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…
Category: Earth
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…
Satellite measurements show our quiet sun is cooling the upper thermosphere
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…
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 how the greenhouse effect works. It is variously described as a “blanket” that keeps…
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…
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