For the latest, see this new story. and this opinion piece on why this is a fiasco UPDATE: Turns out this “research” vessel was mostly a taxpayer funded junket for…
Category: Curious things
Optical Antics at Sunset
My lovely and talented wife has a habit of being in the right place at the right time to capture nature doing interesting things. This particular shot was taken by…
Claim: Solar, AMO, & PDO cycles combined reproduce the global climate of the past
Guest essay by H. Luedecke and C.O.Weiss We reported recently about our publication [1] which shows that during the last centuries all climate changes were caused by periodic ( i.e.…
A few first impressions of the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting
A photo essay. What follows are a series of photos and comments that catalog my impressions of today. As you may know, I’m attending the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting. After…
Filter bubbles and the climate wars
I try to read opposing views often, as that pretty much fits my job description for running WUWT, but not everyone does this. Some people are so steeped in tribalism…
Climate, Stadium Waves, and Traffic Waves
In a recent paper, Marcia Wyatt and Judith Curry posited about “Stadium Waves” and climate, suggesting that the ‘stadium-wave’ signal propagates like the cheer known as “the wave” at sporting events…
Cowtan and Way – The Magician's 'Red Scarf Trick' with Linear Trend Lines
Guest Post by Kip Hansen There are a lot of good, in-depth technical discussions of Cowtan and Way 2013, Coverage bias in the HadCRUT4 temperature series and its impact on…
A new use for those old AOL discs we have accumulated – cleaning sewage water
From The Optical Society and the “so crazy it just might work” department comes this curiosity: Spinning CDs to Clean Sewage Water Scientists find a potential new use for old…
A descent into the maelstrom – 'black hole' whirlpools seen for the first time in the South Atlantic
More settled science: these whirlpools transport vast amount of water and heat vertically in the ocean, somewhat like hurricanes do for the atmosphere. It is fun to imagine “Trenberth’s missing…
Law of Unintended Consequences Number Eleventy-Zillion and One
Guest essay by Phil Hutchings Two days ago, charles the moderator showed us some dumb thinking from the UK‘s efforts to pursue clean power. Down here in Australia, we’re pretty…
Dueling desktops: Anthony Watts versus Al Gore
Tom Nelson highlighted a tweet from an attendee at Gore’s training lecture in Chicago for junior climateers. I thought a comparison would be apt.
Dana Nuccitelli's 'vested interest' ? – oil and gas
As a skeptic of AGW, I and many of my peers are often subjected to scrutiny and accusations of being in the employ of “big oil”. It’s a standard line…
Extreme irony – EPA rules shut down the mother of all weather conspiracy theories
This just in: Nutballs despressed worldwide, no more harping about HAARP controlling the weather or climate? From the American Radio Relay League: The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)…
Two years to a 1740-type event?
Guest essay by David Archibald Wiggle-matching has been used by the best. Hubert Lamb, considered to be the most meticulous climatologist of all time, used wiggle-matching in this wind data…
Global warming whacks Earth's poles – is there anything it can't do?
Reader View from the Solent writes: Global warming shifts the Earth’s poles. North Pole heads for Greenland “Global warming is changing the location of Earth’s geographic poles, according to a…
Uninvented History
Guest post by WUWT regular Caleb Shaw I am always seizing upon things people tell me, parking the statements in my memory, and only years later learning they are untrue. …
Easter puzzle: the Chinese Egg
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Since this is the time of year for Easter eggs, here is a Chinese puzzle. The object is to break the egg into nine pieces,…
Enivronmentalists worst nightmare? GMO'd 'frankenbugs' could make fuel directly from CO2
From the University of Georgia: UGA discovery may allow scientists to make fuel from CO2 in the atmosphere Athens, Ga. – Excess carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere created by…
The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project, Original Data For Science Posterity
Guest post by Dennis Ray Wingo Introduction The foundation of all observational science is data. This is true whether the data is temperature measurements from ground networks, satellites, or any…
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