The Sun experiences seasonal changes, new research finds

Quasi-annual variations may hold clues to space weather From the National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research BOULDER -The Sun undergoes a type of seasonal variability with its…

Claim: Western Canada to lose 70 percent of glaciers by 2100

From the University of British Columbia Seventy per cent of glacier ice in British Columbia and Alberta could disappear by the end of the 21st century, creating major problems for…

The Vancouver Sun’s Video Interview with Freeman Dyson

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale The Vancouver Sun recently published a video interview with “Princeton University’s preeminent” theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, as part of their “Conversation that Matters”…

El Niño or ñot, the Pause lengthens again

Global temperature update: no warming for 18 years 4 months By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Since December 1996 there has been no global warming at all (Fig. 1). This month’s…

Monday mirthness – Gav calls it

Josh writes: Following the correct use of a certain word on Twitter my guess is that Gavin Schmidt will go for a name change for his blog ‘Realclimate’. Go for it, Gav. Cartoons by…

Earth Institute: "Japan should use nuclear power"

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, has stated in an interview with Ryuichi Otsuka, a news researcher for the prominent Japanese…

Agreeing to Disagree

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at “Digging in the Clay” Verity Jones has an excellent graphic summarizing the different levels of disagreement. The graphic deserves wider circulation. The types…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #175

The Week That Was: 2015-04-04 (April 4, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…

Perverse climate “morality”

Current climate policies mean energy deprivation, poverty, disease and death for billions Guest essay by Paul Driessen You’ve got to admit, liberal are masters at describing every initiative they launch…

A reply to Born: How to represent temperature feedbacks in a simple model

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, David Legates, Willie Soon and Matt Briggs Mr. Born has had another go at our paper Why models run hot, published in January 2015 (PDF…

March 2015 ENSO Update – Will the 2014/15 El Niño Become the 2014/15/16 El Niño?

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of many of the ENSO-related variables we presented as part of the 2014-15 El Niño Series.  The reference years for…

BBC Pension: Heavily invested in Big Oil

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Hot on the heels of the Guardian divestment scandal, and 350.org and Rockefellers divestment “issues”, it now turns out that, as of 31st December 2014,…

Idiotic claim from WH science advisor John Holdren: 'Finally, less energy can mean more employment.'

The Magical Power of the Kilowatt-Hour Guest essay by Tom Scott The typical follower of this blog is likely more knowledgeable in math and the sciences than the average reader,…

Claim: polar bears can't subsist on anything but seals

From the United States Geological Survey and the department of omnivorous dining comes this: Polar bears unlikely to thrive on land-based foods ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A team of scientists led…

WUWT gets results – Tom Nelson's Twitter @tan123 account reinstated

Good news just came to me via email the Tom Nelson Twitter account is back online. I just got this email from an employee at Twitter:

And here we have been told it's 'climate disruption' causing local weather changes, when it's actually deforestation

From the University of Maryland the department of Al Gore’s Kilimanjaro claims: Deforestation is messing with our weather — and our food New study, the first of its kind, investigates…

Green outrage: You own an airline, you mad c***

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Has anyone else noticed a growing tendency, for greens to criticise the high carbon flaws of their leading lights? The latest focus of this green…

@Twitter @Support is not playing by their own rules in the unfair suspension of climate skeptic Tom Nelson

UPDATE: 4/3/15 1PM PST WUWT gets results, Tom is out of “twitmo” I don’t regularly take up causes on WUWT, but this one sticks in my craw for the sheer…

The Search for Novelty in Science

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Why pre-judging the value of potential stepping stones to a solution, stifles scientific innovation. Kenneth Stanley, one of the world’s top artificial intelligence researchers, has…

25 Years of Monitoring Global Temperatures from Satellites and an Interview with Christy and Spencer of UAH

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale It’s been 25 years since Spencer and Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsvillle published their 1990 paper Precise Monitoring of Global Temperature Trends…