Microbes, rain, and climate

From the American Chemical Society Dust — and the microbes hitching rides on it — influences rain, climate SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13, 2014 — Dusty air blowing across the Pacific…

Maurice Newman, Aussie PM Abbott's most senior advisor, on the dangers of global cooling

Story submitted by Eric Worrall “WHAT if David Archibald’s book The Twilight of Abundance: Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short turns out to be…

Newsbytes – Most Americans Don’t Believe Climate ‘Consensus’, New Survey

From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser Despite the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and caused by human activity, a new survey conducted for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette demonstrates…

Recent Hawaiian Tropical Cyclones – Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies of the Storm Tracks

It never fails. Hurricanes and tropical cyclones always bring out the manmade global warming alarmists, with their claims of unusually warm sea surface temperatures along the storm tracks. Of course…

Snow has thinned on Arctic sea ice

From the University of Washington From research stations drifting on ice floes to high-tech aircraft radar, scientists have been tracking the depth of snow that accumulates on Arctic sea ice…

Global Warming: The Incompetent Politician's Excuse?

Detroit blaming global warming instead of poor infrastructure maintenance. Story submitted by Eric Worrall The US City of Detroit is currently in the midst of a crisis – a massive…

Claim: Sea-level spikes can harm beaches worse than hurricane

From AGU blogs: By Alexandra Branscombe WASHINGTON, DC – Unforeseen, short-term increases in sea level caused by strong winds, pressure changes and fluctuating ocean currents can cause more damage to…

The 2014/15 El Niño – Part 15 – August 2014 Update – An El Niño Mulligan?

Yes, I’m using the term Mulligan as in a replayed golf shot. Ocean-atmosphere processes have consumed most of the warm water in the eastern equatorial Pacific from the downwelling (warm)…

WUWT Arctic September Average Sea Ice Prediction submitted to ARCUS

Here are the numbers from the poll started yesterday. 657 votes were cast on the question “What will the September monthly average Arctic sea ice extent be? “and the breakdown…

Steyn's scorching new legal brief on the Michael Mann 'defamation' case

Mark Steyn has submitted an amicus curiae brief in the CEI/National Review -vs- Mann and it has some interesting language. Unfortunately, since it is a scan of printed document, rather…

Southampton University: We need an air travel regulator with "Teeth"

Air travel will destroy the world Story submitted by Eric Worrall Southampton University in England has published a hilarious study, which calls for the implementation of a global strongman authority…

WAPO – 'Has the era of the climate change refugee begun?'

Story submitted by Barry Brill The Washington Post’s recent story that New Zealand might admit climate refugees from Tuvalu has no basis in fact. “Tuvalu has become the epicenter of…

Our sincerest condolences to Dr. John Christy and his family

Dr. Roy Spencer sends sorrowful news. From The Huntsville Times Obituary Page.

SNAP: 'Data says global cooling, physical model says it has to be warming'

A global temperature conundrum: Cooling or warming climate? From the University of Wisconsin-Madison MADISON, Wis. — When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently requested a figure for its annual…

A Gleissberg Solar Minimum?

Allan MacRae says: Thanks to Alberta Jacobs In a recent paper “The Centennial Gleissberg Cycle and its Association with Extended Minima”, to be soon published in JGR/Space, Feynman and Ruzmaikin…

August Arctic Sea Ice Outlook Contest

The Sea Ice Prediction Network (SIPN) announces the call for contributions for the Sea Ice Outlook August report. The Sea Ice Outlook provides an open process for those interested in…

Canberra's costly carbon follies outdo even the Danes

Story submitted by Mike Jonas writes Angus Taylor, MP for Hume, New South Wales, Australia. How refreshing it is to read something written by a politician that shows that they…

Bill Nye @TheScienceGuy and Al Gore, 'not even wrong' on CO2 'Climate 101' experiment according to paper published in AIP Journal

From the department of  “I told you so and I have an experiment that precedes this to prove it” comes a paper that proves Bill Nye’s faked ‘greenhouse effect’ experiment…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was: 2014-08-09 (August 9, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “He who knows only his own…

The Green Inferno 'flames out'

Green Movie in the Red Story submitted by Kevin D Knoebel The movie is The Green Inferno. NYC student activists travel to Amazon to save the rainforest, meet natives. Hilarity…

The diminishing influence of increasing Carbon Dioxide on temperature

Guest essay by Ed Hoskins Using data published by the IPCC on the diminishing effect of increasing CO2 concentrations and the latest proportional information on global Man-made CO2 emissions, these…

Volcanoes and Drought In Asia

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a recent study in AGU Atmospheres entitled “Proxy evidence for China’s monsoon precipitation response to volcanic aerosols over the past seven centuries”, by Zhou…

Climate Change And The Human Condition: Is It Time To Reconsider Climatic Determinism?

Guest Opinion by Dr. Tim Ball Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana (Original quote from his book The Life of Reason, much paraphrased.)…

EPA power-plant rule: comments close October 16

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The EPA is going through the motions of public consultation on its proposed power-grab rule for reducing CO2 emissions from electricity generating plants. It has…