From the “don’t trust but verify” department comes the revelation that the Obama administration went into COP15 negotiation with spy help. WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency monitored the communications…
Important study on temperature adjustments: 'homogenization…can lead to a significant overestimate of rising trends of surface air temperature.'
From the “we told you so” department comes this paper out of China that quantifies many of the very problems with the US and global surface temperature record we have…
Picture of the week – great moments in climate protests
I trained to be a 350.org climate activist, now I are one! From the Keystone XL protest yesterday ahead of the SOTU address. Note the snow and cold weather gear…
Quote of the week – a preposterous POTUS pronouncement
Last night in the SOTU address, Obama made this pronouncement about climate change: But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact. To that, I say this:
Should We Be Worried?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I chanced to plot up the lower tropospheric temperatures by broad latitude zones today. This is based on the data from the satellite microwave sounding…
Why did Met Office try to cover Up 'the pause' two years ago?
By Paul Homewood Last July, the Met Office published the second in a series of papers, discussing the recent pause in global warming. On page 6, they state: The start…
Excerpts on climate from the SOTU – comments welcome
I made it back to a computer in time today to get a copy of the State of the Union address, here are the relevant passages about climate:
SOTU Open Thread – what freaky climate claims will POTUS make tonight?
While the most recent public polls on climate-change give a ho-hum response, Dr. Roy Spencer recently surmised that in the State of the Union Address tonight, President Obama will join…
El Niño sea monitoring system may fail – half dead already
From the “send money or the instrumentation gets it” department comes news that the TAO array may already be toast due to budget constraints. One wonders if money sucked into…
BBC Meteorologist: Met Office Global Forecasts Too Warm In 13 Of Last 14 Years
Paul Hudson, BBC Weather, says: The global temperature in 2013 was 0.486C above the 1961-1990 average based on the HADCRUT measure, figures released by the Met Office show. So far this…
A 'disturbance in the farce' ahead of the SOTU
UPDATE: first picture submitted at right from Matt Dempsey The Winter of their Discontent: Keystone XL activists to protest global warming ahead of SOTU in freezing cold. McKibben’s 350.org nutters say…
Inconvenient study: Arctic was warmer than the present during the Medieval Warm Period
New paper finds temperatures were as much as 0.5c warmer in the Arctic during the MWP than today. The Hockeyschtick reports: A paper published yesterday in Global and Planetary Change…
The AR5 hearings, live stream
Skeptics get a seat at the table. IPCC 5th Assessment Review Meeting starts at 9.30am GMT Witnesses Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London, Professor Myles Allen, University…
No New Continent 'Hottest' Temperature Records Since 1978
Something to consider for the SOTU address tonight where “extremes” of all kinds are likely to be discussed. If indeed we are seeing hottest ever type scenarios, or if you…
Asian ozone pollutes Hawaii and USA west coast – varies with climatic shifts
Asian ozone pollution in Hawaii is tied to climate variability (Nature Geoscience) By Joanne Curcio, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Air pollution from Asia has been rising for several…
Picture of how our climate is affected by greenhouse gases is a 'cloudy' one
Cloud cover is a major forcing, and uncertain, say researchers from the Hebrew University, US and Australia Jerusalem, Jan. 26, 2014 – The warming effect of human-induced greenhouse gases is…
Dallas Cowboys Stadium Seating and Atmospheric CO2
With the possibility of the coldest Super Bowl ever coming this week, this story about CO2 concentration seemed appropriate. Ryan Scott Welch writes: Anthony as you know, many people don’t…
CAGW bias in academia; Lesfrud and Meyer 2013 revisited.
Guest essay by Andy West Posts at WUWT have often featured scientific papers that are clearly impacted by a cultural bias towards CAGW. Given the impressive reach of WUWT and…
What to do about The Flood Next Time
Guest Post by Kip Hansen Corrigendum: Due to the simple mis-reading of a multi-column spreadsheet from this paper, the magnitude of the AIG Subsidence for The Battery was misstated…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-01-25 (January 25, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The greatest deception men suffer is…
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