Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Quick answer: Over the long term, the answer is yes, but for shorter terms it depends on the sea surface temperature dataset and time period.…
Month: April 2016
Attack on Free Speech: CEI Subpoenaed over Global Warming Skepticism
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Competitive Enterprise Institute has just been subpoenaed, as part of Al Gore’s Climate Witch hunt. This is a move which so blatantly reeks of…
Possible Explanation For Warm Ocean Water Off the Oregon Coast Known as “The Blob.”
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball You learn right away when studying climate that geothermal heat is ignored as a possible heat source in the climate equation. Textbooks consider the Sun…
This New Battery is a Game Changer
Lighter Cheaper More Powerful Battery Changes Renewable Economics Guest essay by Roger E. Sowell, Esq. Marina del Rey, California It is not often on SLB that I use the phrase “game-changer.”…
Report: Near Normal Snowpack in Most of the West
From the National Water and Climate Center Parts of the Southwest remain dry WASHINGTON, April 8, 2016 – During March, the Northwest received above average precipitation and the Southwest dried out,…
Five points about climate change
Guest essay by Professor Philip Lloyd, Cape Peninsula University of Technology Daily we are told that we are wicked to burn fossil fuels. The carbon dioxide which is inevitably emitted accumulates…
E-Cat crumbles: "Industrial Heat has worked for over three years to substantiate the results … without success."
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The long running Rossi E-CAT cold fusion saga may be about to collapse in a heap of lawsuits, with accusations flying, of intellectual property theft…
NASA's tricky sea level newsletter
Dave Burton writes: Those NASA guys are tricky. Click the “Update: Sea level change / Ocean rising at 3.42 mm per year” link in their latest Newsletter and you’ll see…
Idiotic: InfluenceMap is arguing that Shell's promotion of solar power is now “climate denial”
InfluenceMap Continues Green Campaign to Dupe the Press on “Climate Denial” by Steve Everley energyindepth.org , Dallas, Tex. A new report from a climate-focused advocacy group attempts to quantify spending…
The Great Carbon Dilemma: "This hypocrisy is a delicate balancing act."
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Pat – Guardian Climate Agoniser Madeleine Somerville, who has a BA Sociology, with a concentration in Criminology, Deviance and Social Control, has provided what…
La Niña and a Cooler Earth May Be Coming Faster Than Predicted
Our WUWT ENSO meter in the right sidebar has ticked down twice in the last week, and the most important 3-4 region of the Pacific monitored for ENSO conditions looks like it…
No Statistically Significant Satellite Warming For 23 Years (Now Includes February Data)
Guest Post by Werner Brozek, Comment Included From David Hoffer, Edited by Just The Facts: In the above graphic, the green line is the slope since May 1993 without consideration…
Bill Nye: Millennials will Save Us from Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall US Television Personality Bill Nye thinks the younger generation will save the world from Climate Change, by forcing the Republican Party to embrace climate narratives…
RCP 8.5, Part Deux: "The stuff nightmares are made from."
Guest post by David Middleton Featured image borrowed from here. In light of the fact that I totally glossed over the distinction between “CO2” and “CO2 equivalent” in my previous…
Ooops! Another big failure of the climate models – rainfall did not increase
According to a new study in Nature, the Northern Hemisphere has experienced considerably larger variations in precipitation during the past twelve centuries than in the twentieth century. Researchers from Sweden,…
The Awful Terrible Horrible Global Sea Ice Crisis
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My examination of objects cryospherical continues. In my last post, The Size of Icy Reflections, I showed that a change of 10% in the global sea ice…
The Illusions Provided by Time-Series Graphs of Climate Model Ensembles and Model Spreads
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The post Controversy over comparing models with observations at Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. prompted this post. Judith’s post includes a Twitter exchange and a couple of…
Uh, oh. New study shows Earth's internal heat drives rapid ice flow and subglacial melting in Greenland
Distant history of the North Atlantic region contributes to the present-day ice loss From the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences To understand Greenland’s ice of today researchers have to go…
New hybrid system design could cut coal-plant emissions in half
Combining gasification with fuel-cell technology could boost efficiency of coal-powered plants From MIT: CAMBRIDGE, MA — Most of the world’s nations have agreed to make substantial reductions in their greenhouse…
West Coast scientists sound alarm for changing ocean chemistry
From OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CORVALLIS, Ore. – The ocean chemistry along the West Coast of North America is changing rapidly because of global carbon dioxide emissions, and the governments of…
You must be logged in to post a comment.