Category Archives: weather

All the News That Fits AGW

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

Update (2:45 pm EDT): The Times has added a photo, rewritten the lede and headline, but not put the story at the top of the website. They’ve also deleted the entire comment section.  One of the running jokes in the … Continue reading →

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You Cannot Have It Both Ways

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

I spent 25 years of my life worried about global warming. And one of the best proofs that the scientists and the media both had to keep me convinced was warmer winters, with less snow. Al Gore talked about it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, Cap-and-trade, Climate change, crying wolf, global cooling, global warming, hurricanes, media, weather, winter | 21 Comments

Some help with the drought in Central Texas?

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

Although you wouldn’t know it listening to conversation around Austin, this summer’s drought and heat are not the “worst ever.” They do, however, to put a technical spin on it, suck. A system passing from the Caribbean to the Gulf … Continue reading →

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Cool summer?

Posted on May 22, 2011 by

Grimsvotn volcano, in Iceland, has erupted. As Joe D’Aleo and others have pointed out, a high-latitude volcanic eruption can be enough to produce a cool summer, and, sometimes, a vicious winter to boot. Whether enough sulfates have reached sufficient altitude this … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, global cooling, media, weather, winter

How ’bout a little rain?

Posted on May 11, 2011 by

The last post focused on San Francisco Bay, where my best friend in high school and I used to windsurf anytime we got the chance. Our spots were: Redwood Shores, Foster City, and Coyote Point, the last being in the … Continue reading →

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Remember when sea level was stable?

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

The SF Bay Area, whence I sprang more than a few springs ago, is being threatened by catastrophic climate change in the form of rising sea levels. That is, if you believe this. Not surprisingly, I don’t. There has not, … Continue reading →

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Just Plain Crazy

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

Let me tell you something about climate change: People’s perceptions of climate have changed. So have their perceptions of weather. If you want to be popular in my hometown of Austin all you’ve got to do is repeat, “Crazy weather.” … Continue reading →

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Fatherless Blackout

Posted on February 3, 2011 by

If you ever wanted to get a whole mess of Texans bent out of shape, you probably couldn’t improve on the job that the state’s electricity providers did during this week’s cold weather. Although “cascading” effects from a run of … Continue reading →

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What Will the AGW Climb-Down Look Like?

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

Here’s something that you can bring to the bank: With regard to global warming, the major purveyors of news in the industrialized world will be climbing down from their various versions of frenzied alarmism. Here’s something else that you can … Continue reading →

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How to Measure Temperature in the Arctic — the Lesser of Two Evils

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

As has been well covered by Steve Goddard on WUWT, the “interpretation” of Arctic conditions by NASA/GISS is based on astonishingly little data north of 80 degrees latitude, which is to say no data at all. As the Danish Meteorological … Continue reading →

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