Is Satellite Altimeter-based Sea Level Rise Acceleration from a Biased Water Vapor Correction?

From Dr. Roy W. Spencer’s Blog March 7th, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. SUMMARY: Evidence is presented that an over-correction of satellite altimeter data for increasing water vapor…

CNN: “How climate change is fueling extremism”

How climate change is fueling extremismBy Isabelle Gerretsen, CNN Updated 6:26 AM ET, Wed March 6, 2019 (CNN) Climate change is already triggering devastating weather events across the planet… [Blah,…

Tilting at Windmills – a Brief Update

About this time last year, I wrote a light-hearted review of New Zealand’s love affair with Wind Generation. Since then I’ve become interested in seeing just how effective these things…

Cal Fire report pinpoints thinning of forests to reduce Ca. wildfire risks

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin A new February 22, 2019 report was issued by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) which announces a plan that the…

UAH Global Temperature Report: February 2019

Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.13 C per decade February Temperatures (preliminary) Global composite temp.:  +0.36 C (+0.65 °F) above seasonal average Northern Hemisphere.: +0.46 C (+0.83 °F)…

Declining Solar Activity

BOB HOYE In the 1990s, solar physicists, Penn and Livingston, called for a long decline in solar activity. This is the case and it is nice to see such work…

New All-time Record Low Temperature in Illinois

Mt. Carroll reclaims the title for the record minimum temperature in Illinois From the Illinois State Climatologist: Champaign, Ill., 3/6/19: An Arctic outbreak in late January 2019 led to widespread…

Fabricated Climate Crises – Scary Camp Fire Stories?

What’s Natural? Guest essay by Jim Steele Several politicians and a few scientists tell us we are facing a climate crisis. They warn if we do not act now, we’ll…

Migrating snowline plays outsized role in setting pace of Greenland ice melt

Patches of snow and bare ice near the edge of the snowline provide an illustration of the difference in reflectivity between the two surfaces. Credit Clément Miège PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown…