From NTD Television Snow Covers Sichuan State Highway 318 in Summer While people in other regions of China, are enduring the hot summer, a bizarre scene of drifting snow covered…
Location location, location: Wind Turbine Power Output Increased 10x
Wind Turbine power output is increased ten-fold by careful spacing, and direction of rotation, when compared to existing best practices. Click image for video surveyGuest post by Roger E. Sowell…
I need your help for a short research project
No, I’m not asking for money, just some crowdsourced help. I have a short project that I can do in some free time tomorrow night, that is if I can…
Devastating paper on IPCC consensus
I’m pinched for time, so I’ll unashamedly pinch this from Bishop Hill (who I don’t think will mind): A devastating paper by Jane Goodwin on Iowa State university is discussed…
Contradictory Studies – IPCC Struggling to Pinpoint Rising Sea Levels
Story submitted by WUWT reader Mark B …the estimates currently differ by almost five meters (16.5 feet). The United Nations’ forecast of how quickly global sea levels will rise this…
NOAA plays the sea level card with El Niño
Strong El Niño could bring increased sea levels, storm surges to U.S. East Coast New study examines how El Niño in cold months affected water levels over past 50 years…
High Costs Bury AEP’s Carbon Burial Plan
Story submitted by Hugh McCullough American Electric Power has scuttled its pilot project to bury CO2 from its Mountaineer coal-burning plant in Red Haven WVa. The original projected cost, before…
Friday Funny Double Feature – Herring the Red & La Niña
Josh was motivated by a comment on Bishop Hill. Josh writes: This was inspired by a comment by Theo Goodwin at Bishop Hill. http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/7/14/abraham-on-the-mwp.html The climate blogs this week have…
Polar OBuoy – the movie
An engineer who helped deploy “obuoys” in the Arctic submitted this story, but wishes to remain nameless since he feels that he’ll be ostracized for sharing here. I’ll respect his…
Ionospheric airglow signature of tsunami waves confirmed
From the University of Illinois, something quite interesting, long speculated on, now confirmed. Tsunami airglow signature could lead to early detection system Researchers at the University of Illinois have become…
One more reason to distrust CRU and UEA – their hired spinmeister was arrested in the News of the World phone hack scandal
This is a repost from Climate Audit “Covert” Operations by East Anglia’s CRU Jul 14, 2011 – 2:53 PM by Steve McIntyre Today brings news of the arrest of the managing…
Pielke Sr. on Climate Science Myopia
By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. There is an article Global warming lull down to China’s coal growth by Richard Black of the BBC which perpetuate an inappropriately narrow view of climate…
The China Syndrome: Don’t Blame China For Temperature Standstill
Newsbytes from The Global Warming Policy Foundation and Dr. Benny Peiser The idea that China is to blame for the global temperature standstill does not stand up. It is a…
Sea Ice News – July ARCUS forecast published
Figure 1. Distribution of individual Pan-Arctic Outlook (July Report) values for September 2010 sea ice extent. Credit: Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS). Click to enlarge. Download High Resolution…
Personal note: reduced posting in the coming weeks
I’m going to be “on hiatus” perhaps a couple of weeks or more to catch up on my business, which needs some significant attention right now. Blogging, as most of…
Chris Mooney doesn't understand the Internet, and neither do some researchers
I had to laugh. Over at Discover Magazine Intersection Blog, Chris Mooney is defending the paper I critiqued a couple of days ago as if it contains some actual solid…
Give this lady an Order of Australia medal
The death spiral of PM Julia Gillard and the Labor Party in Australia continues, and it has been pretty much a sealed fate thanks to one nameless woman in gift…
Germany to shovel climate fund dollars into coal plants
Less than a month after the failed Bonn UN climate confab, Germany has announced a most audacious energy policy: in order to shutter nuclear plants (but not completely scuttle their…
WTF? US Geological Survey studying rice, fungus, & climate
From this USGS Press Release. What, you don’t have enough earthquakes to chase or maps to make? Read your mission statement when you applied to congress for funding: The USGS…
Peer reviewed paper: 2010 Russian heat wave "mostly natural"
The 2010 Summer Heat Wave of Western Russia Reference Dole, R., Hoerling, M., Perlwitz, J., Eischeid, J., Pegion, P., Zhang, T., Quan, X.-W., Xu, T. and Murray, D. 2011. Was…
Great moments in doomsday countdowns
With Al Gore’s recent re-emergence from the dead with An Inconvenient Truth, Version 2.0, I find myself noting his website, The Climate Reality Project (formerly The Alliance for Climate Protection)…
Archibald: Solar Based Climate Forecast to 2050
Guest post by David Archibald When I started out in climate science in 2005, the climate people ignored the solar physics community. A casual perusal of the literature though indicated…
SDO sees 'Dark Fireworks' on the Sun
From Science@ NASA: On June 7, 2011, Earth-orbiting satellites detected a flash of X-rays coming from the western edge of the solar disk. Registering only “M” (for medium) on the…
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