It’s AGU week in San Francisco, of course that means the annual barrage of science by press release. I was struck by this juxtaposition of two press releases at Eurekalert…
Quote Of The Week – AGW statistical futility
Here’s a quote related to the McShane and Wyner discussion brought to light thanks to Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann at RealClimate that I happen to agree with. Yes I…
NASA's Terra Satellite Images Minnesota's Blizzard Aftermath
From Science @ NASA.gov The upper Midwest was hit by a powerful winter storm this past weekend as more than 17 inches of snow brought down the roof to the…
The Details Are In The Devil
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I love thought experiments. They allow us to understand complex systems that don’t fit into the laboratory. They have been an invaluable tool in the…
What frog science can teach us about global warming
A Frog Revival From World Climate Report About 15 to 20 years ago, folks began to notice problems in amphibian communities around the world. At first, physical deformities were being…
Time to end your membership with the American Geophysical Union
Pigs have been flying at AGU, apparently. All hope is lost for this organization. Get out while you can. Grab an air sickness bag, then see this press release: AGU…
McShane & Wyner Hockey Stick Smackdown – redux
WUWT readers may remember this popular article from August 30th, 2010 New paper makes a hockey sticky wicket of Mann et al 98/99/08 and then The Team’s response RC’s response to…
Hundreds of new cold and snow records set in the USA
New 2 day record December snowfall amount to the Minneapolis/St Paul area While there have been a few high temperature records in the desert southwest and western Oregon, the majority…
News Bites – Real Climate Progress In Cancun
From the GWPF Green Agenda Kicked Into UN Black Hole The climate change conference in Cancún has ended with failure to set a target date for the reduction of carbon…
An Open Letter to Dr. Subra Suresh
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dear Dr. Suresh: My sincere and heartfelt congratulations on your being appointed Director of the US National Science Foundation (NSF). It is indeed an honor…
Tisdale K.O.e's GISS's latest "warmest-year nonsense"
Bob Tisdale writes: I’ve been holding off telling you about my most recent post in hopes that GISS would continue with their warmest-year nonsense. And they did. Using correlation maps, animations,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) The 16th Conference of Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is finishing…
Metrodome Collapses in Minneapolis – will they blame global warming climate change climate disruption this time?
Remember when Joe Romm said the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis was related to”climate change”? And again… The truth, never reported on Climate Progress, is far different:
Hansen feels the need to explain why GISS is high in the midst of frigid air
I was working on a general report yesterday, but in checking background for it, I discovered this recent missive from Dr. Hansen. I suppose when your agency is the “odd…
View the 2010 Hurricane Season in Google Earth
While we are waiting for Ryan Maue’s ACE 2010 report on the hurricane season, there’s this from the Google Earth blog: Greg at Geodesic contacted us to let us know…
A really neat piece of hybrid organic semiconductor tech generates electricity from light or heat
From Fujitsu’s press web site: Fujitsu Develops Hybrid Energy Harvesting Device for Generating Electricity from Heat and Light Paves the way toward widespread energy harvesting, generating self-sufficient power from the…
Snow Season Off to a Roaring Start
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM Last year the Northern Hemispheric snowcover was the second highest in the NOAA snow history back to the mid 1960s. It trailed only the legendary 1977/78…
Skeptical Stocking Stuffers
Yesterday on the Friday Funny – the new and improved 4 legged AGW table thread, there was quite a bit of interest in getting T-Shirts of Josh’s latest CAGW cartoon, the…
Cancun ends with "low hanging fruit", but fails to renew Kyoto
Maybe the failure had more to do with the caliber of people attending…like these McKibben zombies. Heads go in the sand at 8:45 in the video: From Politico: Negotiators from…
Latest Rasmussen poll on global warming opinion
From Rasmussen Reports: 41% Now Say Global Warming is Caused By Human Activity, More Say Planetary Trends Most U.S. voters continue to be concerned about global warming but still are…
If climate science politics were a hockey game…oh, wait
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. -Rodney Dangerfield (1921 – 2004) …not surprisingly, the United Nations’ 2010 Climate Change Conference in Cancun,…
Which way to the feedback?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is an interesting new study by Lauer et al. entitled “The Impact of Global Warming on Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over the Eastern Pacific—A…
OSU's Dr. Lonnie Thompson pushes gloom and doom, still thinks the snows of Kilimanjaro are melting due to global warming
This is an OSU press release, timed to appear in Eurekalert for Cancun’s COP16 on December 8th, and reposted here verbatim, including the all caps headline. Even though the “melting…
Friday Funny – the new and improved 4 legged AGW table
Now with Escherisms! Josh from Cartoons by Josh writes: I thoroughly enjoyed all the helpful comments on both your blogs about Kev’s 4 legged climate table. I have tried to…
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