Guest post by Alec Rawls Technically Dr. Muscheler is asking me to retract the title of my post, “Raimund Muscheler says that a steady high level of forcing can’t cause warming“:…
An explanation for ball lightning?
I wonder how long it will be before Al Gore tries to blame ball lightning on “dirty weather”? A neat video follows. From CSIRO: Goodness, gracious, great balls of lightning Sightings…
'Broken world' blamed on Carbon
From the University of Leeds , 250 million year old certainty where there was none before, now megasized. Tropical collapse caused by lethal heat Extreme temperatures blamed for ‘Dead Zone’…
Gasoline alchemy from water vapor and CO2
This seems almost scam quality – only time will tell if it is just another pipe dream. From WUWT Tips and Notes by J B Williamson; A small British company…
Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 14 – Arctic refreeze fastest ever
After all of the news about a minimum record ice extent last month, this is interesting. As we know when water loses its ice cover, it allows a lot of…
Fading El Niño complicates NOAA's winter forecast
Press release: Elusive El Niño challenges NOAA’s 2012 U.S. Winter Outlook The western half of the continental U.S. and central and northern Alaska could be in for a warmer-than-average winter,…
Gergis et al hockey stick paper withdrawn – finally
Between this withdrawal and the Esper et al paper showing the MWP and RWP warmer than today, Mike Mann must be having a really, really, bad day. Even SuperMandia in…
Another cold blast for the USA in 7-10 days
Dr. Ryan Maue alerts us of this forecast via his Twitter feed: ECMWF 12z drops cold hammer on NW and Western US in 7-10 days. Trending much colder… Here’s the…
Yet another paper demonstrates warmer temperatures 1000 years ago and even 2000 years ago.
Yesterday I highlighted the paper The extra-tropical Northern Hemisphere temperature in the last two millennia: reconstructions of low-frequency variability, by B Christiansen of the Danish Meteorological Institute and F C…
Is Climate Change the Number One Threat to Humanity?
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany I have a new paper in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, which asks the question, Is Climate Change the Number One Threat to Humanity?…
Claim: CO2 makes you stupid? Ask a submariner that question
From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, something that might finally explain Al Gore’s behavior – too much time spent indoors and in auditoriums giving pitches about the dangers of CO2. One…
Winning versus losing energy policy
We can and must rejuvenate our economy by developing America’s resource bounties Guest post by Paul Driessen “As the Democrats become more committed to, and defined by, a green agenda,…
No wonder 'climate' wasn't mentioned in the presidential debate
While my favorite tweet this morning called climate “the third rail” (i.e. don’t touch the electrified rail or it will kill your presidential bid, there’s even a Wiki entry on…
New paper confirms the climate was warmer 1000 years ago
Mike Mann will have a twitfest on Twitter trying to knock this one down. Data from 91 Northern Hemisphere proxies was used to reconstruct temperature. See reconstruction graph (figure 5)…
New paper cuts recent anthropogenic warming trend in half
Tamino (aka Grant Foster) will have his knickers in a twist over this one. Guest post by Marcel Crok (from his blog De staat van het klimaat) An interesting new paper…
A simple resolution to the 'faint young sun' paradox?
A faster rotating early-Earth may have compensated for reduced Sun output Guest post submitted by Ian Schumacher The ‘faint young sun’ paradox states that according to star models, billions of…
Tisdale video on 'dirty weather' part two
Part 2 of We Now Control Weather – Extreme Heat Events, Dirty Weather, Climate Disasters Guest post by Bob Tisdale This video is the second in the series of videos titled…
Climate negotiations relying on 'dangerous' thresholds to avoid catastrophe will not succeed
From the University of Gothenburg , some appearance of sanity. The identified critical threshold for dangerous climate change saying that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees…
A New Climate Change Policy Attitudes Survey
UPDATE: – Users have reported (and I’ve now experienced myself but it was not present in the test runs I made) some sort of web posting error at the end…
Wyoming experiences that "giant sucking sound" as new coal fired climate supercomputer is turned on
Did your lights dim yesterday? It might have been Trenberth’s “travesty calculator”. Readers may recall when I covered the announcement of the building of this new supercomputer: NCAR’s dirty little secret…
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