Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my last post, “Expensive Energy Kills Poor People” , I spoke of the women of Lesotho. In the comments someone asked what I would…
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Josh on AR5 SPM
Josh writes: AR5 has landed and the press conference didn’t disappoint, it was laugh out loud at times.
IPCC to Once Again Illustrate Climate Model Failings in AR5 Summary for Policymakers
The IPCC appears to be ready to make the same presentation of climate model failures as they have in past reports. Figure SPM.5 from the leaked draft of the Summary…
UAH Global Temperature for August – virtually unchanged from July
The pause continues… Dr. Roy Spencer writes: The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for August, 2013 is +0.16 deg. C (click for large version): The global,…
In Which We Visit The Neo-Lithic
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach People are all aflutter demanding that the governments around the world step in and do something, anything, about the eventual end of oil and fossil…
Rainfall less variable in the warmer 20th century
From the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, comes this suggestion that a warmer would is a more stable one, weather-wise: Rainfall in South Pacific…
Tough Times For Sea Ice Melt Enthusiasts…
Image Credit: Cryosphere Today – University of Illinois – Polar Research Group By WUWT Regular Just The Facts In previous years there was reason to cheer, .e.g. “Transport is steaming…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for Friday September 6th, 2013
New book on the IPCC coming: A new book about the IPCC will be revealed soon by Donna Laframboise, the title is inspired by this statement from Dr. Judith Curry:…
Statistical proof of 'the pause' – Overestimated global warming over the past 20 years
Commentary from Nature Climate Change, by John C. Fyfe, Nathan P. Gillett, & Francis W. Zwiers Recent observed global warming is significantly less than that simulated by climate models. This…
The Tuesday Tittering: The big knobs of climate control
Josh writes: The latest posts on ENSO influence made me think of a cartoon.
Dancing Lessons
Well, as Bokonon said, “Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God”. So as a result of the usual mix of misconceptions and coincidences, we’ve got the house-sitter to stay…
The Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
A perspective on the “unprecedented” strength of modern hurricanes Guest essay by Donald R. Baucom 1935 Labor Day hurricane track. Uses the color scheme from the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. Image:…
Pining away for climate change
From the NIPCC report comes this study that suggests gloom and doom over pine forest growth suppression in the face of climate change is overwrought. The pine trees apparently have…
When life gives you fracked water, make methane hydrate
From the American Chemical Society , an environmentalist’s nightmare. Desalination of drinking water, fracking, and methane hydrates all wrapped up into one positive outcome. Using a form of ‘ice that…
Extreme Weather – A Quick Note about Peterson et al (2013)
I haven’t seen Peterson et al (2013) presented alone yet at WattsUpWithThat. It was referred to in Jim Steele’s excellent WUWT post Fabricating Climate Doom – Part 3: Extreme Weather…
Has Google seen the light?
by David Archibald Google’s motto is “Don’t be evil”. Well, a couple of years ago Google had sided with the forces of darkness in the global warming battle – a…
Solar cycle 24 continues the slump
Sunspot count is virtually unchanged from last month : It seems possible that we’ve seen the double peak, and it will be downhill after this.
Quote of the week – the Aye's have it
While Andrew Dessler suggests Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. can resign the AGU (for having a minority viewpoint on their recent policy update), Ross McKittrick leaves this comment at Bishop Hill:…
Surprise: Greenland ice gets a melt assist from Earth's hot mantle below
From the Helmholtz Association Greenland ice is melting — also from below Heat flow from the mantle contributes to the ice melt The Greenland ice sheet is melting from below,…
Lewandowsky's 'seepage', now with FOI
From Tom Nelson Lewandowsky’s skeptic seepage plus see the FOIA documents link added at the end. Emailer WL writes: [Stephan Lewandowsky at 2013 American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference] “Skeptic discourse…
Oh Mann… this can't be good. Called a 'charlatan' and his gubernatorial pick linked to Solyndra in the same day!
… But the situation is more delicate for those who gained their notoriety, made their reputations, and received their government funding on the old “sky is falling” model. For them…
Climate Changers Endorse Nuclear Power – Why Now?
Guest essay by Joseph Somsel Go back and re-watch Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth from 2006 and you’ll find that he never once voices the word “nuclear” although there is a…
An Open Letter to Dr. Marcia McNutt, new Editor-In-Chief, Science Magazine
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dear Dr. McNutt: As a somewhat unwilling subscriber to Science, let me start by welcoming you as the latest editor of Science magazine. You’ve stated…
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