I covered this earlier in a post here. Atmospheric Rivers can cause this sort of pattern, read more about them here. If the goal of press releases like this one…
Category: Disaster
6.3 quake in Christchurch, NZ, 65 deaths reported
Note aftershocks ranging from 5.6 to 4.5 have also been felt in the last few hours. Here is a list of quakes. We wish our Kiwi friends well, and hope…
Extreme Nonsense by Krugman
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany 1. Krugman in Gradual Changes and Extreme Events forgets that there is a threshold on the left hand side, below which cold kills. In…
Same news, different century
They say those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Read this article in the Vancouver Sun, May 1982, and tell compare to the sorts of news…
Dueling Hypotheses
The Trenberth article contains so many glaring errors and biased assumptions, it’s hard to know where to start. First of all, the difference between theory and hypothesis: The problem is…
Is the Brazilian flooding catastrophe evidence of another global warming era extreme ?
Guest post by Alexandre Aguiar, METSUL Communications Director, Brazil (note there’s much more here at METSUL’s blog) Corpses are still under tons of rocks and mud in the hills of…
Bogus claims on Australian and Brazilian floods from ABC and Dr. Richard Sommerville
This ridiculous video story below from ABC news cites über alarmist Richard Somerville of Scripps in San Diego, and is backed up with this print story. Here’s what the print…
The Australian cites covered up report of Brisbane flood danger
By Hedley Thomas, The Australian A SECRET report by scientific and engineering experts warned of significantly greater risks of vast destruction from Brisbane River flooding – and raised grave concerns…
Australia's tragic flooding – 30 feared dead
UPDATES ADDED: See updates below the read more line My heart goes out to Australia. The ugly side of this is that a portion of the tragedy may have been…
Abandon all hope, ye who read this
Climate change to continue to year 3000 in best case scenarios New paper in Nature Geoscience examines inertia of carbon dioxide emissions New research indicates the impact of rising CO2…
Contest
By Charles The Moderator, I have lived in California all my life, the first half in SoCal, the second half in NorCal. A funny thing happens ever year. If we…
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…
35 years ago: The Witch of November Come Stealin
Today is the 35th anniversary of the sinking of the Great Lakes ore carrier, the Edmund Fitzgerald. The shipped was sunk by “The Witch of November”, a strong Lake Superior…
Failure to forecast morphs to criminal investigation
From an AGU press release, potential charges for failure to forecast an earthquake. h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard. Scientists May Face Manslaughter Charges After Earthquake 22 June 2010 AGU Science…
NOAA on the Russian heat wave: blocking high, not global warming
The Russian Heat Wave of 2010 Draft Report by NOAA CSI The extreme surface warmth over western Russia during July and early August is mostly a product of the strong…
Interior Dept. Inspector General Investigating post facto falsified statements from engineers on drilling moratorium
While this isn’t our normal fare here at WUWT, I found it interesting and relevant, since WUWT covered the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling spill story early on here, with several…
Nasa warns solar flares from ‘huge space storm’ will cause devastation
From the Telegraph Video link here National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the Sun…
New Dogs; IPCC tricks
Looks like they took lessons from Briffa. From Fox News The seven experts who advised President Obama on how to deal with offshore drilling safety after the Deepwater Horizon explosion are…
The chasm between Apollo and the Gulf
There is no valid analogy between the Gulf spill and Apollo 13 I am honored to present this guest post by Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist Dr. H. Harrison Schmitt…
The Gulf oil rig explosion – on the scene photos
Regular WUWT commenter Jimmy Haigh, a geologist by trade, sends along a PDF that is a compilation of on the scene photos taken right after the explosion and in the…
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