Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #159

The Week That Was: 2014-12-06 (December 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…

Changepoint analysis as applied to the surface temperature record

Guest essay by Jeff Patterson In a recent post on RealClimate, the author examines the statistical significance of the “The Pause” using a technique recently in vogue called changepoint analysis…

Imagine the Earth Entering an Ice Age

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The Earth is presently in an interglacial period—a period between ice ages. Since the end of the last ice age, Earth’s surface temperatures have been…

Back to the future in El Niño forecasting

From the Georgia Institute of Technology: Looking at El Niño’s past to predict its future The El Niño Southern Oscillation is Earth’s main source of year-to-year climate variability, but its…