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Pollution enhanced thunderstorms warm the planet?
From the DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a new paper in GRL saying something that doesn’t make much sense to me. As shown in the diagram above, thunderstorms transport heat from…
Carbon soot may be driving the expansion of the tropics – not CO2
From the University of California – Riverside it seems that black carbon soot is driving tropical expansion. How could this be? I thought CO2 was all powerful, so powerful with…
Drats! Down the warmhole the warming went
From the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences “Warming hole” delayed climate change over eastern United States April 26, 2012 50-year model suggests regional pollution obscured a global trend…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Quote of the Week: “An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the…
Spencer’s posited 1-2% cloud cover variation found
In a nutshell, with a −1.6%per decade change in cloud cover during 1954–2005, it becomes a climate forcing. While China is not the world, it bears consideration. The Hockey Schtick…
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Quote of the Week: By endorsing the IPCC reports, governments acknowledge the authority of their scientific content. The work of the organization is therefore policy-relevant and yet policy-neutral, never policy-prescriptive.…
Give up Canada, you're toast
From Simon Fraser University, a new paper says that the Canucks may as well just give up, because its going to warm up no matter what they do. Using powerful…
Omitted variable fraud: vast evidence for solar climate driver rates one oblique sentence in AR5
Guest post by Alec Rawls “Expert review” of the First Order Draft of AR5 closed on the 10th. Here is the first paragraph of my submitted critique: My training is…
New paper speculates on volcanoes during the Little Ice Age
From NCAR/UCAR, they’re still trying to stamp out solar influence as a potential cause of the Little Ice Age. One of the things I wonder about is that during low…
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Quote of the Week:“…we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost…
Over 250 noteworthy Climategate 2.0 emails
Tom Nelson has been busy slogging through the over 500o emails in CG2, kudos to him. Here’s what he has collected so far: A list of my last 250+ ClimateGate…
NCDC data shows that the contiguous USA has not warmed in the past decade, summers are cooler, winters are getting colder
See update below: New comparison graph of US temperatures in 1999 to present added – quite an eye opener – Anthony There’s been a lot of buzz and conflicting reports…
Climate scientists and their excuses
Candid Comments From Climate Scientists By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. There is a news release by Paul Voosen on Greenwire titled Provoked scientists try to explain lag in global warming (Tuesday, October…
The 500 year FUD about sea levels
Ah, once again in response to a fearmongering press release, we see the obligatory “NYC is flooded” photoshop trick. But guess what? I’ve already debunked that photo as impossible for…
Dust up in climate modeling
From the Georgia Institute of Technology Research News Insoluble dust particles can form cloud droplets affecting global and regional climates Cloud formation New information on the role of insoluble dust…
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Quote of the Week: “That letter is a criminal act against science, against open inquiry. Not only is the world in the hands of intellectual children, they are warring against…
The BBC's Richard Black Engages in "Goldilocks-Picking"
Guest post by David Middleton From the BBC… Climate: Cherries are not the only fruit Just about the most predictable event of the week was the tempest of opinion created…
Breaking: A peer reviewed admission that "global surface temperatures did not rise between 1998 and 2008" – Dr David Whitehouse on the PNAS paper Kaufmann et al. (2011)
The Kaufmann et al 2011 paper (Note: Michael L. Mann is a co-author, not the same as Michael E. Mann of hockey team fame) was embargoed until 8PM GMT (12PM…
Cleaner air may result in increased solar insolation and therefore warming.
This makes me wonder if the temperature dip in the 1970’s where everyone was worried about global cooling wasn’t partially driven by atmospheric aerosols. With the advent of pollution controls,…
The Nuclear Winter of our Discontent
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony recently discussed a recent paper called “The Role of Atmospheric Nuclear Explosions on the Stagnation of Global Warming in the Mid 20th Century” (PDF, author’s…
The Chinese peg the sulfur emissions worldwide
From PNNL: Worldwide sulfur emissions rose between 2000-2005, after decade of decline Shipping, China top emissions growth in new analysis of 150 years of emissions COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Note: Normally this appears on Sunday, but I’m way behind this week- Anthony THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Today marks the…
Jim and Bill's excellent misadventure
This is a web formatted version of the PDF found here on Dr. James Hansen’s Columbia.edu web site. I don’t have much respect left for Dr. Hansen, particularly when he…
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