Friday Funny: Science by the kilogram

From Aarhus University, and the department of weighted (by the kilogram) peer review comes a really heavy new report. See actual photo caption at right, bold mine, I kid you…

1 billon dollars to push their climate agenda

Yes for all those people who think skeptics are lavishly funded, here’s proof. Oh, wait…..

Somerset Floods – February Update

By Paul Homewood I have been waiting to update the situation with regard to the flooding of the Somerset Levels. I had hoped to include the rainfall data for the…

Wackadoodle 350.org protesters disappear their KKK moment

Last weekend I pointed out that 350.org leader Bill McKibben had endorsed the antics of some 350.org members in Texas that adopted tactics of the Klu Klux Klan – showing…

The $2.2 Billion Bird-Scorching Solar Project At California's Ivanpah Plant

It’s not just Wind Turbines that kill wildlife, from the Wall Street Journal: “A giant solar-power project officially opening this week in the California desert is the first of its…

Assessment of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity and Catastrophic Global Warming Potential Based on the Historical Data Record

This exercise in data analysis pins down a value of 1.8C for ECS. Guest essay by Jeff L. Introduction: If the global climate debate between skeptics and alarmists were cooked…

Dust In My Eyes

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was thinking about “dust devils”, the little whirlwinds of dust that you see on a hot day, and they reminded me that we get…

UK flooding, Met Office, and all that – a map from 878AD tells us more than Slingo

There’s quite a hullabaloo in the UK as the Met Office tries to link recent flooding in Bridgwater, Somerset with global warming, with Lord Lawson even calling Met Office Julia…

Snow in 49 of 50 states, meanwhile, cartoon pokes fun at Dr. David Viner while media is doing spin cycle

It is surprising to see this headline in USA Today: Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/02/13/snow-cover-usa/5454645/ This calls for a song and a cartoon about Dr. David Viner.

Ridiculous loaded gun analogy: '…staring down the barrel of climate change'

From Stanford’s News Service, comes this hyper PR. Red mine. In case anybody wants to go or watch, there will be a live feed. Stanford climate scientist to discuss state…

A relationship between Sea Ice Anomalies, SSTs, and the ENSO?

Guest essay by Craig Lindberg Abstract: The change in the relationship between the hemispheric sea ice anomalies appears to have a sinusoidal nature with a wavelength that is a function…

Justin Gillis, tell us again about “the Bigger Picture”

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen If the year were 1965 AND this were the Soviet Union AND he was writing in Pravda AND CAGW was required Party Line THEN I…

Those much maligned plastic grocery bags can run your diesel truck or car

From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Plastic shopping bags make a fine diesel fuel, researchers report CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Plastic shopping bags, an abundant source of litter on land…

Satellite Video Shows Movement of Major U.S. Winter Storm in the South

A new NASA video of NOAA’s GOES satellite imagery shows three days of movement of the massive winter storm that stretches from the southern U.S. to the northeast.Visible and infrared…

JLI First Forecasts

Image Credit: Walter Dnes By Walter Dnes – Edited by Just The Facts In a recent post I introduced The “January Leading Indicator“. At that time, there were some concerns…

New hockey team paper: models tuned to tree rings and other palaeo-climate reconstructions

A new paper is out in a special issue of Climate of the Past called Progress in paleoclimate modelling It is from the ‘hockey team’ and titled “Using palaeo-climate comparisons…

It's dead, Jim: China's lunar rover fails to reconnect with Earth

UPDATE2: Return of the Jade Rabbit: China’s moon rover back in action BEIJING — China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover, feared to have suffered some irreparable technical difficulties, may yet have…

Forensic science reports more deaths in Australia than Sweden due to cold

From the University of Adelaide , something nobody would have ever guessed. Australian state has higher rate of hypothermia deaths than Sweden Social isolation, lack of housing insulation are contributing…

An attempt to politicize the winter Olympics over climate change fails to demonstrate climate consensus

Olympic athletes just won’t know what snow is (with apologies to Dr. David Viner) With  the winter Olympics taking center stage of world media right now it of course becomes…

An end to the 'Modern Warm Regime' identified from TSI data?

Dr. Sam Outcalt : Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography, University of Michigan writes in with an analysis of the recently revised TSI Data from the University of Colorado as mentioned…