Guest essay by Eric Worrall Journalists in Pakistan have condemned government inaction with respect to climate change, which they blame for unusually harsh winter weather, and heavy snowfall. According to The Express Tribune; Swept under the carpet: Climate change remains little-known threat in K-P PESHAWAR: Climate change is a subject that is not widely discussed…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall ON the 24th December this year, Montreal was a poster child for the “new normal” – mild weather, no snow in sight. All that came to an abrupt end on the 29th, when Montreal strayed off narrative with a record breaking snowfall. From the 24th; Montreal’s Christmas Eve record-breaking temperature…
Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University A recent Guardian article “Wild bees on the decline in key US agricultural ecosystems” adds further support to my analysis that debunked an earlier claim by Kerr 2015 that climate change had been killing wild bees. I had argued that…
Political cartoonist Rick McKee of the Augusta Chronicle sees what you and I do – that any weather event can be pinned on climate change. The warm weather on the eastern half of the USA this winter has prompted many climate alarmists blame it on global warming/climate change/climate disruption even though in 1955, a similarly…
(Featured image borrowed from http://www.clipartbest.com) Naturally, the Real Clear Science headline actually read… Greenland Lost 9 Trillion Tons of Ice in Century Which sounds even more serious than the original headline… Greenland has lost 9,000 billion tons of ice in a century One would think that the fact that 99.7% of Greenland’s ice sheet survived the…
From the “everything is robust” department. We’ve long noted at WUWT that the word “robust” has seen a significant rise in usage in climate science papers, becoming a favorite word to use when statistical Spackle has been applied to climate data. Now there’s evidence from a new study suggesting that observation is spot-on. From Nature:…
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale It’s been a few weeks since the U.N.’s Paris Climate Conference (COP21) ended. Mainstream media from around the globe praised the impotent agreement, as though anyone expects political promises to be kept. The COP21 agreement reminded me of the proverb A promise is a comfort for a fool. Fantasy headlines…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Gizmodo, Carbon Emission Trading is one of the five stages of grief. “The interplay between the climate realities we likely face and the potential psychological fallout from them was the subject of a conference convened in Washington D.C., in March 2009,” write Lise van Susteren, MD, and Kevin…
…PLUS AN OBVIOUS ERROR IN THE NEW NOAA ERSST.V4 PAPER Guest Post by Bob Tisdale We’ve discussed NOAA’s new ERSST.v4 “pauses-buster” sea surface temperature reconstruction in a number of posts this year. They are linked at the end of this post. We can add yet another curiosity to the list…this time relating to the global…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Swiss Chocolate Makers are working hard to ensure that a warmer world will still be able to enjoy premium chocolate treats. According to The Daily Meal; Swiss Chocolatier Barry Callebaut Creates Heat-Resistant Chocolate to Survive Global Warming Swiss chocolate company Barry Callebaut has created heat-resistant chocolate in an effort to…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Top British government officials have predictably blamed Climate Change for severe flooding which has afflicted England in recent weeks. But there has also been strong criticism of river management policies. According to the Sydney Morning Herald; London: Climate change is forcing England to re-assess its flood defences in the face…
From the RESEARCH ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS An ice core study to determine the timing and duration of historical climate stages Two deep ice cores drilled at the East Antarctic dome summits ‘Dome Fuji’ and ‘Dome C’ were volcanically synchronized over the past 216 kyr to improve our knowledge of the timing and duration…
