Today, while shopping at lunchtime for some last minute year end supplies, I got one of the strangest cell-phone calls ever. It was from my friend John Coleman, the founder…
Month: December 2013
First time in 20 years – more daily record lows than daily highs that were either tied or set in 2013
2013 was a cool year in many ways. Most interestingly, the last year this split between highs and lows happened in the USA, in 1993, we had the eruption from…
'Climate adaptation, a wicked problem, requires navigating a landscape that is only partly known'
A WUWT reader from NCAR sends this but wishes to remain anonymous. I verified the IP address as coming from NCAR. Bold mine. ============================================================ Hi Mr. Watts, I come to…
Climate Craziness of the Week: only the 'cooler' models are wrong – the rest say 4ºC of warming by 2100
From the University of New South Wales and Dr. Steven Sherwood: “Climate sceptics like to criticise climate models for getting things wrong, and we are the first to admit they…
Polynyas are very important for marine life and cooling the oceans
An introduction to Polynyas Guest essay by Eric Stephens Many people think that once a sea freezes, it is one complete sheet. In reality, there are several open areas that…
The WUWT year end report
This report, prepared by the people that run wordpress.com where WUWT is hosted, gives insight into how we did this past year and which of our commenters were the most…
Cancelling the Tropical Cancellation
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a much-cited paper (129 citations) from 1994 called “On the Observed Near Cancellation between Longwave and Shortwave Cloud Forcing in Tropical Regions” by J. T. Kiehl…
MSM finally gets that the sun's magnetic field has flipped
While we’ve known about this for quite some time at WUWT, going back to August 2013, the story is now starting to make the rounds in the MSM. And, NASA…
The Antarctic 'research' fiasco – 'would you, could you, in a boat'?
This will be a top “sticky” post for awhile since interest is high – new stories will appear below this one – Anthony UPDATE: Josh channels the boat people UPDATE2: Another…
A great letter to the editor on 'the pause'
WUWT reader Steve Hales writes in Tips and Notes: Thought you might get a chuckle out of my letter to our local bucolic paper. Story from The Chronicle-Independent “Whatever the…
Peer Review; Last Refuge of the (Uninformed) Troll
Current peer review science, by attempting to explain away model failure, in fact confirms that the science is wrong Guest essay by David M. Hoffer It has become a favorite…
Saving the Antarctic scientists, er media, er, activists, er tourists trapped by sea ice
UPDATE2: get a load of the hilarious announcement from the expedition, where they claim sea ice is disappearing, see update 2 below. UPDATE3: A film (now a video) has been…
New – magnetic, reusuable, oil spill recovery material
Breakthrough or bogus? I ask readers to help sort it out. Every once in awhile something comes along that gives us a wow factor. This is one of those times.…
The Thermostatic Throttle
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I have theorized that the reflective nature of the tropical clouds, in particular those of the inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) just above the equator, functions…
Thanks, I'll pass
People send me stuff. I got this email today with the subject: Publish Your Research Paper And then I read the image that was the advertisement for the new journal.…
Gavin was for solar forcing of climate before he was against it
Readers may recall when Dr. Gavin Schmidt appeared on a television program with Dr. Roy Spencer, but by Gavin’s cowardly choice, not at the same time. After listing the known…
Climate as a heat engine
Guest essay by Jan Kjetil Andersen As Willis describes in his article on December 21, the atmosphere can be seen as a gigantic heat engine, i.e. a machine which convert…
Many Climate Reconstructions Incorrectly Attributed to Temperature Change.
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) set climate research back thirty years, mostly by focusing world attention on CO2 and higher temperature. It…
New tax scheme: 'Environmental fiscal reform'
PR from Basque research: Environmental fiscal reform would improve the environment and reduce the informal economy The effect that the introduction of environmental fiscal reform would have on an economic…
Pioneers, Builders, and Termites.
Guest essay by Viv Forbes To compete in today’s world we need to score well on resource availability, capital assets, energy costs, tax burden and workforce/management. It also helps to…
Welcome to the frozone
Extreme negative temperatures out-number extreme positive temperatures on the planet today, with a spread of over 100ºF. Eagle airport in upper Alaska on the Yukon River is one such example:…