Quote of the Week #2

From “Pragmatic”, on the Lindzen on negative feedback thread: “What most alarmists don’t seem to fathom is that real people want balance in their decision/learning process. Balance arrives on the…

Using old NASA imagery to look at Antarctic Ice in the 1960’s

From Space.com: Old Moon Images Get Modern Makeover WOODLANDS, Texas — Think of it as a space age twist to that adage: Something old, something new…something borrowed, something blue. Back…

Dr. Roger Pielke Senior: support for CATO letter and advertisement

From Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. Climate Science Weblog There is a letter to the President published by the Cato Institute that headlines [thanks to ICECAPand Dr. Patrick J. Michaels to alerting…

Recent Ocean Heat and MLO CO2 Trends

One of the great things about running this blog is that people send me things to look at. Sometimes I see connections between two things that were initially unrelated by…

Steve McIntyre's ICCC09 presentation with notes

I sat next to Steve on the Climatology Panel at ICCC09 and thought he did a fine job of summarizing the Mannian methodology and the Bristlecone Pine issues for the…

If You Can't Explain It, You Can't Model It

Guest Post by Steven Goddard Global Climate Models (GCM’s)  are very complex computer models containing millions of lines of code, which attempt to model cosmic, atmospheric and oceanic processes that…

Wind shifts may stir CO2 from Antarctic depths

Releases may have speeded end of last ice age — and could act again IMAGE: This pictures shows the locations of cores showing Antarctic upwelling. Click here for more information.…

ICCC conference Day 3

I missed a good portion of the Wednesday session, so I’ll let Bob Carter describe it. -Anthony Heartland-2: session three by Bob Carter March 11, 2009 John Sunumu: Nature will…

ICCC conference 2009 – Day 2

Above: At left – Myself, James O’Brien from FSU, and Steve McIntyre at podium. Photo by Evan Jones This morning’s breakfast program featured congressman Tom McClintock of California. He quipped:…

Day 1 of the ICCC conference

UPDATE: see an additional report from Prof. Bob Carter below the “read more” line. ALSO: See this announcement at Climate Audit Photo by Evan Jones I don’t have  a lot…

What WILL they think of next? Conference labels skeptics as having mental disorder

From Spiked-online.com (h/t to Trevor Gunter) NOTE FROM ANTHONY: this topic is rather contentious, even though temptation abounds and emotions will run high, please refrain from playing climate gutter ball.…

IPCC 20th Century Simulations Get a Boost from Outdated Solar Forcings

Guest post by Bob Tisdale IPCC 20th Century Simulations Get a Boost from Outdated Solar Forcings Or The Sun Also Can’t Explain the Warming in the Early Part of the…

U.S. Life Expectancy in an Era of Death Trains and Death Factories

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany In a recent op-ed in the Guardian that WUWT commented on, James Hansen of global warming fame, argued for closing coal fired power plants…

NSIDC's Walt Meier responds on the sensor issue

I assume that everyone has seen the post on our website discussing the changes that NSIDC has instituted to make our sea ice data available again. I don’t want to…

Short term trends from GISS Model E: "The model would be off by about 0.15C in the first five years"

On occasion, comments posted on WUWT are backed up with data or graphs from the commenter, and are so germane that they merit their own post for discussion. This is…

Errors in publicly presented data – Worth blogging about?

In the prior thread I raised a question of why there was a large downward jump in sea ice extent on the graph presented by NSIDC’s Artic Sea Ice News…

CO2, Temperatures, and Ice Ages

Guest post by Frank Lansner, civil engineer, biotechnology. (Note from Anthony – English is not Frank’s primary language, I have made some small adjustments for readability, however they may be…

James Hansen's Former NASA Supervisor Declares Himself a Skeptic – Says Hansen 'Embarrassed NASA', 'Was Never Muzzled', & Models 'Useless'

UPDATE 1/28: Full text of Dr. Theon’s letter has been post on the Senate website and below. This is something I thought I’d never see. This press release today is…

Surfacestations update – we are within sight of the goal

I’m pleased to announce that the www.surfacestations.org project has reached a major milestone, with 67% of the 1221 USHCN network now surveyed. 819 of 1221 stations have been examined in…

Correlation demonstrated between cosmic rays and temperature of the stratosphere

This offers renewed hope for Svensmark’s theory of cosmic ray modulation of earth’s cloud cover. Here is an interesting correlation published just yesterday in GRL. Cosmic rays detected deep underground…

Antarctica warming? An evolution of viewpoint

Above: Mt Erebus, Antarctica picture by Sean Brocklesby A press release today by the University of Washington makes a claim that Antarctica is warming and has been for the last…

Distribution analysis suggests GISS final temperature data is hand edited – or not

UPDATE: As I originally mentioned at the end of this post, I thought we should “give the benefit of the doubt” to GISS as there may be a perfectly rational…

My picks for the weblog awards

This weblog awards contest has few people up in arms because WUWT is currently leading. Lucia points out some of the dynamics of silliness that go on related to it.…

NCDC updates database for Dec08 – NCDC's own graphic shows decadal cooling trend

One of the best things about WUWT is the number of eyes and minds at work, multiplying the efforts. This is interesting. Now that the 1998 El Nino is disappearing…

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