Every year at Christmas, many newspapers reprint “Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus“, this excellent essay by Ross McKittrick should be repeated on every blog on every observance of…
Tag: Earth
Oh noes! State of the planet: We saw a 'Great Acceleration'.
From the Earth System Science Partnership where they feel licensed to tell the rest of us about the “state of the planet” we have this press release admonishing an “unequivocal…
Quote of the Week – a warmer turns cooler
I’ve had a feud with David Appell ever since he brought my deceased mother into an attack article about me, which I retort in: David Appell denies he has any class…
Whole lotta watts added to the atmosphere
I loved the way James Russell described CO2 molecules as “natural thermostats” Solar Storm Dumps Gigawatts into Earth’s Upper Atmosphere A recent flurry of eruptions on the sun did more…
Lower Climate Sensitivity Estimates: New Good News
Guest post by Chip Knappenberger, republished with permission from Master Resource (now on WUWT’s blogroll) “A collection of research results have been published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature in recent…
Boiling Oceans and Burning Reputations with James Hansen
Guest post by James Padgett If the average person was asked to describe the runaway greenhouse effect, and given a bit of prep time, how would they do it? Most…
Roy Spencer on 'the Alabama Two-Step'
I have been badgered repeatedly to carry “Slayer” articles on WUWT, and with the exception of one cartoon by Josh, I have refused to do so since I view the…
NOAA SWPC updates their solar cycle graphs – 3rd straight month of dropping sunspot numbers
Normally, I run this post around the end of the first week of the month, but this month there was a problem. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) botched the…
New evidence supporting extraterrestrial impact at the start of the Younger Dryas
There’s a new paper in PNAS worth having a look at. It seems the authors found some very strong evidence for a comet or asteroid impact during the period known…
Earth Hour – Is it worth the effort?
Guest post by Russ Rodrigues On Saturday, March 31st at 8.30pm (local time) WWF is inviting you and everyone around the world to celebrate Earth Hour 2012 by turning off…
March launch madness at Wallops Island to probe upper atmosphere
From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center NASA jet stream study will light up the night sky – 5 sounding rockets to launch into upper atmosphere within 5 minutes High in…
Solar storm continues, geomagnetic storm and auroras expected
We have about three hours to go for the expected arrival time of the CME at 0625 UTC/1025 PM PST. Proton flux remains high as do other indicators. Additionally another…
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…
NOAA: Strong Solar Eruption; Earth-Directed CME Likely
An X-5 class solar flare just occurred from region 1429, the large active sunspot group seen below. NOAA Bulletin from the Space Weather Prediction Center: 2012-03-07 01:03 Strong Solar Eruption;…
Global annualized temperature – "full of [snip] up to their eyebrows"
Guest Post by Dr. Robert Brown, Physics Dept. Duke University [elevated from comments] Dr. Brown mentions “global temperature” several times. I’d like to know what he thinks of this. Dr.…
Fundamental questions on Isostasy and Mean Sea-Level
Guest post by Andi Cockroft Firstly, let me declare that I am not a current student of Geology or Geophysics. I studied Mathematics, Computer Science and Geology at University way…
Crowdsourced Climate Complexity – Compiling the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Reference Page
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd,…
Microbes and their impact within Climate Models
From the American Society for Microbiology, a comprehensive report that suggests the need to integrate microbial processes into climate modeling. As they say: “The sum total of microbial activity is…
Homeland Security takes on The Carrington Event
While we worry about future threats like global warming, and present threats like Iran’s escalating nuclear program, the sun’s propensity for belching out monstrous solar flares (like the Carrington event…
Comedy gold: APS president attacks "inaccurate characterization" of APS position, doesn't realize he's attacking an APS quote
Guest Post by Alec Rawls When German ex-climate-alarmist Fritz Vahrenholt came out last week as a climate skeptic, he related his moment of epiphany, when he was firsthand witness of…
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