Six climate headlines from 2009 that tell us something important about the run-up to the 2015 Paris climate conference

Same old scare stories, different decade. By Larry Kummer, Editor of the Fabius Maximus website, from which this is reposted. Summary: This is the first in a new regular feature…

Validation Of A Climate Model Is Mandatory: The Invaluable work of Dr. Vincent Gray

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Early Awareness Vincent Gray, M.A., Ph.D. is one of the most effective critics of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) through his NZ Climate…

Charles Koch: Climate models need to be falsifiable

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Charles Koch has given a rare interview to the [Washington Post]   New York Times, covering a range of issues, including Climate Change. So what…

Newsbytes: Global Coal Boom Accelerating Despite Obama’s Green Posturing

New Survey: Less Than Half Of Climate Scientists Agree With The IPCC’s Key Claim At the very moment President Obama has decided to shutter America’s coal industry in favor of…

Indian Environment Minister dismisses Himalaya Global Warming concerns

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Indian Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar has submitted a written response to a question posed in the Indian parliament, which categorically rejects…

Friday Funny: Mann gets real time

Our favorite climate publicity hound, fake Nobel Laureate Dr. Michael E. Mann is going to get some real time on ‘RealTime’, where presumably, he’ll wail about the embellished injustices heaped…

Throwback Thursday #3: another failed "end of snow" climate prediction

We are all familiar with the most famous of all snow predictions, which sets the gold standard for failure, that of Dr. David Viner: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html From the article: Global warming,…

The Pause draws blood – A new record Pause length: no warming for 18 years 7 months

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley For 223 months, since January 1997, there has been no global warming at all (Fig. 1). This month’s RSS temperature shows the Pause setting a…

Satellite analysis of Super Typhoon Soudelor moving toward Taiwan

From NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER Heavy rain, towering thunderstorms, and a large area are things that NASA satellites observed as Typhoon Soudelor moves toward Taiwan on August 5, 2015. A…

NOAA: Increased likelihood of below-normal Atlantic hurricane season

Updated outlook calls for 90 percent probability of below-normal season The NOAA Climate Prediction Center’s updated2015 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook calls for a 90 percent chance of a below-normal hurricane season.…

Pocket-calculator climate model outperforms billion-dollar brains

From Press Release:Four skeptical researchers’ new Chinese Academy paper devastatingly refutes climate campaigners’ attempt to criticize their simple model… In January 2015, a paper by four leading climate researchers published…

New study asks: More tropical cyclones in a cooler climate?

With historical peak of the Atlantic hurricane season just weeks away, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is preparing its updated outlook for the remainder of the season to be released today…

Obama’s climate policy is ‘practically worthless,’ says Dr. James Hansen

From MSNBC. During his big emotional climate speech this week, President Ovbama said: “I don’t want my grand-kids to not be able to swim in Hawaii or not be able…

A curiosity in space: a "Blue Marble" look-alike

From the “watch the skies” department, and ESO, comes this “Blue Marble” look-alike, hence the name, The Planetary Nebula:. The ghost of a dying star This extraordinary bubble, glowing like the…

Super typhoon Soudelor reaches Cat5

NASA’s Aqua satellite and RapidScat instrument analyzed Super typhoon Soudelor’s extent and winds as it reached Category Five typhoon status on the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale. RapidScat is a NASA instrument…

Switzerland is James Hansen's climate survivalist recommendation

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Former NASA GISS Chairman James Hansen has suggested that Switzerland is safest place to be, if you want to maximise your chances of surviving climate…

Another climate scare story about New York City; climate models say it will 'resemble Oklahoma City today'

Usually we are treated to scare stories about sea level rise inundating NYC, this one says its worse than that, by the 21st century, they’ll be like “Okies”. From the…

Will Obama's energy plan save you money?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Back in 2009, Obama said that his energy plan will cause energy bills to skyrocket. In 2015, Obama says his energy plan will save you…

Coal, Death Trains, Climate, and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Guest essay by Charles Battig, M.D. Mike Huckabee’s recent comment about President Obama, “He would trust the Iranians and he would take the Israelis and basically march them to the…

HadCRUT4 joins the terrestrial temperature tamperers

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley In the carefully-planned build-up to the Paris “climate” conference whose true purpose is to establish an unelected and all-powerful global “governing body” (they’re no longer…

New study calculates the speed of ice formation

From Princeton: Researchers at Princeton University have for the first time directly calculated the rate at which water crystallizes into ice in a realistic computer model of water molecules. The…

Claim: Glaciers melt faster than ever

From the UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH and the “lets ignore some of these other growing glaciers” department The World Glacier Monitoring Service, domiciled at the University of Zurich, has compiled worldwide…

Well, if CO2 reduction won't matter, let's not worry about it

On the day Obama announces a new plan to curb CO2 emissions, this statement comes along… These changes would linger even if the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration were to be restored to pre-industrial levels…

How good is the NASA GISS global temperature dataset?

Guest essay by Rud Istvan It is generally accepted that there are two major land temperature record issues: microsite problems, and urban heat island (UHI) effects. Both introduce warming biases.…