edX: Explore Statistics with R – starts today

This arrived in my e-mail this morning: Welcome to the course. We have been waiting for this day. You are over 35000 now, and that’s honestly more than we had…

Are greenhouse gas emissions a reason to keep Africa starving?

Agricultural revolution in Africa could increase global carbon emissions WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Productivity-boosting agricultural innovations in Africa could lead to an increase in global deforestation rates and carbon emissions,…

District attorney becomes 'noble cause corrupted', drops charges against climate activists

You may have heard about the climate activists who had charges and a trial pending over obstruction of commerce by blocking a coal barge to the Brayton Point electric power plant…

Iceland's 'Bardarbunga' volcano is lighting up the night sky

The image is from the “Live from Iceland” Mila webcam. A second webcam image shows the eruption in progress from a different angle. h/t to Chris Beal via Twitter The…

Study: Conversion Of Forests to Cropland Cooled the Climate

Yale Study Shows How Conversion Of Forests to Cropland Affected Climate The conversion of forests into cropland worldwide has triggered an atmospheric change that, while seldom considered in climate models,…

Ooops! First animal claimed extinct due to 'climate change' found 'alive and well'

In this photo taken Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014 and provided by the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF), an adult Aldabra Banded Snail (Rhachistia aldabrae) is examined at the discovery site in…

The EPA's phony 'environmental justice' caper

The agency’s real agenda: empire, control, and inverted justice for poor and minority families. Guest essay by Paul Driessen When it comes to energy, climate change, justice and transparency, the…

Phoenix flooding – not due to 'climate change', extreme rainfall events are not on the increase

Ah the alarmists are out in full force today over a rainstorm. The Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix reported 2.96 inches of rain before 8:30 a.m. local time, beating the…

'Climate disruption' gets a movie

This must be coordinated blitz week for climate alarmism leading up to the 350.org “march on climate” Sept 21 in New York City. Now there’s a movie about the so…

New paper: Fraud, Bias & Public Relations – The 97% ‘Consensus’ And Its Critics

Claims of 97% consensus on global warming depend on research described as fraudulent and biased London, 8 September: A new briefing note published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation examines claims…

Place your petabetts now

Josh writes: I had a request from Richard Betts to do a cartoon on this paper in Nature about soil CO2 emissions. The abstract says soil emits “60 petagrams of carbon per year…

Monday mirthiness – 97 hours, 97 opinions, 97% consensus, 100% cartooned climate science

The latest propaganda stunt from the Skeptical Science Kidz is underway and it is about as exciting as it is predictable. Every hour, a new opinion is revealed along with…

A look at the cutting edge of the climate sciences, & the lessons we can learn

Reposted from Fabius Maximus under CC license Summary: The climate science debate not only holds answers vital to our future, but allows us to learn from this demonstration of science…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #148

The Week That Was: 2014-09-06 (September 6, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and…

Da Train, Boss, Da Train

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (Final part of the voyage, see also Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5) The early morning bus dropped me off in Salem, Oregon, where I…

When will we ever stop running out of resources?

This is a shout-out to  Tim Worstall’s latest “Weekend Worstall” column on The Register Limits to Growth is a pile of steaming doggy-doo based on total cobblers The Guardian praised…

The epitome of 'denial'

Rick McKee, editorial cartoonist for the Augusta Chronicle, sends me this political cartoon about climate change which he posted on his Facebook page and the WUWT Facebook page. It sums…

The 2014 15 El Niño – Part 16 – September 2014 Update – Still Seeing Mixed Signals

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale (Oops.  Corrected a typo in the title. This is Part 16 of this series.) This post provides an update on the progress of the evolution…

Dramatic video of explosive volcanic eruption with compression wave

Here’s something seldom seen – a volcanic eruption that is so fast and intense that it creates a condensation shock wave in the atmosphere (like is sometimes seen from bombs…

Introducing The WUWT Beaufort Sea Ice Reference Page – With Observations

Guest Post by WUWT Regular “Just The Facts” With Arctic Sea Ice minimum rapidly approaching, we are pleased to introduce the WUWT Beaufort Sea Ice Page. Beaufort Sea Ice has been an…