Highlights of Lord Christopher Monckton’s Melbourne Presentation at the Sofitel Melbourne. Recorded 1st February 2010. There are two parts below. Part 1
LBNL on Himalayas: "greenhouse gases alone are not nearly enough to be responsible for the snow melt"
From Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, and announcement that comes at a very inconvenient time for IPCC and Pachauri while their “Glaciergate” issue rages. Aerosols and black carbon are tagged as…
UK Greenpeace director calls for new IPCC chairman – meanwhile Pachy comments on the use of makeup
In an interview with the Times, John Sauven, director of Greenpeace UK suggests that the IPCC needs a new chairman other than The Love Guru. But, in a recent press…
IPCC fires back – "challenges are without foundation"
The IPCC has issued a statement about all of the criticism being heaped upon them by bloggers and journalists regarding poor sourcing of references. Me thinks they are clueless about…
The Guardian hounds CRU with new reports
A series of events appears to be unfolding in the UK that provide for a serial story. As they say in the news biz “it has legs”. Two more stories…
In 1790, Philly "had a fever", today, not so much
Steve Goddard reminded me that we’ve had “220 Years of Global Warming in Philadelphia” Starting in 1790, a prominent Philadelphia resident named Charles Pierce started keeping detailed records of the…
Penn State report on Mann: new investigation to convene.
The report is out, and further investigation is forthcoming. Excerpts from the report are below, where they considered 4 allegations. They say only one had merit. That will be the…
BBC asks WUWT for help
I received this email this morning from Roger Harribin, the BBC’s environmental analyst. It’s interesting because I received an email from the Guardian yesterday asking if I’d like to write…
NASA Still Spreading Antarctic Worries
Steven Goddard looks at trends in Antarctica and compares to NASA’s recent article. A January 12, 2010 Earth Observatory article warns that Antarctica “has been losing more than a hundred…
Guardian: Climategate "…exposes the real process of science, its jealousies and tribalism"
For the Guardian, it has been a week of finally coming to terms with what we’ve known here at WUWT for months now. The issues of Climategate are finally getting…
Solar Cycle 24 Update
Guest post by David Archibald Solar Cycle 24 is now over a year old, so it is appropriate to see how it is ramping up. Solar Cycle 24 was a…
Jo Nova's ClimateGate Timeline: 30 years in the making (Edition 1.1)
Mohib Ebrahim, who has created timelines for professional exhibitions, has now produced one of the ClimateGate scandal, providing graphs, e-mails, history, and analysis of events. This is the second edition,…
Forests in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have in the past 225 years
From the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center blog: “The chief culprit appears to be climate change, more specifically, the rising levels of atmospheric CO2, higher temperatures and longer growing seasons.” This…
Still better than the Met Office
Six more weeks of winter, Phil says Tuesday, February 02, 2010 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press Punxsutawney Phil is held by Ben Hughes after emerging this morning from his…
The single server theory
Jeff Id at the Air vent writes about the recent UEA/CRU announcement that the Climategate files were all left on a single server. Gathering them into one zip file and…
Gate Du Jour: IPCC AR4 references NYT story
“Cold Showers, Rotting Food, the Lights, Then Dancing” – Title of Pachauri’s next novel maybe? WUWT commenter “Galileonardo” writes: I found this reference to the New York Times in WGII…
Climategate intensifies: Jones and Wang apparently hid Chinese station data issues
UPDATE: UEA/CRU has responded! http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/CRUstatements/guardianstatement Looks like a homogenized data comparison. h/t to WUWT reader “splice” ============================== It looks like Doug Keenan has been right all along. He must feel…
Gate Du Jour: IPCC gets the boot (cleaned)
WUWT reader “ClimateQuoter” brings this latest IPCC AR 4 reference to our attention. It seems the issue is about preventing footwear borne biological contamination. It appears this has nothing to…
Looks like Penn State's Mann inquiry will be without the tough questions
You’d think, being academics and all, that Penn State’s internal investigation of Dr. Michael Mann would contact the people who raised questions about the MBH98 paper and the “hockey stick”.…
Chiefio asks: why does GISS make us see red?
Is the NULL default infinite hot? January 31, 2010 by E.M.Smith see his website “Musings from the Chiefio” The empty ocean goes infinite hot on a null anomaly What to make…
Spencer: Natural variability unexplained in IPCC models
Evidence for Natural Climate Cycles in the IPCC Climate Models’ 20th Century Temperature Reconstructions by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. What can we learn from the IPCC climate models based…
Record cold in Florida kills reef coral
Never mind predictions of catastrophic bleaching from global warming, cold is the culprit of this story. With ocean heat content now shown to be dropping slightly since 2005, there is…
Micro satellite to study atmospheric gamma ray flashes
From NASA Science News: Firefly Mission to Study Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes High-energy bursts of gamma rays typically occur far out in space, perhaps near black holes or other high-energy cosmic…
UHI is alive and well
One of the most ridiculous claims recently related to Menne et al 2010 and my surfacestations project was a claim made by DeSmogBlog (and Huffington Post who carried the story…
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