El Nino study challenges global warming intensity link

From Scientific American via Reuters By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Research showing an El Nino event in 1918 was far stronger than previously thought is…

Guardian Headline – "Leading climate scientist: 'democratic process isn't working'"

Even the very liberal UK Guardian picked up on this. What next Jim, the Constitution? NASA, please fire this man. (h/t to Barbara) Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA From the UK Guardian:…

Natural Drivers of Weather and Climate

Note: The full PDF of this author manuscript was sent to me via an email contact of the author, Bob Foster. He says it has been published in E&E.  Energy…

Dr. Syun Akasofu on IPCC's forecast accuracy

UPDATE#2 I finally found a graph from Professor Akasofu that goes with the text of his essay below. I’ve added it above.  You can read more about Akasofu’s views on…

Synchronized chaos and climate change

From this Georgia Tech article: In 1657, Christiaan Huygens revolutionized the measurement of time by creating the first working pendulum clock. In early 1665, Huygens discovered “..an odd kind of…

Global warming has killed the finest violin music

From Wikipedia: A Stradivarius is a stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts…

If You Can't Explain It, You Can't Model It

Guest Post by Steven Goddard Global Climate Models (GCM’s)  are very complex computer models containing millions of lines of code, which attempt to model cosmic, atmospheric and oceanic processes that…

Gallup Poll: New high – 41% of Americans 'now say global warming is exaggerated'

EXCERPTS FROM GALLUP – complete poll story here PRINCETON, NJ — Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or…

The Great Lakes and Global Warming

Our recent story about the freeze over on Lake Superior prompted a lot of discussion. Steven Goddard has submitted this article on the Great Lakes for consideration. – Anthony Guest…

Day 1 of the ICCC conference

UPDATE: see an additional report from Prof. Bob Carter below the “read more” line. ALSO: See this announcement at Climate Audit Photo by Evan Jones I don’t have  a lot…

Cooler heads at NOAA coming around to natural variability

Guest Post by Steven Goddard It appears that global cooling recognition may be starting to make headway in the scientific community. We have this Discovery/MSNBC article about a NOAA scientist…

Jim Hansen's newfound peers at the Capitol Climate Action

The Capital Climate Action protest went on today in Washington DC with a march on the coal fired power plant. Amazingly, NASA’s Dr. James Hansen actually showed up and took…

”Climate flicker” at the end of the last glacial period

From ETH in Zurich, this interesting essay on the last glacial period has some interesting points to ponder. h/t to Sid Stafford – Anthony The last glacial period was characterised…

Ice Ages and Sea Level

Guest post by Dr. David Archibald The Earth is currently in an interglacial period of an ice age that started about two and a half million years ago.  The Earth’s…

CO2 Does Not Drive Glacial Cycles

Guest post by Steven Goddard There are still people who insist that changes in CO2 can explain the pattern of glacial and interglacial periods.  This article will present several arguments demonstrating that is incorrect,…

William Schlesinger on IPCC: "something on the order of 20 percent have had some dealing with climate."

This is a bit disturbing, though in retrospect, not surprising. One of our local IPCC wonks at Chico State University, Jeff Price,  is a biologist, but lectures me about climate…

The BBC Attempts to Patch Up the Cracks – botches it, citing AGW could set off "negative feedback"

UPDATE2: “404 Page not found” now at the BBC for this video on Monday Feb16th. It seems they’ve pulled it. Too much “negative feedback” I suppose. Readers be on the…

Floridatrend: It's Hot But Don't Blame Global Warming

It’s Hot But Don’t Blame Global Warming By Cynthia Barnett – 2/1/2009 FloridaTrend Magazine Morton D. Winsberg fell in love with Florida more than 50 years ago, but the Illinois-born geographer never…

Daily Kos whips up an email campaign against meteorologist who spoke candidly about climate change

Lest readers think I’m the only TV meteorologist to speak my mind on climate issues, there are others, such as Jym Ganahl in Columbus Ohio. The Daily Kos posted an…

WaPo pundits the Goracle

This is not the sort of op-ed we are used to seeing in the Washington Post. But I found it funny nonetheless.  – Anthony With Al Due Respect, We’re Doomed…