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…

Pacing the Glacial

Guest post by Tom Fuller How glaciers have responded to the warming of the past 130 years is a complicated story, although many millions of words have been written to…

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…

Engelbeen on why he thinks the CO2 increase is man made (part 2)

About the reliability of ice cores… Guest Post by Ferdinand Engelbeen There have been hundreds of reactions to part 1 about the mass balance (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/05/why-the-co2-increase-is-man-made-part-1 ). Many respondents still are…

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…

Oh no! Greenland glacier calves island 4 times the size of Manhattan

Greenland glacier calves island 4 times the size of Manhattan, UD scientist reports it last happened at this scale in 1962. Must have been climate change back then too. Watch…

Bob Tisdale on GISS land/sea ratios

Land Surface Temperature Contribution To Non-Polar Temperatures Guest Post by Bob Tisdale INTRODUCTION Frank Lansner’s post Did GISS discover 30% more land in the Northern Hemisphere? at Jo Nova’s blog…

Quote of the week #38 – you're not heavy, you're my outgasser

I never knew chilly, heavier water could do this:

CryoSat-2 exceeding expectations

From the European Space Agency 070110 Participants at the Living Planet Symposium have been hearing about ESA’s most recently launched mission, CryoSat-2. In orbit for almost three months, the satellite…

Where the !@#$% is Svalbard's Weather Station?

In the previous WUWT entry, Willis posted his data on the Svalbard weather station, noting that it is spliced data and that the station data has been merged in nearby…

Climate Craziness of the Week – MSM jumps on alarming headline

From a University of Leeds press release, comes this scary headline that seems to be picked up by the MSM. A Google search yields 16,400 hits on the title below.…

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,…

A New And Effective Climate Model

The problem with existing climate models: Guest post by Stephen Wilde Even those who aver that man’s activity affects climate on a global scale rather than just locally or regionally…

England's Five Year Climate Forecast Cycle

Guest post by Steven Goddard (UK Pic Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response) England, Scotland and Wales completely covered in snow,  January, 2010 In my last article, I discussed the current…

Catlin Team Averaging 1.7 Miles Per Day – Only 295 Miles Left to Go!

The Catlin team has been on the ice for 10 days, and has traveled a total of 17 miles so far as the crow flies.  At that rate, they will…

Earth follows the warming: soils add 100 million tons of CO2 per year

From the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Soils release more carbon dioxide as globe warms The researchers overlaid the soil respiration database — which is openly available for the scientific community…

Methane, The Panic Du Jour

Guest post by Steven Goddard The climate panic headline this week has been that the warming Arctic is burping out dangerous quantities of greenhouse gas Methane. Published on Friday, March…

A question to the USGS and NPR

Which of these states is closest to 20,000 square kilometers in area? UPDATE: USGS has issued a statement, see below. WUWT reader “DC” points us to this Gore-esque pronouncement from…

Spring, sprang, sprung

Over on the EU Referendum, Richard North points out the absurdity of media coverage on the arrival of  spring. We’ve seen this before, for example at the Union of Concerned…

Why Is Winter Snow Extent Interesting?

Guest post by Steven Goddard Several people keep asking why am I focused on winter snow extent.  This seems fairly obvious, but I will review here: Snow falls in the…

Greenland glaciers – melt due to sea current change, not air temperature

From a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution News Release : Team finds subtropical waters flushing through Greenland fjord Waters from warmer latitudes — or subtropical waters — are reaching Greenland’s glaciers,…

Congenital Climate Abnormalities

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [see Updates at the end of this post] Science is what we use to explain anomalies, to elucidate mysteries, to shed light on unexplained occurrences.…

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,…

Warmest decade on record*

From NASA’s press release NASA Research Finds Last Decade was Warmest on Record, 2009 One of Warmest Years From NASA GISTEMP- Click image for original source WASHINGTON — A new…

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