Explain again why we should panic? Study: 'No quick fix for global warming'

From ETH Zurich No quick fix for global warming When fossil fuels are burned, other climate-forcing gases are produced in addition to long-lasting carbon dioxide. Diesel combustion in vehicles or…

Climate Craziness of the Week – Mann's 'climate interpreter' claims 450 PPM CO2 will turn humans back into 'hunter-gatherers'

Holy crap on a cracker! This Q&A with Michael Mann at some blog nobody has ever heard of called “Down with Tyranny” leaves me wondering, what is he smoking? I…

Claim: Berkeley Lab scientists identify a new driver behind Arctic warming

From: DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scientists have identified a mechanism that could turn out to be a big contributor to warming in the Arctic region and melting sea ice. The…

Newsbytes- The New Coal Boom

Cheap & Abundant Coal Biggest Challenge For UN Climate Agenda Since 1973, coal consumption has grown faster than any other form of energy. Growth in coal consumption has been critical…

Monday Mirthiness – Josh on the IPCC ransom note

The latest IPCC synthesis report is out, and the demands made in it remind me and many other people of the very famous National Lampoon cover of the 1970’s, seen…

Independent Review Discovers that NCDC Fumbles Data Handling in GHCN Climate Data

Guest essay by Bob Koss Being an old retired guy with time on my hands, this summer I decided to find out just how well GHCN-Monthly follows their own methodology…

100 Year Snow Records broken across the South Eastern US on October 31st and November 01st

It was the earliest and heaviest snow in several places since records have been kept dating as far back as 1880. 100 Year Snow Records broken across the South Eastern…

IPCC Prediction Of Severe Weather Increase Based On Fundamental Error

Guest Opinion by Dr. Tim Ball Claims that weather forecasts are reasonably accurate up to 48 hours are based on measured results for fair weather. Results for severe weather, which…

ICSC: IPCC focus on stopping global warming and extreme weather is unscientific and immoral

Ottawa, Canada, November 2, 2014: “IPCC Chairman Dr. Rajendra Pachauri was right to advocate “a global agreement to finally reverse course on climate change” when he spoke to delegates tasked…

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is Nothing More Than a…

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Anthony Watts’s post Meh, same old ‘gloom and doom’ from the IPCC over new climate report at WattsUpWithThat prompted this one. I started to write…

Meh, same old 'gloom and doom' from the IPCC over new climate report

Here is a few newsbytes about the IPCC draft synthesis report. From all indications, it’s going to be a real yawner, rehashing all the alarmism we’ve heard again and again…

TWC founder John Coleman to be on CNN this morning – tune in

John Coleman writes on his Facebook page about the CNN “Reliable Sources”  interview to be aired at 11 a.m. ET on Sunday, Nov. 2: There is another national television interview…

New Zealand's Temperature Record challenged by new skeptical paper

Chris deFrietas sends word of a new paper, that drops the trend of the New Zealand temperature record (NZTR) to 0.28C per century, down from ~0.9C per century. This past…

Scientists replicate the tide with two buckets, aquarium tubing, and a pump

From the American Journal of Botany Inexpensive tidal simulator allows ecological studies of tidal marsh plants Rachel MacTavish is growing salt marsh plants in microcosms that replicate the tide. She…

On The Recent Unisys Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Maps and Cooling of Northern Hemisphere Ocean Surfaces

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE 2: As of Monday November 3, 2014, Unisys is no longer updating their sea surface temperature anomaly maps. See the update at the end…

Splicing Clouds

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach So once again, I have donned my Don Quixote armor and continued my quest for a ~11-year sunspot-related solar signal in some surface weather dataset.…