Peter Woods of NAS writes: I am pasting below a copy of an email that I’ve sent to many members of the National Academy of Sciences. I’ve also sent a…
Month: December 2015
#AGU15 Accidental Geoengineering? Airline traffic may help create an icy haze that’s brightening U.S. skies
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA —The data just didn’t seem to make sense. That’s often the story right before scientists make a leap in understanding. In this case, scientists had some evidence…
#AGU15 Likely to be the new irrational fear from fracking: "frackteria"
From the Ohio State University and the department of “Frankenbugs that scare the greenies” comes this interesting study on how to increase output from fracked wells with the help of…
Energy, Carbon Dioxide, and The Pause
Guest essay by Ken Stewart Here’s an alternative way to view The Pause. Rather than analysing temperature trends over time, here I compare temperature with carbon emissions and carbon dioxide…
"Negative Emissions": Burning trees, burying the CO2
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian reports that the leaders of the European Union have asked the UN for advice about “negative emissions”. The “negative emissions” proposal is like…
Study: Current climate models misrepresent El Niño
From the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Clues to the fundamental physics of El Niño from millennia-old corals and clams An analysis of fossil corals and mollusk shells from the Pacific…
#AGU15 Paris Climate Accord, An Important Step Forward, But are We Solving the Right Problem?
Peter Landon Ward, PhD , The Paris Climate Accord is an important step forward, but Peter Langdon Ward PhD (a presenter at the AGU’s Fall 2015 Meeting) asks, “Are we…
#AGU15 NASA suggests El Niño will lead to "stronger, wetter" atmospheric rivers to ease California's drought
The above images are of Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies (SSTA) of the 1997 (left) and 2015 (right) El Niño. The SSTA are derived from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer…
#AGU15 New NASA satellite maps show humans have less of a fingerprint on global air quality compared to 10 years ago
From the NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER Using new, high-resolution global satellite maps of air quality indicators, NASA scientists tracked air pollution trends over the last decade in various regions and 195…
#AGU15 Religion and Climate Change addressed
I attended this session yesterday, and I cam away with the impression that these researchers are holding their noses while they are forging ahead on the issue. From the press…
The most eye-opening thing I've seen while at #AGU15 so far – #muslimcarolers
This isn’t the typical fare for WUWT, but in the spirit of Christmas, I thought this photo was worth sharing. Why, well it made me reflect a bit on the…
Vox's David Roberts: "Consilience" or just plain silliness?
(Featured image borrowed from Amazon.com) Guest post by David Middleton True climate science denier, David Roberts (formerly with Grist) has authored another utterly vapid article for Vox … The 2 key…
Shocker: Vegetarian diets worse for climate than eating bacon
From Carnegie Mellon and the “BLT’s must be carbon neutral then” department comes this story sure to strike fear into the hearts of vegetarian climate activists everywhere. Vegetarian and ‘healthy’ diets…
COP21: Shortest Climate Agreement Honeymoon Ever?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The initial explosion of green Euphoria at the announcement of the COP21 climate agreement, is rapidly giving way to dismay, as various environmentalists and other…
New research shows Earth's tilt influences climate change
From the LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY and the department of tilt-a-whirl, comes this Milankovitch moment. LSU paleoclimatologist Kristine DeLong contributed to an international research breakthrough that sheds new light on how the…
November 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale As you’ll recall from last month’s update, the GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index jumped upwards more than 0.2 deg C from September to October 2014, assumedly…
Gavin's admission about the satellite record versus the surface temperature record
This has to be the Twitter conversation of the year, in the “hottest year ever”. Kudos to this guy for getting this from Gavin.
#AGU15 NASA says the repurposed decades old 'Gore-sat' is actually doing something useful
Readers may recall that the Al Gore inspired satellite called “TRIANA” that was put in storage for over a decade got launched earlier this year, renamed as the Deep Space Climate…
James Hansen at #AGU15 Why Are Scientists Holding Back on Sea Level Projections?
Session today: James Hansen, Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions Hansen coauthored a widely discussed paper this year that projects sea levels could surge up to 10 feet this century. He…
#AGU15 It's not the killer heat, but the killer humidity
This looked interesting, but then I saw that Noah Diffenbaugh was involved, and it looks like just more of the same gloom and doom he’s been professing for years. Maybe…
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