Monthly Archives: October 2010

GISS trends for the most recent five years.  

HadCrut in black. Five year running mean of the PDO in blue/red. When the PDO is dominantly positive, temperatures warm. When the PDO is negative, they don’t. I wonder why Hansen/Tamino choose to cherry pick the start date of the … Continue reading →

The graph above plots the five year running mean of the PDO (turquoise line) on top of the five year running mean ENSO (red and blue.)  When the PDO is negative, La Niña dominates. When the PDO is positive, El … Continue reading →

This is rich. Every article I write using this NCAR (National Center For Atmospheric Research) graph from the 1970s, gets filled with comments that “no real climate scientists believed the globe was cooling.” WTF? Any child with basic graph reading … Continue reading →

I wrote an article for SPPI a couple of weeks ago titled “To a Geologist, “The Past is Key to the Future.” I got some good feedback from it, none more flattering than being compared to Lord Monckton by Hot … Continue reading →

The week before the election we suddenly start hearing from the press and White House all kinds of awful stories about Iraq, and now terrorist attacks which Obama personally thwarted. Those tricks worked in 2006 and 2008, why won’t they … Continue reading →

And they are anxiously awaiting the results of Prop 23. If you don’t vote the right way, they are going to get angry. You won’t like them when they are angry. {you might not like the next part}

In a bid to put as many people out of work as possible, California plans to require oil refiners to “start buying carbon dioxide permits for pollution from cars and trucks,” http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-10-29/california-carbon-auctions-in-2015-may-boost-gasoline-prices.html  

Global temperatures are plummeting and are now the lowest in the last six years.

This is how the AGW narrative goes. From 1880-1945, the Sun was warming the planet like crazy. Then in 1945, humans suddenly started dumping lots of junk into the atmosphere, causing rapid global cooling. In the 1970s, Congress passed the … Continue reading →