UF research gives clues about carbon dioxide patterns at end of Ice Age GAINESVILLE, Fla. — New University of Florida research puts to rest the mystery of where old carbon…
Category: Paleoclimatology
Mike Mann's "secret" meeting on the Medieval Warm Period
While not really “secret”, one might describe it that way because unlike the many things Dr. Mann has been doing lately, there wasn’t one peep of press coverage about it.…
On Bradley: Blackmail or Let’s Make a Deal.
Guest Post by Steven Mosher Not the funniest Monty Python sketch, but for me it illustrates what the climate wars have finally come down to: blackmail. The examples range from…
New in paleoclimatology: pseudo-rodent piss as climate proxy
Here’s that great story about Rock Hyrax urine as climate proxy you’ve always wanted to read. From the University of Leicester news: Ancient urinary deposits provide a unique insight into…
On Wegman – Who will guard the guards themselves?
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Guest post by Thomas Fuller Regular readers will remember that the fuss generated by Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick chart caused an investigation. A U.S. Congressional committee,…
Now it's 2°C climate change target 'not safe'
Research suggests climate change target ‘not safe’ From the University of Exeter via Eurekalert An analysis of geological records that preserve details of the last known period of global warming…
RC's response to McShane and Wyner: a case of orange cones
Gavin Schmidt, Michael Mann, and Scott Rutherford have written a comment letter to the Annals of Applied Statistics to the Hockey Stick busting McShane and Wyner paper covered on WUWT…
And the Lord said: "Go forth and model Moses"
I guess with Climate change enlightenment was fun while it lasted. But now it’s dead (George Monbiot) there’s not much for those modelers and supercomputers at NCAR to do. So…
Study: "Arctic was 5C warmer during the (LIG) Last InterGlaciation than at present"
Wikipedia says: The Eemian was an interglacial period which began about 130,000 years ago and ended about 114,000 years ago. It was the second-to-latest interglacial period of the current Ice…
Inconvenient Ice Study: Less ice in the Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 years ago
Since there is so much worry about the Arctic Sea Ice extent this time of year, it is always good to get some historical perspective. According to this study, our…
Arctic in the Holocene, narwhals, and all that
UPDATE: Apparently Joe Romm can’t handle this information. Ecotretas records the action here. Readers may have seen this BBC story: BBC – Earth News – Climate change threatens slow swimming…
Study: Ammonium as ice core proxy shows strong Medieval Warm Period in the tropics
The MWP has been vigorously argued to be a regional northern hemisphere phenomenon only, but this new study finds it in South America. In this new paper they write: “The…
Younger Dryas space impact theory: missing the diamonds
DEEP IMPACT?: This 4 centimeter band of dark sediment uncovered at Murray Spring, Ariz., may indicate a cosmic impact or explosion that kicked off a period of global cooling and…
New paper makes a hockey sticky wicket of Mann et al 98/99/08
NOTE: This has been running two weeks at the top of WUWT, discussion has slowed, so I’m placing it back in regular que. – Anthony UPDATES:
GRL Study: Dramatic climate change is unpredictable
Update: PDF of this paper is available, see link below The fear that global temperature can change very quickly and cause dramatic climate changes that may have a disastrous impact…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Study shows carnivore species shrank during global warming
Any number of factors 50 million years ago could cause an animal to change, but surely CO2 must be the culprit according to these folks. They don’t even have a…
R expert replicates McShane and Wyner hockey stick analysis
Unlike what we’ve seen previously in climate science, where it takes years of complaints, demands, taunts, FOI’s and other assorted embarrassments to finally pry code and data out of scientists,…
Pielke Senior on tree and thermometer divergence
by Dr Roger Pielke, Sr. With the McShane and Wyler paper examining and questioning the method, this look at the proxy data and its problems seems like a relevant issue…
Engelbeen on why he thinks the CO2 increase is man made (part 2)
About the reliability of ice cores… Guest Post by Ferdinand Engelbeen There have been hundreds of reactions to part 1 about the mass balance (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/05/why-the-co2-increase-is-man-made-part-1 ). Many respondents still are…
Study: Climate 460 MYA was like today, but thought to have CO2 levels 5-20 times as high
From the University of Leicester press office: An ancient Earth like ours Geologists reconstruct the Earth’s climate belts between 460 and 445 million years ago An international team of scientists…
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