Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This is the second in a series of posts about the blog HotWhopper, specifically about the misunderstandings about climate-science basics displayed by its author and…
Month: October 2014
Andrew Neil skewers the green blobette
You just have to watch this, it shows weaseling out of direct questions as an art form. Key phrase: “Well what I would say is…” From Bishop Hill: Take a…
A brilliant illusionist trick: The shining new EU climate policy
Guest essay by Fred F. Mueller – Perfectly timed to the run-up of the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference that will be held in Paris in November/ December 2015,…
Climate Doomsday draws near: just 37 days to go
Tim Blair writes in his column, Monday, October 27, 2014 about yet another climate prediction by a government scientist that seems sure to fail. You can add it to the…
Winter comes a month early in Kazakhstan and other northern regions
David DuByne writes: Early Snows & Lost Grain Tonnage Central Asia Ural Mountains (Oct 03), USA Crop losses (Oct 11), Ukraine (Oct 22), Grain fields of Northern Kazakhstan snow and…
Climate Research needs Re-direction
Letter to the Editor 27th October 2014 Written by Viv Forbes of carbon-sense.com Governments are running huge deficits, but still spend billions on climate research especially trying to model the…
Open Thread Sunday
I’m traveling today to another city to see a specialist to deal with a significant and ongoing personal health issue, so blogging will be light over the next couple of…
Yes Virginia (and everyone else) there is an El Niño coming
Guest essay by Joe Bastardi I am a bit surprised at some of the waffling in the meteorological community on the ENSO event ( then again, maybe it is I…
Changes in Total Solar Irradiance
Total solar irradiance, also called “TSI”, is the total amount of energy coming from the sun at all frequencies. It is measured in watts per square metre (W/m2). Lots of…
Global boom in hydropower underway, more expected this decade
From the University of Copenhagen: Global boom in hydropower expected this decade An unprecedented boom in hydropower dam construction is underway, primarily in developing countries and emerging economies. While this…
Study: Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano sits on a massive magma hot spot
By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis Spectacular eruptions at Bárðarbunga volcano in central Iceland have been spewing lava continuously since Aug. 31. Massive amounts of erupting lava are connected to the…
The bogus fuss over Walrus beach parties: Walrus Haulouts Are Nothing New
From the Global Warming Policy Foundation Dr Susan Crockford explains why the media coverage and statements by scientists and environmental organizations mislead people about the massive walrus haulout seen in…
We're winning – National Public Radio guts its climate reporting team
From InsideClimate News: (hat tip to Michael E. Mann) By Katherine Bagley, InsideClimate News NPR has cut back on the number of staffers focused solely on the environment and climate…
LEGO advertises their Arctic Industry Collection – Payback for the Greenpeace "everything is awesome" smear?
Eric Worrall writes: WUWT readers might recall a nasty but successful Greenpeace campaign a few months ago, which had Santa Claus drowning in oil, seen above, and pressured LEGO Corporation…
Is NOAA Wrong?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach On another post here on Watts Up With That, a commenter pointed out that NOAA says that September 2014 was the warmest September ever on record. The…
Massive X class flare erupts from the sunspot 2192
As we previously mentioned on WUWT, the Sunspot 2192 which is as large as Jupiter had the potential of hurling large solar flares toward Earth. According to NASA’s spaceweather.com “Giant…
Past Climate Change Was Caused by the Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere, New Rutgers Study Finds
Most of the concerns about climate change have focused on the amount of greenhouse gases that have been released into the atmosphere.But in a new study published in Science, a…
Friday Funny – You're a climate denier if:
By Mark Heyer – You’re a climate denier if: – You believe that the atmosphere has continued to warm for the last 17+ years despite rapid growth of CO2. 97%…
New Study Predicts a Slight Cooling of North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures over the Next Decade
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Pierre Gosselin at NoTrickZone provided an introduction to a recently published paper in his post IPCC Scientist Mojib Latif Sees North Atlantic Cooling Over Next…
Europe commits economic suicide – agrees to massive emission cuts
Eric Worrall writes: The European Union has just committed economic suicide, by agreement a landmark deal, to cut CO2 emissions by 40% by 2030. Given that European emissions, by any…
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