Study: Now we have to worry about climatic 'existential' threats

New climate risk classification created to account for potential ‘existential’ threats Researchers identify a one-in-20 chance of temperature increase causing catastrophic damage or worse by 2050 From the UNIVERSITY OF…

Evidence of Recent Volcanic Eruptions Under the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet

Guest post by David Middleton The discovery of volcanoes under the Antarctic ice sheet may be old news, but now we have evidence that at least some of them have…

House Defunds Obama Era Methane Rules

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Willie Soon – the House has voted to defund an Obama era EPA initiative to limit methane emissions from fossil fuel mining operations. House…

Study reveals that Mann's Bristlecone pine trees may not be good "treemometers" after all

Dr. Michael Mann used tree ring core samples from Bristlecone pines in the Western United states as one of the most heavily weighted proxies used to make his infamous “hockey…

CAGW Canary in the Coal Mine Dies of Hypothermia

Tom Barr writes via email: From the “End of the Interglacial Department”: A Borough Council in Surrey, U.K. is set to spend up to £100 million to protect rare birds…

Low-level radiation exposure less harmful to health than other modern lifestyle risks

From the “I thought sure Fukashima was going to kill me” department Oxford Martin restatement finds that risks from radiation exposure are extensively studied and small relative to smoking, obesity…

New planet discovered: An inferno world with titanium skies

A team of astronomers led by Elyar Sedaghati, an ESO fellow and recent graduate of TU Berlin, has examined the atmosphere of the exoplanet [WASP-19b] in greater detail than ever…