From WSJ: The financial pipeline was cut short before engineers could begin operating the Blythe Solar Power Project, a 1,000-megawatt system with capacity to power 300,000 homes, according to the…
300 soundings from 19th century compared to Argo data
From the University of California – San Diego Scripps Institute, you gotta love the subheading in this PR. I didn’t know robots could travel back in time. Gosh, I learn something new…
Josh relieves the pressure
Matt Ridley’s wonderful book The Rational Optimist provided some upbeat fodder for Reader’s Digest which Matt has posted on his blog. As it has been ‘Planet under pressure‘ week I thought I would…
No lessons learned from Climategate ? Fred Pearce and the New Scientist attack anti-nuclear book
Guest post by Martin Cohen When philosopher and long-standing climate sceptic Martin Cohen, and distinguished energy economist Andrew McKillop published a book on nuclear economics [2], they expected it to arouse…
Weather modeling> climate modeling> malaria
From the University of Liverpool it seems they are confusing seasonal scale weather with climate. Climate model to predict malaria outbreaks in India Scientists from the University of Liverpool are working with…
Planet under Pressure conference, London: Final statement
From the Earth System Science Partnership International scientific community issues first “State of the Planet Declaration” Scientists issued the first “State of the Planet” declaration at a major gathering of experts…
Stop Kissing the Coral!!!!
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5473/coral-reefs-have-herpes Long blamed on anthropogenic global warming, coral bleaching events are now being traced to viral pathogens, specifically a form of the herpes virus. I guess this is what they…
Team WUWT
Thank you moderators and contributors. Left to right Charles Rotter, Alec Rawls, Dr. Ryan Maue, Tom Fuller, Dave Stealey, myself, Steven Mosher, Dr. Leif Svalgaard, and Willis Eschenbach. To those…
Mercury, the Trickster God
I’ve been puzzling for a while about why the areas with the most power plants aren’t the areas with the worst levels of mercury pollution. Why aren’t the areas downwind…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Quote of the Week: EPA is proposing to take common-sense steps under the Clean Air Act to limit carbon pollution from new power plants. … Power plants are the largest…
How Peter Gleick's skullduggery killed my April Fools posting
Readers may recall that I love a good April Fools story, such as the one I did about Low Flow Fire Hydrants in my town in the name of “sustainability”.…
Extreme cures for extreme sea level projections
Guest post by Cliff Ollier The Australian (March 24) reports that Port Macquarie Hastings Council is recommending the enforcement of a “planned retreat” because of an alleged danger from sea…
arXiv bookworm
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I stumbled across something called “bookworm“, which looks through all of the articles in the pre-print service arXiv. Their default home page looks like this.…
Paper: Russian Heat Wave of 2010 Linked to Solar Activity?
Just a quick note to bring this to attention of readers. I have not been able to locate a copy of this paper other than the paywalled one at Springerlink,…
2011 US Tornado Year Analyzed – no trend indication, still below 1974 for strong to violent tornadoes
Guest Post by Paul Homewood NOAA have just about finalised their numbers for the 2011 tornado season, although December figures still await confirmation. It usually takes about three months to…
No joy in Mudville – mighty Gavin has struck out
By John West (elevated from a comment in Unthreaded Weekend, inspired by Casey at the Bat) Welcome to the WUWT Sports channel! For the debut game we have “The Cause”…
' What’s important to these extremists is not the evidence but the scare.'
IPCC now too moderate for professional scaremongers | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog What happened to “listen to the science”? A GLOBAL lobby group has distributed a “spin sheet” encouraging…
The EPA's Mercurial Madness
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the process of writing my piece about Lisa Jackson and the EPA, I got to reading about the EPA passing new mercury regulations. Their…
Earth Hour 2012 – A dissent and poll
Every year at Christmas, many newspapers reprint “Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus“, this excellent essay by Ross McKittrick should be repeated on every blog on every observance of…
Open Thread Weekend
I’m offline this weekend with travel and other projects. Discuss anything with limits of the WUWT site policy. This will remain a “top post” for the weekend. Some auto-scheduled stories…
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