Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Are there cycles in the sun and its associated electromagnetic phenomena? Assuredly. What are the lengths of the cycles? Well, there’s the question. In the…
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Heidi Cullen at Senate EPW: ‘73% increase in heavy downpours’ not supported by data
While watching her handwaving argument on the webcast with Senator Vitter, I was easily able to find data contradictory to her statement in Dr. Roger Roger Pielke Jr. submitted testimony.…
Fuel On The Highway In British Pre-Columbia
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Supporters of the British Columbia (Canada) carbon-based energy tax that I discussed in my last post have made claims that the data shows this tax…
I need help with a graph search
In the last week, I came across a graph on a climate skeptic website that showed the earth’s average temperature in F, the known variation of temperature on earth, and…
Alexander the Great Explains The Drop In Extinctions
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In a recent post here on WattsUpWithThat called The Thirteen Worst Graphs In The World, Geoff Chambers explores the graphs in a new book called…
Models Fail: Greenland and Iceland Land Surface Air Temperature Anomalies
I’m always amazed when global warming enthusiasts announce that surface temperatures in some part of the globe are warming faster than simulated by climate models. Do they realize they’re advertising…
The Grand Prize in Obama's War on Coal™
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s a bad week for poor people around the planet. First, and with great fanfare, our President unleashed his patented climate plan, affectionately known as…
Aging weather stations contribute to high temperature records
New paper finds that aging weather stations record much higher daytime temperatures, 1.63°C higher than new stations While we are all watching the heat wave developing in the US southwest,…
Australia and ACORN-SAT
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As Anthony discussed here, some Australian climate scientists think that there was an “angry summer” in 2012. Inspired by the necromantic incantations in support of…
Model-Data Comparison: Australia Land Surface Air Temperatures & Anomalies – not so 'angry' after all
UPDATE: Corrected Figures 2 through 6. UPDATE 2: Corrected the color-coding in the title block of Figure 4. (Thanks to blogger cassandraclub for noticing it.) UPDATE 3: I removed the…
Model-Data Comparison: Alaska Land Surface Air Temperature Anomalies
Mainstream media and climate alarmist websites have been publishing a lot of nonsense about record and near-record surface temperatures in Alaska over the past few weeks. Near-record? Yup. Near-record. On…
May 2013 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) Temperature Anomaly Update
Initial Notes: This post contains graphs of running trends in global surface temperature anomalies for periods of 12+ and 16 years. They indicate that we have not seen a warming…
Transient Van Allen radiation belt discovered
From the University of California – Los Angeles How did a third radiation belt appear in the Earth’s upper atmosphere? Since the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts in…
Model-Data Comparison: Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperatures and Diurnal Temperature Range (DTR)
This may appear to be an awkward time to present a model-data comparison. This post will appear between two excellent post at WattsUpWithThat, both of which discuss the flaws in…
Comparing climate models – Part One
Guest Essay by Geoffrey H Sherrington ……………………………………………………….. This short note was inspired by Viscount Monckton writing on 13th June on WUWT about the leveling of global temperatures since 1997 or…
'Lewd' behavior: The pathologising of climate scepticism
ESSAY: The shoddy science of sceptic-bashing LOG12 paper by Lewandowsky attempts to turn rational criticism into a psychological illness. “As the influence of environmental thinking has increased its hold over…
Forcing The Ocean To Confess
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach According to the current climate paradigm, if the forcing (total downwelling energy) increases, a combination of two things happens. Some of the additional incoming energy…
A data review to supplement the UK Met Office 'Disappointing Weather Meeting'
A graphical review of 14.5 years disappointing UK weather Guest essay by Neil Catto A meeting today (18th March 2013) took place at the UK Met Office HQ in Exeter.…
Remember that 'unprecedented' Greenland ice sheet surface melt that was allegedly caused by global warming? Never mind
We covered this extensively at WUWT last summer, including the “unprecedented claim” where a researcher said it was a recurring 150 year event that was ‘right on time‘. It turns…
May 2013 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update
As many of you are aware, at my blog Climate Observations, I provide monthly, mid-month and preliminary monthly sea surface temperature anomaly updates, using Reynolds OI.v2 SST data. Sea surface…
Joe Bastardi was Correct about Gulf of Mexico Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
This is an update of hurricane region sea surface temperature anomalies in light of the formation of Tropical Storm Andrea. I published the post Hurricane Main Development Region Sea Surface…
Another electric car company goes belly up
JERUSALEM (AP) — It was an audacious idea that came to symbolize Israel’s self-described status as “Start-Up Nation,” a company that believed it could replace most gasoline-powered cars with electric…
Uh oh, the Met Office has set the cat amongst the pigeons
Excerpt from Bishop Hill (plus a cartoon from Josh) showing that the claim of a statistically significant temperature rise can’t be supported, and the Met office is ducking parliamentary questions:…
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