CO2 deafens "Nemo" – or, how many ichthyologists can you fit in that car?

We’ve already had a “climate craziness of the week” so I’ll just file this bit of blather under another category. First, this article in The Independent, which aims to scare…

Data for study based on TWO fish sample size: challenges to Australia's Climate Comission go unanswered

Submitted by Marc Hendrix – correspondence with Steve Woodman, reproduced with permission: For your reference, today I sent this challenge to the Climate Commission regarding a recent University of Tasmania…

Quick, ban local citizen owned thermometers

Yes that’s it, the locals are just too stupid to notice global warming because they are conflating it to local temperatures. Let’s remind everyone bloviating about AGW the next time…

Nursing their wounds with salt

Royal Society Bemoans Freedom of Scientific Information This is a collection of articles related to the In an interview with the Guardian by Sir Paul Nurse of the Royal Society…

Weekend open thread – What are you doing for the rapture?

Somehow, standing in line for this just doesn’t do it for me. So the world ends tomorrow, May 21st, so some people say. What will you do?

CO2 increase is "like hitting our ecosystem with a sledge-hammer"

That comes from this statement in the press release: Professor Kennedy said that the doubling of the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere over the past 50 years is…

One word: "plastics"

With apologies to Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate” I can’t wait to hear the fish stories that will be told to the EU trying to scam money from this latest…

Oh noes! Sea level rising three times faster than expected (again)

UPDATE: The serial regurgitation has started. See the end of the article. Somehow, I just can’t get past the picture of the guy in the beret who seems to be…

Oh, thank heavens wind power will be safe

This academic pushing this PNAS paper thinks wind turbines don’t break, but get obsoleted in about 30 years. Boy is she in for a reality check. That and anyone who…

Himalayan Sherpas as climate proxy

Bishop Hill writes: As if there weren’t enough problems with climate data already, the latest bright idea from CAGW subscribers is to use opinion polls to measure climate change. I…

Friday Funny – science safety run amok

I learned how to make and use gunpowder in the fifth grade thanks to my home chemistry set. KNO3 + S + C = boom! I happily and safely (I…

Failed Mirth Earth Day predictions

Via iHateTheMedia, here are a few of the predictions made on the first Earth Day. Don’t these sound like the predictions today that fail, like the 50 million climate refugees…

Oh noes! Now its global warming killing Pikas

Only one small problem with this press release below. From Wikipedia: In 2010, the US government considered, then decided not to add the American pika under the US Endangered Species…

Charles Manson becomes an advocate for global warming

From the Daily Mail, probably the worst alliance you could hope for if you are in the global warming movement. Manson says in a from prison interview: ‘Everyone’s God and…

Adventures in journalism: from llama fish to carbon neutral bras

Louise Gray, who wrote this amazing piece of journalism in the Telegraph the other day… Fish carried up a mountain on backs of llamas to escape global warming …has boobed…

Climate Change: Bigger health threat than AIDS, malaria

UPDATE: Holy moly. Dr. Richard North over at the EU Referendum points to this, (screencap below) which makes Ric’s article (further below) look tame. Add this to what’s going on…

The Climate Change Blues

Via Eurekalert, and from the “Department of Population Color Doppler Shift”, comes this story of the bluing. Next comes the violet. After that, well, I don’t even want to talk…

The big self parodying "climate change blame" list

Longtime WUWT reader Jimbo writes in Tips and Notes: The following has been partly referenced and inspired by Numberwatch. The differences between this list and Numberwatch are: 1) I have…

Yeah, that's gonna work

By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels 4:16PM BST 28 Mar 2011 The European Commission on Monday unveiled a “single European transport area” aimed at enforcing “a profound shift in transport patterns for…

What did you do for Earth Hour? The (yawn) reality

Here’s a collection of thoughts, quotes, and of course the result of our WUWT poll on “what did you do for Earth Hour? First, my own experience: Being keenly aware…

CO2 causes unchecked wetdry

This is important because scientists are concerned that unchecked global warming could cause already dry areas to get drier. (Global warming may also cause wet areas to get wetter.) Cao…

Energy sucking illuminated wind turbine may be torn down to make way for a coal loader

Oh the irony… First, a flashback from  June 18, 2010: I was in Newcastle, NSW AU on Wednesday night to give another lecture as part of the Australian speaking tour…

The "Not Evil, Just Romm", 2% solution

ERRATA: I made a mistake regarding the 2% figure, I misheard what was being presented during my visit with the BEST team at Berkeley. As many of you may know…

New IPCC lead author, one word: strange

And you thought railroad engineer Pachauri was odd… Donna Laframboise of “No Frakking Consensus” does some digging, and what she turns up about the new IPCC lead author is to…