It's over – 4324 day major hurricane drought ends as Harvey makes landfall at Cat 4

(Edited/updated) From NHC: …EYE OF CATEGORY 4 HARVEY MAKES LANDFALL BETWEEN PORT ARANSAS AND PORT O’CONNOR TEXAS… …CATASTROPHIC FLOODING EXPECTED DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL AND STORM SURGE.. DISCUSSION AND 48-HOUR…

Ecojustice – Competition Bureau Inquiry The Competition Bureau has discontinued the inquiry into Friends of Science Society that Ecojustice publicly called for on Dec. 3, 2015.

Just received this.  Nice comprehensive piece.  ~ctm [UPDATE 11:18 PM PDT] VIDEO TRANSCRIPT AND RELATED LINKS Some people have requested a transcript of the video. Here it is. Also, just…

Where the hell is Taralga? (Latitude -34.4048, Longitude 149.8197; BoM ID 94735)

Dr. Bill Johnston. (Former NSW natural resources research scientist.) Once a staging post on the track to Oberon and Bathurst, the delightful little village of Taralga is 44 km (27…

Fat polar bears [and lots of them] drive public confidence in future of the species

From Polar Bear Science What is causing the death of the polar bear as a climate change icon? Fat bears are part of it, but mostly it’s the fact that…

Friday Funny – Advice from another scientist to Neil DeGrasse Tyson @neiltyson – 'stick with eclipses'

From “the stupid, it burns” department. Earlier this week, WUWT carried a story about why we should trust climate scientists – because science is able to predict the eclipse years…

Hurricane Harvey: likely to be the next "Katrina" and "Sandy" for climate alarmists

First, here’s what is going on: Hurricane Harvey Advisory Number 21 NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092017 1000 AM CDT Fri Aug 25 2017 …OUTER RAINBAND FROM HARVEY SWIPING…

3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet rewrites the history of maths – and shows the Greeks did not develop trigonometry

From The Telegraph Sarah Knapton, Science Editor 24 August 2017 • 7:00pm A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has proven that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were…

So What Happened to the Journalism?

 John Ridgway “Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.” Edward R. Murrow Back in 2013 the UK’s Parliamentary Science and Technology Select Committee could be found holding an…

The 'Climate Change: Believe It Or Else' Prize from @AGU

This essay is from the Real Climatologists blog, by Dr. Duane Thresher.  I strongly recommend their About Us page. HT/Science or Fiction August 21, 2017 The American Geophysical Union (AGU)…