Guest opinion; Dr. Tim Ball The outcome of the Conference of the Parties (COP) 20 in Lima was ironic, which is defined as “happening in the opposite way to what…
Year: 2014
New solar 'climate' explorer spacecraft to be launched
Video follows. NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), scheduled to launch in five weeks, will give forecasters more reliable measurements of solar wind speed, improving their ability to monitor harmful…
New Study: Two Thousand Years of Northern European Summer Temperatures Show a Downward Trend
In a paper published in the Journal of Quaternary Science, Esper et al. (2014) write that tree-ring chronologies of maximum latewood density (MXD) “are most suitable to reconstruct annually resolved…
Early Results from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 Mission to be presented at #AGU14 via Live Stream
Time: Thursday, Dec. 18, 9 a.m. PST In 2014, NASA launched four new missions to study our home planet, including the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 in July – NASA’s first mission…
Arctic Albedo Variations
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony has just posted the results from a “Press Session” at the AGU conference. In it the authors make two claims of interest. The first…
From #AGU14 – satellites detect albedo change in the Arctic, resulting in more absorbed solar radiation
This press session at AGU conference today had quite a lot to say. Personally, I think the issue of carbon soot forcing is one of the strongest drivers of this,…
DECC Forced To Release Data Showing Impact Of Climate Policies On Energy Prices
By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/11292367/Green-policies-to-add-up-to-40pc-to-cost-of-household-electricity.html Earlier I posted on the news that Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) tried to cover up official data showing how electricity prices are expected…
Hump Day Hilarity – model the bouncing ball
Josh writes: Talking of Climate Models, there is another great Climate Audit post titled “Unprecedented” Model Discrepancy where Richard Betts, once again, provides cartoon inspiration in the comments. It’s a bit…
#Santabomb winter storm predicted for Northeastern U.S. at Christmas
A “superbomb” storm is being predicted for Christmas Day in the Northeast United states according to WeatherBell Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue who has pointed out it looks to be reminiscent…
Good news from #AGU14 'Arctic sea ice is holding up to global warming better than expected'
From the “no death spiral” department comes this press release made at AGU from ESA. Arctic sea ice is holding up to global warming better than expected, according to the…
Day two at #AGU14 – no photos allowed, but lots of beer and 'big oil' funding flowed
My second day at the American Geophysical Union conference was entirely different than the first, mainly due to the fact that all of a sudden I found myself unable to…
Researchers Find Northeast Pacific Surface Warming (1900-2012) Caused By Changes in Atmospheric Circulation, NOT Manmade Forcings
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: See the update at the end of the post. One of the authors of the paper has joined us here at WUWT. # #…
Vanishing Ice Most Likely All Natural
video by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University The video outlines why the timing and mechanisms of glacier retreats is evidence of natural climate…
The 2-Deg Global-Warming Limit
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Politicians from around the globe gather annually in the UNFCCC meetings so they can propose and fail to come to worthwhile agreements on how to…
No Records Highs Possible In The Satellite Temperature Datasets in 2014 (Now Includes November Data Except For HADCRUT4)
Guest Post by Werner Brozek Edited by Just The Facts: In the above graphic, the green line is RSS from 1990 with a mean of 12 which means that you…
Some first impressions from #AGU14
Mann, Cook, Nuccitelli get put off-site for their presentations I spent Monday looking around at the sights on the opening day of AGU 2014. Before I get to that I…
New Paper Tackles Ethical Disputes Of Climate Policy
Bishop of Chester: ‘Climate policies that lack in-depth debate won’t have democratic consent’ London, 16 December: A new paper by Dr Peter Lee and published today by the Global Warming…
From #AGU14 Surprising findings in Greenland's melt dynamics – glaciers retreated rapidly between 1900 and 1930
I’m at AGU 2014, thanks to the generous assistance of readers. This is one of the presentations yesterday that caught my eye. One other thing I did notice was that…
November 2014 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS through November 2014 and HADCRUT4 and…
NOAA Is Updating Their Sea Surface Temperature Dataset
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Why is that a big deal? 70% of NOAA’s land+ocean surface temperature dataset is sea surface temperature data. NOAA recently published the first of the…
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