June 2010 Temperature, cooling a bit as El Nino fades

June 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.44 deg. C by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The global-average lower tropospheric temperature remains warm, +0.44 deg. C for June, 2010, but it…

AGW Mathematics : -30 + 5 = 0

By Steven Goddard, From The Vancouver Sun, a survey of leading climate scientists. “More than half the experts think there is a more than 10 per chance we’ll get five…

Ponderous Pachyderms Prevent Permafrost

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony Watts has pointed to a curious new paper in his article “Climate Craziness of the Week: The AGU peddles a mammoth climate change theory”…

Penn State Report Released

Online here I don’t have a lot to say about this, but I would suggest reading the comments over at the Climate Audit thread on the subject. The acount of…

Waxman Malarkey 4: Impact Zone Ireland

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In part 4 of this series, I take a look at the Waxman Markey claims about the Emerald Isle, Impact Zone Ireland. My previous analyses…

The Victorian Warmed Period

I met Ken while on my Australian tour, he’s been doing some fine work. Via Andrew Bolt Retired school principal Kenskingdom was alarmed by this Bureau of Meteorology graph, showing…

New Zealand's Prime Minister: Climate Change bill a "load of rubbish" and "hoax"

Via Andrew Bolt in email, some surprising revelations about New Zealand’s Prime minister and his previous opinion of the ETS. It appears he has done a complete about face from…

Weather vs. Climate

By Steven Goddard I recently had the opportunity to attend a meeting of some top weather modelers. Weather models differ from climate models in that they have to work and…

New Zealand begins emissions trading scheme, meanwhile the Gore/Pachauri Chicago Climate Exchange is flatlining

The months of flatlining at the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) should be a hint to the rest of the world that carbon trading is dead. Time to take it off…

Climate Craziness of the Week: The AGU peddles a mammoth climate change theory

Yes, our forebears started global warming by hunting the woolly mammoth. Right. Must be the mammoth albedo effect, much like the sheep albedo effect. Oh, wait, no it’s birch trees…

Waxman Malarkey 3: Impact Zone Alaska

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Once again, I return to that endless font of misinformation, the Waxman Markey website. In this case, I look at their claims about Alaska. This…

Record cold down under

I swear, I had nothing to do with this. Speaking tonight in Canberra, details here. Weather records for Sydney here. From the “weather is not climate department”: Sydney recorded its…

Waxman Malarkey 2: Impact Zone Australia

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Having spent a reasonable amount of time there, I have the highest regard for Australia and Australians. In general they are good, level-headed folks. Unfortunately,…

Alex – first Atlantic Hurricane of 2010

To help you keep an eye on it, I have the satellite imagery here along with animated loops. Click image for full size or animate this image: Click for loop>>>…

Amazing Grace

By Steven Goddard, The headline reads “NASA Satellites Detect Unexpected Ice Loss in East Antarctica” ScienceDaily (Nov. 26, 2009) — Using gravity measurement data from the NASA/German Aerospace Center’s Gravity…

Waxman-Malarkey: Impact Zone US Northeast

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the US House of Representatives, there is something curiously yclept the “Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming” despite the lack of connection…

Mann says hockey stick "icon" is "misplaced"

The scientist behind the controversial ‘hockey stick’ graph has said it was ‘somewhat misplaced’ to make his work an ‘icon of the climate change debate’. From the Telegraph, By Louise…

Perhaps the stupidest article I've ever seen

By charles the moderator Here’s the link. I have no other comment. From congress.org Global Warming could make Humans EXTINCT within 50 years Kill mechanisms list Global Warming could make…

Heavy Climate

Earth’s gravity pictured in ‘HD’ By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News, Bergen It is one of the most exquisite views we have ever had of the Earth. This colourful…

Sea Ice News #11

“Steepest slope ever.” By Steven Goddard We have been hearing a lot about how the decline in Arctic ice is following the “steepest slope ever.” The point is largely meaningless,…

Badges? The "We don't need no stinking badges" contest

In case you don’t know the line above, lookup “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”. Here’s a YouTube clip of one of the most famous lines ever borrowed for parody use…

The New Space Junk Blame Game

Space junk, those bits and pieces dropped by astronauts, or resulting from explosion of upper stages, or collisions of satellites or ASAT tests, are a major safety hazard in Low…

Quote of the Week #36 – Carbon sequestration's fatal flaw

This is a parody gone mad. Green advocates howl about the issues of nuclear waste storage, arguing that nuclear energy becomes impractical due to the need for long term safe…

Spencer on Pinatubo and climate sensitivity

Revisiting the Pinatubo Eruption as a Test of Climate Sensitivity By Roy W. Spencer, PhD. The eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines on June 15, 1991 provided a natural…