Guest “implied face palm” by David Middleton How Is This science? Why the Thanksgiving myth persists, according to science Memory often favors a tidy narrative over the messier reality of…
Tag: paleoclimatology
Tree Rings Reveal Largest Solar Storm EVAH!
Guest “Well, the largest yet identified,” by David Middleton NEWS RELEASE 9-OCT-2023 Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in ancient 14,300-year-old tree rings Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS An international team of…
Glacial Armageddon! 2/3 to vanish by 2100!
2/3’s of glaciers to melt by 2100! Lions and Tigers and Bears! Too bad Seth Borenstein wasn’t around to report on the 90% of glaciers that vanished before AGW was…
PETM: Good Science Meets Science Journalism in the Gulf of Mexico
Guest “Oy vey!” by David Middleton 4 June 2022 Qamariya Nasrullah How ancient ocean life in the Gulf of Mexico escaped mass extinctionThe geology of the sheltered basin helped protect…
Ancient Ice Reveals Scores of Gigantic Volcanic Eruptions
Ice cores drilled in Antarctica and Greenland have revealed gigantic volcanic eruptions during the last ice age. Sixty-nine of these were larger than any eruption in modern history. According to…
Winter is Coming: Researchers Claim to Uncover the Surprising Cause of the Little Ice Age
. Over the course of a few decades in the late 1300s and 1400s, vast amounts of ice were flushed out into the North Atlantic, which not only cooled the…
The “Anthropolitan” Compromise?
Guest “Stick a fork in it” by David Middleton This should “stick a fork” in the notion of an Anthropocene Epoch… Gill co-authors report arguing Anthropocene should be a geological…
Mars Perseverance: More Evidence of Ancient Lake/Delta System
Guest ” If it looks like a delta, walks like a delta and quacks like a delta, it might just be… ” by David Middleton It looked like a delta…
The Cretaceous Geology of Alabama and Modern Sea Level Rise…
Guest “How not to connect the present with the past” by David Middleton Alabama’s Return to the SeaA paleontological site shows how life endured in an Alabama that was almost…
Younger Dryas Myth-Busting: Flash-Frozen Mammoths Edition
Guest “Pleistocene elephant hunting” by David Middleton “The body of this mammoth was found perfectly preserved in the Siberian tundra with food still in its mouth and stomach indicating that…
More intense and frequent thunderstorms linked to global climate variability
Using isotopes from Texas cave stalactites, scientists in Texas A&M’s College Of Geosciences studied thunderstorm changes in the Southern Great Plains TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Research News Large thunderstorms in the…
Ocean temperature reconstructed over the last 700,000 years
Bern’s ice core researchers were already able to demonstrate in 2008 how the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has changed over the past 800,000 years. Now, using the same…
Its a Bit more Complicated
The plant matter stuff reported in PNAS is obviously true. So Greenland did mostly melt about 1 mya; otherwise those plants could not have existed there then, however briefly. But…
Huge Database Of Studies Documenting Meters-Higher Mid-Holocene Sea Levels Swells Again In 2020
During the Mid-Holocene sea surface temperatures were also considerably warmer despite CO2 levels only reaching ~265 ppm. Yet at that time sea levels were about 2 or more meters higher…
Perhaps the dumbest article title ever: “The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years”… AEUHHH???
Guest “you can’t fix stupid” by David Middleton The sad thing is that this was apparently written by two geoscience professors. The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million…
“Where’s the sea ice?” Right where it’s been for most of the Holocene.
Guest “geological perspective” by David Middleton This is sort of a sequel yesterday’s post: Where’s the sea ice? 3 reasons the Arctic freeze is unseasonably late and why it matters.…
A Geological Perspective of Polar Bears
Guest “geological perspective” by David Middleton A Popular Narrative Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are the poster child for the impacts of climate change on species, and justifiably so. To date,…
Do they really care about science ?
This suggests that spatial heterogeneity in Atlantic hurricane activity since 1850 CE could have persisted throughout the last millennium.”
Major new paleoclimatology study shows (claims) global warming has upended 6,500 years of cooling
Over the past 150 years, global warming has more than undone the global cooling that occurred over the past six millennia, according to a major study published June 30 in…
Jan Esper receives ERC Advanced Grant to improve climate reconstructions from tree rings
EU funding for the collection of a new tree ring network covering the Northern Hemisphere and the development of tree ring growth and density models Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Tree…
WUWT Contest Winner, General Audience, 1st Place – “Is There Really a Climate Crisis?”
In sum, encouraging the energy industry to innovate will lead to a prosperous, clean and secure environment not only for us here in the United States but also for the…