From ETH Zurich , something that actually makes sense. Straw albedo mitigates extreme heat Wheat fields are often tilled immediately after the crop is harvested, removing the light-coloured stubble and…
Tag: Heat wave
NOAA: Another 'AGW caused heat wave' is actually just natural variation
You may remember headlines like these last summer: With Blow-Out March Heat Wave, Meteorologist Masters Says ‘This is not the atmosphere I grew up with’ The 2012 Heat Wave: “Almost Like Science…
It seems NOAA has 'de-modernized' the official Death Valley station to use older equipment to make a record more likely
About those ‘record’ Death Valley temperatures everybody is waiting for… UPDATE: 128°F today at Death Valley COOP station. See Record Event Report below. It seems the media and the alarmists…
About the record temperature in Las Vegas yesterday…it wasn't 117°F
There’s lots of hullabaloo over the supposedly tied all time temperature record of 117°F in Las Vegas on June 29th, and the potential for a new all-time temperature record in…
One benefit of the Australian heat wave
Story submitted by Eric Worrall At least one Australian is not unhappy at the country’s recent hot spell. The following is a picture of something I pulled off a private…
Climate Craziness of the Week – USA Today duped into thinking severe weather began in 1980
From USA Today: Report: Climate change behind rise in weather disasters 12:53PM EST October 10. 2012 – The number of natural disasters per year has been rising dramatically on all…
Low temperature records overwhelm highs in the USA this past week – where's the media to tell us how this should be viewed?
If this had been summer, and the numbers reversed, you’d see Seth Borenstein writing articles for AP telling us this is ‘what global warming cooling looks like’. Maybe Bill McKibben…
A wave of heated peer pressure results in shrinking integrity
Over on the thread The folly of blaming the Eastern U.S. heat wave on global warming there is a lively discussion going on between people that think the Eastern US…
The folly of blaming the Eastern U.S. heat wave on global warming
A picture is worth a thousand words:
350.org cancels melting "HOAX?" ice sculpture
“It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity.” – WUWT commenter H.R. Change of plans. Posted by Bill McKibben – 07/07/12, 5:18am Below is the note we just sent out to…
The nonlinear nature of predicting seasonal temperature in Europe
From the CORDIS News service: Predicting hot days in Europe ‘Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight, red sky in morning, fisherman’s warning.’ This saying is one of Europe’s earliest rhymes…
The Highest Temperature Reading Doesn’t Necessarily Mean a Record Hot Day
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany On June 29th, the temperature at Reagan National Airport (DCA) in Washington, DC, hit 104 °F and it was duly noted by all and…
Hansen's admission – "skeptics are winning"
Like what Judith Curry saw recently at NCAR’s seminar, he seems to think it is all about communication. Part of the problem, he said, was that the climate sceptic lobby…
Some facts about deaths due to heat waves
We have a strong, but not unprecedented, heat wave gripping the central USA. NOAA made this video animation to show the breadth of it, which I converted to YouTube so…
Johns Hopkins succumbs to heat wave mania
From Johns Hopkins/Bloomberg School of Health, where they apparently haven’t looked at this data before writing a worrying scare story. The simple fact is, record high temperatures are simply not…
Climate Central confuses weather and climate – you help write the rebuttal
Here’s an opportunity for crowd-sourcing a rebuttal to Climate Central’s Top Ten Climate Events of 2010. I think it is mistitled, and should be Climate Central’s Top Ten Weather Events…
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