My parents used to talk about rationing during the war with great apprehension. Clearly the nutters in and supporting Cancun are clueless as to how such a scheme would be…
Overshoot and Undershoot
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Today I thought I’d discuss my research into what is put forward as one of the key pieces of evidence that GCMs (global climate models)…
The little conference that can can't
Josh, of Cartoons by Josh has a take on the attendance of COP16 at Cancun, said to be down more than 50% over last year’s COP15 shindig in Copenhagen.
NOAA's End Game on the 2010 Hurricane Season
NOAA press release below, gotta love the word “onslaught” added for dramatic effect. I’m sure Ryan Maue’s end season summary of hurricane ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy) for the 2010 will…
CARB delays proposed "false statements" discussion
Readers may recall this story on WUWT: Surreality: CARB contemplating a “skeptical science” regulation with penalties I wrote that: Of course, it’s OK if CARB makes a 340% error of…
Climate Craziness Cools In Cancun
The weather isn’t so hot, either. Editorial from: The Washington Times, 29 November 2010 Today, U.N. negotiators will begin two weeks of meetings in Cancun, Mexico, looking for a way to move…
Hypocrisy meter pegged at the New York Times
UPDATE: Andrew Revkin responds with an update on Dot Earth, which I repeat here. He now agrees that privacy expectations were not justified in the UEA Climategate emails. Perhaps now…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) On Monday, the 16th Conference of Parties (COP) to the UN Climate Change Convention will meet…
IPCC head Pachauri booted from "Global Thinkers" list
Though, he still has a chance at being on the Best Smutty Romance Novel Writers of 2010 list. Click for more photos from his book release. Tom Nelson writes: What…
The UK Met Office "Winter Forecast" – fail or faux?
Have a look at these two juxtaposed news clips from the UK Daily Mail, one from October 28th, 2010, the other from November 28th, 2010.
Freaking out about NYC sea level rise is easy to do when you don't pay attention to history
One of the more common visual tactics used by AGW proponents to scare people into thinking that AGW induced sea level rise is a big threat is to show altered…
People Living in Glass Planets
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dr. Judith Curry notes in a posting at her excellent blog Climate Etc. that there are folks out there that claim the poorly named planetary…
Dr. Roy Spencer & Lord Christopher Monckton to Challenge Climate Orthodoxy at Cancun UN Conference
I wonder if the “Climate Science Rapid Response Team” is going? From PR Newswire Available for Radio and All Media CANCUN, Mexico, Nov. 24, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — CFACT, the Committee…
California's giant redwoods inconveniently respond to increased carbon dioxide
In all of California, there is no greater shrine to nature than the giant redwoods of the Northern California. WUWT readers may remember this article which talks about the threat…
Pielke Jr. on Trenberth's Book Review
Dr. Roger Pielke Junior sent this along with the options to ignore it, or to publish in whole or in part. Apparently, Dr. Kevin Trenberth can’t account for the facts…
Does Hadley Centre Sea Surface Temperature Data (HADSST2) Underestimate Recent Warming?
Guest post by Bob Tisdale In advance of the UN negotiations next week in Cancun, the press and blogs today have included numerous elaborations on the UK Met Office press…
Friday Funny: "Pay up, Suckas"
From the “I have first dibs on Uranus” department: From Yahoo News/AFP: Spanish woman claims ownership of the Sun MADRID (AFP) – After billions of years the Sun finally has…
NYT's sort-of-clarity on Norfolk sinking aka "sea level rise" and an inconvenient map
This is a map and photo of Sharp’s Island and its sinking lighthouse in Chesapeake Bay, we’ll get back to that after the main article about Norfolk. GreenHell Blog writes:…
Examination of CRU data suggests no statistically significant warming
UPDATE: The StataSphere server can’t handle the load of interest, I’ve take the images offline from this article, and disabled the link to it. Once he gets the server up…
Can cacti 'escape' underground in high temperatures?
From the American Journal of Botany How a certain species will potentially handle global warming In the scorching summer heat of the Chihuahuan Desert in southwest Texas, air temperatures…
GASP! Climate Change could ruin Thanksgiving
From the “nothing escapes the clutches of global warming” department comes this farce: Here’s the ah, er, beef:
On Suzuki: "celebrity and integrity seem to be mutually exclusive"
From the Canadian Newspaper: An inconvenient letter to the editor, from a “green librarian” no less. h/t to Kate at SDA. David Suzuki disappointing To The Editor: On Saturday, Nov.…
America's Thanksgiving – the historical foundation
Much like the famous editorial, Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, it has become a tradition this time of year to see some newspapers reprint President George Washington’s Thanksgiving…
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