Big Numbers, Small Numbers

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I read a paper today that said that there are no less than 270,000,000 kilograms of plastic in the ocean, which is about half a…

Record Global Temperature—Conflicting Reports, Contrasting Implications

Guest essay By Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels Despite what you may think if you reside in the eastern United States, the world as a whole in…

Absolutely Amazing! A Climate Scientist Writes a Blog Post about…

Please put down your coffee before reading any further.  You wouldn’t want to spritz your keyboard and screen.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you. I have a confession to make. …

The unsinkable German anti-CO2-Titanic just found its iceberg

Unpleasant encounter with hard facts Guest opinion by Fred F. Mueller Until just a few days ago, the determination of the German government to halt the presumed Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global…

Unconventional Oil Revolution Rocks Green Agenda

North America To Flood The World With Cheap & Abundant Fossil Fuels North America, once a sponge that sucked in a significant portion of the world’s oil, will instead be…

The Legend of the 'Kamikaze Typhoons'

From the Geological Society of America: Boulder, Colo., USA – In the late 13th century, Kublai Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire, launched one of the world’s largest armada of…

RSS and UAH "Meteorological Annual Mean" (December to November) Global Temperatures Fall Far Short of Record Highs in 2014…

…And what we might expect from the GISS, NCDC and UKMO products. Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Alarmists from around the globe are awaiting the global temperature product update from…

UN Chief: Give me more money

Eric Worrall writes: General Secretary of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has announced that countries have not lived up to their responsibility to give him and his teams of bureaucrats…

New study translated: public servants are more likely to become eco-activists

For example, for NASA GISS administrator, James Hansen, aka patient zero, seen below being arrested at a climate protest. UGA research reveals public servants individually motivated to help environment Athens,…

Claim from Phil Jones and company: 'extreme temperature anomalies are warming faster than Earth's average'

From Indiana University and the University of East Anglia, this looks like another paper timed for release coinciding with COP20. What is even odder though, is the graphic provided with…

Arguments For and Against Human-Induced Ocean Warming

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE: Corrected the percentage of ocean heat loss though evaporation. Update 2: Added a link to a post by Willis Eschenbach at the end, and…

Climate threat reduced to extreme: If everyone keeps their promises

Climate alarmists are celebrating in the wake of the US / China emissions agreement, that if everyone does what they promised to do, global temperatures will only rise by 3…

NOAA: Researchers offer new insights into predicting future droughts in California

Natural cycles, sea surface temperatures found to be main drivers in ongoing event According to a new NOAA-sponsored study, natural oceanic and atmospheric patterns are the primary drivers behind California’s…

Clearing the 'cloud hanging over climate science'

Commentary calls for new ‘science of climate diversity’ December 8, 2014 By Melissa Osgood, Cornell University There is cloud hanging over climate science, but one Cornell University expert on communication…

Climate alarmism secures a set of warning signals

An alarming claim from from the University of Exeter, based entirely on modeling. Study finds early warning signals of abrupt climate change A new study by researchers at the University…

Surprise, Surprise: China Rejects Emissions Pledge Review

Green Blob’s Annual Ritual Hits Rift Over Pledges, Climate $Trillions China has rejected the scrutiny of efforts to limit carbon emissions, a key tool that the US says is necessary…

An odd email from The White House

People send me stuff. This email from the White House comes courtesy of WUWT reader John B. You’d think they’d have learned something after the disastrous “AskDrMann” hashtag debacle, but…

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…