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Dr. Nicolas Scaffeta summarizes “why the anthropogenic theory proposed by the IPCC should be questioned”

Mar 14, 2010 11:58am

Dr. Nicolas Scaffeta has written an extensive summary of the state of climate science today. He’s done some very extensive analysis of the solar contribution that bears examination. Pay particular attention to this graph from page 49: WUWT readers may remember him from some previous papers and comments he’s written that...

Hockey Stick Illusion: “Shut-eyed Denial”

Mar 14, 2010 10:26am

By John A A shout-out for a review of Andrew Montford’s “The Hockey Stick Illusion” by Matt Ridley in Prospect Magazine. Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion is one of the best science books in years. It exposes in delicious detail, datum by datum, how a great scientific...

UK ads banned for overstating climate change

Mar 13, 2010 8:33pm

From The Times Ed Miliband’s adverts banned for overstating climate change by Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor TWO government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for exaggerating the potential harm. The adverts, commissioned by Ed...

IOP fires back over criticism of their submission to Parliament

Mar 13, 2010 12:01pm

WUWT reported on Feb 27th of the IOP submission here:Institute of Physics on Climategate IOP issued a no holds barred statement on Climategate to the UK Parliamentary Committee. Some criticism ensued. Now IOP fires back: Concerns raised over Institute of Physics climate submission A statement submitted by the Institute of Physics (IOP) to a...

Quote of the week #30

Mar 13, 2010 7:52am

From an AP story interview, we have a what I’ll call a “Lubchencoism”. “There is a well-orchestrated and fairly successful effort under way to confuse and sometimes cherry-pick information,” Lubchenco said. Heh. Apparently she’s never reviewed how USHCN and GHCN came to have their station lists. But here’s the quote that had me...

Hathaway on the solar conveyor belt and deep solar minimum

Mar 12, 2010 8:27pm

From NASA News: Solar ‘Current of Fire’ Speeds Up What in the world is the sun up to now? In today’s issue of Science, NASA solar physicist David Hathaway reports that the top of the sun’s Great Conveyor Belt has been running at record-high speeds for the past five years. “I ...

Aquatic ‘dead zones’ contributing to climate change

Mar 12, 2010 11:56am

This alarming missive just in from the: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science As oxygen-deprived waters increase, they emit more greenhouse gasses into atmosphere Above graphic from NOLA.COM click for details. Cambridge, Md. (March 11, 2010) – The increased frequency and intensity of oxygen-deprived “dead zones” along the world’s coasts can negatively...

Climategate.com shuts down

Mar 12, 2010 7:36am

From the Facebook page of the Climategate.com operator: Climategate is closing down I am very sorry to bring you the news today that climategate.com is shutting down. It started out as a minor little “hour a day” hobby last December after I purchased the domain name, and it turned into a monster of...

Gallup: Americans’ Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop

Mar 12, 2010 12:59am

Multiple indicators show less concern, more feelings that global warming is exaggerated by Frank Newport, Gallup News PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup’s annual update on Americans’ attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its...

Another WWF assisted IPCC claim debunked: Amazon more drought resistant than claimed

Mar 11, 2010 9:33pm

Via Eurekalert – New study debunks myths about Amazon rain forests – They may be more tolerant of droughts than previously thought (Boston) — A new NASA-funded study has concluded that Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to...

A UHI Tale of Two Cities

Mar 11, 2010 9:10am

By Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts Fort Collins, Colorado is most famous for Balloon Boy, and Boulder, Colorado is most famous for Jon Benet and Ward Churchill. Both are hotbeds of Climate Science, with familiar names like Roger Pielke (Jr. and Sr.) Walt Meier, William Gray, Kevin Trenberth and Mark Sereeze. Both...

Big G panics

Mar 11, 2010 8:23am

By Harold Ambler A new editorial in Nature is startling for what it reveals, especially the fact Paul Ehrlich is a go-to figure about how hard scientists have it when it comes to media access. Ehrlich is an individual who became an international celebrity by spinning one frightening story...

The global economy carbon yin yang

Mar 11, 2010 12:01am

Anybody who has watched the march of jobs overseas already knows this, but it is nice to see science has finally caught up with what we already knew years ago. Look for more of this if a Cap and Trade bill passes in the U.S.. Senator Kerry says it has...

Paleo-clamatology

Mar 10, 2010 5:37pm

There’s a new article at Nature News where they report on an amazing new paleoclimatology breakthrough with temperature reconstructions using clamshells. The Nature article reports on a new paper in PNAS from William Patterson at the University of Saskachewan. Here’s a short excerpt: The study used 26 shells obtained from...

Spencer: Global Urban Heat Island Effect Study – An Update

Mar 10, 2010 11:58am

by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. This is an update to my previous posts [here and here on WUWT] describing a new technique for estimating the average amount of urban heat island (UHI) warming accompanying an increase in population density. The analysis is based upon 4x...

IPCC announces “independent” review

Mar 10, 2010 11:40am

A formal announcement was made in a press conference made at 12:30PM EST by the IPCC, which is getting press, for example here. But at the time of this writing, there’s no mention of it whatsoever on the main IPCC web page here: UPDATE: They’ve finally added a mention of the...

When the IPCC ‘disappeared’ the Medieval Warm Period

Mar 10, 2010 9:14am

IPCC changed viewpoint on the MWP in 2001 – did this have effect on scientific results? Guest post by Frank Lansner Latest News (hidethedecline) A brief check indicates a “warm MWP-consensus” before IPCC published the Mann hockey stick graph in 2001. But after 2001, results on MWP...

Himalayan Hijinks

Mar 9, 2010 6:30pm

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach According to an article in the Hindustan Times by someone for whom English is a second language, I find: Senior scientists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WITG) has rejected the Global Warming Theory and told that the Himalayas are quite safer zone on earth, where...

Wrong way econometricians

Mar 9, 2010 4:04pm

People send me stuff. This one reminds me of a famous wrong way: Hi Anthony Today we had some rumour in the Dutch media due to a paper by a couple of econometricians which projected dramatic warming. Ross McKitrick discovered they had used a wrong dataset; We blogged about ...

Former Apartheid Spy Appointed to Head UN Climate Change Effort

Mar 9, 2010 1:43pm

From the You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up Department. [update, yeah the headline is inaccurate, it is simply reflecting the original story headline from BIGGOVERNMENT.com ~ ctm] Former Apartheid Spy Appointed to Head UN Climate Change Effort by ...