Trenberth Invents The Cold Air Balloon | Real Science

Balloonists have traditionally warmed up the air in their balloons to make them ascend, and cooled them down to make them descend. Crack scientists at NCAR have shown that they are doing exactly the wrong thing. If you want a fluid to descend, warm it.

World Climate Report » Antarctic Temperature Trends

In the two years since the big flash at Nature, further and better analysis confirms that what has been going on in Antarctica is pretty much what we knew to be happening all along—that during the last 3-to-4 decade period of rapid build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the temperature has changed little at the continental scale, and instead is characterized by a complex pattern of regional warming and cooling. Such changes do not foreshadow a rapid loss of continental Antarctic ice nor an alarming Antarctic contribution to the rate of current and future sea level rise this century as a result of surface ice melt. In fact, measurements from a different satellite data set that begin in 1979 show that the extent of ice in the southern high latitudes is increasingly significantly.

Tinkered, Tailored, Soldout, Sly | Digging in the Clay

The title* neatly sums up what the Climategate 2.0 emails reveal about the activities and opinions  of the ‘elite’ of climate science (*thanks to a comment by Anoneumouse of The Anglo Saxon Chronicle – an who has followed it up with the great montage image (left)).

Paging Mike Mann – your dendrochronologist will see you now | Watts Up With That?

[Reed Coray comment] It’s time to give names to the various rings in the tree trunk cross section Dr. Michael Mann holds in his hands In his iconic picture. My candidates are:

The Arrogance Ring
The Ignorance-(Tree Growth)-Is-Bliss Ring
The Upside-Down-Tiljander Ring
The Precautionary-Principle Ring
The Ain’t-Grant-Money-Sweet Ring
The No-Show-Data/Methods Ring
The Flawed-Statistics Ring
The Superior-Smirk Ring
The Hide-The-Decline Ring
The Whitewash Ring, and
The Ego-Run-Amok Bullseye