Quote of the Week – it's a doozy

Finally, a scientist gets it, speaks out about it, and a reporter in a major media outlet publishes the words that say in even stronger terms what I said last…

Clarification on BEST submitted to the House

UPDATES: A number of feckless political commentators have simply missed this response I prepared, so I’m posting it to the top for a day or two. I’ll have a follow…

The "Not Evil, Just Romm", 2% solution

ERRATA: I made a mistake regarding the 2% figure, I misheard what was being presented during my visit with the BEST team at Berkeley. As many of you may know…

Quote of the Week – Note to NOAA

Steve McIntyre at ClimateAudit has written another essay on the poor way that CRU/UEA and NOAA have dealt with FOIA requests. To say “poor”, that means in some cases “not…

NOAA finds"climate change" blameless in 2010 Russian heat wave

We mentioned this previously on WUWT, now it is officially peer reviewed and accepted. Maybe this will be a lesson to those in the MSM and eco blogland who immediately…

Inspector General Finds NOAA Climategate Emails Warranted "Further Investigation"

As usual, the mainstream media reads and reports only the summary page and so assumed NOAA is cleared of all wrongdoing. But there is a lot more to this story.…

NOAA's CSI explains record snows: global warming not involved

This analysis from NOAA’s Climate Scene Investigators (CSI) shows that there’s no historical signature which would implicate a human fingerprint, or as they say: Specifically, they wanted to know if…

NOAA ENSO expert: "odds for a two-year (La Niña) event remain well above 50%"

Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) Last update: 4 February 2011 by Klaus Wolter The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of NOAA. El Niño/Southern…

First Large-Scale, Physics-Based Space Weather Model Transitions Into Operation

Provides forecasters with one-to-four-day advance warning of ‘solar storms’ A coronal mass ejection (CME) in a model; the CME is the gray cloud toward the lower right. Credit and Larger…

Surface temperature uncertainty, quantified

There is a new paper out that investigates something that has not previously been well dealt with related to the surface temperature record (at least as far as the author…

D'Aleo on NOAA and NASA

By Joe D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow The pressure has been mounting. The public doubt about global warming has been increasing in the past year given Climategate, and how promises of…

The PAST is Not What it Used to Be (GW Tiger Tale)

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. Time machines are a staple of sci-fi. Someone travels back to the past and changes some momentous historical event, expecting his or her heroic action…

NCDC's Dr. Thomas Peterson: "It's a knife fight"

This is a row screencap from this Twitter page: http://twitter.com/scio11 It comes from the January 13-16th, 2011 Science Online conference held in the Research Triangle Park in Durham. Details at…

According to NCDC's own data, 2010 was not the warmest year in the United States, nor even a tie

While there’s been a lot of attention given to the recent NOAA and NASA press releases stating that 2010 was tied for the warmest year globally, it didn’t meet that…

Tale of the Global Warming Tiger

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. Once upon a time, long ago and far away, three brave warriors decided to do something about the tiger that was terrorizing their village. The…

Climate Disasters: New Baylor Study Explores How People Respond

From Baylor University News Study looks into the interaction of knowledge, risk perceptions and action as it relates to climate events New results from a Baylor University study show that…

One more thing that is "better than we thought" – NOAA: "the atmosphere’s self-cleaning capacity is rather stable"

Yesterday we learned that the great Pacific Garbage Patch really isn’t as big as hyped by media, today we learn that the “atmosphere’s ability to rid itself of many pollutants…

The sun is still in a slump – still not conforming to NOAA "consensus" forecasts

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) produced their monthly solar cycle progression update yesterday. The news is not encouraging. We’ve had a drop in solar activity again in December, The…

Are huge northeast snow storms due to global warming?

Guest post by Dr. Richard Keen The winter of 2009-2010 was a memorable one in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, with locations like Philadelphia enjoying multiple massive snow storms that…

Solar Geomagnetic Ap Index Hits Zero

This is something you really don’t expect to see this far into solar cycle 24. But there it is, the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite shows the sun as a cueball:…