Quotes of the Week: 'Light bulb moment' for CNN chief – Pat Sajak goes nuclear

I think the light bulb may have gone on with this guy. From TalkingPointsMemo: In addition to being mocked for its breathless coverage of Flight 370, CNN has also been…

Heartland gets a spot on multi-millon dollar global warming disaster epic "Years of Living Dangerously

We’ve reported on Years of Living Dangerously and how it has been tanking in the ratings, despite a big budget and big name participants. Michael Mann tried to prop it…

New study finds sea levels rising only 7 in. per century – with no acceleration

from CO2 Science: The authors write that “satellite altimetry measurements since 1993 have provided unique information about changes in global and regional mean sea levels,” suggesting a mean rate of…

Forget polar bears and global warming, witness the terrible tragedy of stunted shrub growth

From the University of Washington and the Department of Pointless NSF Grants, comes this: Shrub growth decreases as winter temperatures fluctuate up Doree Armstrong Many have assumed that warmer winters…

The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 9 – Kevin Trenberth is Looking Forward to Another “Big Jump”

In a recent interview, Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Senior Scientist, from NCAR said the upcoming 2014/15 El Niño might shift global surface temperatures upwards by 0.2 to 0.3 deg C to…

Climate Change to Crush Ohio – film at 11

​From the Ohio State University: Climate Change Brings Mostly Bad News for Ohio Early forecasts suggest big algae bloom in Lake Erie, a very dry 2015 By: Pam Frost Gorder…

University of Queensland doubles down on Shollenberger – with a straw man argument on 'confidentiality' for names already listed in the paper!

Rather than go quietly, they seem to be ramping up: UQ and climate change research  20 May 2014 The following is a statement from UQ acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and International)…

Hard vs. the Soft Sciences

Guest essay by Steven Burnett This is an essay regarding the fundamental differences between the hard and soft sciences. While I don’t emphasize climatology much in the essay, I believe…

Antarctica's ice losses on the rise – with a sanity check

From Geophysical Research Letters and the University of Leeds: Three years of observations show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year —…