By Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times Is wood the best fuel to generate electricity? Despite wood’s low energy density and high cost, utilities in the US and…
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New study shows Malaria has little to do with temperature or climate, but more with household size
For General Release – Summary of: Average Household Size and the Eradication of Malaria By Lena Huldén, Ross McKitrick and Larry Huldén Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A,…
Submission to EPA hearing on 'carbon pollution' standards
Currently no scientific or logical basis for regulation of CO2 emissions, logician tells EPA Guest essay by Terry Oldberg Submitted to the EPA’s Public Listening Session on 111(d) Carbon Pollution…
NASA to do summer aerial melt watch for Greenland
NASA Begins Airborne Campaign to Map Greenland Ice Sheet Summer Melt For the first time, a NASA airborne campaign will measure changes in the height of the Greenland Ice Sheet…
Miller et al.’s “Unprecedented Recent Summer Warmth in Arctic Canada”: Bad assumptions, poor logic, and contrary to other evidence of Arctic temperatures.
Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA Miller et al. radiocarbon dated 145 rooted tundra plants revealed by receding ice in the eastern Canadian Arctic and contend that…
The Catastrophic AGW Memeplex; a cultural creature
The hypothesis for a single, simple, scientific explanation underlying the entire complex social phenomenon of CAGW Guest essay by Andy West Whatever is happening in the great outdoors regarding actual…
James Cameron decides to scare people about climate at Halloween
From the Department of amalgamated dumbasses who own mansions, comes this trailer via Newsbuster’s Noel Sheppard: Showtime announced last year that it had commissioned Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron to produce…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for Tuesday Oct 29th 2013
Bill McKibben’s crazy logic: He says wind is cheap as coal. Jo Nova says “so who needs a carbon tax then?” To which I say, fantastic. If wind power is…
The UK Saint Jude's Day Storm – just another fall storm in a long line of many
By Paul Homewood It has been variously described as “The Storm of the Century”, “Unprecedented”, “Superstorm” and “A repeat of 1987”. I refer, of course, to the St. Jude storm…
Solar spectral irradiance, UV, and declining solar activity – a Maunder Minimum mechanism for cooler temperature?
Since Paul Hudson has made a bold claim at the BBC related to a recent interview with solar scientist Mike Lockwood: BBC – Real risk of a Maunder minimum ‘Little…
Open thread weekend
One topic to consider: It seems that there are plenty of holes in the Miller et al paper to go around. Steve McIntyre adds more moss here.
Gore: by his numbers, ye shall know him
I predicted this in the essay Oh yeah, I forgot. This is on. Yesterday I got this fantabulous self congratulatory email from Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project: Note the link…
Oh yeah, I forgot. This is on.
Shows you just how much he’s fallen off the radar, Gore’s harshest critic even forgot about it. I had to be reminded. From my Inbox today:
No 'instant gratification' in climate makes for a poor motivator
From the University of British Columbia Delayed gratification hurts climate change cooperation Time is a huge impediment when it comes to working together to halt the effects of climate change,…
Radiative Forcing, Radiative Feedbacks and Radiative Imbalance – The 2013 WG1 IPCC Report Failed to Properly Report on this Issue
Guest essay by Roger A. Pielke Sr. Main Points 1. The difference in ocean heat content at two different time periods provides the global average radiative imbalance over that time…
Weekly Area of Snow Extent
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about snow the other day. It was occasioned by my look at the correlation (both positive and negative) of temperature and…
The Sun Does It: Now Go Figure Out How!
(Perturbation Calculations of Ocean Surface Temperatures.) Guest essay by Stan Robertson, Ph.D., P.E. 1. Introduction It is generally conceded that the earth has warmed a bit over the last century,…
Commentary on the Article about the Interplanetary Magnetic Field influences
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball The comment by “steven” (Oct 9, 8:20 am) on this web site about an article by Lam, Chisham and Freeman (LCF) says correctly that…
Svensmark's cosmic ray theory: two steps forward, one step back
From CERN: CERN’s CLOUD experiment shines new light on climate change Geneva, 6 October 2013. In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the CLOUD experiment at CERN1 reports…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2013-10-05 (October 5, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: The future is certain, only…
IPCC Calls Off Planetary Emergency?
Guest essay by Marlo Lewis Okay, they don’t do so in as many words. But in addition to being more confident than ever (despite a 16-year pause in warming and…
The Great Climate Shift of 1878
Guest essay by Jeffery S. Patterson My last post on WUWT demonstrated a detection technique that allows us to de-noise the climate data and extract the various natural modes which…
The Cloud Radiative Effect (CRE)
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [UPDATE: An alert commenter, Ken Gregory, has pointed out that in addition to the temperature affecting the CRE, it is also affected by the changing…
Pielke Jr. Agrees – 'Extreme weather to climate connection' is a dead issue
I wrote the day after IPCC AR5 SPM was released in Thoughts on IPCC AR5 SPM – discussion thread: ============================== On the plus side, contrary to ongoing claims from that alarmist…
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