From the “we told you so” department, WUWT Reader Paul Carter says in Tips and Notes: A new study shows that Pacific Islands are resilient to sea level changes. “Dynamic…
Month: April 2014
March 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) Temperature Anomaly Update
INITIAL QUESTION Once upon a time, the NCDC published its monthly global land+ocean surface temperature anomaly data around the 15th of the month. They have recently relaxed the dates of…
Some hype sorting on the claim that Asian pollution is intensifying Pacific Storms
Is Asian Pollution Intensifying Pacific Storms? Separating the Hype from Reality. By Cliff Mass The media over the past week have given a lot of play to a paper in…
Climatologist Judith Curry levels both barrels against alarmist climate science
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin Alarmist claims: inference from incomplete, inadequate and ambiguous observations Climate scientist Dr. Judith Curry has recently posted a number of sharply worded essays providing stinging…
Dana Nuccitelli's lie of omission in the Guardian
In Bjørn Lomborg’s latest oped: Global Warming’s Upside-Down Narrative Lomborg points out the following: The IPCC says unmitigated climate change will cost 0.2-2% GDP/year in 2070. The IPCC says climate policies…
New paper finds solar UV-B output is correlated to global mean temperature
Map of correlations suggest it may be affecting biomass and planetary albedo. From the Hockey Schtick: A paper published today in Methods in Ecology and Evolution describes a new satellite…
Multi-million dollar global warming disaster epic 'Years of Living Dangerously' beaten in TV ratings by 'Bob's Burgers' reruns
UPDATE: Showbuzz weighs in with an actual ratings number for “Years of Living Dangerously” and it’s mind blowingly low. Even this blog reached more people on Sunday. See below. Showtime’s…
Believers in global warming unchanged since 2001, 1 in 4 Americans don't buy it at all
One in Four in U.S. Are Solidly Skeptical of Global Warming Nearly 40% are “Concerned Believers” in global warming, others are mixed by Lydia Saad, Gallup PRINCETON, NJ — Over…
Scientists with frickin' weather control lasers in their heads
From the University of Central Florida ‘Dressed’ laser aimed at clouds may be key to inducing rain, lightning UCF, Arizona researchers extend length of high-intensity laser with hope of stimulating…
Today's Antarctic region once as hot as California, Florida
From Yale University, where that means that even though Earth 40-50 million years ago had a completely different arrangement of continents and climate, it still somehow will “underscore the potential…
Idiots on parade: Portland water bureau's tenuous grasp of science
From ARStechnica and the stupid, it burns, department comes this ridiculous story of a bureaucrat gone off the rails. See the video that set off this pissing match below. The…
Ouch. Corn biofuel could generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline
From the “we told you so back in 2010″ department and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Study casts doubt on climate benefit of biofuels from corn residue The fuel could generate…
Tornado season so far may be the slowest in a century
While there continues to be wailing about how climate change is supposedly making the weather more extreme, Greg Carbin, the man in charge at NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) sends…
Ice dating from Krypton
Here’s something useful that works like radiocarbon dating, but on ice. Since it is cosmic ray based, it makes me wonder if it could be used to reconstruct the cosmic…
Ridley: IPCC & OECD reports are telling us clear as a bell that we cannot ruin the climate with CO2 unless we have a population explosion
Matt Ridley: The Richer We Get, The Greener We’ll Become The world’s climate change experts are now saying that strong growth doesn’t hurt the environment, it protects it Matt Ridley,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-04-19 (April 19, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: Pray don’t talk to me about…
Elements of the Mann-Steyn case: Climate Science, Free Speech and Legal Liability – Part 1
Lies and Legal Liability Guest essay by Roger Sowell The field of climate science, with controversial issues such as whether the planet is warming due to man’s burning of fossil…
The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 5 – The Relationship Between the PDO and ENSO
UPDATE: I’ve added NOAA’s description of the PDO index toward the end of the post, before the closing. # # # During the earlier discussions of the upcoming El Niño…
Climate Chaos, and hanging out with, like, marmots and wolverines
A conference in Portland Report by Rod McLaughlin I attended the “Cascadia Confluence” on April 20th in Portland. The idea is, human beings should organize themselves into “bioregions” instead of…
Dueling climate reports – this one is worth sharing on your own blog
NOTE: This op-ed is apparently too hot for some editors to handle. Late last week it was accepted and posted on politix.topix.com only to be abruptly removed some two hours…
People and Data Cherry-Picked For the IPCC Political Agenda
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Cherry-picking data in climate science gained notoriety during the joint Committee Hearing chaired by Representative Barton on the “hockey stick.” Steve McIntyre reported, “D’Arrigo…
Can we deduce climate sensitivity from temperature?
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Central to Professor Lovejoy’s paper attempting to determine climate sensitivity from recent temperature trends is the notion that in any 125-year period uninfluenced by anthropogenic…
26 multi-kiloton nuclear sized explosions detected in Earth's atmosphere since 2001
The biggest threat to humanity, far bigger than global warming/climate change, is about to get bigger, much bigger A press release from some former NASA astronauts on the current asteroid…
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