Everything in Moderation

It has taken Anthony a lot of hard work to make WUWT the success it is, and success comes at a price, which in blogging terms means even more hard…

Recent climate, glacier changes in Antarctica at the 'upper bound' of normal

From the University of Washington some walkback? In the last few decades, glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning, and research has shown the…

More on Trenberth’s Missing Heat

In the post Trenberth Still Searching for Missing Heat, we discussed the recent Balmaseda et al (2013) paper “Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content”, of which…

Another Internet poll goes horribly wrong

[self snip] I was given a tip, and didn’t realize that this poll is over a year old and didn’t recall WUWT had previously covered it. Neither did Tom Nelson…

A Different Perspective of the Equatorial Pacific and ENSO Events

by Bob Tisdale It’s difficult to express how enormous El Niño and La Niña events are. Often, when discussing them, I’ll display a map of the tropical Pacific (see example…

My response to Delingpole over invoking Godwin's Law

Last weekend I posted an essay on what I considered to be a pointless invocation of Godwins Law by my friend James Delingpole: The battle of the pointless Nuremberg insults:…

A Big Picture Look At “Earth’s Temperature” – "The Pause" Update

Image Credit: NASA and BP.Blogspot.com By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Recently there has been significant attention focused on “The Pause” in Earth’s warming, the length of “The Pause” and…

Don Easterbrook's response to a smear by WWU geology faculty

Readers may recall that WUWT published  this defense of Dr. Don Easterbrook last week: Rebuttal to the attack on Dr. Don Easterbrook by Dr. David Deming I enjoyed this passage…

Modeling future CO2 sequestration

From the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) CO2 removal can lower costs of climate protection According to the analysis, carbon dioxide removal could be used under certain requirements…

Give the Iron Lady a State Funeral

In deference to our Open Thread on Saturday, Monckton submitted this for WUWT readers. It is insightful and worth a read IMHO – Anthony By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, courtesy…

Spurious Varvology

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As Anthony discussed here at WUWT, we have yet another effort to re-animate the long-dead “hockeystick” of Michael Mann. This time, it’s Recent temperature extremes…

Crowdsourcing the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page – Disputed Graphs – Alley (2000)

Image Credit: Photobucket.com – GISP2 – Alley, 2000 By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” In building WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page during these crowdsourcing threads (1, 2) there have been a…

Weekend Open Thread

Travel today. So by request, here is a Weekend Open Thread on Thatcher, who did much to kick off the CO2 global warming saga but later on became a sceptic…

Global Warming Over Land Is Real: CU-Boulder, NOAA Study

Image Credit: Compo et al., 2013 From the Huffington Post: The thermometers got it right. The Earth is warming, another study is reporting. Climate scientists recognize that changes in weather…

Friday Funny – Green Eco Porn (no, really)

From the Guardian, where they’ll print anything as long as its green… The eco-sex activists who want to save the world

English Winters Back To Normal–Julia Blames Global Warming!

By Paul Homewood According to the Sun, Britain’s winters are getting colder because of melting Arctic ice, the Government’s forecaster said yesterday. Met Office chief scientist Julia Slingo said climate…

Climate Craziness of the week – with the physical signature of UHI staring them right in the face, Mann & Borenstein go with their 'gut' instincts

Some people wonder if Michael Mann is simply an activist masquerading as a scientist, this lends credence to that idea. I wonder if Dr. Mann has ever visited weather stations…

The Sun Was in My Eyes – Was It More Likely Over the Past 3-Plus Decades?

Alternate Title: On Pinker et al 2005 and the Positive Trend in the NCEP-DOE Reanalysis-2 Surface Downward Solar Radiation Flux Over at Tallbloke’sTalkshop, Tallbloke has a post about the Pinker…

New government report from NOAA says 2012 summer drought NOT caused by global warming

“This is what global warming looks like” turned out to be nothing but incorrect opinionated hype by AP Science correspondent Seth Borenstein and Dr. Michael Oppenheimer. From the “we told…

Sequestered Gore satellite apparently not affected by 'sequester'

There’s no money to run White House tours, but apparently there’s money to pull one of Al’s pet projects out of mothballs. Satellite shelved after 2000 election to now fly…