We’ve mentioned many times the lack of major landfalling hurricanes on the USA being in a record drought. When the Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1st, 13 days from…
Category: extreme weather
How long before cyclonic "sting jets" are blamed on global warming?
From the University of Manchester: Storm study reveals a sting in the tail Meteorologists have gained a better understanding of how storms like the one that battered Britain in 1987…
Storm tides and coastal protection on the German North Sea shore
Guest post by Michael Palmer The North Sea is the shelf sea between Great Britain in the West and continental Europe in the East and South. It has strong tidal…
Don't let Cook and Lewandowsky see this…
…because you might be accused of participating in conspiracy ideation. Here’s the premise from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: The occasion for their update is a recent report by the Australian…
Wuebbles gone wild – hilarious claims of 'wall to wall' severe weather on cable news is not science
A couple of days ago there was this PR from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I decided it was just too ridiculous to get any traction. I was wrong,…
A new buzzword for pushing climate fear? 'Explosive Cyclones'
After the past weekend’s silliness over a snowstorm that wasn’t all that much different than Nor’Easters of the past, I can imagine some CNN anchor using the phrase badly in…
2012 ranks as 54th in 'extreme weather' events
Paul Homewood ranks the data from NOAA/NCDC in a pragmatic way, and comes up with this graph. Figure 8
The Royal Society Disaster Movie: starring the Ehrlichs and The Prince of Wales
This is funny and sad at the same time. The funny part is the fact that none of Paul Erhlich’s doom and gloom predictions about the human condition from the…
NYT pushes crazy claims about "extreme weather" but public interest wanes
From Tom Neslon who writes: Barking madness in the New York Times: Global warming blamed for coldest winter in China in 30 years and many other extreme cold events; story…
Over-insuring the gullible: The Hartford offers 'extreme weather insurance'
UPDATE: graph of damage losses including 2012 posted below. It says all that needs to be said. This ad is running in rotation at the NYT today, and it needs…
Tornadoes at Christmastime – Note to McKibben and Romm – not that uncommon
Before alarmists like Bill McKibben and Joe Romm start caterwauling about the tornadoes in the south yesterday as being a signature of “global warming”, I caution them not to make…
No need to guess anymore! The University of Tennessee has the weather and climate all figured out
From the University of Tennessee at Knoxville this gives a whole new meaning to “release the Kraken”. University of Tennessee study predicts extreme climate in Eastern US Results show the…
Introducing The New WUWT "Extreme Weather" Reference Page
(Photo credits: NOAA) By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” We are pleased to introduce WUWT’s newest addition, the WUWT “Extreme Weather” Reference Page. Realizing the difficulty in selling “Global Warming”…
Another inconvenient truth – 2012 US tornado count well below normal
Somewhere, weepy Bill McKibben is weeping and Al Gore is raging, because they won’t be able to say “2012, the hottest year ever, caused more tornadoes” So much for “dirty…
An open letter to the U.N from climate skeptics
Published in the Financial Post today: OPEN CLIMATE LETTER TO UN SECRETARY GENERAL: Current scientific knowledge does not substantiate Ban Ki-Moon assertions on weather and climate, say 125 scientists. Open Letter…
More WUWT.TV video segments – Joe D'Aleo on Hurricane Sandy and extreme weather
I continue with uploading videos from the 24 hour WUWT.TV Gore-a-thon on November 14-15th seen live here on WUWT. This post contains two segments, one that was seen during the…
The Atlantic Magazine's '5 Charts About Climate Change That Should Have You Very, Very Worried'… Worried about scientific illiteracy.
Guest post by David Middleton I ran into this gem on Real Clear Energy this morning… The article cites terrifying new reports commissioned by the World Bank and the CIA…
Northern California's coming super soaker event via the 'Pineapple Express'
UPDATE: Added this HiDef imag showing a trio of lows (commas shaped clouds) in the Gulf of Alaska and southward: There’s lots of buzz here in Northern California about a…
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