Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Background: In 2000,…
#spiritofmawson fiasco leader gets award for 'excellence'
The Australian Academy of Science has announced their 2014 HONORIFIC AWARDS FOR SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE The description reads: Academy Medal: for contributions to science by means other than the conduct of…
Setting the record straight on ‘the cause of pause in global warming’
Guest essay by Don J. Easterbrook, Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University Last week in my post ‘‘The cause of pause in global warming,” I presented data showing that the…
The Scientific Method and Climate Science
Guest essay by Dr. Vincent Gray Science is supposed to take place by the use of the “Scientific Method” defined in the following way.
Australian heatwaves are nothing new
Guest essay by Viv Forbes No doubt we will hear how the current heatwaves in Australia are “unprecedented” and evidence of dangerous man-made global warming. They are neither “global” nor…
The Iditarod on 12,000 calories a day
Extreme cold in Alaska makes the race even more challenging – and dangerous Guest essay by Paul Driessen This winter’s record Midwestern freeze made any outdoor activity a real challenge.…
Who knew? Plants are 'heavy water' rain gauges
From the GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre and the Varved D2O department: The water cycle amplifies abrupt climate change The role of the hydrological cycle during abrupt temperature changes is…
No Clue Haiku – Temp Rise Past Due
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. Oceanographer Gregory Johnson, Lead Author of the IPCC AR5 chapter on marine measurements, has summarized the entire 2,200 pages in 19 nicely illustrated haiku. Haiku is…
The Climate Dichotomy: A Scientific Not A Political Difference
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Attempts to understand climate are stalled. The standstill parallels the pre-Copernican state when the Ptolemaic model had held sway for 2000 years but no…
Our Climate Models Are Aglow with Whirling, Transient Nodes of Thought Careening through a Cosmic Vapor of Invention
UPDATE: Even Trenberth is critical of the Cai et al. (2013) study. See the update at the end. # # # My apologies to the writers of Mel Brooks’ Blazing…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2014-01-18 (January 18, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: If you wish to converse…
The Copernicus-PRP fiasco: predictable and preventable
Post on the Copernicus – Tallbloke fiasco please advise
Antarctica Has Sea Ice Rabbit Ears, a V for Victory or Maybe It's a Peace Sign?…
Image Credit: NSIDC WUWT Regular “Just The Facts” As you can see from the Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent With Anomaly map above, there are currently two large fingers of…
BBC runs 6 excellent minutes on quiet sun and past correlation with Little Ice Age
Guest post by Alec Rawls Nice hype by Matt Drudge, whose three linked quotes are all from the BBC’s one brief paragraph of text, but the accompanying video (full transcription…
Flooding In The Somerset Levels – A Case Study
By Paul Homewood http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10564671/Stranded-the-island-in-the-middle-of-the-English-countryside.html There was an interesting report in last Sunday’s Telegraph about recent flooding in the Somerset Levels. I’ll not reprint the whole thing, but would certainly recommend…
California's drought situation in pictures – what a difference one year makes
Yesterday, my local reservoir, Lake Oroville, made the front page of Drudge. The photo below shows the Highway 162 suspension bridge and the Bidwell Marina, which is almost in the…
Introducing The New WUWT Northern Polar Vortex Page – With Explanation and Observations
By WUWT Regular “Just The Facts” We are pleased to introduce WUWT’s newest addition, the WUWT Northern Polar Vortex Reference Page. We would like to dedicate this page to NBC…
How climate blogging 'profoundly affected' Ben Santer
Tom Nelson points out quite an admission: “Blogging is affecting me profoundly. Obviously, Mr. McIntyre has profoundly affected my life”. That’s from this video: The General Public: Why Such Resistance?…
Comments on the Nature Article “Climate Change: The Case of the Missing Heat”
UPDATE: I finished writing this post and published it at my blog Climate Observations about the same time that Don Easterbrook’s post Cause of ‘the pause’ in global warming was…
David Deming: Another year of global cooling
Falling temperatures are giving climate alarmists chills Global warming is nowhere to be found. The mean global temperature has not risen in 17 years and has been slowly falling for…
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