Expect hippies to be blaming this on climate change in 3…2…1 Eric Worrall writes: | The Burning Man Festival, a famous Nevada cultural festival, dedicated to sharing, art, self reliance,…
Month: August 2014
A Lead Author of IPCC AR5 Downplays Importance of Climate Models
Richard Betts heads the Climate Impacts area of the UK Met Office. The first bullet point on his webpage under areas of expertise describes his work as a climate modeler.…
A single Android App takes down the National Weather Service Website
Wow. The vulnerability here is stunning. Yesterday there were all sorts of delays and timeouts on the NWS main page. The reason turned out to be a single overzealous app…
An inconvenient truth: Does responsible consumption benefit corporations more than society?
From the University of Chicago Press Journals | Are environmental and social problems such as global warming and poverty the result of inadequate governmental regulations or does the burden fall…
Bearings: The Achilles Heel of Wind Turbines
Story by Eric Worrall – A few years ago, I used to know a senior wind turbine engineer. One evening, over a few beers, he told me the dirty secret…
BoM's bomb on station temperature trend fiddling
From Jo Nova: BOM finally explains! Cooling changed to warming trends because stations “might” have moved! It’s the news you’ve been waiting years to hear! Finally we find out the…
Letter: Cut the Costly Climate Chatter
Letter to the editor by Viv Forbes Twenty-two years ago a bunch of green activists calling themselves “The Earth Summit” met in Rio and invented a way to tour the…
Hilarious! Sierra Club & 350.org ditch polar bears as climate mascot, try 'cat videos' for climate change instead
In the past we’ve seen polar bears dropped from the sky and animals committing suicide rather than face climate change. Those didn’t go over very well. So, the Sierra Club…
ARCUS Sea-Ice predictions are in, includes WUWT's contribution
ARCUS Sea Ice Prediction Network writes in their executive summary: Thank you to the groups that contributed to the August 2014 Outlook. We received 23 pan-Arctic contributions. Of the 23…
The Atlantic is leaking methane – but researchers say there's no cause for alarm
We’ve seen all this before, but there is a twist this time, the authors of the paper are dialing back the alarm a bit. “…authigenic carbonates observed imply that emissions…
EPA: Ignore our previous statements on Ocean Acidification
Hoisted with their own petard fighting a lawsuit Story submitted by Eric Worrall The EPA is fighting a desperate battle to sink a green lawsuit, a lawsuit which is substantially…
Big Wind's latest deceitful ad campaign
Facing trouble abroad, Siemens ads seek to tap into US taxpayers and wind welfare system Guest essay by Mary Kay Barton If you watch much mainstream TV, you’ve probably seen…
Tornado Intensity Index
By Paul Homewood Is the intensity of tornadoes increasing in the United States, (or, for that matter, falling)? It’s a perennial question. NOAA gives us some clues, with…
Changes coming to WUWT
I figured that I should give people a heads-up, rather than just dump changes unannounced like wordpress.com did with their recent beep boop editor bomb. Two changes – comment filtering…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-08-23 (August 23, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Not the man who hopes when…
Newest scam: donate money to help alleviate the fears of 'scared scientists'
Wow, this is just nuts. I mean really, really, “Trenberth’s missing heat is going to jump out of the ocean and get you” kind of nuts. The website scaredscientists.com looks…
Learn R and statistics for free in a MOOC starting September 9
This is a shout-out to those of you who would like to learn more about statistics, inference and probabilities using R, a free, open-source high-level mathematical language. Those who have…
Surprise! Glaciers appearing in Scotland
Story submitted by Eric Worrall British Botanists conducting a Summer survey of Scotland’s tallest mountain, Ben Nevis, have been stunned to find evidence of recently formed multi-year ice fields, areas…
'Missing heat' in the Atlantic – It doesn't work like that
Guest essay by David Archibald President Obama didn’t start the war on coal. That war had its origins back in the 1970s. The nuclear industry joined the fray in 1982…
USHCN Monthly Temperature Adjustments
Guest Essay By Walter Dnes There have been a number of posts on USHCN temperature adjustments, including 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. They have focused primarily on annual adjustments. Whilst looking into…
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