Gigantic asteroid near miss coming this Thursday

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Express reports that a colossal one mile wide asteroid will brush past the Earth this Thursday, with a closest approach of 3 million kilometres…

Lewandowsky's Competing Theories for Source of Bias in Scientific Research

You Ought to Have a Look:  By Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger Two papers were announced this week that sought to examine the sources of bias in…

A benefit of increased Carbon Dioxide: increased efficiency in tree growth, no "Mike's Nature trick" needed

Gosh, whouda thunk it? There goes Mann’s hockey stick. No wonder he had to truncate all the data after 1960 and splice on the instrumental record. Of course, as I’ve…

Consensus-smensus: 97% of UK voters hiding in the deep ocean

Josh writes: One of the main things we learned from the recent UK General Election was that the forecasters got it catastrophically wrong – catastrophic in that the pollsters reputations…

Well, at least the daphnia will survive 'climate change'

There’s lots of worries about “species extinction” due to climate change, and so far the track record on those predictions isn’t doing so good, such as the First animal claimed…

Slow motion landslide devours road and power lines – no it's not melting permafrost

Remember the craters in Russian permafrost supposedly caused by global warming  (that turned out to be pingos) story? Well, there’s a new potential  “climate boogeyman” afoot in Russia. When I…

A few models wandered over the pause…

Dana Nuccitelli has written a defence of climate models, in which he appears to claim that a few models randomly replicating the pause should be considered evidence that climate modelling…

On the Pause in Global Sea Ice Anomalies

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale I just finished the illustrations and text for another chapter of my upcoming book. The latest was about sea ice data. I believe you’ll be…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #179

The Week That Was: 2015-05-09 (May 9, 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…