Mark Steyn writes about this bit of an omen for the upcoming heated legal battle: In other news, the DC Superior Court building – scene of the forthcoming Mann vs…
Month: February 2014
Going coastal: what exactly is 'Coastal Resilience' anyway?
New buzzword explained in context of climate alarm Guest essay by Kirtland Griffin The Nature Conservancy defines it as, “Coastal resilience is the ability of coastal communities to respond to and…
Flowing Water on Mars Appears Likely But Hard to Prove
From Georgia Tech: Studies examine puzzling summertime streaks Martian experts have known since 2011 that mysterious, possibly water-related streaks appear and disappear on the planet’s surface. Georgia Institute of Technology…
Solar Energy Storage – A Gift from Gaia
Guest essay by Viv Forbes There is a massive problem with photo-voltaic solar power. Modern cities and industries require power 24/7 but solar panels can only deliver significant energy from…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Fish living near the equator will not thrive in the warmer oceans of the future
Basic premise of this paper: 1. let’s take fish out of their natural ocean environment, 2. put ’em in a tank where they are stressed, 3. crank up the temperature,…
Giant mass extinction may have been quicker than previously thought – carbon dioxide blamed
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , another “carbon as planet killer” scenario. MIT researchers find that the end-Permian extinction happened in 60,000 years — much faster than earlier estimates…
We don't know clouds
Too many variables like clouds to model future climate with precision Guest essay by Rolf Westgard A new United Nations report suggests an imminent danger from global warming. It states…
Historical and present Total Solar Irradiance has been tinkered with again
One of the big problems of climate science is uncertainty. Some things that always seem to be in flux are historical datasets, partly because, well, they have so much inherent…
Quote of the Week: ego driven science
Some reflections on ego as scientific desire Guest essay by Eric Worrall Anyone wondering why, in the face of contrary evidence, alarmists (such as Matthew English) have not admitted they…
Seven years ago, we were told the opposite of what the new Matthew England paper says: slower (not faster) trade winds caused 'the pause'
While Matthew England claims in a new paper that fast trade winds caused cooling: The strongest trade winds have driven more of the heat from global warming into the oceans;…
95% of Climate Models Agree: The Observations Must be Wrong
Note: This is a repost from Dr. Roy Spencer’s blog entry last Friday. I’ve done so because it needs the wide distribution that WUWT can offer. The one graph he…
A review of Professor Matthew England's 'say anything' past failed claims
Readers of course recall the latest claim in a series of excuses about “the pause” in global warming with the new paper from Professor Mathew England of the University of…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-02-08 (February 8, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “When the debate is lost, slander…
The reason for 'the pause' in global warming, excuse #37 in a series: 'trade winds'
Recent intensification of hand waving driving heat into hiding. Well not exactly #37, but it sure seems like it with all the handwaving we’ve seen lately. So far, we’ve heard…
Time and the Tides Wait for Godot
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been listening to lots of stuff lately about tidal cycles. These exist, to be sure. However, they are fairly complex, and they only repeat…
Note to KXL protestors and Lord Deben, just substitute a couple of K's and 'your journey towards the dark side will be complete'
Paging Lord Deben I had debated with myself a couple of days as to whether or not to cover this particular bit of ugliness, after it first being brought to…
Detroit not only buried under debt, but record snow too!
Paging David Viner: NWS reports snow so far in 2014 has far exceeded the worst winter in 1978. In Detroit, 6 of the last 14 years are in the top…
Black Swans? Dispatches from the front line of climate change.
Guest essay by Tony Brown The sun was warm and the wind a friendly zephyr as we enjoyed coffee and a cake on Dawlish sea front. A place known to…
When Does A Displaced Polar Vortex Become A Split Vortex?
By WUWT Regular “Just The Facts” As discussed last week, the Northern Stratospheric Polar Vortex appears to have been displaced in January and now it appears to be splitting into…
Steyn on the 'anti-science' labeling of Dr. Judith Curry by Dr. Michael Mann
Some people say you shouldn’t poke a bear with a stick, for obvious reasons. I’ll say one thing for Mr. Steyn, he never gives up poking the ‘MannBearPig’, even when…
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