This week was a true roller coaster ride with Arctic Sea Ice. It is best summed up by looking at the JAXA graph for extent, shown below: Below, see the…
New gadget finally kills the power vampires in my home
I’m back home. Thanks to everyone who helped while I was offline with family medical issues. There are larger challenges ahead but for now things are back to near normal.…
Climate Change Is Not a Forever Problem
Guest post by Thomas Fuller Okay, all–this is a slow developing post. I hope you can stick with me to the end here. If you’re reading this, the chances are…
Analysis: CRU tosses valid 5 sigma climate data
Above: map of mean temperature and departure by state for February 1936 in the USA, a 5 sigma event. Source: NCDC’s map generator at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/cag3.html Steve Mosher writes in to…
Failure to forecast morphs to criminal investigation
From an AGU press release, potential charges for failure to forecast an earthquake. h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard. Scientists May Face Manslaughter Charges After Earthquake 22 June 2010 AGU Science…
The gusto that wasn't
I heard on my car radio a news report interviewing hotel and resort property owners on the East Coast that lost virtually all their bookings this holiday weekend due to…
The North Pacific & Solar Cycle Change
Guest post by Paul Vaughan, M.Sc. Awhile back I drew attention to temporal patterns shared by the <i>rate of change</i> of solar cycle length (SCL’) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation…
We Talk About Politics Because The Science Is Uncertain
Guest Post by Thomas Fuller You readers here at Watts Up With That have been very kind to me during my guest-blogging stint here, and I’d like to express my…
In Search of Cooling Trends
by Verity Jones and Tony Brown (Tonyb) Back in October Tony asked me to help with a big idea. Searching Norwegian climate site Rimfrost (www.rimfrost.no) Tony had found many climate…
And the hits just keep on coming: 'The Book the IPCC Plagiarized'
I have a bit of time free and a connection available so I just had to get this story up that I’ve been reading on my cellphone. I have to…
Earl sputters and the Atlantic quiets down a bit
Hurricane Earl is quickly losing steam as it barrels northward and begins its recurvature in the middle latitudes. The main threat to New England will be a broad area of…
Open Thread
[posted by autoscheduler] I’ll be offline most of today and tomorrow, but may check in via my cellphone. If you have story ideas, news, etc be sure to flag the…
ESA shows movement of Petermann berg
The “deniersberg” is on the move. Chances are though it will not leave Nares strait before the refreeze occurs. Like most everything to do with Arctic ice, winds are the…
Drifting Back to the Center
Guest post by Thomas Fuller Climate Central’s interview with Harold Shapiro, head of the InterAcademy Council which reviewed the IPCC, had the money quote–but it didn’t come from Shapiro, it…
NASA probe to 'touch, taste and smell' the sun.
From Science @NASA: Let’s hope it doesn’t taste like chicken or smell like feet. NASA’s daring plan to visit the sun took a giant leap forward today with the selection…
New climate change mitigation schemes could benefit elites rather than the rural poor
It’s nice to see somebody worried about elitism and climate change. The Climate Change Conference (COP16), to be held later this year in Cancun, Mexico may be yet another demonstration…
UM report labels Discovery Channel incident "politically inspired terrorism"
Via Press release (Eurekalert) Report from START: Discovery Networks Hostage-Taking a Rare Terror Event U.S. Violent Terror Rarely Against Media, Capital; Rare for Environmentalists COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A new…
UAH August Global Temperature, still in a holding pattern
Up slightly from .489 last month to .511 a change of .022 degrees C August 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.51 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer While the global-average…
New York Post: Meltdown of the climate 'consensus'
Excerpts: Meltdown of the climate ‘consensus’ By MATT PATTERSON If this keeps up, no one’s going to trust any scientists. The global-warming establishment took a body blow this week, as…
Stop the Hysteria
Guest Post by Thomas Fuller After the tragic events in Maryland on Wednesday of this week, where a man took three hostages and tried to make The Discovery Channel a…
Latest Hurricane Earl Info
As a service to my readers, here is a collection of related satellite graphics, loops, and other info about Hurricane Earl now skirting the East Coast. You can animate the…
Where are the solar power projects?
From the Ventura County Star: ROACH DRY LAKE, Nev. — Not a light bulb’s worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set…
Study: Ammonium as ice core proxy shows strong Medieval Warm Period in the tropics
The MWP has been vigorously argued to be a regional northern hemisphere phenomenon only, but this new study finds it in South America. In this new paper they write: “The…
Open Sea Ice Thread
With Sea Ice News # 20 closed here is a place for ongoing discussing the 2010 season. That’s it. I may add a picture later.
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