China, India: Where's that $100 billion you promised?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall China and India have issued a rare joint statement, demanding to know when the $100 billion green money they were promised is going to be…

Forecast super El Niño for fall nearly double the strength of 1998 Super El Niño

Wow!  ECMWF Long-Term Weather Model Is Predicting a Super El Niño and I Mean Super Guest Post by Bob Tisdale I was notified today of the rather remarkable plume of…

Things In General

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My business card gives my job title as “Generalist”. Let me give you an example of why this is an advantage in climate science. I worked…

Now available in print – Climate Change The Facts – Let's send 'DeSmog Blog' a message for their recent falsehood

A number of people have been waiting for this book to come out in print since we first announced it. I’m happy to say it is now available in soft…

New Claims ‘Murky’ Global Warming Statistics Are ‘Guessed At’

Via the GWPF Date: 15/05/15 Levi Winchester, Daily Express Some surface temperature recordings used as the basis for global warming evidence are guessed at – including in the Arctic and Antarctic.…

Friday funny – The Shy Scientists

Josh writes: Roddy Campbell emailed me to say – The decent mass of scientific society, in a quiet but significant majority, getting on with it in a civilised and peaceful…

New Freeman Dyson Book: Dreams of Earth and Sky

Freeman Dyson has upset the green movement again, by reminding them that one of the world’s most renowned physicists is a climate skeptic. According to Dyson; What I would like…

The Temperature Field

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been mulling over a comment made by Steven Mosher. I don’t have the exact quote, so he’s welcome to correct any errors. As I…

April 2015 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly & Model-Data Difference Update

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of the data for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature data—GISS through April 2015 and HADCRUT4 and…

A benefit of 'climate change' – reduced ozone pollutants in coastal cities

University of Houston researchers: Climate change helped to reduce ozone levels – Houston findings should hold for coastal regions around the world Researchers at the University of Houston have determined…

Claim: Climate Change will make Californian Marijuana more potent

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Daily Climate reports that global warming is set to make Californian marijuana a lot stronger – if we let it happen. According to the…

Claim: Climate scientists find elusive tropospheric hot spot over the Southern Ocean

First of all, consider the source, UNSW is the same outfit that sponsored the disastrous “ship of fools” aka The Spirit of Mawson. Secondly, Dr. Roy Spencer has been looking…

In the climate debate, hear both sides

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley In May 2015, the Pennant, a biannual magazine for retired UK armed forces personnel, carried an article entitled The Earth’s Climate by Rob Varley, chief…

New Zealand Government Seeks Public Consultation on Emission Targets

Guest essay by Andi Cockroft In a carefully orchestrated propaganda campaign that is actually flying very low under the radar NZ’s Ministry for the Environment is seeking Public Consultation on…

Hump day hilarity: WUWT's new policy on hate mail – your hate mail will be published

There comes a time when you just have to decide not take the abuse silently anymore, but instead, to laugh at it. As many of you know, this is the…

EPA's draconian new plan: Is a 1% Cut in CO2 emissions worth $50 billion and 15,000 jobs annually?

Guest essay by Steven Capozzola, CAP Media The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is preparing to finalize its Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce power plant carbon dioxide emissions by…

Breaking: Is the Vatican backing off on their anticipated climate position?

Kudos to Morano, CFACT and Heartland for their quickly organized and now apparently effective mission. Even with the heavy criticism received, the Vatican seems to have blinked. Report: Papal Climate…

Forecasting Climate Change Is A Very Complex Process

Guest essay by Howard Lowe Mother Earth is a dynamic place, constantly changing and evolving. Although it operates in a cyclical manner, the major cycles are not short, falling into…

May 2015 ENSO Update – Australia’s BOM and the JMA Declare an El Niño and With Them Comes the Typical Nonsense from an Expert Source

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…

NYT Claim: Obama's catastrophic climate denial

Bill McKibben, writing for The New York Times has published an attack on President Obama, accusing him of “climate denial”. According to McKibben; MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — THE Obama administration’s decision…

Guest post: “Climate variability research: did the sceptics make us do it?” – Professor Richard Betts

This is a guest post by Prof. Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts at the Met Office, (IPCC AR4 and AR5 lead author) about Lewandowsky, Oreskes et al’s forthcoming paper, which…

Ana becomes first 2015 Atlantic tropical storm, weakens coming ashore

via NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center On May 9, 2015 at 1626 UTC ( 12:26 PM EDT) the GPM satellite flew over when ANA was making the change from subtropical storm…

The Intersection of Climate and Geopolitics

Guest essay by David Archibald As we warned back in February, the UN Climate Change Commission is on a path to rule the world and mere facts are not going…

Record Antarctic ice: Mawson base might have to relocate

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The record busting growth of Antarctic ice is threatening the viability of Australia’s Mawson Antarctic research station. According to The Australian; Satellite observations show a…