During our last check in, we had a look at northern Canada from the Arctic Circle to the North pole, and found we had quite a ways to go before…
Category: Science
Putting on AIRS
Recently we’ve been discussing products for the AIRS satellite instrument (Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder) onboard the Aqua satellite. For example we’ve been looking at the only global image we can find…
Beck on CO2 and Temperature: Oceans are the "dominant CO2 store"
Evidence of variability of atmospheric CO2 concentration during the 20th century Geo-Ecological Seminar University of Bayreuth, 17th July 2008 (see here) Ernst-Georg Beck, Dipl. Biol Summary of the presentation (printable…
NYT: Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea
“Catastrophic Shifts in Climate Feared if Change Occurs” In case you missed it, this article in the New York Times illustrates what some scientists believe is a very serious issue,…
Algal Blooms: Not Caused by Global Warming
It seems that global warming is as easy to blame as “the devil made me do it” these days. Almost anything can be blamed on global warming it seems. It…
Roy Spencer's testimony before congress backs up Monckton's assertions on climate sensitivity
Dr. Roy Spencer went to Washington to give testimony today to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Here is his presentation. While not as technical as Lord Moncktons paper…
Nutty Story of the Day #2: whitewashing the ocean
How much lime does it take to treat the whole ocean? Where have we heard this before? Oh yes, dump powdered iron into the ocean. That one didn’t happen yet. Sure, let’s…
Nutty Story of the Day: "Global Warming" is Killing the Penguins in Antarctica
This picture is my own choice – it is not related to the UK Mirror story You have to wonder how the press allows stories like these to get published…
Fabricating Temperatures on the DEW Line
Stevenson Screen placement in relation to heated buildings- click for larger image Today I received an email that contained some startling revelations about the Weather Stations that were put in…
APS Editor Reverses Position on Global Warming- cites "Considerable presence" of skeptics
Viscount Monckton gives a presentation during the 2007 Conference on Climate Change From Mike Asher at the DailyTech: The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed…
Latest NOAA Press Release in Total Disagreement with NASA Satellite
Joe D’Aleo, CCM, Fellow of the AMS It was the eighth warmest June on record for the globe, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Wednesday in the 129 years…
Sun in deep slumber: 10.7 solar flux hits record low value
NRC Canada’s FTP site which logs the daily 10.7 centimeter (2800 megahertz) radio flux from the sun just reported what appears to be a new record low in the observed…
The importance of measuring temperature away from human influence
Many of you have followed my “how not to measure temperature” series showing many examples of the folly of thermometer placement in the USHCN network. But what about the rest…
Climate Change – Who is allowed to opine?
Guest post by John Goetz A story appeared briefly yesterday on the CNN homepage titled Ruthless drought in West Timor puts children in crisis. There is no doubt that this…
How not to measure temperature, part 66
The MMTS system introduced by the National Weather Service in the mid 1980’s continues to be the Achilles heel of the surface observation network. Intrepid surfacestations volunteer Don Kostuch finds…
Going Down: Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events
During our discussion of the preposterous news story from Pravda, claiming this headline: “Earth begins to kill people for changing its climate” a scientist dropped in to provide us some…
Earth begins to kill people for changing its climate
Note: Yes, you read that right. The headline is not mine, but from the original masters of newspaper propaganda, Pravda. See the URL. Gotta love the classic photo they chose. But then,…
Sydney's historic weather station: 150 meters makes all the difference
Here is an interesting story about the weather station in Sydney at the Astronomical Observatory (well sort of, it got bumped off). It seems the astronomers and meteorologists at the…
Who's Adjusting the Climate in Tucumcari: Cows, Canals, or Hansen?
On Sunday I posted about the USHCN climate station of record in Tucumcari, NM highlighting its positive points since it has all the hallmarks of a well sited station with…
Sun: Still quiet, over two months since a cycle 24 spot seen
Its all quiet on the solar front. Too quiet. It has now been almost 2 and a half months since the last counted cycle 24 sunspot has been seen on…
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