Open Letter: President Obama's Legacy

Dear Mr President, Every President seeks to leave a legacy, a memory of what they achieved in office, an unambiguous testament that all the personal effort and sacrifices they put…

Climate Alarmists demand Obama use the RICO act to Silence Critics

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova and James Delingpole – A group of climate scientists, including Professor Kevin Trenberth, have demanded President Obama abuse the RICO act, to silence…

NAO and Then

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony recently highlighted a new study which purports to find that the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is synchronized to the fluctuations in solar activity. The…

The Urban Heat Island (UHI) is mapped in major U.S. cities

UGA study ranks US cities based on the urban heat island effect on temperatures From the UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA Highlights Urban heat island (UHI) intensities were estimated for the fifty…

Proof-positive that AGW is not science… "World court should rule on climate science to quash sceptics, says Philippe Sands…"

Guest post by David Middleton This needs to be quashed… with extreme prejudice… World court should rule on climate science to quash sceptics, says Philippe Sands International Court of Justice…

Claim: Global warming will unleash Deadly Swarms of Giant Arctic Mosquitoes

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Royal Society has published a study which claims that global warming will unleash deadly swarms of giant arctic mosquitoes. According to the Royal Society;…

How reliable are the climate models?

Guest essay by Mike Jonas There are dozens of climate models. They have been run many times. The great majority of model runs, from the high-profile UK Met Office’s Barbecue…

Solving the problem of sea ice thickness distribution using molecular concepts

From YALE UNIVERSITY New Haven, Conn. – Yale University scientists have answered a 40-year-old question about Arctic ice thickness by treating the ice floes of the frozen seas like colliding…

The latest head in the sand excuse from climate science: the global warming pause 'never happened'

From the “fighting denial with denial” department comes this desperate ploy and press release written to snare headlines with gullible media. Meanwhile, just a couple of days ago the UK…

David Attenborough's Renewable "Apollo Project"

David Attenborough and a group of other prominent people, have called for a publicly funded $15 billion / year research programme over 10 years, an international “Apollo” project, to make…

How to Stop Mass Starvation from Global Warming

Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Pictures of this…

The Grand Canyon of the Mind

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (Part 5 of an ongoing series … Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) Ever since I was a kid I wanted to live to be 103 years…

Yogic Farming: India's cost effective alternative to Wind Turbines?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall India’s agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh has publicly suggested that Indian farmers should deal with the stress of climate change, and create positive energy to…

Peter Wadhams was wrong – Arctic sea ice still there, no record low this year

Last week on September 11th I was the first to call the Arctic Sea Ice minimum. It seems both NSIDC and NASA Goddard agree with my initial claim. Dr. Peter…

Antarctic Refrigerator Effect, Climate Sensitivity & Déformation professionnelle: Lessons from Past Climate Change – Part 2

Guest essay by Jim Steele Reference link: Déformation professionnelle Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism…

Long-term climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere linked to solar variations

From the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) New perspectives for long-term climate predictions? This image shows a time series of solar activity (bottom) and the North Atlantic Oscillation…

This is why media coverage of climate debate has been corrupted

UN and Oxfam caught bribing media to write crusading climate stories By Ian Wishart News journalists are being bribed by the United Nations and the Oxfam charity to write scare…

UK MET: Global warming pause may continue

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t The Register – the UK MET Office has published a report which suggests the pause in global temperatures might continue for many years to…

Are the Oceans Becoming More Acidic?

Guest essay by Clyde Spencer “There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.” – William James Introduction Are the oceans becoming “more acidic,”…

Claim: Sierra Nevada snowpack lowest in five centuries

From the UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada in 2015 was at the lowest level in the past 500 years, according to a new report led by University…

Is It Time To Stop The Insanity Of Wasting Time and Money On More Climate Models?

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Nearly every single climate model prediction, projection or whatever else they want to call them has been wrong. Weather forecasts beyond 72 hours typically deteriorate…

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

This post provides an update of the values for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature reconstructions—GISS through August 2015 and HADCRUT4 and NCEI (formerly NCDC) through July…

Breaking: Aussie climate skeptic PM Tony Abbott ousted by Malcolm Turnbull

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Aussie climate skeptic Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been defeated in a snap party ballot. The new Australian Prime Minister will be Malcolm Turnbull, who…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #196

The Week That Was: 2015-09-12 (September 12, 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…