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Month: February 2015
Warming stays on the Great Shelf
Global temperature update: the Pause is now 18 years 2 months By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Since December 1996 there has been no global warming at all (Fig. 1). This…
Sea Ice 101 – Insolated, Isolated, Insulated Icebergs in Space, A Mid-Term Exam
(Or, How Climate Science Is Taught Today) Guest essay by Robert A. Cook The following begins a series of topics on Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice. And, since we (behind…
Polar bears out on the sea ice eat few seals in summer and early fall
Even back in the 1970s, polar bears that spent the summer and early fall on the sea ice did not eat very often and some probably didn’t eat at all…
Volcanoes and Sunspots
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I keep reading how sunspots are supposed to affect volcanoes. In the comments to my last post, Tides, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes, someone approvingly quoted a volcano…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #167
The Week That Was: 2015-02-07 (February 7, 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…
Thanks To The IPCC, the Public Doesn’t Know Water Vapor Is Most Important Greenhouse Gas
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball It is not surprising that Roe and Baker explained in a 2007 Science paper that, “The envelope of uncertainty in climate projections has not narrowed…
Why reducing CO2 Emissions is like the 'Prisoner's Dilemma'
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Prisoner’s dilemma is a games theory scenario which explores cooperation in difficult circumstances. The classic description, there are two prisoners accused of a crime.…
The Met Office UK: Our Heros
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Those following the various versions of the “2014 was the warmest year on record” story may have missed what I consider to be the…
Tides, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [Graphs updated to include error bars] Inspired by the paper by the charmingly-named Maya Tolstoy discussed here on WUWT, I decided to see if tidal forces…
Friday Funny: 'civil dialog in the climate world'
There’s an annoyance in the farce, and his moniker is “And Then There’s Physics” also known as “ATTP” and recently outed by Poptech as Dr. Ken Rice. Ken Rice is…
Inconvenient study: Methane seepage from the Arctic seabed has been occurring for millions of years
Despite the ever present wailing from green activists that we are sitting on a “methane catastrophe”, it’s simply business as usual for Earth in the Arctic. Even Dr. Gavin Schmidt…
FAIL: Wildflower School Anti-frackers vandalize park trees with political anti-fracking message
From the Chico Enterprise-Record: Wildflower students linked to graffiti in Bidwell Park Recent graffiti in Bidwell Park was at the hands of students from a Chico charter school as part…
Fatally Flawed Marotzke Climate Science Paper 'Should Be Withdrawn'
Climate scientists should take some basic courses in statistics From the GWPF – London, 6 February: A recent paper in Nature has received worldwide media attention because of its claim…
Something Fishy about Mercury
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a new study out called Increase in mercury in Pacific yellowfin tuna by Paul E. Drevnick, Carl H. Lamborg, and Martin J. Horgan. It…
Inconvenient study: Seafloor volcano pulses may alter climate – models may be wrong
New data show strikingly regular patterns, from weeks to eons From The Earth Institute at Columbia University: Vast ranges of volcanoes hidden under the oceans are presumed by scientists to…
Lunacy: A Real Government Job is Answering Emails sent to Trees
Your tax dollars at work… Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – Did you know that you can email every single tree in the City of Melbourne, Australia –…
Many Mixed Signals in the UKMO’s Latest 5-Year Global Surface Temperature Forecast
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The UKMO issued their most recent 5-year global temperature forecast about a week ago. See their Decadal forecast press release for 2015. It has been…
Climate Horror Stories That Won't Die: The Case of the Pika (Stewart, 2015)
Guest essay 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 Because most people…
Satellite Animation Shows February Return of the Pineapple Express to California
As originally predicted in this WUWT story from Monday, the pineapple express is here according to NASA: The “Pineapple Express” has set up again and is bringing wet weather to…
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