Research suggests that hurricane forecasts on intensity could never be feasible: Anthony Watts trawls the internet to bring us another single study about something tangential to climate change science that proves everything climate scientists say is wrong.

Spanish researchers investigating hurricane intensity state, in one of their minor conclusions, that the “increase [in the number of hurricanes] cannot be explained solely on the basis of climate change.” Did you read that? Not “solely on the basis of climate change”! Hah! Double hah! Triple hah!

Gotta take what you can get I suppose, eh Anthony?

Polar Bears Survived the Ice Free Arctic: Steven Goddard tells us that because ice-free summer conditions existed for at least some time during the period of 15,000 to 5,000 years ago, polar bears will be just fine when Global Warming really kicks in.

Wait! Global Warming won’t ‘kick in’ because it’s not happening! Not. Happening.

Also, CO2 levels were in the thousands of PPM back in the Cambrian, so CO2 can’t be a problem. Wait, there wasn’t any life on land back then. Not such a great comparison after all.

Climate Craziness of the Week: lighting up your windmill (June 18, 2010): Anthony Watts is giggling because an Australian power-generating windmill is illuminated by electric light!!!! That’s just crazy. Apparently. Why would a place that generates electricity use electricity? This got me thinking about restaurants: why would a place that sells food also buy food? Or how about water treatment plants: why on earth would they have running water in them?

Grave concerns by Pielke Senior: Nature duped with claim of independent surface temp data sets (June 18, 2010): Dr. Roger Pielke (Sr.) accuses Peter Stott and Peter Thorne of deliberately lying about the “independence” of global temperature data in their Nature article How best to log local temperatures? No, the USA doesn’t have their own set of thermometers scattered across Russia. Yes, the centers that generate global temperature analyses use different criteria and corrections. Next outrage please.

Hot Times in Antarctica (June 18, 2010): Time magazine reports that “Over the past 50 years, winter temperatures [on western edge of the Antarctic Peninsula] have shot up by an almost unbelievable 6°C” according to a paper in Science. Adélie penguin populations have plummeted while the chinstrap penguin population has increased. Steven Mosher brings this to our attention so we can all laugh.

Omaha schools pull Laurie David’s AGW book citing “major factual error” and DiCaprio video “without merit”. (June 18, 2010): A denialist worms their way on to an Omaha school board and uses the bogus ancient CO2 lags temperature argument to get a book removed from their schools. And maybe the book author Laurie David kissed Al Gore. Here’s the scoop: in the ancient natural world CO2 didn’t magically increase and cause warming. Something natural caused the initial warming, and when CO2 levels increased sufficiently they began magnifying the warming until the natural trigger faded. Modern warming is the immediate result of human CO2 (and other greenhouse gas) emissions. Same physics, but different trigger. Get it?

Cold Times In Journalism (June 18, 2010): Ooooh, this one’s a laugh! Steven Goddard tries to take on Time’s Hot Times in Antarctica too, but does such an ignorant job of it that even Anthony Watts realises that he needs to pull the plug. “Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.”

Antarctic Agreements and Disagreements (June 19, 2010): Willis Eschenbach blunders applying his “beginners mind” to try to re-slice the temperature data for the claim of a 6°C rise over 50 years on the Western Antarctica Peninsula cited by Time Magazine. What, the recording stations weren’t all staffed year-round? Toss them!

CSIRO has counter meeting to address “denialism” (June 19, 2010): Australia’s CSIRO hosts a meeting to discuss how to better explain the scientific basis of climate change science. Anthony Watts is annoyed that climate scientists want to communicate clearly.

The Electric Oceanic Acid Test (June 19, 2010): As noted in a comment here by Scott Mandia, Willis Eschenbach gets the science of ocean acidification completely, but confidently, wrong.

Tricky Sea Ice Predictions Call for Scientists to Open Their Data (June 20, 2010): With Arctic Sea Ice trends looking terrible for global warming deniers, they’re suddenly quick to clutch at NSIDC director Mark Serreze’s comments on Wired Science about over-interpreting short-term trends. Ah, hypocrisy.

Cuccinelli tells court former U-Va. professor’s academic freedom not threatened (June 20, 2010): Neo-McCarthyist Ken Cuccinelli is just looking out for everyone’s best interests! He simply wants to have a friendly little root through everything Professor Michael Mann has done as a kind of random inspection. Nothing to do with Cuccinelli’s vehement support for denialist causes. The Washington Post tells us so.

Firms paid to shut down wind farms when the wind is blowing (June 20, 2010): If the Telegraph says so it must be true! Just like “Amazongate”. Oh they still haven’t retracted that yet, have they. What is being “reported” is actually a test of how to manage a power overload.

Quote of the week #35 Nat Geo bangs the drum for the next solar cycle (June 20, 2010): Anthony Watts tells us that National Geographic are worrywarts to talk about how the sun’s electromagnetic storms can damage electronic devices. Nothing can harm us! Just ask solar non-expert David Archibald. But ignore that report from NASA.

So while I’ve been “away” the idiocy and outrage at Watts Up With That has continued unabated. It’s too funny to just let it drain away like the sour milk that it fundamentally is though. So I’ll do some one-liners to try to catch up with Anthony’s verbal diarrhea…

Scientists study shifting attitude to climate change (June 15, 2010): Steven Mosher rises up to the level of Grade Nine peanut gallery when describing an Australian Broadcast News radio transcript about Global Warming. Apparently there’s nothing he can do to counter to rational statements. How dare scientists “publicise the facts of climate science”!

Arctic Albedo (June 16, 2010): Deep thoughts from Steven “Shemp” Goddard. Snow is shiny! Until we can precisely predict clouds, we can’t say anything about the Arctic! So forget about Arctic Sea Ice extent, or volume, or… WUWT readers are agog.

Scan of Arctic ice dispels melting gloom: Researcher (June 16, 2010): Steven Mosher wants us to know that an aerial EM survey of one small area last year proves that there’s plenty of thick, thick ice up there in the Arctic. Oh really?

Whale poop fights global warming (June 16, 2010): Whale researchers conclude that sperm whales in the Southern Ocean sequester 400,000 tonnes of carbon a year through iron-rich defecation. Steven Mosher giggles a bit.

Oz report – Footy at least has rules (June 16, 2010): Anthony’s “grand tour” of Australia’s finest empty rental halls was interrupted by confrontation by actual coral reef expert Dr. Hoegh-Guldberg. Anthony and his fellow gypsies agree that the Dr. was mean.

Margaret Thatcher: the world’s first climate realist (June 16, 2010): His Most Royal Majesty Christopher Monckton shows up to explain that he was the genius behind everything Margaret Thatcher did. Also, he walked 5 miles through the snow to school every day (uphill both ways).

Peer reviewed whack a mozzie (June 17, 2010): In a bit of denialist circularity, Anthony Watts pastes in a posting from the “Science and Public Policy Institute” which itself is a paste-up of a “World Climate Report” post (both laughably misnamed). Apparently malaria hasn’t increased even though mosquitos like warmer climates! Therefore, there has been no Global Warming. Assuming, of course, that there hasn’t been any public health efforts to control the disease…

Nasa warns solar flares from ‘huge space storm’ will cause devastation (June 17, 2010): Steven Mosher re-posts a Telegraph article about a NASA what-if presentation at a Space Weather conference. More ignorant “NASA is a worrywart about everything!” nonsense.

An Aggie Joke (June 17, 2010): Steven Goddard falsely pins a incorrect claim that there has been a 3°C increase over the last hundred years on A&M Professor Gerald North, leading to much denialist hate mail, and then tries to imply that the flat temperature trend for just Texas summers invalidates the well-known record of an increase of nearly 1°C (and accelerating) over the last 130 years. Steven says that”Every fact and statistic quoted are suspect” but doesn’t realise that he is self-describing.

How to improve the IPCC (June 17, 2010): Steven Mosher cherry picks a few quotes from a Nature news report about a committee that is considering ways for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to correct errors in their reports in a timely fashion. Denialists have made great hay out of trivial errors in the sections that don’t deal with the physical evidence of Global Warming.

Americans Not Inclined To Pay More To Fight Global Warming (June 17, 2010): Breaking news in Canada Free Press (tagline: “Because without America, there is no Free World.”) – no-one wants to pay for anything! I thought I was the only one.

UK Climate Minister: “Britons Are ‘Inherently Sceptical’ Of Climate Science And Politics” (June 17, 2010): Yes, public opinion polls are what decide whether Global Warming is happening or not.