Greens want every possible intervention except one which “solves” their useful crisis Guest essay by Eric Worrall ‘Drill Bit Dana’ has been at it again, trying to claim that we…
Month: August 2014
Finding: 'El Niños 10,000 years ago were as strong and frequent as the ones we experience today'
Ancient shellfish remains rewrite 10,000-year history of El Niño cycles Hannah Hickey University of Washington The planet’s largest and most powerful driver of climate changes from one year to the…
Ugly: MSNBC host wants 'reducation' for 'climate deniers'
Wow. just wow. No wonder MSNBC is tanking in ratings. Watch the video:
Hurricane Iselle disintegrates before landfall in Hawaii
Cool air and cool land mass on Island Of Hawaii sucks the heat energy out of Iselle. Story submitted by reader “upcountrywater” who lives in Hawaii. I live on Maui…
Claim: Global Warming will cause a deadly Jellyfish Invasion
It is claimed that climate change will cause deadly Irukandji and Box Jellyfish to invade Sydney Harbour – data shows otherwise Story submitted by Eric Worrall The Daily Telegraph warns…
Receding Swiss glaciers incoveniently reveal 4000 year old forests – and make it clear that glacier retreat is nothing new
By Larry Bell Dr. Christian Schlüchter’s discovery of 4,000-year-old chunks of wood at the leading edge of a Swiss glacier was clearly not cheered by many members of the global…
'Hoodwinking the Nation' on climate issues
Guest essay by Charles Battig, M.D. VA-Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment American popular culture has scattered nuggets of perceived wisdom. In order to understand and perhaps explain our…
Record cold in Antarctica threatens lives of British Antarctic Survey members during power outage – with little chance of rescue
From CFACT Thirteen members of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) were trapped and in danger of freezing to death when their base, Halley VI, lost power. Power went down on…
El Niño is just not paying attention to climate models – looks like a bust
In the past week both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) scaled back forecasts for a big El Niño warming event in 2014.…
A benefit to 'climate change' – less dead zones in the ocean
From the University of Washington Ocean’s most oxygen-deprived zones to shrink under climate change As the complex story of climate change unfolds, many of the endings are grim. But there…
Sea ice news Volume 5, # 5 NSIDC: 'the expansion in Antarctic sea ice is confirmed'
From NSIDC: Sled dog days of summer NSIDC reports near record Antarctic sea ice extent in July Arctic sea ice extent declined at a fairly rapid rate through the first…
Latest on the hurricane double threat to Hawaii
The current forecast storm track from CPHC shows Iselle being a Cat 1 storm when in makes landfall on the big Island. The city of Hilo will bear the brunt…
Told ya so – Washington Post links Ebola to Climate Change
Is there *any* disaster which climate change can’t make worse? About three days ago I tweeted this: Waiting for the inevitable opportunistic BS story that #EbolaOutbreak is a result of…
Any more extreme weather, and we're back to the LIA
Story submitted by Eric Worrall “…snowfall was much heavier than recorded before or since, and the snow lay on the ground for many months longer than it does today. Many…
Recent paper finds 1950-2009 Solar Grand Maximum was a 'rare or even unique event' in 3,000 years
Sun said to be “bi-modal” While many, including the IPCC, suggest the modern Grand Maximum of solar activity from 1950-2009 has nothing to do with the 0.4C global warming measured…
Analysis Of Antarctic Peninsula Temperature Trends Shows it Runs Both Hot and Cold
By Paul Homewood It is commonly known that the Antarctic Peninsula has seen substantial warming in the last few decades. Jim Steele wrote a guest post for WUWT a couple…
WUWT, filling in knowledge holes since 2006
People send me stuff. This made my day, so I thought it was worth sharing. Remember this? New pictures of the hole in Yamal – and Pingo was its name-o Matt…
Somebody in psychology finally 'gets it' about Stephan Lewandowsky and John Cook and their 'smear science'
Social psychologist Jose Duarte pulls no punches in describing Lewandowsky’s failures of science in the “Moon Hoax” paper and the later retracted “Fury” paper. And then goes on to describe…
Speaking of emotionalism and global warming…use of 'Extreme weather' as an emotional motivator is up nearly 1000 percent
Our previous story showcased a study that linked emotionalism and global warming activism. And so it goes with Network News, using the “if it bleeds it leads” strategy to make…
The 'Weepy Bill McKibben Effect': Study links Emotionalism and Global Warming
This is something we’ve known about for quite some time, but it is nice to see it quantified. For those who don’t know about the “Weepy Bill McKibben Effect” or…
UAH July global temperature – essentially unchanged from June
From Dr. Roy Spencer: The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2014 is +0.31 deg. C, unchanged from June (click for full size version):
BOMBSHELL: Study shows greenhouse gas induced warming dropped for the past 14 years
Paper finds a decrease of IR radiation from greenhouse gases over past 14 years, contradicts expected increase – cloudiness blamed for difference. A paper published in the Journal of Climate…
Study: Large volcanic eruptions cause drought in eastern China
Via AGU, and the “science is settled” department, once again we learn things we didn’t know about climate. In most cases, the annual East Asian Monsoon brings heavy rains and…
U.S. forest fires versus climate model predictions
While we have one of the lowest US fire seasons to date on record so far… (Data at right from National Interagency Fire Center plotted by Tony Heller) …we have…
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