like 'Passengers on the Titanic' Because of Global Warming
Image: Toonpool Newsbusters reports: Teasing an upcoming story on Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams warned of “the habitat of the polar bears melting earlier and faster than ever”…
Study shows wind turbines killed 600,000 bats last year
I wonder how many bats coal and nuclear power plants killed last year? From the University of Colorado Denver Bats pollinate crops, control insects DENVER (Nov. 15, 2013) – More…
Friday Funny
Every once in awhile something comes along that lets you know you made a difference while generating a laugh at the same time.
Warsaw COP19 report– there’s something in the water
Andy Pattullo reports, November 14, 2013, Warsaw This week UN delegates opened the current Warsaw Climate change Conference with hopes of engineering a renewed agreement to curb human-driven global warming…
What makes the warmist-skeptic fight go on and on?
Elevated from a comment by Doug Proctor November 14, 2013 at 10:00 am I’ve been thinking about what makes the warmist-skeptic fight go on and on. What I have noted…
Curry on the Cowtan & Way 'pausebuster': 'Is there anything useful [in it]?"
Dr. Judith Curry writes about the Cowtan and Way paper which (according to some pundits) purports to “bust” the temperature pause of the last 17 years by claiming we just…
Amazon rainforest more able to withstand drought than previously thought
From the University of Exeter: New research suggests that the Amazon rainforest may be more able to cope with dry conditions than previously predicted. Researchers at the University of Exeter…
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