A Happy and Merry Christmas to all WUWT readers from Josh and Anthony. It has been a fun year in the climate debate and while many who are close to me…
Year: 2015
The End of Food
Guest essay by Eric Worrall “So, you’re awake. But you’re still going to die”. The first words I heard spoken by my surgeon, waking from general anaesthetic, after a horrific…
Twas The Fright Before Christmas
Poetry, by Davis Swan (h/t to Dr. Judith Curry) T’was the night before Christmas and all through the town The temperature was dropping, going down, down, down, down The weatherman…
Are we really “choking the ocean with plastic”? Tracing the creation of an eco-myth
By Larry Kummer, from the Fabius Maximus website Summary: Last week Kip Hansen’s “An Ocean of Plastic” thoroughly debunked myths about the “great garbage patch”. But who created this story?…
Palestinian Climate Change
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Very short post. I read today that Palestine has been granted full member status in the UNFCCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.…
1800s Poverty Diseases, Malnutrition Surge in Green Britain
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Falling living standards are contributing to a shocking surge in malnutrition, and diseases which were prevalent in the 1800s. My question – how much of…
Green Fundamentalists Attack Celebrity Climate Hypocrisy
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Back in April this year, WUWT reported on an unusual green attack on blatant celebrity eco-hypocrisy. Now this new green terror has gone mainstream, with…
More scientific evidence that polar bears are doing just fine – a 30 42% increase in population with some of them “as fat as pigs.”
Guest essay by Dr. Susan J. Crockford of polarbearscience.com * see update below on the % number Survey Results: Svalbard polar bear numbers increased 30 42% over last 11 years Results…
Missing heat found in the deep ocean
From the NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE, UK and the “search for Bigfoot Trenberth’s missing heat” department comes this bit of news that completes part of the geothermal heat loss puzzle. Mystery…
The 2015 Arctic Report Card: NOAA Failed Walrus Science!
Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University Good scientists fully understand that complex issues with high uncertainties require two or more working…
Claim: Melting sea ice increases Arctic precipitation, complicates climate predictions
From DARTMOUTH COLLEGE and the “Reports of the demise of Arctic Sea Ice are greatly exaggerated” department HANOVER, N.H. – The melting of sea ice will significantly increase Arctic precipitation, creating…
Volcanoes and Ozone: Their Interactive Effect on Climate Change
Guest essay by David Bennett Laing, Asst. Prof.of Geology, Univ. of Maine (retired) Two different styles of volcanic eruption appear to have been the principal determinants of climate change throughout…
Salty sea spray affects the lifetimes of clouds, researchers find
From COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY and the “climate models still can’t get clouds right” department comes this interesting new study. All over the planet, every day, oceans send plumes of sea spray…
US Landed Gentry demand Medieval Climate Tithes
Guest essay by Eric Worrall What could be better than owning a large woodland estate, and making a steady income from harvesting timber? Harvesting an additional tithe of taxpayer’s money,…
Gavin Schmidt's Magic Climate Balance
Guest Essay by Eric Worrall A new NASA study suggests that global warming is being suppressed by particulate pollution. The Abstract of the Study; Implications for climate sensitivity from the…
The Holocene Thermal Optimum
Guest essay by Andy May The Holocene Thermal Maximum, also called the Holocene Thermal Optimum, occurred at different times in different parts of the world but generally between 10,000 BP…
The Paris 'Agreement' – chock full of noble intentions
Guest essay by Philip Lloyd All the excitement, the back-slappings, the hubbub is over, and the 40 000 have jetted back home. COP21 has come and gone. We have now had…
Busting (or not) the mid-20th century global-warming hiatus
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This article is also cross posted at Judith Curry’s ClimateEtc. # # # In previous posts at WattsUpWithThat and at my blog ClimateObservations, I’ve discussed…
Green war on jobs: Britain’s last deep coal-mine closes
Count the blessings the miners gave us – often at the cost of their lives By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley In the week before Christmas, the last-ever shift of weary…
A little known ancient historical building that marks the winter solstice
This year the solstice occurs on Tuesday December 22nd at 04:49 GMT, about 15 hours from the time of this posting. This thought provoking article highlights what the ancient people…
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