Watts Up With That?

Sea Ice News #21
This week was a true roller coaster ride with Arctic Sea Ice. It is best summed up by looking at the JAXA graph for extent, shown below: Below, see the area of interest magnified. I’ve added the 5 million square … Continue reading

New gadget finally kills the power vampires in my home
I’m back home. Thanks to everyone who helped while I was offline with family medical issues. There are larger challenges ahead but for now things are back to near normal. Thanks to everyone who left kind words in the announcements … Continue reading

GRACE under fire
Guest post by Thomas Fuller It is hard to understand many of those who are convinced that climate change will destroy civilization. Previous ideas about massive sea level rise or tipping points leading to unending temperature increases have been debunked. … Continue reading

UEA/CRU responds to Climategate “inquiries”
h/t to Bishop Hill who writes: UEA has issued a response to the various inquiries. The timing is odd, to say the least. Perhaps they’ve all been on holiday. See it here. What he’s alluding to is unspoken rule number … Continue reading

The North Pacific & Solar Cycle Change
Guest post by Paul Vaughan, M.Sc. Awhile back I drew attention to temporal patterns shared by the <i>rate of change</i> of solar cycle length (SCL’) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). (See here.) Correspondence I received later alerted me to … Continue reading

The gusto that wasn’t
I heard on my car radio a news report interviewing hotel and resort property owners on the East Coast that lost virtually all their bookings this holiday weekend due to warnings for hurricane Earl. A direct quote from one of … Continue reading

Reminder: Labor Day – Fly our flag
From the Washington Post: Things you should know about Labor Day Labor Day is the perfect day to explain to kids complaining about going back to school just how much worse things could be for them. In fact, they once … Continue reading