UPDATE: I’ve made a change to my policy on media interaction. See below. -A Strong headline, I know. But the headline is rooted in actions (and lack thereof). Readers may…
City UHI makes spring bloom earlier
From the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, somebody finally gets it. We’ve changed our local climates significantly, and the plants have figured this out long ago. Mid-Atlantic suburbs…
Tornadoes make the earth move
From Indiana University Scientists detect seismic signals from tornado BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — An Indiana University geophysical experiment detected unusual seismic signals associated with tornadoes that struck regions across the Midwest…
Hey Hansen! Where's the Beef !?
In June 1986, Dr. James Hansen made a prediction to an AP newspaper reporter, which was carried in Oxnard, CA, of a 2 degree temperature rise by 2006. This was…
February 2012 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update
By Bob Tisdale OFF-TOPIC NEWS Due to the popularity of If the IPCC was Selling Manmade Global Warming as a Product, Would the FTC Stop their Deceptive Ads? in .pdf…
Mann and coining the AMO and claims of credit
Junkscience.com writes: Did Michael Mann falsely claim to coin a famous climate term actually coined by someone else? In Mann’s new book “The Hockey Stick and Climate Wars”, Mann writes:…
Under the radar – the NAS Report
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Under the radar, and un-noticed by many climate scientists, there was a recent study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), commissioned by the US…
Solar storm continues, geomagnetic storm and auroras expected
We have about three hours to go for the expected arrival time of the CME at 0625 UTC/1025 PM PST. Proton flux remains high as do other indicators. Additionally another…
The Earth has chills and fever, and spots, or something
WUWT Readers may remember in 2006 Al Gore announcing on national television one morning that: The earth has a fever… He of course was pushing his book, An Inconvenient Truth…
A detailed review of Mann's book: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars as it relates to the Wegman report to Congress
By Brandon Shollenberger Introduction Michael Mann recently published a book named The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars. It was generally well-received, quickly garnering many positive reviews. Even Henry Waxman,…
Hump Day Hilarity – Pot o'gold at the end of the green rainbow
Josh just can’t seem to stop drawing. After yesterday’s classic soon to be on T-shirts and mugs, we have this related to The GWPF study on the economic futility of…
The Cold Kiwi Comes Home to Roost
Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics –Kiwi Style By Andi Cockroft, reporting from New Zealand The Cold Kiwi is an event held each year on the Volcanic Plateau of the Central…
New Report: Economic Analysis Reveals Wind Power 'Worse Than a Mistake'
Press release from The Global Warming Policy Foundation One of the UK’s leading energy and environment economists warns that wind power is an extraordinarily expensive and inefficient way of reducing…
Give up Canada, you're toast
From Simon Fraser University, a new paper says that the Canucks may as well just give up, because its going to warm up no matter what they do. Using powerful…
Australians just aren't going to know what rainfall is
While the Waragamba dam overflows in NSW, and the Sydney Morning Herald reports… ‘Unprecedented amount of rain’: flood evacuations after Sydney dam spills …and many Australians wonder just what the…
NOAA: Strong Solar Eruption; Earth-Directed CME Likely
An X-5 class solar flare just occurred from region 1429, the large active sunspot group seen below. NOAA Bulletin from the Space Weather Prediction Center: 2012-03-07 01:03 Strong Solar Eruption;…
The Permo-Triassic Extinction: A Question of Timing
Guest post by Mark Hladik Introduction In a 31 August 2011 article A blast from the gas in the past, Anthony Watts and company at Watts Up With That discussed a…
Josh on Mann's Jurassic Moment
Moviegoing readers of WUWT probably remember this famous moment from a famous film based on a Michel Crichton book. While “State of Fear” might come to mind first, it’s actually…
Climate hockey stick threatens…pond hockey
From the Canadian Department of Redundancy and the Journal of Paleohockey comes this hilarious study via press release that I first thought was a spoof. Sadly it is all too…
50 years ago: The Great Atlantic Storm of 1962
Guest post by Ric Werme This week marks the 50th anniversary of a destructive nor’easter named “The Great Atlantic Storm of 1962” by the NWS and just “The Ash Wednesday…
Wind Turbine Syndrome affects more people than previously thought
by Mark Duchamp A survey was conducted on wind farm noise as part of a Master’s dissertation by Zhenhua Wang, a graduate student in Geography, Environment and Population at the…
I used to be Snow White
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a paper out by, inter alios, our good friend Judith Curry. The paper is “Impact of Declining Arctic Sea Ice on Winter Snowfall”, by…
New contest for writing a skeptical essay
From the Spectator: Announcing the Matt Ridley Prize for Environmental Heresy by Fraser Nelson Matt Ridley has long deplored the wind farm delusion, and was appalled when a family trust…
Argo, Latitude, Day, and Reynolds Interpolation
Guest post by Willis Eschenbach This is another of my occasional reports from my peripatetic travels through the Argo data (see the Appendix for my other dispatches from the front…
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