Conservative Think-Tank falsely conflates hurricane forecasting with climate change

Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue The National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative “think-tank”, has again issued a press release asking if NOAA is Smarter than Fifth Graders…

Camping and Climate Change

Image: Anthony Watts Allow me to share with you a speech given by one of my sound colleagues here in the European Parliament.  Derk Jan Eppink is a Dutch national representing…

Friday Funny – nursing a hurt

Josh captures the essence of waiting by the phone for your date to call…

Interesting memo from the White House on science and climate collaboration with the UK

But the words “medal, dinner, and Royal Society” seem to be missing. I suppose Obama just doesn’t see the need to acknowledge them at all. *From:* White House Press Office…

Tornadoes and global warming – still no linkage

While Joe Romm, Bill McKibben, and others follow the fear card script to do everything and anything they can to link severe weather to global warming, they are clearly fighting…

New Jersey announces intent to pull out of RGGI cap and trade – Christie strikes major blow

In a press conference moments ago in Trenton, Gov. Christie announced his support for repealing the state’s cap-and-trade law and withdrawing from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a 10-state…

Evidence that early Antarctic Circumpolar Current development affected global climate

From NSF: Significant Role of Oceans in Onset of Ancient Global Cooling Aerial view of the drillship JOIDES Resolution. Credit and Larger Version May 26, 2011 Thirty-eight million years ago,…

Obama snubs Royal Society, plays ping pong

Post by Ryan Maue: The British media continues to mock and criticize the President, which has been petty and unfair in some respects.  But how do we reconcile this?  From…

Nursing their wounds with salt

Royal Society Bemoans Freedom of Scientific Information This is a collection of articles related to the In an interview with the Guardian by Sir Paul Nurse of the Royal Society…

Tornado in my own back yard tonight

It would be just my luck, that on the day of the biggest weather story in my area of the year, I’d be out of town. I was in Sacramento…

"Snowball Earth" ended by methane – now an impossible theory

From Eurekalert: Caltech-led team debunks theory on end of ‘Snowball Earth’ ice age Finds that rocks used as key geologic evidence were formed deep within Earth millions of years after…

Another tornado outbreak expected

From the NOAA Storm Prediction Center: PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1226 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2011 …MAJOR TORNADO AND SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK EXPECTED…

Oh noes! The abalone must be saved so we can eat it!

From the University of British Columbia: Endangered Gourmet Sea Snail Could be Doomed by Increasing Ocean Acidity Increasing levels of ocean acidity could spell doom for British Columbia’s already beleaguered…

Last chance for early registration for ICCC6

Last chance! Early registration discount ends Friday! Details below:

Filling Lake Erie, one headline at a time

This is a press release from OSU, home of Dr. Lonnie Thompson. The press releases from there, written by Earle Holland, tend to be a bit excitable. For example, here’s…

UVA to supply Mann emails/documents but you can't look (yet)

Updated: 8:30PM PST, statement from ATI received via email, see below. – Anthony BREAKING: Steve McIntyre sends word that University of Virgina has been ordered to produce the Mann emails…

Forecast: Thunderstorms with a chance of germstones

American Society for Microbiology The role of bacteria in weather events NEW ORLEANS, LA – May 24, 2011 — Researchers have discovered a high concentration of bacteria in the center…

Particularly dangerous situation (PDS) tornado watch issued, explosive supercells imminent

UPDATE:  7PM EDT  MONSTER TORNADO on LIVE WEBSTREAMING near Norman OK STREAMING LINK Update by Ryan Maue A Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) tornado watch (#356) has just been issued for…

Tornado season update

NOAA’s Preliminary tornado statistics including records set in 2011, from noaa.gov On Sunday, May 22, a devastating tornado hit the city of Joplin, Mo., leaving an estimated 116 people dead…

Five years of "An Inconvenient Truth"

Executive Summary: Science Fiction 5 Years After: Networks Celebrate Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth,’ Ignore Scientific Flaws, Criticism By Julia A. Seymour, Business and Media Institute The cause for the end…