From the Harvard School of Public Health , news that an extra 1°C temperature swing in summer will kill the elderly. Summer temperature variability may increase mortality risk for elderly…
Hansen on skeptics – we are winning
Though, he still thinks we are all funded by some sort of “machine”. It never occurs to him that he’s fighting a guerrilla war and that most skeptics are self…
March 2012 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update – A New Look
Guest post by Bob Tisdale THE ADDITION OF CMIP3 (IPCC AR4) HINDCASTS/PROJECTIONS TO GRAPHS I’ve added a new feature to the graphs of the monthly sea surface temperature updates on…
Shakun, Not Stirred, and Definitely Not Area-Weighted
I’d like to highlight one oddity in the Shakun et al. paper, “Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation” (Shakun2012), which I’ve discussed here and here.…
Too many cooks spoil the carbon footprint
From the American Chemical Society it seems that newer is not always better. Even Yale environment360 bought into this idea. I should add that I’m all for reducing carbon soot,…
Hilarious! Gore-Olbermann email exchange "leaked"
From the Daily Caller: Keith Olbermann and Al Gore: the secret emails revealed By Jamie Weinstein and Wil Rahn – The Daily Caller 10:59 PM 04/08/2012 On March 30th,…
Did Shakun et al. really prove that CO2 preceded late glacial warming? [Part 1]
By Don J. Easterbrook, PhD. In a paper “Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation”, Shakun et al.(Nature 2012) contend that rising temperature at the…
A couple of pertinent quotes
There’s a couple of quotes from Ernest Rutherford that I’ve kept in my head. Today seems like a good day to take them out of my head and put them…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Brought to You by SEPP www.SEPP.org Quote of the Week: “Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder,…
Roy Spencer's ISH population adjusted discoveries
Readers recall that I carried a guest post from Dr. Roy Spencer on what he learned from analysing the CRUTem3 data: Spencer shows compelling evidence of UHI in CRUTem3 data.…
Shakun Redux: Master tricksed us! I told you he was tricksy!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The quote above is from Lord of the Rings, an exchange between Gollum and Smeagol, and it encapsulates my latest results from looking into the…
A fun science literacy quiz
I took this fun science literacy quiz, and got 47 out of 50 questions correct. The ones I missed were all in biology and life sciences, my weakest subject. Since…
An about face by China on solar power
From John Droz’s newsletter with a hat-tip to Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. for bringing it to my attention and via the “I can hear Joe Romm’s head exploding” department and…
Anchorage breaks seasonal snow record last set in 1955
Alaska’s largest city breaks seasonal snow record By RACHEL D’ORO | Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska’s…
An update on my Climate Reference Network visualization project
Readers may recall that when Peter Gleick first sent out the stolen Heartland board documents and the fake document to give the story “legs”, there was a mention in there…
James Hansen – off the rails
There’s not a whole lot I can say about this, except that I’m looking forward to his retirement soon. Then, he can speak as a “private citizen” as much as…
The ugly battle between rural residents and alternative energy mandates in California
Seems the Mojave evictions WERE to make way for solar and wind projects Guest post by Alec Rawls In 2006 California’s Senate Bill 107 codified a requirement that by 2010…
Another half-done press release – where's the science citation?
From the University of Massachusetts at Amherst , another highly speculative modeling based press release that doesn’t even bother to give the name of the paper or any resources connected…
Heartland Institute to Host Seventh International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago
Peter Gleick ‘Fakegate’ Scandal, Debates on Latest Climate Science Featured What: Seventh International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-7) Theme: Real Science, Real Choices Where: Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Avenue,…
More uncertainty about warming – Study: Impact of warming climate doesn’t always translate to streamflow
From an OSU press release: CORVALLIS, Ore. – An analysis of 35 headwater basins in the United States and Canada found that the impact of warmer air temperatures on streamflow…
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