White House science advisor Holdren's climate slide show at Kavli

While Obama seems to be a non-starter on climate, John Holdren is out stumping for climate change issues. For those who wonder what we are up against, watching this slideshow…

Sea Ice News #24

After a false start that fooled even the experts, it appears that sea ice has turned the corner, for real this time. NSIDC issued an update this week: Update: 21…

Maybe they've found Trenberth's missing heat

NOAA: Scientists Find 20 Years of Deep Water Warming Leading to Sea Level Rise Sea-level rise has the potential to reshape the coastal environment. Credit: NOAA) Scientists analyzing measurements taken…

Engelbeen on why he thinks the CO2 increase is man made (part 4).

Foreword: This is the final entry in a four part series by Fedinand Engelbeen. While the narrative is contrary to the views of many of our readers, it is within…

Sea Level Rise: Hype and Reality

UPDATE: The feckless gold digger weighs in here with a chorus of usual suspects. It is quite humorous to watch. Guest post by Thomas Fuller At the conclusion of the…

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…

NCAR's new 2010 climate model for the next IPCC report

New computer model advances climate change research From an NCAR/UCAR press release BOULDER—Scientists can now study climate change in far more detail with powerful new computer software released by the…

Pielke Sr. on Heat Wave in Russia

Heat Wave In Russia – Is It From Global Warming? Guest Post  by Dr. Roger Pielke Senior, University of Colorado Image: NASA Earth Observatory. This map shows temperature anomalies for the…

Sea Ice News #15

By Steve Goddard The Arctic is proud to have been listed as one of many “fastest warming places on earth.” The GISS 250km Arctic image below shows temperature trends from…

Cold snap freezes South America – beaches whitened, some areas experience snow for the first time in living memory

From the “weather is not climate” department, more chilling news from the southern hemisphere. Guest post By Alexandre Aguiar MetSul Weather Center via ICECAP A brutal and historical cold snap…

Botanist claims to overturn established ocean phytoplankton theory – cites global warming as a concern for new theory

Via Eurekalert: “A new study concludes that an old, fundamental and widely accepted theory of how and why phytoplankton bloom in the oceans is incorrect. The findings challenge more than…

Sea Ice News #11

“Steepest slope ever.” By Steven Goddard We have been hearing a lot about how the decline in Arctic ice is following the “steepest slope ever.” The point is largely meaningless,…

GISS & METAR – dial "M" for missing minus signs: it's worse than we thought

Here’s a story about how one missing letter, an M, can wreck a whole month’s worth of climate data. It is one of the longest posts ever made on WUWT,…

WIRED Science: Tipping Point Not Likely for Arctic Sea Ice

While this article is encouraging when looking at the title, they are still pushing that “ice-free summer” meme. A late-winter expansion of Arctic sea ice is a good example of…

"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,…

Flashback to 2007 – SST to plunge again?

Steve Goddard points out that warm SST events often have a downside. My view: something like capacitor discharge in an RC circuit. – Anthony Dr. Roy Spencer reported that January,…

Lord Monckton reports on Pachauri's eye opening Copenhagen presentation

From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Copenhagen In the Grand Ceremonial Hall of the University of Copenhagen, a splendid Nordic classical space overlooking the Church of our Lady in…

CO2 and ocean uptake – maybe slowing

While this article makes a strong case, looking at SST and CO2 can also be revealing: A review of this WUWT post might also be instructive: A look at human…

Reference: 450 skeptical peer reviewed papers

Andrew at Popular Technology has taken the time (quite a bit of it) to compile a list of papers that have skeptical views. It is reproduced in full here. My…

The climate engine

Guest post by Erl Happ What follows is a general theory of natural climate variation supported by observation of the changing temperature of the atmosphere and the sea between 1948…

Previously Unknown Volcanic Eruption Helped Trigger Cold Decade

From the University of California, San Diego Press Release A team of chemists from the U.S. and France has found compelling evidence of a previously undocumented large volcanic eruption that…

Searching the PaleoClimate Record for Estimated Correlations: Temperature, CO2 and Sea Level

Guest Post by Bill Illis This post is the first of what will likely be a series on the PaleoClimate. In this part, we are just going to go through…

The Thermostat Hypothesis

Guest Essay by Willis Eschenbach Abstract The Thermostat Hypothesis is that tropical clouds and thunderstorms, along with other emergent phenomena like dust devils, tornadoes, and the El Nino/La Nina alteration,…

Steig's Antarctic Peninsula Pac-mann

WUWT readers may recall a couple of weeks ago that I suggested that the weather stations with different climatic influences of the Antarctic peninsula, which might very well merit its…

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