Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “The models have been validated.” Angeline Purdy, Attorney, Department of Justice, representing…
Update and confirmation of 'Global warming stopped 16 years ago' aka 'the pause'
This time Dr. Judith Curry weighs in. In an email to me earlier this week she revealed that she has been quite busy with this rebuttal (to warmists) and assisting…
Science Publisher Calls for Better Communications – But Not of Science
Guest post by E. Calvin Beisner Alan Leshner is worried. It seems scientists are having a hard time getting the public to understand science, and since “Public understanding of science…
Dear readers – your help needed in fun crowdsourcing project
NOTE: This is a “sticky” top post, new posts will appear below this one. No, I’m not asking for money, only your ability to research and encapsulate an idea. I…
New paleo calibration series done – enables more accurate calibration of radiocarbon datings
From the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres A sharper look into the past for archaeology and climate research Annual strata in the Japanese Lake Suigetsu enable a more accurate…
Friday Funny – why wouldn't he dress up as Yamal YAD06?
What will Supermandia dress up as this year? Every time I look at this photo of Mike Mann’s most earnest defender, “AGW Prof” and operator of the Climate Science Defense…
Muscheler retracts? Offers a NEW excuse for why solar activity can't be responsible for post-70's warming
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)…
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