Masters of disasters and Captain Uncertainty

From Stanford University Preparing for climate change-induced weather disasters The news sounds grim: mounting scientific evidence indicates climate change will lead to more frequent and intense extreme weather that affects…

The Sanders-Boxer carbon tax will be 15 times costlier than letting warming happen

Inter-temporal investment appraisal of the Sanders/Boxer carbon tax bill by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Standard climatological and economic techniques, combined in an investment appraisal of the proposed Sanders/Boxer carbon dioxide…

Another document refusal from NOAA via FOI

Your tax dollars at work….wait, not “at work”, but, um… Guest post by Christopher Horner, CEI Funny how so many people at NOAA have the same hobby they work on…

Text of Obama's 2013 State of the Union Address

Note the section on climate and energy in bold, looks like nothing more than lip service to climate to me. On the issue of energy, he seems to be proposing…

Quote of the week: The end is Nye for Bill Nye being a 'weather expert'

Earlier today I pointed out how Bill Nye “The Science Guy” couldn’t even explain the most basic tenet of meteorology, the Coriolis Effect, among other things. It seems the Washington…

Mann, Gore, Smog, and the big lie

No, not that one, this one: Full disclosure: I’m not a member of the Tea Party, and both of my parents died of tobacco related illnesses. I’ve got no use…

Feeding at the public trough – The Karoly dinner

Andrew Bolt at the Herald Sun tips me to this story in the Australian which makes me wonder why we never hear about posh expensive dinners for the all those…

Lewandowsky's latest smear paper gets pulled from the journal website

Readers may recall these two recent WUWT stories: More shameless conspiracy theory from the ‘Skeptical Science’ smear quest team Lewandowsky’s bear-baiting behavior Tonight I’m pleased to report, that one skeptic…

Lewandowsky's bear-baiting behavior

Skeptic Baiting and Academic Misconduct Guest post by Tom Fuller, writing at The Lukewarmer’s Way I see here at Watts Up With That that Australian professor Stephan Lewandowsky has teamed up…

Hump Day Hilarity – Gore: As American as Apple pie

Josh says: Climate Depot reports on Al Gore’s appearence on the David Letterman show, where Letterman asks: ‘You, Al Gore, Are Doing Business With Country That’s Enabling Your Ultimate Foe…

Study: Irrigation increases 'extreme weather'

Readers may recall that Dr. John Christy found that irrigation increases temperatures measured in the central valley. This study finds it also increases rainfall and storms due to the additional…

Newsbytes: Climate Policy In Crisis As Britain Considers Exit From EU

From Dr. Beny Peiser at The GWPF Industry Warns EU Climate Laws Are Squashing Economic Recovery Fears are growing in Brussels that climate policy could become a political football in…

Eu Carbon price loses 40% of its value in one day

Hmmm, looks like they might read WUWT, that headline below looks familiar. CO2 prices in freefall as traders despair over EU vote 24 Jan 2013 11:26 Last updated: 24 Jan…

Today is D-Day — Delivery Day — for Richard Windsor's Emails

Guest post by Chris Horner Today, per its agreement as filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in CEI v. EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency and/or…

Monday is D-Day — Delivery Day — for Richard Windsor's Emails

UPDATE: Unless DoJ delays the expected release today (possible, foot dragging is a common thing with these as they try to “sanitize”) we’ll have the first update here soon after…

Josh on Rose and the Met Office

For some references, see below the cartoon… 

NOAA SOTC for December 2012

(This post revised to show the final report) Source: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2012/13 In 2012, the contiguous United States (CONUS) average annual temperature of 55.3°F was 3.3°F above the 20th century average, and…

The potential impact of volcanic overprinting of the Eddy Minimum

Guest post by David Archibald There were five named solar minima in the last millennium – the Oort, Wolf, Spörer, Maunder and Dalton minima. At least the last four were…

Slingo Pretends She Knows Why It’s Been So Wet!

By Paul Homewood Following release of provisional rainfall data for the UK, showing that 2012 has been one of the wettest on record, Professor Julia Slingo, chief scientist at the…

Nigel Lawson Wins Climate Policy Bet

From the GWPF Oliver Letwin, David Cameron’s chief policy adviser, has conceded defeat in a £100 climate policy bet with Nigel Lawson which they had agreed four and a half…