National Weather Service forecasters have been tracking a low pressure area that moved from the Midwest into the Atlantic Ocean today, and is expected to become a strong nor’easter that…
Month: January 2015
Study: Climate models disagree on why temperature 'wiggles' occur
Inconsistencies may undermine model’s reliability for projecting decade-to-decade warming and lead to misinterpretation of data From Duke University: DURHAM, N.C. — A new Duke University-led study finds that most climate…
Outed by FOIA – EPA strategy memo reveals deep flaws in the integrity of the agency, and lack of integrity of the press
Attorney Chris Horner writes in with this bombshell which shows how “evangelism” has replaced factual analysis at the EPA, which is helped along by a compliant mass media. See the…
Monday Mirthiness – polar melting test
WUWT reader Warren Smith writes in with this quiz: TEST YOURSELF: What is your knowledge of how fast the polar ice caps are melting? 1) According to data from the…
Claim: California's policies can significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions through 2030
New Berkeley Lab model finds state will meet 2020 reduction goals From DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory A new model of the impact of California’s existing and proposed policies on its…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #165
The Week That Was: 2015-01-24 (January 24, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…
What Does Gavin Schmidt's 'Warmest' Year Tell Us About Climate Sensitivity to CO2?
Guest post by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism A friend of…
Massive blizzard forecast for New York and Boston area Tuesday – up to 3* feet of snow!
From the ‘how long will it take some alarmist to blame this on global warming’ department and old man winter comes this map and warning that shows what is likely…
The Icebox Heats Up
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, either it’s a genetic defect or I’m just a glutton for punishment, but I’m going to delve some more into the ice ages. This…
An Unexpected Admission from Dana Nuccitelli at SkepticalScience
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale In Dana Nuccitelli’s recent post at SkepticalScience Matt Ridley wants to gamble the Earth’s future because he won’t learn from the past, he has finally…
State of the Sea Ice – January 2015
Guest essay by Robert A Cook, PE Annually, the President is required to address the nation and report on the State of the Union. Other writers here regularly report on…
Friday not so funny – 'off with their heads' !
From Bishop Hill, another ugly day in the climate wars. At least we have Josh. Andrew Montford writes: Who can forget the infamous threat from Greenpeace’s Gene Hasmi? We…
Super-Heated Air from Climate Science on NOAA’s “Hottest” Year
Guest Post by Roman Mureika It was bound to happen eventually. We could see it coming – a feeding frenzy from “really, it is still getting warmer” to “we told…
Into and Out of the Icebox
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Inspired by a random comment by Steve McIntyre over at his marvelous blog Climate Audit, I got to thinking about the ice ages. I’ve long…
Ocean 'Global Warming' is not actually 'global' at all
UPDATE: I forgot to note that the data in Figure 1 have been zeroed at the year 2003. That was done to simplify the illustration. # # # The National…
MCID: Minimal Climatically Important Difference
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Warning: This essay is about a recently emerging concept being applied in medical research. In the course of the essay, it will become clear how…
Study: climate change accounts for only 1/3 of crop yield variation
From the University of Minnesota: When it comes to variations in crop yield, climate has a big say Discovery of the huge but varied role of climate change in food…
Learning From The Argonauts
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The best thing about doing climate science the way I do it is that I can study anything I want, and there is always so…
Cornell University's Greenland ice melt hype
From Cornell University and the Department of Inflated Headlines come this misleading claim that really should be anything new, and certainly not “groundbreaking” as they claim in this press released.…
Penn State researchers miss obvious visual clues on "glacier melt" – black carbon and sublimation
From Penn State, note there’s no meltwater in this PSU provided photo, but there is evidence of black carbon (which increases solar radiation uptake) and sublimation (which due to a…
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