NOAA's odd way of presenting February temperatures

Harold Ambler writes: NOAA’s map of February temperatures across the United States got New England all wrong. It wasn’t “near normal,” at all, as the people of the region can…

A ‘Back to the Future’ approach to climate that reads just like science fiction

From the University of Cincinnati, climate science conducted by one-on-one interviews with small sample sizes. No DeLoreans or “Mr. Fusion” needed. A ‘Back to the Future’ Approach to Taking Action…

To AAAS: What we know? Earth hasn't warmed significantly in over a decade, climate models failed to predict this

One really has to laugh at the repackaging attempt by AAAS. Meanwhile: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Releases “What We Know” and Kicks Off Initiative to Recognize…

The one-sided Conversation

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley At The Conversation, a taxpayer-funded propaganda website based in Australia, Dr Rod Lamberts has suggested that in the climate debate those pushing the Party Line…

Climate Craziness of the Week: 'Cold snaps result of global warming'

We’ve just been waiting for this predictable headline to emerge somewhere, and it happened to pop up in Canada’s CBC News: h/t to Ron Christie in WUWT Tips and Notes…

Wow, even MSM reporters want to see Michael Mann's UVa emails now

Here’s something out of left field (literally) and almost too good to be true, but it really is. Get this: 17 news organizations, including NPR, WaPo, AP,  now have grown…

Arctic blast coming to Eastern US – likely to be the coldest opening to calendar spring in at least 50 years

Another massive cold wave headed for Eastern US next week to put temperature 20 degrees below normal Senior WeatherBell Meteorologist Joe Bastardi commented: I am 58.. never seen anything close…

Earth going to pot – Marijuana grown in California produces more carbon than 3 million cars

Thanks to “Climate Desk” for pointing out this gem of an article. These factoids are from the earth-friendly “Mother Jones” magazine “24 Mind-Blowing Facts About Marijuana Production in America”, referencing…

Faint whispers of the early universe detected, bolsters the cosmic inflation theory, aka 'big bang'

“This has been like looking for a needle in a haystack, but instead we found a crowbar…” From the Stanford Report, March 17, 2014 (h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard) video…

Claim: 'Sustained mass loss of the northeast Greenland ice sheet triggered by regional warming', but, not so fast

The media spin is in full wash mode over this recent paper studying a small section of Greenland. WUWT Reader “non nomen” writes in Tips and Notes: “Sustained mass loss…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was: 2014-03-15 (March 15, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “…simulation methods suffer from a fundamental…

Modern Magic – Clean Energy by Wire

Submitted by Viv Forbes, Rosewood Qld Australia A month ago an arsonist lit a bush-fire that spread into the Morwell open cut coal mine in Victoria. Residents of the nearby…

Crowdsourcing A Full Kernel Cascaded Triple Running Mean Low Pass Filter, No Seriously…

Image Credit: Climate Data Blog By Richard Linsley Hood  – Edited by Just The Facts The goal of this crowdsourcing thread is to present a 12 month/365 day Cascaded Triple Running Mean…

Daily Record Temperatures & UHI – Part II

By Paul Homewood I ran a post the other day on daily record temperatures in the Southeast of the USA. Just to recap: A record daily high means that temperatures…

Chylek Imitates Ouroboros

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Bob Tisdale has a detailed post on the new 2014 paper entitled “The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation as a dominant factor of oceanic influence on climate”…

Australian National University: Forget the Climate Facts, We need Opinions

Another case of “The ends justify the means” Submitted by Eric Worrall Rod Lamberts, director of the Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science at the Australian National University,…

Going Postal – Why the Pony Express is still faster than the U.S Post Office in the West

This has nothing to do with climate or the usual WUWT fare, though it does shine a light on government inefficiency, so I thought I’d share this for entertainment purposes.…

“On the Internet, a high bounce rate is the kiss of death”

A look at who has and who hasn’t gotten that kiss of death in climate communications One of the more common woes mentioned by climate activists that suffer from bafflement…

Josh scales the climate personas

Josh writes: I have been musing for some time about a way to show the range of sceptic views compared to non-sceptic views and I think I have come up…

Claim: UCLA study yields more accurate data on thousands of years of climate change

From the University of California – Los Angeles Research also helps unravel the mystery of retreating glaciers in the Pacific Ocean’s western tropics Using a cutting-edge research technique, UCLA researchers…