Open Thread Weekend
May 20, 2012
Off to chase the eclipse with my children, and then travel tomorrow to Heartland conference. Airplane has WiFi so may be able to keep up with posting en-route. Expect moderation delays... Read more »
Premonitions of the Fall (in temperature)
May 20, 2012
Guest post by David Archibald The first prediction of the current climatic minimum was made by Hubbert Lamb in 1970 in a report (Weiss and Lamb) for the German Navy. He did it by making... Read more »
EU violates Aarhus Convention in ‘20% renewable energy by 2020’ program
May 19, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UN: EU violates Aarhus Convention The Compliance Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), which enforces the... Read more »
A first hand report on Dr. Michael Mann’s embarrassing Disneyland episode
May 19, 2012
Elevated from a comment. Roger Sowell describes first hand what led up to Mann denying a TV interview about his work. Apparently, for Dr. Mann, Disneyland is not “the happiest... Read more »
The “well funded” climate business – follow the money
May 19, 2012
Flashback, Michael Mann said this on October 5th, 2010: Our efforts to communicate the science are opposed by a well-funded, highly organized disinformation effort that aims to confuse... Read more »
Annular Solar Eclipse 2012 – data and images
May 18, 2012
I’ve been asked to provide some information on the upcoming eclipse Sunday, so here it is. I’ll actually miss the first part of the Heartland conference (Sunday night and... Read more »
Pollution enhanced thunderstorms warm the planet?
May 18, 2012
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... Read more »
The question put to Dr. Mann at Disneyland today
May 18, 2012
Steve McIntyre recently published a new graph on his website Climate Audit. Alerted to the fact that Dr. Mann would be speaking at the OC Water Summit, I was asked to submit a question,... Read more »
Dr. Mann goes to Disneyland
May 18, 2012
It seems Dr. Michael Mann has been invited to speak at a water conference. I’m wondering if his buddy, Dr. Peter Gleick was invited or not. The program is interesting, because... Read more »
Megafire study suggests today’s megafires, at least in the southwestern U.S., are atypical
May 18, 2012
From SMU (Southern Methodist University) comes this press release which really isn’t surprising. North America didn’t have a forest fire suppression program for the last... Read more »
Integrity Score: ClimateBites 1, Mann 0
May 18, 2012
ClimateBites Tom Smerling writes: …I would have preferred that Mann had stopped with the quote above, but he added “I will call people who deny the science ‘deniers.’ I... Read more »
An analysis of the Central Netherlands Temperature record
May 17, 2012
Many readers are familiar with the Central England Temperature Record (CET), now Frank Lansner investigates the Central Netherlands Temperature Record (CNT). Long, but enlightening.... Read more »
The 1000 year Australian hockey itch
May 17, 2012
From the University of Melbourne, I’m sure Julia and Flannery are thrilled at this paleo-reconstruction, and of course, the blame goes on Mann, er man. I find it interesting though... Read more »
The Global Renewable Energy Index is crashing
May 17, 2012
This is interesting, after watching the collapse in the last two years of entities like the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), which ended trading with a bag of charcoal briquettes being... Read more »
New paper using RADARSAT data: Antarctic ice shelves slowed down – “…have not been changed in a significant way in the past 12 years”
May 17, 2012
A new paper published May 15th in the the journal The Cryosphere utilizes 12 years worth of RADARSAT data to determine the rate at which some well known ice shelves in Antarctica have... Read more »
Trenberth’s missing heat still missing: new paper shows a near flat ocean temperature trend – 0.09°C over the past 55 years
May 16, 2012
A new paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters describes how the oceans have warmed only 0.09°C over the last 55 years, from 1955-2010. Don’t let the red line fool... Read more »
Carbon soot may be driving the expansion of the tropics – not CO2
May 16, 2012
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... Read more »
Hurricane drought days at an all time high – Katrina Karma ?
May 16, 2012
Ever since Al Gore used hurricane Katrina as a false example of AGW driven severe weather, there has been a drought of major landfalling U.S. Hurricanes, which can only be a good thing.... Read more »
Hump day Hilarity – China’s wind powered car
May 16, 2012
The world has been waiting patiently for a solution to the perpetual motion machine problem. Leave it to the Chinese to solve it. Now, where the hell is my flying car Popular Science... Read more »
Using Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis for climate understanding and prediction – after Lovelock threw climate under the bus
May 16, 2012
As you may recall, James Lovelock recently threw global warming/climate change under the bus. I guess these guys need to get out more. I post this press release solely for the entertainment... Read more »
Is Sea Level Rise Accelerating?
May 16, 2012
Guest post by Paul Homewood It is generally accepted that sea levels increased during the 20thC at a rate of about 185mm or about 7”. Furthermore studies suggest that... Read more »
Modeling in the red
May 15, 2012
From an Ohio State University press release where they see a lot of red, and little else, yet another warm certainty model: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS PROJECTS FUTURE TEMPERATURES IN NORTH... Read more »
Another day, another Central Asian precipitation study finds a link to solar activity
May 15, 2012
From Sun and Liu 2012: all of the deep solar minima of the last millennium (Oort, Wolf, Spörer, Maunder and Dalton) correspond to periods of drought in the Qilian Mountains of the... Read more »
Global warming – splodeified
May 15, 2012
Via Tom Nelson, no wonder they hate nuclear power so much, they don’t see any difference! Global warming increasing by 400,000 atomic bombs every day | The Vancouver Observer... Read more »
McIntyre gets some new Yamal data – still no hockey stick
May 15, 2012
Steve McIntyre writes: Yesterday, I received updated Yamal data (to 2005) from Rashit Hantemirov, together with a cordial cover note. As CA and other readers know, Hantemirov had also... Read more »