My response to Markey’s nosy letter would have been far less wordy. Two words would probably have been sufficient. The Heartland media release from today is below. The Heartland Institute…
Australian temperature records shoddy, inaccurate, unreliable
Via Jo Nova, an Australian Surface Stations Project has just reported its results. The BOM say their temperature records are high quality. An independent audit team has just produced a…
Recent solar flare seen bombarding Earth with gamma rays
From the “Oh noes it’s Radiation” department, Dr. Leif Svalgaard points out we all got a gamma ray bath on that recent big solar flare. I wonder how many Banana…
10 Billion Butterfly Sneezes
More chaos than you can shake a stick at. Guest post by Andi Cockroft (Anyone familiar with the Moody Blues should recognise the title – from “Higher and Higher”) As…
Solar Update March 2012
by David Archibald Figure 1: Heliospheric Current Sheet Tilt Angle 1976 – 2012 The heliospheric current sheet tilt angle is currently at 67°. Solar maximum occurs when it reaches 74°…
WSJ pans 'climate warrior' Michael Mann in book review.
All I can say is “ouch”! Mann of course will be sending his usual letter to the editor whining about unfair treatment. He’s really just misunderstood you see. Excerpts from…
Boiling Oceans and Burning Reputations with James Hansen
Guest post by James Padgett If the average person was asked to describe the runaway greenhouse effect, and given a bit of prep time, how would they do it? Most…
NASA on the snow and the mild winter – AGW not mentioned
Despite the wailings at various blogs and news outlets about this mild winter in the USA being the result of global warming, NASA says otherwise. Not a mention of AGW,…
Unsustainable: CSUC Campus cops ditching Diggler electric scooters
From the Chico Enterprise Record This is another one of those “brilliant” sustainable ideas by the sustainability cabal at Chico State University (inspired by Dr. Mark Stemen) gone horribly wrong.…
Roy Spencer on 'the Alabama Two-Step'
I have been badgered repeatedly to carry “Slayer” articles on WUWT, and with the exception of one cartoon by Josh, I have refused to do so since I view the…
Forensic analysis of the fake Heartland 'Climate Strategy Memo' concludes Peter Gleick is the likely forger
Readers may recall that on February 22nd, I offered up some open source stylometry/textometry software called JGAAP (Java Graphical Authorship Attribution Program), with a suggestion that readers make use of it…
NOAA SWPC updates their solar cycle graphs – 3rd straight month of dropping sunspot numbers
Normally, I run this post around the end of the first week of the month, but this month there was a problem. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) botched the…
Judith Curry and Ross McKitrick on Demon Coal
Wayne Delbeke writes in with: There was a very good CBC radio program referenced in one of the comments today and I thought I would bring it to your attention…
Another publicly larded solar company – this one wants to walk away from their solar manufacturing plant
BOSTON (AP) — Evergreen Solar is asking a bankruptcy judge for permission to walk away from its former plant in Devens. The company, which received tens of millions in state…
Kos asks about Michael Mann – hero or zero?
I was surprised to see this essay and poll on the Daily Kos tonight. Don Mikulecky writes: Michael Mann is a Modern Hero and we need to acknowledge that! I…
Historic March Snowstorm Along Oregon Coastline
From Steve Pierce, President, Oregon Chapter of the American Meteorological Society Vancouver, Washington (March 13th 2012) – “Many residents along the coastline of Oregon awoke Tuesday morning to no power,…
Food fight: CO2 makes us fatter
Well, this is amusing. But, after looking at some numbers on food production, it may simply be that CO2 is helping us grow more food. And what happens when a…
Climate skepticism blamed on the economy, stupid
Of course, things like lack of any warming trend for a decade couldn’t have anything to do with it. Could it? Climategate? Glaciergate? Fakegate? Naw. It’s the economy, stupid. Source:…
Climate craziness of the week: Eugenics is making a comeback with climate optimized human engineering
Bizarre stuff from The Atlantic, though it seems even Bill McKibben is panning him and when you can’t sell Bill McKibben on crazy, well, you’ve entered a whole new plane…
Font issue with IE8 fixed
Per our previous thread, WordPress.com tech support advises: We were able to track down the issue with Ad Control and fix it for you. It appears to have been IE-specific,…
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