EPA Agrees to Limit Emissions From Power Plants, Refineries From the NY Times: the headline would make it sound like there was some sort of debate going on inside the…
Author: Ryan Maue
Associated Press gone wild: 2010 disaster article
2010’s world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards: The Associated Press has published one of the most interesting pieces of environmental science journalism in a long time, and that’s quite a…
Central Pacific storm looks like a hurricane, but is it?
Update: HORRAY: Tropical Storm Omeka was named! Dec 20, 2010 If it looks like a duck…well, if this bird were in the Atlantic, it would have been named a while…
Coldest December ever in Britain as snow piles up, Europe freezes
Breaking news! December can still be cold and snowy over parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Don’t look to the American media for much information about European weather; it’s about as…
Global tropical cyclone activity still in the tank
Even with the expected active 2010 North Atlantic hurricane season, which accounts on average for about 1/5 of global annual hurricane output, the rest of the global tropics has been…
Gore admits the obvious: US corn ethanol was not a good policy
Do not expect to read much about this in the NY Times — and definitely don’t expect any follow up questions about his motivation for climate policy ($$$). Former Vice…
Extreme cold expected during the next week
Record cold expected. The Al Gore effect as well as the testimony on Capitol Hill yesterday has caused a massive chunk of Arctic air to descend from Western Canada into…
Unhinged LSU professor gives stemwinding global warming lecture
UPDATE: New video added. See below. Dr. Bradley Schaefer really knows how to reach young college students: spouting hyperbolic proclamations of death and nuclear obliteration. The Louisiana State University astronomy…
Undetected crack causes unpredictable results
From Geekosystem: [This is a must watch video / safe for work] On Wednesday, thousands of Springfield, Ohio residents were left without power when a 275-foot smokestack being demolished fell…
60,000,000
Congratulations are in order for hitting the 60-million mark in page-views. As you can see from the Alexa traffic rank, WUWT has remained steadfastly popular since that pesky ClimateGate story…
Desert tortoise gets fast-tracked to the curb
This cute desert tortoise enjoying the sun and flowers needs to move in order to make way for a new kind of flora in the Mojave desert: very environmentally friendly…
Ugly weather expected on Election Day
The current weather forecast for November 2, 2010 looks ugly for the middle Atlantic East Coast with easterly winds and rain chances set up between a Canadian high pressure cell…
NPR weighs in on climate change policy, predictably
NPR helpfully weighs in on climate change and the upcoming election. Even though a certain party has had super-majority control of the Congress and the Executive branch for the past…
Population Bomb: new study discusses population impacts upon global warming emissions
A new study in PNAS by O’Neill et al. (2010) describe “population shifts” as having a substantial influence upon greenhouse gas emissions. From the abstract of Global demographic trends and…
Supposed new planet 20-light years away has been undiscovered
Another case of putting the cart before the horse when it comes to grandiose claims of scientific discovery? According to a social networker at a Torino astrophysics conference, purported…
Global Tropical Cyclone activity is at 33-year lows
Dr. Ryan N. Maue’s 2010 Global Tropical Cyclone Activity Update Update to include Rush Limbaugh’s discussion on his radio show of this posting … With the 2010 North Atlantic hurricane…
Bottom of the barrel: devastating assessment of administration competence and honesty
The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling has issued several drafts of Staff Working papers. Inside the text is a devastating assessment of the…
NSF grants $700,000 for theater production on climate change
Get your tickets! The National Science Foundation has awarded $700,000 to the Civilians, a New York theater company for a great new show on climate change. From the New York…
Global Work Party Day on 10/10/2010: come up with your own event
Canadian actress Ellen Page (Juno, Inception) has produced a great YouTube video urging everyone to participate in 350.org’s “Global Work Party Day” on October 10, 2010. From the Huffington Post:…
Nicole lasts all of 6-hours as a named tropical storm
Easy come, easy go. Nicole was upgraded from TD16 at 11 AM and dissipated as a tropical storm at 5 PM. Nicole joins Tropical Storm Chris from 2000 as the…
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