Gore using his "We" website to "get out the vote"

I remember once having an argument on this blog with someone who claimed Al Gore was “no longer political” but now was “all about science”. Erasing all doubt, Gore’s “We”…

Contributor/Blogger Prognostications of Future Temperature Trends

Guest post by Bob Tisdale Near the current end of the thread titled National Post: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof Allan asked, “What is your global average temperature prediction…

Tamino’s Folly – Temperatures did drop this past decade

Guest Post by Jeff Id: “Tamino” has made a couple of posts on how the last 10 year drop in temperature is not statistically significant, so it isn’t real. He…

National Post: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof

Click for larger image Posted: October 20, 2008 Lorne Gunter, National Post – source article here In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about scientists rejecting…

New Paper from Roy Spencer: PDO and Clouds

Global Warming as a Natural Response to Cloud Changes Associated with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) Reposted here from weatherquestions.com UPDATED – 10/20/08 See discussion section 4 by Roy W.…

Can Oyster Art Curb Global Warming?

by John Goetz Here is an fun press release I ran across on prweb.com. If Ms. Haseltine is successful in her project, we might see more local produce on the…

Alaska glaciers on the rebound

Bad weather was good for Alaska glaciers MASS BALANCE: For decades, summer snow loss has exceeded winter snowfall. By CRAIG MEDRED cmedred@adn.com (10/13/08 23:08:04) Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage…

St. Andrews Golf Course Doomed by Global Warming

Posted by John Goetz Speculation abounds that the St Andrews golf course in Scotland will disappear by mid-century – a scant 42 years from now – due to global warming.…

Is Global Warming Starving Science?

Posted by Dee Norris This article concerning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry caught my attention this morning: Twenty years ago, Douglas Prasher was one of the driving forces behind research…

Michael Mann's Lecture at URI and the "blogger who must not be named"

Dr. Michael Mann gives a lecture on his work at the University of Rhode Island. People send me stuff, and for that I’m always grateful, and happy to oblige posting…

Kids Against Anthropongenic Global Warming

There’s been some discussion about the “indoctrination” of AGW theory in school systems worldwide, mostly by teachers showing Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, in schools. As a former school…

UAH Global Temperature Anomaly Jumps in September

UAH (University of Alabama, Huntsville) Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data for September 2008 was published this week and unlike August, which moved a bit below the zero…

Dr. Roy Spencer evaporates Tamino's critique

Dr. Roy W. Spencer replies to “Tamino”‘s latest angry missive. As one commenter in my email list put it: It is absolutely hilarious that Tamino’s lengthy, time-consuming, chest-puffing critique can…

Gore demonstrates he doesn't understand basic meteorology, much less climate

Gore links Iowa floods and tornadoes to climate change, but makes a basic error on global temperature to evaporation linkage, plus he misses the real reason behind imagined tornado increases. [Excerpt:…

Winds are Dominant Cause of Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheet Losses

From Climate Research News Two new studies summarized in a news article in Science magazine point to wind-induced circulation changes in the ocean as the dominant cause of the recent ice losses…

Sneaky: Current credit bailout bill contains carbon tax provisions!

If you look at page 180 of the 451-page monster bailout bill that easily passed the Senate yesterday (PDF here), you will see that it includes at Section 116 language…

Happy Halloween: Climate change could haunt humanity forever

Click for print sized Al Gore Halloween Mask, courtesy Forbes.com SAFETY NOTE: Please don’t use this image to frighten children, oh wait, that happens in schools everyday when AIT is…

Comments thread – AIRS Team satellite CO2 paper published

I’m going to make a formal post on this later, but I wanted to bring it up for discussion now since many people have been waiting for this paper to…

Convenience stores under attack by global warming zealots

Now I’ve heard everything. Talk about your “Kyoto protocol”. The original source of this silliness comes from the city of Kyoto. In June, in a bid to reduce greenhouse gases…

Former director of International Arctic Research Center says: "Global warming has paused"

We still need to study nature’s contribution to trend Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Community Perspective Published Saturday, September 27, 2008, Fairbanks AK News-Miner Photo by Anthony – not part of original article…

NASA JPL on Heatwaves: "it's the asphalt, not the atmosphere"

UPDATE: Former California State climatologist Jim Goodridge presents some data that suggests that ocean temperature may be an equal or greater driving force behind Los Angeles Temperature increases, see graph…

Kum Ba Yah

by John Goetz I just ran across the following news article from Pitchfork Media: Jarvis, Feist Sail to Arctic to Investigate Global Warming Laurie Anderson, Robyn Hitchcock, Martha Wainwright, and…

NAS reports: 50 million year cooling trend

Warming in a global cool period By Peter N. Spotts| Staff Writer for The Christian Science Monitor/ September 25, 2008 edition Graph above added by Anthony – not part of…

Global Warming causing Cannibalism

by John Goetz OK, I know the catchy headline and picture of Hannibal Lecter got you worrying a little about that neighbor of yours who is stocking up on fava…