I'm not so certain about the Arctic 'death spiral'

Robert Balic writes: I recently read the Willis Eschenbach article Argo, Temperature, and OHC (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/02/argo-temperature-and-ohc/) which reported the trend in the global ocean temperatures as 0.022 ± 0.002 deg C…

'Superglue' for the atmosphere

From Goethe University Frankfurt A research group lead by scientists at the Goethe University Frankfurt discover details on how clouds form This news release is available in German. It has…

California Moves to Revoke Carbon Credits After Inquiry

California, operator of the nation’s biggest carbon market, plans to revoke offset credits issued to EOS Climate Inc. and Environmental Credit Corp. for ozone-depleting substances destroyed at a plant in…

Tabloid Climatology from the Max Planck Institute : "The findings show that no place is safe from climate change."

This recently published Max Planck Institute paper claims that seasonal temperature variability across the world has been affected by “climate change” what they DON’T do as far as I can…

Hey UCS, Maybe It’s Time We Stopped Wasting Money Studying a Problem And Spent That Money Adapting to It

The Washington Post published an article today titled When sea levels rise, high tides will spill into communities far more often, study says. What a revelation! It’s almost as foolish…

Learning From The Monsoon

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Inspired by a claim made on WUWT that A new study led by Professor K.M. Hiremath of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics shows the strong,…

Hump Day Hilarity – Al Gore's AIT Firesale

Al Gore’s book,  An Inconvenient Truth used to be one of the hottest items (no pun intended…umm, well maybe) but now, not so much. While it is still being sold…

Aussie Renewable Target: Everyone Gets an Exemption

Eric Worrall writes – The increasingly farcical Australian Renewable Target just took another body blow today, with mounting pressure on the Labor Party, from Aluminium Industry union delegates, to exempt…

Obama misleads students about climate and energy

Climate change actually has little to do with energy choices – Guest essay by Bob Carter and Tom Harris In his October 2 address on the economy at Northwestern University,…

Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum

From NASA Goddard, October 7, 2014: Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began…

Observing the Birkeland currents borne of the solar wind

  When the supersonic solar wind hits the Earth’s magnetic field, a powerful electrical connection occurs with Earth’s field, generating millions of amperes of current that drive the dazzling auroras. These…

Claim: Due to landscape fragmentation, Brazil's rainforests are releasing more carbon dioxide than previously thought

Effect has so far been missing in reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Because of the deforestation of tropical rainforests in Brazil, significantly more carbon has been…

UAH Global Temperature Report: September 2014 temperature up from August

August global temperature was 0.19C, September is 0.29C Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade September temperatures (preliminary) Notes on data released Oct. 6, 2014: There…

Australia's History of Hot Tempers

Guest essay by Robert Balic: You might have noticed the Hand Print of Climate Change in Australia here or come across this graphic of the number of stations recording 45°C…

Real Science Debates Are Not Rare

Guest Post by Dr. Robert G. Brown The following is an “elevated comment” appearing originally in the comments to “A Rare Debate on the ‘Settled Science’ of Climate Change”, a…

Declining Bird Populations; Another False Global Warming Alarmism

Opinion; Dr. Tim Ball Direct claims or inferences that global warming is causing decline or demise of bird populations are increasing. The Audubon Society has a along list, but there…

The "heat went to the oceans" excuse and Trenberth's missing heat is AWOL – deep ocean has not warmed since 2005

The Sceptical Science kidz and Trenberth think that the deep ocean has absorbed all the heat that isn’t showing up in the atmosphere, and that’s [why] we have “the pause”.…

Claim: Livermore scientists suggest ocean warming in Southern Hemisphere underestimated

Anne M Stark, LLNL, Akin to having a fleet of miniature research vessels, the global flotilla of more than 3,600 robotic profiling floats provides crucial information on upper layers of…

GWPF Calls On Government To Suspend Fourth Carbon Budget

Press Release 06/10/14 UK Business Minister Finally Admits Carbon Taxes Are Damaging British Businesses London, 6 October: The Global Warming Policy Forum has welcomed Vince Cable’s belated admission that the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #152

THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Good Enough? The article by Physicist Steve Koonin “Climate Science Is Not Settled”, which appeared in…