From the “weather is not climate” department: All of the western states have snowpacks that are currently 110 to over 180 percent above normal with the exception of southern Colorado.…
Wind farm ordered dismantled
Mark Duchamp writes in with this news from the Lerida, Autonomous Community (state) of Catalonia, Spain: A judge ordered the removal of 45 wind turbines on the grounds that planning…
GWPF on Huhne's "green spin"
Press Release (via email) Conditional Climate Targets Are A Step Back From Blind Unilateralism LONDON, 18 May – The Global Warming Policy Foundation regards the UK’s conditional adoption of post-2020…
NYC: denying the sea and Hansen's sea level predictions
Reader John Smith writes in with this interesting photo essay. Dear Anthony — Back in November 2010 you did a post ( Freaking out about NYC sea level rise is…
New study links cosmic rays to aerosols/cloud formation via solar magnetic activity modulation
From an Aarhus University press release: Scientists at Aarhus University (AU) and the National Space Institute (DTU Space) show that particles from space create cloud cover New input to the…
Sudden Clovis climate death by comet – "bogus"
UPDATE 3/12/12 – a new study presents very strong evidence for the comet theory, see here Bishop Hill alerts us to this news item in Miller-McCune, a policy and research…
CO2 increase is "like hitting our ecosystem with a sledge-hammer"
That comes from this statement in the press release: Professor Kennedy said that the doubling of the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere over the past 50 years is…
Cold homes and energy poverty
While this paper makes some good points about fuel poverty and energy cost, they bit hook line and sinker the ridiculous recent claim of Super exponential accelerating CO2 growth and…
Krazy in Kalamazoo – taxes on solar farm more than the value of the electricity produced
For comparison, Field researched the property tax for the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Covert Township along Lake Michigan. He found that the annual real and personal property taxes for Palisades…
"People underestimate the power of models. Observational evidence is not very useful."
Guest post by Alec Rawls Andrew Orlowski at the UK Register has an anecdotal account of Downing College’s skeptics-vs-believers mash-up. Ace of Spades pulled the juiciest bit: In short, the…
Introducing the WUWT Atmospheric Oscillation (Teleconnection) Reference Page
Our newest addition is the WUWT Atmospheric Oscillation Page, which includes graphs, graphics and animations of the Arctic Oscillation (AO), Antarctic Oscillation (AAO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), North Pacific Oscillation…
The New NOAA Climate “Normals”
With the close of 2010, NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has commenced calculation of the 1981–2010 Normals. Climate Normals are the latest three-decade averages of climatological variables, including temperature…
Wegman paper retraction by Journal
Post updated below – see my own experience with plagiarism by NOAA and how it was solved easily – Anthony I get word that USA Today reports that the caterwaulings…
Hate the twisty bulbs? ESL's coming soon
This product just got UL approval, expect it to show up for retail sales soon. What’s an ESL? Think of it as an unfocused Cathode Ray Tube or CRT. The…
Interannual Terrestrial Oscillations
There’s a saying, “timing is everything”. After reading this, I think it is more true than ever. In other news. Paul Vaughn is giving Bob Tisdale serious competition in the…
SODIS Roolz
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach One of the joys of writing for this blog is that I can promote good ideas. Here’s one I just came across, thanks to a…
Pray for Britain
Seems to me that this will place Britain at the forefront of economic disadvantage.
Late, low, May snow in California
From the “weather is not climate” department, I’m getting reports this morning of snow down to 2500 feet in Forest Ranch, CA a few miles from where I live. This…
For you military history buffs – bad karma das boot
Since I spent so much time working with Google Earth for the surfacestations project, I decided to create a blog for fun, where I can practice my sleuthing skills using…
An Index to Willis's Writings
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach. In an effort to make some sense out of my posts and to enable me to refer to them and remember where they are located…
“Get Carter” and his Supporters, Part B
Guest post by Bob Fernley-Jones (aka Bob_FJ) Caution; this in Anglo-Oz English, and e.g. ABC = Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and red emphasis is mine. In Part A we discussed how…
The new US Postal service green stamps – no mention of global warming, climate change, or carbon – but they do want us to turn off our lights "forever"
The first thing I thought of when I heard about the new US Postal Service “green stamps” was this logo at right. I suppose I’ve dated myself identifying this, but…
Pat Frank: The New Science of Climate Change
Guest post by John A. This is a shout-out to a fascinating post by Pat Frank on Jeff Id’s blog on the mysterious changes to climate history coming from James…
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