You may remember headlines like these last summer: With Blow-Out March Heat Wave, Meteorologist Masters Says ‘This is not the atmosphere I grew up with’ The 2012 Heat Wave: “Almost Like Science…
Sea Surface Temperature and Anomalies Along the Projected Track of Tropical Storm Dorian
The National Hurricane Center announced the formation of Tropical Storm Dorian. So we’ll take look at the sea surface temperatures and anomalies along its projected storm track. See Figure 1.…
Oh, what a difference a year makes in Greenland melting
ARCTIC SUMMER SNOWSTORM By Joseph D’Aleo CCM Remember a year ago when few days of July ‘warmth’ with strong blocking over Greenland had the media abuzz over some melting? Last…
Dana Nuccitelli discovers the 'Streisand effect'
This could be a Friday Funny, but oh well, humor waits for nobody. A few days ago I made this prediction in response to a tweet: For those who don’t…
My personal path to Catastrophic AGW skepticism
Note: if the name below is familiar to you it is because of this article from Monday. This will be a sticky post for a day or two, new stories…
Gavin on why the Arctic methane alarm is implausible
Guest Essay by Dr. Gavin Schmidt, NASA GISS Yesterday, I carried this story: An alarmist prediction so bad, even Gavin Schmidt thinks it is implausible Today, on Twitter, Karel Haverkorn…
Part 1 – Comments on the UKMO Report about “The Recent Pause in Global Warming”
INTRODUCTION I’ve received a number of emails and requests to comment on the recently released 3-part report from the UK Met Office titled “The Recent Pause in Global Warming”. See…
An alarmist prediction so bad, even Gavin Schmidt thinks it is implausible
Gosh, it’s that “methane ‘splode” again. This time the Guardian makes an easily testable hypothesis emblazoned in the headlines that we’ll be sure to remind them of in two years.…
Hump Day Hilarity: tales from the ret_ward
Fun and games on Twitter from the Grantham Institute’s Bob Ward: That was at 12:41 AM – 24 Jul 13. Good thing that just over five hours later he recognized…
Newsbytes: Sunspot Enigma – Will Inactive Sun Cause Global Cooling?
From Dr. Benny Peiser and the GWPF We Really Don’t Understand Our Climate Something is happening to our sun. If history is anything to go by, the sun’s change of…
Reactions to 'the pause': Grasping at strawmen in hidey holes
It has been quite entertaining to watch the various explanations coming out to rationalize “the pause” in surface temperatures for the last 16 years. For example, as Jerome Ravetz points…
Forget summer in the UK and wonky Met Office predictions, atmospheric rivers and floods loom
Like this one: Image from NOAA ESRL From the Institute of Physics Atmospheric rivers set to increase UK winter flooding The prolonged heat wave that has bathed the UK in…
Tuesday Tittering – Drill baby, drill
Josh writes: Apparently Dana Nuccitelli works for the fossil fuel industry, see here and here, so I thought a cartoon of him at work would be helpful. If you want to get…
Why we do what we do – 'It changes people.'
Jonathan Abbot writes in comments on 2013/07/23 at 12:59 pm My 10 year old daughter just read an article in National Geographic Kids about global warming. ‘The world is getting…
Earth's self regulation of Carbon Dioxide is remarkably stable
From CSIRO: “What we learned is that in spite of droughts, floods, volcano eruptions, El Niño and other events, the Earth system has been remarkably consistent in regulating the inter-annual…
Ocean warming – it's the aerosols
From CSIRO, but sadly just with modeling, not empirical analysis: Rapid upper ocean warming linked to declining aerosols Australian scientists have identified causes of a rapid warming in the upper…
No Consensus among Three Global Precipitation Datasets
Global precipitation is a crucial part of our understanding of the global Water Cycle. The climate science community can’t hope predict how precipitation will change in the future without knowing…
Congenital Cyclomania Redux
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I wasn’t going to mention this paper, but it seems to be getting some play in the blogosphere. Our friend Nicola Scafetta is back…
Why Antarctic Sea Ice Is the Better Climate Change Indicator
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University Global warming theory predicts that rising levels of CO2 will gradually warm the air and…
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