Barry Woods writes via email: A very interesting article, with Mike Hulme dissing the 97% paper along the way. But I think perhaps the most interesting part, is it seems…
Month: February 2014
Help Steyn with the Mann lawsuit process
Dr. Mann’s lawsuit against National Review and Mark Steyn continues. National Review, while having walked back some of the early claims to square one, failed to get the suit dismissed.…
Claim: Dramatic thinning of Arctic lake ice cuts winter ice season by 24 days
Arctic lakes have been freezing up later in the year and thawing earlier, creating a winter ice season about 24 days shorter than it was in 1950, a University of…
Arctic Layer Cake
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a recent paper paywalled here, called Arctic winter warming amplified by the thermal inversion and consequent low infrared cooling to space. Fortunately, the Supplementary Online…
January solar cycle 24 numbers, a new high for one, continued slumps for others
The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center released their January 2014 solar data, and it has one small surprise, the 10.7 radio flux is the highest ever in cycle 24, the…
Nature can, selectively, buffer human-caused global warming, say Israeli, US scientists
Jerusalem, February 2, 2014 – Can naturally occurring processes selectively buffer the full brunt of global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activities? Yes, find researchers from…
New paper: Arctic amplification of temperature not primarily due to albedo changes, climate models need to be reworked
From the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology: Climate changes faster in the Arctic than anywhere else on Earth, a phenomenon that is often explained by retreating snow and ice leading…
Yeo gets the heave-ho
Some good news out of Britain, global warming alarmist and Senior Conservative MP Tim Yeo has lost his fight against being deselected by party activists.
U.S. Dec/Jan Temperatures 3rd Coldest in 30 Years
by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Yes, Virginia, it really has been a cold winter. The winter months of December 2013 and January 2014 averaged over the contiguous 48 United…
Greenhouse 'time machine' sheds light on corn domestication
A grass called teosinte is thought to be the ancestor of corn, but it doesn’t look much like corn at all. Smithsonian scientists were surprised to find that teosinte planted…
Monday Mirthiness – Mann's keyboard?
There was a lot of interest in my post Michael Mann the ‘reluctant public figure’ and ‘typewriter expert’ where he made the easily debunked claim about the QWERTY keyboard being the…
Build the Keystone pipeline, already!
KXL was AWOL from SOTU – along with real energy, job, economic and revenue solutions Guest essay by Paul Driessen President Obama frequently says he wants to turn the economy…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-02-01 (February 1, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Whatever the UK is deciding to…
Josh on 'The Uncomfortable Pause"
Josh writes in with a new cartoon. This is a spoof on the xkcd.com/1321/ cartoon that was doing the Twitter rounds the other day. First, the XKCD cartoon on global…
If 99 Doctors Said…
We’ve seen the “If 99 doctors said…” argument, or facsimiles, used often by global warming enthusiasts in recent months. George Clooney used it when interviewed at the Britannia Awards. (See…
The January Leading Indicator
By Walter Dnes – Edited by Just The Facts Investopedia defines “Leading Indicator” thusly… A measurable economic factor that changes before the economy starts to follow a particular pattern or…
Michael Mann the 'reluctant public figure' and 'typewriter expert'
One of the hurdles Michael Mann has to overcome in his lawsuit against NRO/Steyn is the tenet that public figures are expected to have a higher level of tolerance when…
A Displaced Polar Vortex and Its Causes
By WUWT Regular “Just The Facts” If you aren’t familiar with Stratospheric Polar Vortexes, you can get acquainted here, here and here. “A strong link exists between stratospheric variability and…
Chicken al la still not a king
The royal prince in waiting of Britain labels climate skeptics as “headless chickens”. From The Telegraph: Prince Charles has criticised climate change deniers, describing them as the “headless chicken brigade”…
Case study: how to fight the Sierra Club with no money
John Droz, Jr. sends this new item In October of 2013, a major wind project was targeted for coastal North Carolina. I decided to use this as a test case…
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