Archive for November 17th, 2009
Salzer, Hughes et al (PNAS 2009) is in the news. It reports that "unprecedented" high-altitude bristlecone growth, citing increased growth at Sheep Mountain, Mount Washington and Pearl
Tags: bristlecones, climate audit, graybill, sheep mountain, SteveMcIntyre
Nine research challenges and four research initiatives that are poised to advance the study of how Earth’s landscapes change were unveiled by the National Research Council.
Here’s the latest global temperature plot from UAH: From Eurekalert: Human emissions rise 2 percent despite global financial crisis IMAGE: Human emissions rise 2 percent despite the global
Tags: Uncategorized, WUWT
Our forefathers’ conversations about climate change remind us that history has a tendency to repeat itself.
AIR-Worldwide has released an interesting top-10 list of the largest U.S. insured hurricane losses if each historical hurricane had occurred with 2009 exposures. Here are those values: And here is
globe and mail.jpg Spurred on by a speech that Jim Hoggan gave to the Canadian Empire Club in Toronto (talking about our new book, Climate Cover-up), Canada’s national newspaper, the
Tags: Canada, Friends of Science, globe and mail, Martin Mittelstaedt, Richard Littlemore, tim ball
The strongest evidence yet that the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions continues to outstrip the ability of the world’s natural “sinks” to absorb carbon has just been
Continued improvement of climate forecasts is resulting in better information about what rainfall may look like months in advance. A researcher has now developed an innovative water management
The more of these sniveling (and, amusingly, poorly informed) pieces like this Der Spiegel item, the better, I say. And I hope Drudge links to every one. Europe has every reason to believe in
I’ve recycled the photos from my May 2008 “On the Rocks” post, but the story is new. Yes, the Kapitan Khlebnikov eco-tour icebreaker is once again stuck in polar ice —
The calculation of variations in the sea level is relatively simple. It is by far more complicated to then determine the change in the water mass. A team of geodesists and oceanographers have now,
Well, my question playing devil’s advocate would be: is it necessary to convey all the differences? That is: what is the level of understanding the public should have before policy
I’ll take some time to watch, thank you. I believe the term is ‘Canuckdar’, BTW. ;o)
carrion crow_300_tcm9-139740.jpg The sprawling stable of climate change deniers in the employ of the National Post must be choking on crow after their editorial board finally admitted
Tags: Canada, Desmogger, Mitchell Anderson, national post climate change, national post global warming, Political Spin, terrance corcoran
The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading scientists said
Tags: climate change
Two weeks ago the Climate Change Examiner reported about an online lesson from NOAA’s National Weather Service discussing climate change that questioned CO2’s effect on the climate.
Tags: Debate
Two weeks ago the Climate Change Examiner reported about an online lesson from NOAA’s National Weather Service discussing climate change that questioned CO2’s effect on the climate.
Tags: Debate
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) today confirmed that floor debate on a sweeping energy and global warming bill that will be sold to the American public in part as an economic stimulus
Tags: Clean energy jobs bill
Two of Koutsoyannis’ co-authors (here and here) have contacted me today providing a link to their HK Climate website, designed the old-fashioned way with a Start page and an Epilogue (and
Tags: AGW, Catastrophism, Christofides, climate change, CO2 Emissions, Data, Dissent, global warming, History, Koutsoyannis, Mamassis, science, Skepticism
In 2005 I wrote that it was just a matter of time before air capture — the direct removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — was going to move to the center of climate policy
teabaggers.jpg I just got word that Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is planning on protesting a presentation Al Gore is making tomorrow night in Portland, Oregon. Under the guise of the
Tags: AFP, Americans for Prosperity, gore teabaggers, portland gore event, portland teabaggers, Tim Phillips
WorldNetDaily Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose new book “Going Rogue,” was released today, is blaming the nation’s economic woes at least partly on the Democrats’
Tags: Book Reviews, sarahpalingoingrogueanamericanlifebuyitatamazon
Seoul has vowed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 4 per cent by 2020, brushing aside objections from powerful industrial bosses
Tags: financial times
The Left likes having Big Industry straw men to bash whenever their socialist plans run aground, but the fact is, Big Industry is embracing the U.S.’s leftward lurch. Better to secure your place
The recent increase in fresh-water discharge during low-flow conditions as observed in many (sub-)Arctic Rivers has been attributed to a reactivation of groundwater flow systems caused by
Tags: JGR
VOC emissions from terrestrial ecosystems provide one of the principal controls over oxidative photochemistry in the lower atmosphere and the resulting air pollution. Such atmospheric processes
Tags: JGR
Increasing temperatures at high altitudes are fueling the post-1950 growth spurt seen in bristlecone pines, the world’s oldest trees, according to new research. The pines near treeline have
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Tags: climate audit, News and Commentary, SteveMcIntyre