El Niños and La Niñas are parts of naturally occurring, sunlight-fueled processes—amazing processes—that produce warm water and redistribute it from the tropical Pacific. When I was first able to fathom…
Month: January 2014
No pattern found in Northern Hemisphere atmospheric blocking and weather extremes
A new paper in press at GRL (Barnes et al 2014) suggests that the idea of “blocking” patterns being on the increase due to climate change factors such as sea…
Risking lives to promote climate change hype
Yet another global warming expedition gets trapped in icebound ideology Guest opinion by Paul Driessen Will global warming alarmists ever set aside their hypotheses, hyperbole, models and ideologies long enough…
Climate campaigners start to eat their own over 'Cleantech Crash'
The Center for American Progress affiliated attack group “Forecast the Facts” is turning on the CBS News magazine “60 Minutes” for reporting truthfully on the issues surrounding green technology last…
Australian Antarctic Division head Tony Fleming says they’ll make efforts to recover the cost of #spiritofmawson rescue
From radio 666 ABC in Canberra, Australia, full audio follows. Tony Fleming, director of the Australian Antarctic Division tells Louise Maher the AAD wasn’t linked to the Australasian Antarctic Expedition…
The Solar storm has arrived – initial impact weaker than expected
From NASA: Spaceweather: As expected, a CME hit Earth’s magnetic field on Jan. 9th (around 20:00 UTC or 3 p.m. EST). Although the initial impact was weaker than expected, geomagnetic…
The IPCC discards its models
Who will believe the CMIP5 models, after the IPCC plenary had to discount their temperature projections? Guest essay by Barry Brill Table SPM.2 Projected change in global mean surface temperature…
Quote of the week – climate induced 'extreme weather' has long been a concern of climate scientists
As the subzero ‘polar vortex’ that froze the nation turns into the latest selling point for global warmers, with even the White House getting in on the act, it is…
Author of its Own Demise – musings on the AMO
Guest essay by Caleb Shaw I once had a very good science teacher who I fear I made wild, not so much by causing small explosions in the back of…
Now it's the fungi carbon footprint that isn't in climate models
From a long line of missing things in climate models and the University of Texas at Austin: Symbiotic fungi inhabiting plant roots have major impact on atmospheric carbon, scientists say…
California Coastal Commission to solicit input on Global Warming driven sea level policy document
From the “we’ve already made up our minds, these hearings are simply for show” department. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (excerpt from the PDF report) Climate change is upon us, and almost every…
The White House gets into the 'polar vortex' climate change blame business
Watch John Holdren struggle to explain the “waviness” of the circumpolar vortex aka the ‘polar vortex’ in today’s news cycle. Also, he says: “If you’ve been hearing that extreme cold…
Domino effect of chain reaction drainage of surface lakes led to the breakup of Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002
No mention of “climate change” as the driver for the sudden event. When the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica collapsed in 2002, the event appeared to be a sudden…
USA cold weather records outnumber warm records 6 to 1
Records for the “polar vortex” outbreak show a big disparity between warm and cold records. There were 655 cold records in the past week compared to 101 warm records, a…
Could this study on honesty and government service explain the EPA climateer fraud and 'Climategate' ?
A new paper published the National Bureau of Economic Research has given an insight that may explain some of the personal decisions that led to the recent EPA corruption fiasco Massive…
Upwelling Solar, Upwelling Longwave
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The CERES dataset contains three main parts—downwelling solar radiation, upwelling solar radiation, and upwelling longwave radiation. With the exception of leap-year variations, the solar dataset…
A Sober Look At The Northern Polar Vortex
Image Credit NASA – Polar Vortex on Venus WUWT Regular “Just The Facts” Currently there is a lot of media hype about the Polar Vortex over North America, but little…
Akademik Shokalskiy and the Xue Long have broken free from the ice in Antarctica and are no longer in need of assistance
Well that’s the end of that story…until investigations begin. Press release: 12:30pm AEDT, Wednesday 8 January 2014 Antarctic rescue operations complete The Australian Maritime Safety Authority can confirm that the…
Putting Headlines Ahead of Science
Essay by Patrick J. Michaels This article appeared in Orange County Register on January 2, 2014. On Dec. 10, Randy Schekman, a UC Berkeley professor, was awarded the Nobel Prize…
X class solar flare ejection may hit Earth with solar storm
From the WUWT Solar Reference page, an X 1.2 event has occurred: From NASA Spaceweather: Giant sunspot AR1944 erupted on Jan 7th at approximately 1832 UT, producing a powerful X1-class…
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