People send me stuff. This email from the White House comes courtesy of WUWT reader John B. You’d think they’d have learned something after the disastrous “AskDrMann” hashtag debacle, but…
Month: December 2014
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #159
The Week That Was: 2014-12-06 (December 6, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and…
Changepoint analysis as applied to the surface temperature record
Guest essay by Jeff Patterson In a recent post on RealClimate, the author examines the statistical significance of the “The Pause” using a technique recently in vogue called changepoint analysis…
Imagine the Earth Entering an Ice Age
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The Earth is presently in an interglacial period—a period between ice ages. Since the end of the last ice age, Earth’s surface temperatures have been…
Back to the future in El Niño forecasting
From the Georgia Institute of Technology: Looking at El Niño’s past to predict its future The El Niño Southern Oscillation is Earth’s main source of year-to-year climate variability, but its…
Mann's tree ring proxy train wreck
Eric Worrall writes: Mann’s thermometer spliced hockey stick has taken even more damage in the last few days, with Steve McIntyre helpfully providing reconstructions based on tree rings which demonstrate…
Wake Up Australia, we are becoming Green and Defenceless
Guest opinion by Viv Forbes As Australia’s industrial capacity declines, Australia is becoming green and defenceless. History holds lessons. Back in Dec 1941, Japan suddenly attacked the huge US Naval…
Climate Change … Who Cares?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Thanks to the blog of the irrepressible Hilary Ostrov, a long-time WUWT commenter, I found out about a poll gone either horribly wrong or totally…
Friday Funny: Over a Century's Worth of Failed Eco-Climate Quotes and Disinformation
Compiled by Tom Scott Please note that many of these quotes were taken almost verbatim from various sources, but I have made a effort to verify each before inclusion. (See…
Some assistance requested from WUWT readers
As some people may or may not know, I am a full member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in good standing. The 2014 AGU Fall Meeting is coming up…
Obama's Climate Deal with China Backfires
Emboldened China Plays $100 Billion Trump Card China offered new details on its commitment to rein in greenhouse gases and called on rich nations to speed up delivery of the…
Did ENSO and the “Monster” Kelvin Wave Contribute to the Record High Global Sea Surface Temperatures in 2014?
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Of course they did. Those who have followed the 2014/15 El Niño series from its start back in April will recall all the hoopla about…
Argo And Ocean Heat Content
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Today I ran across an interesting presentation from 2013 regarding the Argo floats. These are a large number of independent floats spread all across the world…
Claim: Greenhouse gases linked to past African rainfall
From UCAR/NCAR, something that seems like a wild claim to me, especially since all they have is proxy evidence (sediments) and model runs, not direct evidence. It is a stretch…
Whither The Weather?
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Pick your trend. The historical relationship between solar activity and temperature indicates the world is in a cooling trend. Meanwhile, governments prepare solely for warming,…
'Weepy' Bill McKibben steps down as Chairman of 350.org
Eric Worrall writes: Weepy Bill McKibben has announced that he is stepping down from his position as chairman of 350.org According to The Guardian interview; “I’m stepping down as chair…
The Perfect Storm: California's Record Breaking December Super-Soaker
(NASA JPL) A new time-lapse animation of data from NOAA’s GOES-West satellite provides a good picture of why the U.S. West Coast continues to experience record rainfall. The new animation…
Global Warming Goofiness Around the Globe
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale A study in Germany finds senior citizens are responsible for climate change. That’s right; they’re saying it’s all because of your (or you) grannies and…
Onward marches the Great Pause
Global temperature update: the Pause is now 18 years 2 months Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Since October 1996 there has been no global warming at all (Fig.…
Give Gruber a Break
By Charles Battig Jonathan Gruber has been roundly reprimanded in the press, blogging sites, and everywhere in between for his candid comments regarding “the stupidity of the American voter” being…
Scientific American: Hope after Lima – Preparing the loyalists for failure
Eric Worrall writes: The mainstream media is awash lately with messages of optimism about the upcoming Lima conference, about the thousands of people gathering in Lima (no doubt after a…
Another excuse for 'the pause' – the oceans ate the heat
From the University of Southampton New study explains the role of oceans in global ‘warming hiatus’ New research shows that ocean heat uptake across three oceans is the likely cause…
Global Temperature Report: November 2014
From The University of Alabama, Huntsville – 36 years of data show regional warming Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade November temperatures (preliminary) Global composite…
Claim: CO2 effects felt on decadal time scales, rather than centuries
But, why if that is true, why are we in a pause, when there’s been an increase in CO2 the last decade and no correlation with temperature? From the Institute…
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