News From Vostok Ice Cores

Guest essay by Richard Taylor Introduction Our current understanding climate was influenced profoundly by the publication (J.R. Petit, et al., 1999) of deuterium (2H) measurements from metre 8 to metre…

Reuters: Trump EPA to Repeal the Clean Power Plan

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Reuters reports that the Scott Pruitt’s EPA is circulating a document proposing a total repeal of the Obama era Clean Power Plan, but they may…

Trees to be barcoded

DNA barcoding technology helping monitor health of all-important boreal forest UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH The Boreal forest is essential to Canada and the world, storing carbon, purifying water and air and…

Dueling science: Yesterday – "Soil will accelerate global warming" Today – "Soil holds potential to slow global warming"

Yesterday, I posted a press release on a paper that suggested soil was going to accelerate global warming. Now today, we have the opposite; “Soil holds potential to slow global…

Claim: general public can't read hurricane forecast tracks

From the “another failure of public education” department and the UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: Interpreting hurricane forecast displays can be difficult for general public Utah study finds the two commonly used methods…

So What Happened to Expertise with the IPCC?

Guest essay by John Ridgway It was late evening, April 19, 1995, that the crestfallen figure of McArthur Wheeler could be found slumped over a Pittsburgh Police Department’s interrogation room…