Open Letter to Global Leaders assembled at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

And why did they not admit that mitigation even at a global scale – as already proven in the pandemic of 2020 – would have imperceptible effect on climate?

India’s COP-26 promise of Net Zero by 2070 overshadowed by coal use

So, for India, the promise of 2070 Net Zero appears shallow while the commitment to fossil fuels is clearly deep.

Shadows and Flicker

There is no point insisting, as proponents do, that renewable energy assets don’t present nuisances and occasional dangers. At a minimum they present conflicts over views, property values, nuisances from…

Moon Shadow Over Jupiter

Jupiter’s volcanically active moon Io casts its shadow on the planet in this dramatic image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. As with solar eclipses on the Earth, within the dark circle…

Friday Funny: Hockeysticks are appearing in the sky, indicating the impending doom of climate change

From the universal boogeyman department. Dr. Roy Spencer captured this “Manntastic” footage that other day while looking for comet NEOWISE. Surely, it is a visual indicator of “end times”. The…

NOTICE: WUWT to begin migration to new cloud server – opening up new horizons

Hello everybody, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their continued patronage of WUWT, and to let you know that in the last couples of months the…

Eclipsified leaf-gap shadows: nature reveals what the eye cannot observe directly

Guest post by Alec Rawls With a weak sun well up in the clear blue sky yesterday morning I was thinking I should go punch a hole in some cardboard…

Document suggests that a Climate activist shadow organization was behind the #RICO20 allegations

This is in the news today via “Climate NEXUS”, which is a Madison Ave. PR firm: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that he is launching a legal probe…

California Air Resources Board cap and trade program circumvents state open meeting laws with a Moonbeam assist

Strong headline, I know, but I didn’t believe this was true until I researched it myself. First some background; I once served as an elected official on my local school…

An Open Letter to Dr. Michael Mann

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dear Dr. Mann: I just read your piece in the Washington Post. First, let me say that I disagree entirely with Cuccinelli’s legalistic approach. It…

Global Warming = more hurricanes | Still not happening

So far the hurricane season for the Atlantic has been pretty quiet for 2009. Ryan Maue from Florida State University explains why. In related news, Al Gore has dropped the…

Arctic Climate Explorers give up sailing to the 'melting' North Pole because – there's too much ice!

From the arcticmission reports, where they try to put the best spin on this colossal failure as reported by the BBC: Pen Hadow sets sail for North Pole as Arctic…

He’s Baaaaaaaccckkk! (Oy)

I received this email tip from reader Thomas Bakewell (HT, HT) who wrote: Pen Hadow, of the 2009 Caitlin Arctic Expedition is on the loose again! Here’s the link to the BBC story…

Risking lives to promote climate change hype

Yet another global warming expedition gets trapped in icebound ideology Guest opinion by Paul Driessen Will global warming alarmists ever set aside their hypotheses, hyperbole, models and ideologies long enough…

UK Met Office backpedals on Arctic Ice – "…unlikely that the Arctic will experience ice-free summers by 2020."

But they do say that “first ice-free summer expected to occur between 2060 and 2080”. By then there will be nobody that remembers this forecast. Yet on the same day,…

The Top Ten Reasons why I think Catlin Arctic Ice Survey data can't be trusted

First, I loathe having to write another story about Pen Hadow and his Catlin Arctic Ice expedition, which I consider the scientific joke of 2009. But these opportunistic explorers are…

Catlin Artic Ice Survey: An Annie Hall Moment

Guest post by Steven Goddard http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080424/annie-hall_l.jpg In Woody Allen’s classic 1977 movie “Annie Hall,” there is a wonderful scene in a theatre queue where he is having a heated argument…

The Guardian Relocates The North Pole By 500km

By Steven Goddard The Catlin crew was picked up this week, after completing less than 50% of their planned journey to the North Pole and coming up about 500km short.…

Catlin Crew Out Of Time

Guest post by Steve Goddard An Arctic Blizzard As reported here two weeks ago, April 30 is the last safe date to recover explorers from the Arctic.  The people who…

Catlin Arctic Ice Survey: paid advertising of results before they are even off the ice!

Sharp eyed WUWT reader Rick K spotted this advertisement on Yahoo News: I double checked what Rick K reported, and yes, they are running this ad. Either they just don’t…

Catlin Arctic Ice Survey first report offers no original drilling data, but anecdotally confirms satellite measurement

Note: One of the many integrity issues with Catlin is that none of their photos can be dated. Even embedded EXIF information (including date/time done by most digital cameras in…

Quote of the week #4

Image from WUWT reader “Boudu” This QOTW is from Pen Hadow, leader of the now farcical Catlin Arctic Ice Survey: “It’s never wise to imagine that either man or technology…

Catlin Arctic Survey gives up on ice radar – "much less likely to reach pole"

From the “we told you so” department.  Gotta love this quote from Pen Hadow: “It’s never wise to imagine that either man or technology has the upper hand in the…

Can the Catlin Arctic Survey Team Cover 683 km in the Next 21 Days?

Guest post by Steven Goddard Click for a larger map – ice extent overlay provided by Catlin KML file, annotated map by Anthony Watts from data provided by the Catlin…