Last Thursday in my local newspaper The Chico Enterprise-Record there was an editorial about saving water through bureaucracy: Editorial: Toilet police don’t want job. It was was of those “only…
Tag: Pacific Ocean
Study: lack of cloud physics biased climate models high
The Hockey Schtick brings this to our attention. It seems Dr. Roy Spencer was prescient with his observation: “The most obvious way for warming to be caused naturally is for…
Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential – It’s All in the Presentation
UPDATE: If you’d like to contribute to the Philippine Red Cross you can do so here. # # # The warm-looking image on the left in Figure 1 is of…
New paper shows Medieval Warm Period was global in scope
Andrew Revkin writes: Michael Mann can’t be happy about this work. Here’s a chat with two authors of an important new Science paper examining 10,000 years of layered fossil plankton…
Sea Level Rise: Climate Change and an Ocean of Natural Variability
Guest essay Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times Sea level rise is the greatest disaster predicted by Climatism, the belief in catastrophic climate change. Today, leading scientific organizations…
Breaking deep-sea waves reveal a potential mechanism for global ocean mixing
From the “Trenberth’s hidden heat” department and the University of Washington comes this story about waves nobody ever sees in the sea that may mix water and transport heat. Waves…
Scientists confirm existence of largest single volcano on Earth – Massive underwater volcano rivals biggest in solar system
From the National Science Foundation newsroom: September 6, 2013 The summer blockbuster movie Pacific Rim told a fanciful tale of giant monsters rising from the deep in the middle of…
Another paper blames ENSO for global warming pause, calling it '… a major control knob governing Earth's temperature.'
UPDATE: Chris de Freitas responds to comments with an addendum below – Anthony Readers may recall the recent paper that blamed “the pause” in global temperature on ENSO changes in…
'Mind blowing paper' blames ENSO for Global Warming Hiatus
Note: Dr. Judith Curry also has an essay on this important paper. She writes: My mind has been blown by a new paper just published in Nature. Just when I…
Hindcasting climate shifts in the Pacific
From the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) The potential for successful climate predictions Hindcast experiments capture long-term climate fluctuations Will there be rather warm or cold winters in…