Oh noes! 'Climate change may impact future tourism at some US national parks'

I plotted the visitor data from the hottest national park, doesn’t seem to slow anyone as it got hotter this last century. In fact, there seems to be a “pause”…

Trust the New York Times? Source says Skeptic Climate Scientists are Crooks (ignore NYT's burden-of-proof wipeout)

Guest Opinion By Russell Cook While attending the 10th International Conference on Climate Change in Washington D.C. late last week, Dr S. Fred Singer asked me to send him material…

Claim: NOAA says the Arctic Ocean is becoming "corrosive"

From NOAA’s department of acidic wordsmithing: New study shows Arctic Ocean rapidly becoming more corrosive to marine species Chukchi and Beaufort Seas could become less hospitable to shelled animals by…

Lamenting the Double ITCZ Bias in CMIP5 Climate Models

From CO2 Science, something that Willis Eschebach holds dear as a regulating mechanism: The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone In what must be a difficult acknowledgement to make, Oueslati and Bellon (2015)…

Study: Skeptics reject charity appeals which blame disasters on climate change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A study by Daniel A. Chapman and Brian Lickel, of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, claims that skeptics are…

Another climate researcher claims to have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

From the move over Mann department (on a tip from a WUWT reader) Richard A. Houghton, Ph.D. has made a blatantly false claim on his Woods Hole Research Center webpage…

TAO Buoys Go Hot And Cold

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about how I could gain more understanding of the daily air temperature cycles in the tropics. I decided to look at…

Surprising: Researchers correlate rheumatoid arthritis and giant cell arteritis with solar cycles

From the DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory What began as a chat between husband and wife has evolved into an intriguing scientific discovery. The results, published in May in BMJ (formerly…

Royal Society: It will take another 50 years without warming, before we admit we were wrong

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The new British Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd’s plan to win over prominent climate skeptics like Lord Lawson, by setting up a meeting…

Science Made To Order; AGW Proponents Modus Operandi?

NOTE: In this essay, commenters have noted that Dr. Tim Ball used a rhetorical device in this sentence: “The following is a possible email from John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar,…

Tuesday toon – Cartoona Enciclica

Josh writes: Papal thoughts on the environment have been posted all over the place – here at WUWT, over on Dot Earth, and an excellent Twitter dissection here by JunkScience’s Steve Milloy. You can also read the whole…

Claim: Climate change = more women

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Daily Mail reports that climate change will result in more female births, tilting the gender balance towards women. According to The Daily Mail; Experts…

May 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 May 2015 and HADCRUT4 and…

Full copy of the Pope's expected "climate encyclical" leaked, with translated sections

A copy of the Pope’s expected “climate encyclical” (in Italian) was leaked to the Italian press today. Our friend Maurizio Morabito (who speaks Italian) translates and advises via email that…

Solar Fossil Fueled Fantasies

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach. Sometimes when I’m reading about renewable technologies, I just break out laughing at the madness that the war on carbon has wrought. Consider the Ivanpah…

Medieval Warm Period confirmed via cave study of 3000 years of climatic variations

Remote cave study reveals 3000 years of European climate variation From the University of New South Wales: SYDNEY — University of New South Wales Australia-led research on limestone formations in…

Twin peaks – twin prevarications

Supposedly record-high temperature and carbon dioxide levels supposedly bring record chaos Guest essay by Paul Driessen and Tom Tamarkin A recent NOAA article is just what Doctor Doom ordered. It…

Claim: Increased carbon dioxide levels in air restrict plants' ability to absorb nutrients

From the University of Gothenburg and the “this is why we buy CO2 generators for greenhouses“ department. The rapidly rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affect plants’ absorption…

Claim: Paris climate pledges only delay Climageddon by 8 months

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A report by the International Energy Agency claims that emissions which will be saved by COP21 / Paris climate pledges currently on the table, will…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #183

The Week That Was: 2015-06-13 (June 13, 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…