Image Credits: Soft Pixel – clker.com – Cagel.com By WUWT Regular “Just The Facts” For anyone who was witness to the absurdity of the recent warming makes it cold meme,…
Month: February 2014
Steyn countersues Mann for 10 millon dollars
Mark Steyn has decided to countersue Michael Mann for $10 million. The legal document reads like a drama. See below.
Newsbytes: "Dry Winter" Could the Met Office Have Been More Wrong?
Met Office Warning (2012): Climate Change Linked To Colder, Drier UK Winters The Met Office’s ‘pitiful’ forecasts were under fire last night after it was revealed it told councils in…
'I'm Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State, Ask Me Almost Anything!'
Above: Actual photo from Dr. Mann’s Facebook page courtesy Mark Steyn writing in: “The Mann I love” LOL, gotta love the caveat “almost” anything. Redditers are welcome to ask Dr.…
Friday Funny – try eating this 'crop' threatened by 'climate change'
Apparently, all that work in selective crop breeding won’t overcome ‘climate change’ This is the headline and story summary from Eurekalert: Crop species may be more vulnerable to climate change…
January 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) Temperature Anomaly Update
Initial Notes: This post contains graphs of running trends in global surface temperature anomalies for periods of 13+ and 16+ years using GISS global (land+ocean) surface temperature data. They indicate…
Claim: Extreme weather decides distribution of insects
Another modeled result, extrapolated all the way from 10 common fruit fly species to everything else in the insect world. Extreme weather caused by climate change in the coming decades…
Quote of the week – Gore gets tipper, er tippy, er whatever
It’s the same old tired stuff, Koch, anti-science, big fundraisers while claiming skeptics are well funded, etc., but at least there’s a new humorous label from Gore. ========================= Former Vice…
A must read: Why Secretary of State John Kerry Is Flat Wrong on Climate Change
By Dr. Richard McNider and Dr. John Christy In a Feb. 16 speech in Indonesia, Secretary of State John Kerry assailed climate-change skeptics as members of the “Flat Earth Society”…
Inside the Sea ice Anomaly Oscillation (SAO) – Part 1
Guest essay by Craig Lindberg In a recent post, A Relationship Between Sea Ice Anomalies, SSTs, and the ENSO? (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/13/a-relationship-between-sea-ice-anomalies-ssts-and-the-enso/), I introduced the Sea ice Anomaly Oscillation (“SAO”) – an…
Climate craziness of the week: climate scientist presented as a God, like Mao and Kim Il-sung?
This picture looks a lot like some murals we’ve seen in the past to deify “heros of some revolution”. Compare the photos below.
What is El Niño Taimasa?
From the University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST, something I’ve never heard of before. Note the photo. During very strong El Niño events, sea level drops abruptly in the tropical western…
Comment on Kevin Trenberth’s interview on February 17 2014 – An Example of Misrepresenting Climate Science
Guest essay By Roger A. Pielke Sr. My son and Kevin Trenberth did an interview for Colorado Public Radio on February 17th. The entire interview is worth listening to, but…
Still chasing consensus – on building a climate consensus model
Statistics research could build consensus around climate predictions Philadelphia, PA—Vast amounts of data related to climate change are being compiled by research groups all over the world. Data from these…
A perspective on the California Drought
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen I have one advantage over the journalists of the NY Times when it comes to covering the current drought in California: Memories. I grew up…
Delingpole's new landing pad, the inside scoop
Last week a number of people were in shock about the news that James Delingpole had his last column at the Telegraph. It was all rather abrupt. As to why,…
Study: methane leaks aren't significant enough to negate value of natural gas
There’s a lot of hullabaloo recently about Natural Gas being too leaky to be a good substitute for coal. The claim is based on the fact that methane has a…
Another dubious linkage to 'climate change': Modeled increase in Arctic Cyclones
I don’t put much merit in this study especially when we see statements like “statistically significant, though minor, increase in extreme Arctic cyclone frequency” because we really haven’t had good…
Newsbytes: Why The Met Office Has Hung Its Chief Scientist Out To Dry
Met Office Science Chief Attacked For Climate Claim Britain’s winters are getting colder because of melting Arctic ice, the Government’s forecaster said yesterday. Met Office chief scientist Julia Slingo said…
Climate rent a protest?
People send me stuff. Here’s a press release from a PR firm that I really don’t understand. Why are LGBTQ activists joining in a climate protest against Google? The only…
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