Shackling national security – and renewable energy

Now environmentalists say we need the minerals that they’ve been locking up for decades Guest post by Paul Driessen “China’s control of a key minerals market has US military thinkers…

URGENT – A call to action for the WUWT community

NOTE: Updates have been posted below, including the tally. I need your help, because they need your help. Please read this whole story and consider if you can help. WUWT…

Hans von Storch study: Global Warming to make fewer strong polar storms

Here is a quote you don’t often see: Our results provide a rare example of a climate change effect in which a type of extreme weather is likely to decrease,…

Hurricane Julia explodes — Atlantic has two coincident Category 4 hurricanes, very rare

UPDATE 5 AM AST: Second time in 100-years two coincident Category 4’s in the Atlantic…together, Igor and Julia have the highest coincident intensities on record. Two major hurricanes exist simultaneously…

The Media Campaigns That Promote Dubious Science

Guest post by Thomas Fuller Over the past week we have looked at several very potent symbols that were misused by major media campaigns that pushed a political agenda to…

New gadget finally kills the power vampires in my home

I’m back home. Thanks to everyone who helped while I was offline with family medical issues. There are larger challenges ahead but for now things are back to near normal.…

Climate Change Is Not a Forever Problem

Guest post by Thomas Fuller Okay, all–this is a slow developing post. I hope you can stick with me to the end here. If you’re reading this, the chances are…

Hurricane Earl strengthening

Now a Cat3 Hurricane, but looks like it will steer away from Gulf but will give some inclement weather to the Cape Hatteras through New England area. Latest bulletin:

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was 2010-08-28 (August 28, 2010) Brought to you by The Science and Environmental Policy Project Don’t forget to attend the SEPP-SEEE Climate-Energy Forum at 10:30 am on…

Hear Joe Romm speak in the Bay Area Monday

I was honored on my speaking tour in Australia to have two women drive 11 hours to hear David Archibald and me speak. People in the Bay Area don’t have…

Climatic collision on the National/Financial Post website

There now seems to be a trenchcoat war brewing between journalists over the Climategate whitewashes and the recent “blacklist”. For example, the WSJ recently ran a story on the folly…

Paul Driessen asks some inconvenient questions

A few questions for President Obama How exactly does the President plan to create his new Green Jobs Economy? Guest post by Paul Driessen America needs decisive leaders who understand…

Margaret Thatcher: the world’s first climate realist

Guest posting by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Anthony Watts’ earlier posting about Margaret Thatcher’s sceptical approach to the climate question prompted some comments asking whether I could add anything to…

AGW=dead lizards? Maybe it's not the heat, but the handbags and herpetology aficionados?

I covered this story Mid May on WUWT. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/05/13/now-its-lizards-going-extinct-due-to-climate-change/ An email today asking if this is real science or just hype prompted me to do some research. First, below, the…

Study concludes: "major hurricane could devastate the Houston/Galveston region"

A major hurricane could devastate the Houston/Galveston region? Whooda thunk? Thank goodness they consulted the all knowing supercomputer model to figure this fact out: “it could easily have caused $100…

Tanganyika Revisited

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The new Nature Magazine article on Lake Tanganyika, “Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500”, discussed a couple days ago by Anthony Watts here,…

The Gulf oil rig explosion – on the scene photos

Regular WUWT commenter Jimmy Haigh, a geologist by trade, sends along a PDF that is a compilation of on the scene photos taken right after the explosion and in the…

I may as well retire

Gosh, people send me stuff. Today I discovered a huge windfall. My friend and volunteer moderator DB Stealey sent me 100 TRILLION dollars in the mail today. Here’s a scan…

It's us against phlegm – global warming makes you sneeze

Allergies Worse Than Ever? Blame Global Warming By Bryan Walsh Allergy sufferers like to claim — in between sniffles — that each spring’s allergy season is worse than the last.…

Response to Dr. Meier's answer #9 – coin flips in the context of climate modeling

Guest post by Steven Goddard In his recent article, NSIDC’s Dr. Meier answered Question #9 “Are the models capable of projecting climate changes for 100 years?” with a coin flipping…

"It really shows what's been going on in the Arctic – it's falling apart."

Via Tom Nelson: Another warmist in the Arctic: GE sponsors 15-year-old on polar trip. Photo courtesy of GE and Scott Draper Shortly after twice reporting a temperature of -34 C,…

Measure UHI in your town with this easy to use temperature datalogger kit

Readers may remember a couple of weeks back when I lamented that the downward economy had finally caught up to me and my little weather business. I asked readers if…

Chico's new sustainable firefighting idea

I’m going to take a diversion to write about a local story that’s been brewing for months. It’s long and a bit like a Sherlock Holmes mystery, bear with me.…

Climategate.com shuts down

From the Facebook page of the Climategate.com operator: Climategate is closing down I am very sorry to bring you the news today that climategate.com is shutting down. It started out…

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