Even though little change has been seen, there is some interesting news in the August RSS numbers. We are still cooler than one year ago, and the 12 month trend…
Category: Climate_change
Adventures in Arctic Kayaking – Update: we're stuck
UPDATE: kayakers already “stuck” in ice at 80.52397 degrees N I had this post up for all of an hour before this news rolled in from PolarDefense. Hat tips to…
Calls for Geo-Engineering at the Royal Society
Several British scientists have apparently decided that geo-engineering is better than nothing. (Posted by John Goetz) Extreme and risky action the only way to tackle global warming, say scientists From…
Global Warming Destroying Dublin's Infrastructure
More Signs of the Apocalypse (Posted by John Goetz) From the Belfast Telegraph, Sunday, 31 August 2008: Expert called in amid fears for O’ Connell Bridge Concerns are being expressed…
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's op-ed on polar bears and climate change in the NYT
WOW look at the SIZE of that seal! (photo added by Anthony, not NYT) Bearing Up By SARAH PALIN Published: January 5, 2008, Juneau, Alaska ABOUT the closest most Americans…
2014-2015 – These years are a repeating theme in solar forecasts
Sun today – still blank. We are approaching a spotless month of August, 2 days to go. Here at WUWT, I’ve touched on almost every point in this article below,…
Skeptical Article on Climate in the Old Farmer's Almanac – cooler times ahead?
My friend, Joe D’Aleo who runs ICECAP, had the opportunity this year to write an article for the 2009 Old Farmer’s Almanac. While I’m normally “skeptical” of the long term…
Cascade snowpack decline? Weather patterns – not global warming
Man made global warming gets blamed for a lot of things, but often when you look beyond the rhetoric that surrounds such blame, you find simpler answers, such as changes…
Former head of CSIRO's division of space science says global cooling may be on the way
From Australia’s Canberra Times: Crucial to keep open mind in a climate of change SIMON GROSE 27/08/2008 9:39:00 AM Climate change has been the most important and complex issue on…
Greenland Ice Core Reveals History Of Pollution In The Arctic – But there's a twist, it was worse 100 years ago
From: ScienceDaily (Aug. 20, 2008) Coal burning, primarily in North America and Europe, contaminated the Arctic and potentially affected human health and ecosystems in and around Earth’s polar regions, according…
How not to measure temperature, part 69
Two weeks ago I posted about a story from the Orange County Register titled Urbanization Raises The Heat in Orange County. It was front page news that day, on Friday, August…
Skeptics win one! NOAA/NCDC to hold the CCSP report
NOTE: In the headline, the word “pull” has been replaced with the word “hold” which better represents the process that will now occur. My thought for that word was “pull…
Nutty Story of the Day#6 – Blood Meant for Transfusions Can Get Contaminated Due to Global Warming
From:Environmental Health Posted online: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 5:50:36 PM Blood Meant for Transfusions Can Get Contaminated Due to Global Warming Increasing temperatures can contaminate blood meant for transfusions,…
AMS Linking Weather Events to Climate Change
One of the most vocal criticisms I get is when I write about weather events around the globe. For example one commenter, “beaker” recently wrote this criticism to my story about…
Thanks to Nature, a Large Atmospheric Sulfur Dioxide Experiment is Now Underway in the Pacific
Last June, WIRED magazine wrote an in depth article that asked: Can a Million Tons of Sulfur Dioxide Combat Climate Change? The question arose from research from research at Lawrence Livermore National…
Hadley Climate Center HadAT2 Data shows global cooling in the last year
Overall long term trend remains positive in lower troposphere. Most often on this forum we have looked at either surface temperature data from surface observations or lower tropospheric temperature data derived…
The tale of the hockey stick
Or as an alternate title: “Why we find it difficult to trust certain climate scientists.” This posting by Bishop Hill, telling the tale of the nefarious temperature reconstruction known as…
Urbanization raises the heat in Orange County, CA
UPDATE: I personally visited this station today, thanks to a family visit that coincidentally took me to within a couple of miles of this station. It’s on a rooftop at…
The view on AGW from the Australian
Key degrees of difference Cameron Stewart, Associate editor | August 09, 2008 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24148862-11949,00.html HAS global warming stopped? The question alone is enough to provoke scorn from the mainstream scientific community…
Mauna Loa to improve CO2 data reporting
Regular readers may recall our conversations this week on the hiccup in CO2 data from the Mauna Loa Observatory. I’m pleased to announce that I received this encouraging email today from Dr.…
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