Ben Webster in The Times writes: Alarmist claims about the impact of global warming are contributing to a loss of trust in climate scientists, an inquiry has found. Apocalyptic language…
Month: June 2014
Study: cold-season temperature variability has significantly decreased over the mid- to high-latitude Northern Hemisphere in recent decades
This is one of the reasons severe weather has been on the decrease. Less variance means less mixing, and mixing of extreme temperature differential air masses is what contributes to…
The 'strawman' albedo effect
From ETH Zurich , something that actually makes sense. Straw albedo mitigates extreme heat Wheat fields are often tilled immediately after the crop is harvested, removing the light-coloured stubble and…
Maunder and Dalton Sunspot Minima
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In a recent interchange over at Joanne Nova’s always interesting blog, I’d said that the slow changes in the sun have little effect on temperature.…
BREAKING: SCOTUS puts the brakes on some EPA global warming rules
Justices limit existing EPA global warming rules MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today placed limits on the sole Obama administration program already in place to deal…
A wall to wall crazy idea – build a 'great wall' in the USA to prevent tornadoes
From World Scientific Publishing Co. and the International Journal of Modern Physics comes this insane idea; build 300 meter (984 feet) high “great walls” in the midwest to break up…
Quote of the week – we'll say anything as long as it supports our cause
“My teacher (who does not agree with this project because of the trickery) told me that your group will accept almost anything regardless of the scientific process, this was my…
The World is Wearying of Climate Catastrophism
Maurice Newman, an influential Australian Government Advisor, attacks Climate Alarmism Maurice Newman, Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council, has published a scathing attack on climate alarmism in “The…
The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 11 – Is the El Niño Dying?
There’s still a possibility the 2014/15 El Niño could die even though it had so much promise just a few months ago. In this post, we’ll compare a few indicators…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-06-21 (June 21, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: What you suggest may be all…
Study: Weather pattern changes cause regional weather extremes
From the University of Exeter and the depart of ‘climate not mentioned’ comes this bit that fits in with what most operational meteorologists already know: the circumpolar vortex is a…
Sea Ice News Volume 5 #4 – 2014 Sea Ice Forecast Contest First Predictions
From the Sea Ice Prediction Network Summary: Thank you to the groups that contributed to the 2014 June report; 28 pan-Arctic contributions (plus one additional regional) is a record for…
24 Things the Media Claim Were Caused by ‘Global Warming’
By Katie Tubb It seems like with global warming embedded in our politics (for now), anything we don’t fully understand can now be ‘legitimately’ blamed on the weather. Forget the…
The Unisys Daily Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Maps May Be Gone
Near the first of this month, the NOAA National Weather Service discontinued the sea surface temperature dataset used by Unisys to create their daily sea surface temperature and sea surface…
NASA wants to lasso an asteroid
PASADENA (JPL) – NASA is on the hunt for an asteroid to capture with a robotic spacecraft, redirect to a stable orbit around the moon, and send astronauts to study…
Open thread weekend – societal concerns
I’m off on travel today, but I wanted to take this opportunity to give readers a chance to talk about a variety of topics and to discuss something that has…
Matt Ridley: Climate Cure Worse Than Thought
(via the GWPF) Matt Ridley, Financial POst The IPCC produced two reports last year. One said that the cost of climate change is likely to be less than 2% of…
Moore's Law: CO2 Good; Climate Change Bunk; Greens Follow Religious Fundamentalism
“Climate change” is a theory for which there is “no scientific proof at all” says the co-founder of Greenpeace. And the green movement has become a “combination of extreme political…
Saturday Silliness – New Research Shows Moon Causes Warming and Affects Climate
WUWT reader “thin air” submits this spoof for weekend fun. June 20, 2014. Princeton, New Jersey. Recently climate scientists here at the “Center for the Study of Earth and Moon”…
Climate Change, Heat Waves, and Adaptation
By Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels The main idea, as it is portrayed, driving the Obama administration’s pursuit of carbon dioxide regulations is that climate change is…
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