Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a new study in PNAS, entitled “Observational determination of albedo decrease caused by vanishing Arctic sea ice” by Pistone et al. Let me start…
Month: February 2014
The Stadium Wave gets a website
Readers surely recall the Stadium Wave hypothesis for ‘the pause’. Marcia Wyatt (co-author with Judith Curry) writes: I have built a web site. It started out as just a site…
One of the Mann-Steyn lawsuit claims hits a rock
Steve McIntyre writes: The Mann libel case has been attracting increasing commentary, including from people outside the climate community. Integral to Mann’s litigation are representations that he was “investigated” by…
Anthropogenic Influences On Lake Ice Coverage; Ice Breakers, Waste Heat, Dams, etc.?
Image Credits: NOAA Great Lakes Surface Environment Analysis (GLSEA) By WUWT Regular “Just The Facts” Per the images above, on February 13th, 2014, Great Lakes Ice Coverage was 88.4%. On…
Gore Enlists Extraterrestrials to fight Global Warming?
Truth is often stranger than fiction, and Al Gore’s missives are often stranger than both. Robert Schaefer writes: I just got back from the 2014 International UFO Congress, the largest…
New PNAS paper claims Arctic planetary albedo dropped significantly, yet recent CERES data shows no significant change
From PNAS: Direct satellite observation reveals that the Arctic planetary albedo, a measure of reflectiveness, decreased from 0.52 to 0.48 between 1979 and 2011, a change in albedo that corresponds…
Nothing to See Here! Shredding Parties and Hiding the Decline in Taxpayer-Funded Science
The Cyber-Bonfire is Big and Bright, Deep in the Heart of Texas By: Chris Horner In the early 2000’s, the public was introduced to Enron “Shredding Parties,” where documents were…
Climate shock or schlock?
From Arizona State University use of a phrase that doesn’t seem to have a clear definition. Though, this one in Urban Dictionary comes pretty close to reality for 99% of…
CRISES IN CLIMATOLOGY
Guest essay by Donald C. Morton Herzberg Program in Astronomy and Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada ABSTRACT The Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in September…
Oh Lord, there be idiots at Stanford
From Stanford University , along with actor/activist Mark Ruffalo, and “Gasland” movie fabricator Josh Fox. I’m amazed the university would allow themselves to get used by these clowns. The website…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-02-15 (February 15, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: It is impossible for a…
The Levelized Cost of Electric Generation
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In early 2013, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) released their new figures for the “levelized cost” of new power plants. I just came across…
The real reason for flooding in Somerset Levels? Not global warming – river management
UPDATE: Satellite images added. UPDATE2: Upon further inspection of satellite images and flood maps I’ve concluded that while what this commenter had to say about the history is indeed true,…
Science Fairs Make Scientists
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen I complain a lot about poor science being done by what I assume to be professional scientists. I’d like to think that if I were…
Flood fight at the Met Office
No, global warming did NOT cause the storms, says one of the Met Office’s most senior experts One of the Met Office’s most senior experts yesterday made a dramatic intervention…
El Niño or La Nada for the 2014/15 ENSO Season
El Niño and La Niña events are the dominant modes of natural climate variability on Earth, which is why the state of the tropical Pacific is continuously monitored. El Niños…
NASA's IBEX Helps Paint Picture of the Magnetic System Beyond the Solar Wind
IBEX research shows influence of galactic magnetic field extends well beyond our solar system Understanding the region of interstellar space through which the solar system travels is no easy task.…
Canute Ponders The Tides
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Short Post. You can skip this if you understand the tidal force. Some folks seem confused about the nature of tidal forces. Today I saw…
Quote of the Week
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In discussing President Obama’s latest boondoggle, the one billion (with a “b) dollar Climate Resilience Plan, The US Under-Assistant Minister of Scientific Silly Walks, John Holdren, wandered…
Kaku's kookoo science
Marc Morano writes: CBS This Morning featured a futurist who promotes paranormal phenomena like ‘telepathy, telekinesis and mind reading’ as climate expert during its February 13 broadcast. CBS only identified…
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