From NASA News. New measurements from a NASA satellite show a dramatic cooling in the upper atmosphere that correlates with the declining phase of the current solar cycle. For the…
Category: Earth
Another Al Gore Reality Check: “Rising tree mortality”?
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany In this Reuters story (15 December 2009) they report: “Describing a ‘runaway melt’ of the Earth’s ice, rising tree mortality and prospects of severe…
The Steel Greenhouse
Guest post by Willis Eschenbach There is a lot of misinformation floating around the web about the greenhouse effect works. It is variously described as a “blanket” that keeps the…
Big crack in Ethiopia: beachfront property soon to be available
I’m sure we’ll see some emails from beachfront land speculators in Nigeria and Ethiopia soon. On the serious side, University of Rochester researchers have found evidence that Earth, doing what…
If a hurricane dies in the middle Atlantic, does it make a sound?
Desperate de jour – trying to locate unreported hurricanes prior to the satellite era by looking through old seismometer records in an attempt to prop up the imagined “global warming…
Global warming may spur increased growth in Pacific Northwest forests
From an Oregon State University press release CORVALLIS, Ore. – Global warming in the next century could cause a significant increase in the productivity of high-elevation forests of the Pacific…
Fixing the nitrogen cycle in climate modeling
From a press release of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Key new ingredient in climate model refines global predictions OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 9, 2009 — For the first time, climate…
Tsunami Watch for Hawaii – cancelled
From CNN An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 struck in the Samoan Islands region Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The temblor generated a nearly 10-foot (3-meter) tsunami —…
The 2007-2008 Global Cooling Event: Evidence for Clouds as the Cause
The 2007-2008 Global Cooling Event: Evidence for Clouds as the Cause September 26th, 2009 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. As I work on finishing our forcing/feedback paper for re-submission…
Global ozone layer depletion leveling off – rising slightly
From the European Space Agency. By merging more than a decade of atmospheric data from European satellites, scientists have compiled a homogeneous long-term ozone record that allows them to monitor…
NCAR: "number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun's impact on Earth"
Solar Cycle Driven by More than Sunspots; Sun Also Bombards Earth with High-Speed Streams of Wind From an NCAR press release September 17, 2009 BOULDER—Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds…
Some preliminary results from GOSAT – CO2 hot spots in interesting places
WUWT reader Anna V. alerts us to the preliminary report from the JAXA GOSAT Project. According to the project website: The Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) Project is a joint…
More oxygen – colder climate
If this is true,with the biomass photosynthesis of CO2 and converting it to oxygen, it would seem to point to a self regulating effect of the biosphere on climate.The new…
Global Oceanic Climate Update for August 2009
Global Oceanic Climate Update for August 2009 Dr. Roy Spencer September 1st, 2009 This is the first of what might turn into a series of monthly updates of some maritime…
New mission to study crossed magnetic streams and magnetic portals
NASA is trying to figure out why when magnetic field lines containing charged particles cross on the sun, things go “boom”. In earth’s magnetic field, we get “magnetic portals” to…
Study: Glaciers defied hotter temperatures 9000 years ago
From BYU News Ice, when heated, is supposed to melt. That’s why a collection of glaciers in the Southeast Himalayas stymies those who know what they did 9,000 years ago.…
NCAR spots the "transistor effect" – Small solar activity fluctuations amplify to larger climate influences
Some months back, I mentioned that I felt the sun-earth connection was much like a transistor. This new NCAR study suggests this may be the case where small solar variances…
Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing
Cliff Ollier School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia. Colin Pain Canberra City ACT 2601, Australia. Global warming alarmists have suggested that…
Warming could cause tilt in Earth's axis
As if we didn’t already have enough to worry about…. Earth’s axial tilt (or obliquity) and its relation to the rotation axis and plane of orbit. Image from Wikipedia. Excerpts…
Impacts Of Land Use – Land Cover Change On Climate
From Roger Pielke Sr. New Paper “Impacts Of Land Use Land Cover Change On Climate And Future Research Priorities” By Mahmood Et Al 2009 We have a new multi-authored paper that has…
Finding an answer to the faint sun paradox: Carbonyl Sulphide?
From a University of Copenhagen News Release First, read a primer on the Faint Sun Paradox here Normally, I wouldn’t use Wiki, but the article does include a reference to…
Ocean heat content and Earth’s radiation imbalance
This paper is to be published on-line on Friday in Physics Letters A Dr. Douglas graciously sent me an advance copy, of which I’m printing some excerpts. Douglas and Knox…
New Study Casts Doubt on Cause of Himalayan Glaciers Melting
Weather variations, not global warming cause glacier melt From the The Hindu, 9 August 2009 excerpts: New Delhi (PTI): Himalayan glaciers, including the world’s highest battlefield Siachen, are melting due…
How Sensitive is the Earth’s Climate?
Guest Post By Steve Fitzpatrick Introduction Projections of climate warming from global circulation models (GCM’s) are based on high sensitivity for the Earth’s climate to radiative forcing from well mixed…
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