Priceless photo – snow and palm trees juxtaposed in Southern California thanks to El Niño

Southern California has gotten quite  bit of weather lately, thanks to the changes in the jet stream track in this El Niño year. readers may recall my post from last…

New research: Social scientists look for climate denial – and find it

By Larry Kummer, from the Fabius Maximus website Summary: The social science literature about climate change includes many oddities. A new hot paper about climate denial adds to that list,…

Claim: Greenland ice sheet melts more when it's cloudy

From KU Leuven and the “department of annoying back-radiation” comes this claim that flies in the face of the “big melt” under “thin clouds” aka nearly clear skies back in July…

Lewandowsky's Psychological Science publishing hoax reaches the media

From Paul Matthew’s Climate Scepticism blog: In the blogosphere, the hoax paper by Lewandowsky, Oberauer and Gignac,  NASA faked the moon landing—therefore, (climate) science is a hoax was exposed soon after it…

January 2016 ENSO Update – It Appears the El Niño Has Peaked

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of many of the ENSO-related variables we presented as part of last year’s 2014-15 El Niño Series.  For the series…

Growth rings on rocks give up North American climate secrets

3 millimeters of soil deposits detail 120,000 years of climate history From the  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – BERKELEY Scientists have found a new way to tease out signals about Earth’s…