Eric Worrall writes about “The Conversation” Austalia’s favorite hangout of climate doomers: As the great unwinding of the more extreme climate alarmist positions gathers momentum, “The Conversation” provides us with…
Month: October 2014
Climate Dialogue about the sun
Guest blog by Marcel Crok Over at Climate Dialogue we have started a new discussion about the influence of the sun on the climate. People familiar with climate discussions know…
Friday Funny – Renewable Energy Fails Protesters Calling for More Renewable Energy
Oh, this is precious. In Madison, Wisconsin, demonstrators gathered outside the Public Service Commission to protest against a requested rate structure change by the local utility company, Madison Gas and…
With ARGO, There is a Wide Range Warming (and Cooling) Rates of the Oceans to Depths of 2000 Meters
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The KNMI Climate Explorer has added a number of datasets to their Monthly observations webpage, where users select desired data based on global coordinates. (Many…
Backyard Birds Spreading as Climate Changes
By Pat Michaels and Chip Knappenberger In a recent Global Science Report, we posted some good news coming out of California’s Sierra Nevada, where climate change (from whatever cause), has…
A Simple Truth; Computer Climate Models Cannot Work
Guest opinion by Dr. Tim Ball – Ockham’s Razor says, “Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.” Usually applied in making a decision between two competing possibilities, it suggests…
Early snowfall on the big Island of Hawaii seen on satellite
Here is something you don’t see every day, a satellite image showing a sizable amount of snow cover on the big island of Hawaii. While snowfall on the big island…
Major Hurricane Gonzalo Gives an "Eye-opening" Performance
NASA and NOAA satellites have been providing continuous coverage of Hurricane Gonzalo as it moves toward Bermuda. NASA’s Terra satellite saw thunderstorms wrapped tightly around the center with large bands…
NOAA: Another warm winter likely for western U.S., South may see colder weather Repeat of last year's extremely cold, snowy winter east of Rockies unlikely
Below average temperatures are favored in parts of the south-central and southeastern United States, while above-average temperatures are most likely in the western U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and New England, according…
Revealed: the breakthrough 2015 Paris Climate Agreement – 'do your own thing'
The agreement (seriously! 🙂 ): everyone can do their own thing – After untold millions of dollars, years of essential travel to exotic holiday locations, and embarrassing failure after embarrassing…
Given the cold water going into winter, the current “Ice Breaking Fleet” operating on the Great Lakes may be inadequate this year
A recent WUWT story notes the well below normal water temperature of the Great Lakes, some 6 degrees colder than last year. David DuByne writes, and a video follows: With…
Cabot Institute, Bristol University releases Mann Video
Eric Worrall writes: The Cabot Institute, University of Bristol has published a full video of Michael Mann’s presentation in Bristol, which Anthony Attended. I haven’t had a chance to watch…
The Weather History Time Machine
From Sand Diego State University – A program created by Samuel Shen allows researchers to look back in time to see how precipitation across the globe contributed to major weather…
Encouraging: Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details
WUWT reader Paul Ostergaard tips us to this article from Aviation Week and Space Technology – video follows Lockheed Martin aims to develop compact reactor prototype in five years, production…
Eye roller – 'Concrete's life span is shortened by climate change'
Tell it to the Romans, who used concrete to build The Colosseum, which is still standing. From E&E newswire – h/t to Marc Morano Concrete’s life span is shortened…
Another IPCC modeling failure – so THAT's where the atmospheric methane went
From Oregon State University – Scientists discover carbonate rocks are unrecognized methane sink CORVALLIS, Ore. – Since the first undersea methane seep was discovered 30 years ago, scientists have meticulously…
Smells fishy: Alexa's data blunder hits Drudge, WUWT, mostly favors leftist news sites over conservative news sites
As many WUWT readers know, I have been using alexa.com for quite sometime to gauge the performance of WUWT. Reader “Pat” brought this recent strange disparity to my attention. When…
Can 'big data' make sense of the big sticky mess of 'climate change'?
This press release via Eurekalert reads more like an advertisement than it does some serious science. But then,we are dealing with a science that in some cases has lost all…
NASA Study Finds 1934 Had Worst Drought of Last Thousand Years
A new study using a reconstruction of North American drought history over the last 1,000 years found that the drought of 1934 was the driest and most widespread of the…
Claim: No change in sea level until modern times – but that change is dwarfed by sea levels of the past
Eric Worrall writes of a new paper trying to blame sea level rise on The Industrial Revolution, which started about 150 years ago: The Australian National University has published a…
Water temperature of the Great Lakes is over 6 degrees colder than last year, 3 degrees colder than normal
Meteorologist Mark Torregrossa writes on Michigan Live about the lingering effect of historic ice extent last winter in the Great Lakes and late ice melt this summer due to that…
Michael Mann loses the Nobel Prize – again
Yesterday I was privileged to be cc’d in some communications between Steve Milloy (of junkscience.com) and UCLA. The communications dealt with yet another false claim of Michael Mann being…
Yet another significant paper finds low climate sensitivity to CO2, suggesting there is no global warming crisis at hand
Hot on the heels of the Lewis and Curry paper, we have this new paper, which looks to be well researched, empirically based, and a potential blockbuster for dimming the…
Another major misunderstood climate issue – models ‘underplay plant CO2 absorption’
Global climate models have underestimated the amount of CO2 being absorbed by plants, according to new research. Scientists say that between 1901 and 2010, living things absorbed 16% more of…
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