Inspired by a WUWT comment from Bill Illis in the Maybe they’ve found Trenberth’s missing heat thread, I’ve elevated this to full post status and provided the relevant graphics from the…
Category: Earth
Physicist says fossil fuel burning is insignificant in the global carbon pool
Physicist Dr. Denis Rancourt, a former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa, has officially bailed out of the man-made global warming movement, calling it a ‘corrupt…
Satellite Study: slowing plant growth, 2000-2009
From NASA: download large image (700 KB, JPEG) acquired January 1, 2000 – December 31, 2009 download large Hemispheric Trends image (81 KB, PDF) Conventional wisdom holds that plants should…
Solar-Terrestrial Coincidence?
Guest post by Paul Vaughan, M.Sc. – August 18, 2010 Scientists characterize Earth rotation velocity using a variable they call length of day (LOD). The rate of change of LOD…
Perseid meteor shower under way, peaks Thursday
You know it’s a good night when a beautiful alignment of planets is the second best thing that’s going to happen. Thursday, August 12th, is such a night. The show…
Faster than everyplace else…
Tom Nelson runs a great aggregator blog. he’s got his pulse on climate news all over the globe. He’s also got a keen eye for news detail and offers some…
GRACE's warts – new peer reviewed paper suggests errors and adjustments may be large
Below is a GRACE satellite map. The Earth looks like a warty ball, with red bumps and blue pits that represent measured fluctuations in the planet’s gravity. Note Greenland in…
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…
Scientists unmask ‘Ghost Mountains’ of Antarctica at last
From Newsdesk.org And we thought we knew Earth’s mountains. Nope. Radar imagery Scientists at the International Polar Year conference in Norway this week revealed startling new images of the Gamburtsev Mountain Range…
Deep Purple Haze – the orginal sunscreen
Early Earth haze likely provided ultraviolet shield for planet, says CU-Boulder study. See press release here. Earth’s thick organic haze 3 billion years ago likely similar to haze hovering over…
Wasted watts: Are we heating the Earth too much – with heat?
Guest post by Ron House As readers will know, I have been thinking about the hullabaloo about CO2 and global warming and I quickly concluded that CO2 is no threat,…
Spencer on Earth's missing energy
Earths Missing Energy: Trenberth’s Plot Proves My Point By Dr. Roy Spencer The plot that is included in Kevin Trenberth’s most recent post on Roger Pielke, Sr.’s blog actually proves…
Spencer: strong negative feedback found in radiation budget
Strong Negative Feedback from the Latest CERES Radiation Budget Measurements Over the Global Oceans By Dr. Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Arguably the single most important scientific issue – and…
Send in the toads to test for quakes
Story from AFP via Breitbart, h/t to Leif Svalgaard. Maybe the Chinese had it right way back then with this gadget: Toad is a telltale for impending quakes: scientists For…
2010 Earth Hour in California – just as ineffective as last year
Earth Hour has come and gone in California (8:30 to 9:30 PM PDT) for 2010 without so much as a blip. In fact the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) power…
Tracking Earth Hour in the Greenest State
Earth Hour comes to every time zone at 8:30 PM today. Will it make a difference? Their website says: On Earth Hour hundreds of millions of people around the world…
Earth follows the warming: soils add 100 million tons of CO2 per year
From the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Soils release more carbon dioxide as globe warms The researchers overlaid the soil respiration database — which is openly available for the scientific community…
Sat tracking of ultraviolet light shows increase since 1979
UV exposure has increased over the last 30 years, but stabilized since the mid-1990s From NASA Goddard press release here NASA scientists analyzing 30 years of satellite data have found…
Yowzer! "sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago"
From Harvard University Science: Scientists find signs of ‘snowball Earth’ Research suggests global glaciation 716.5 million years ago Steve Bradt Harvard Staff Writer Geologists have found evidence that sea ice…
Tracking the Earth's orbit: looking for warming signs
From a press release by: National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) Understanding past and future climate The notion that scientists understand how changes in Earth’s orbit affect climate well enough for…
WSJ op ed – IPCC "Omitted: The bright side of Global Warming"
While the consensus warns of gloom and doom, the WSJ points out that warming has its positive aspects as well. For example, Trees seem to be responding well to increased…
Spencer: A Demonstration that Global Warming Predictions are Based More On Faith than On Science
By Roy Spencer, PhD. I’m always searching for better and simpler ways to explain the reason why I believe climate researchers have overestimated the sensitivity of our climate system to…
Solar geomagnetic index reaches unprecedented low – only "zero" could be lower – in a month when sunspots became more active
Back on December 12th 2009 I posted an article titled: Solar geomagnetic activity is at an all time low – what does this mean for climate? We then had a string…
Spencer: Earth sans greenhouse effect – what would it be like?
What If There Was No Greenhouse Effect? by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The climate of the Earth is profoundly affected by two competing processes: the greenhouse effect, which acts…
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