Baffin Island study disappoints: The illusive ‘coup de grace’ on the Medieval Warm Period

Guest essay by Sebastian Lüning Big news on 4. December 2015 by the Earth Institute of Columbia University. In a press release the institute claimed that climate and human history…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #212

The Week That Was: 2016-01-16 (January 16, 2016) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…

Once Again El Nino Didn’t Do What Was Forecast. Why?

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Mark Albright, who reportedly lost his job as Oregon State Climatologist in 2003 apparently because of his views on global warming, drew attention to the…

Who unleashed Climatism?

Guest essay by Leo Goldstein This article is intended mostly for American audiences. Today, it seems almost normal that the IPCC, UNFCCC and CAN (Climate Action Network International) interfere in…

Piers Sellers: Climate and Cancer

Guest Essay by Eric Worrall Piers Sellers is a NASA climate scientist with Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer. His dying wish is that we should listen to his concerns about CO2…

President Obama: 3 Year Moratorium on New Coal Mines

Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Obama has just announced a 3 year moratorium on leasing federal land for new coal mines, pending a review of the impact of coal…

Aproxymations

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at Bishop Hill, the Bish has an interesting thread about a new proxy reconstruction by Rob Wilson et al. entitled “Last millennium northern hemisphere…

Ongoing Renewables Investment "Crisis" in Australia

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Aussie Greens are lamenting that banks are still unwilling to lend to green projects, because they are worried about the reliability of political support, and…

Friday Funny (or not so funny) – 'satellite deniers'

The recent act of desperation from the collection of Climategate Climateers trying to diss the satellite based global temperature record has spawned a cartoon, and it isn’t from our usual cartooning…

The Climateers new pause excuse born of desperation: 'the satellites are lying'

Add another one to the huge list of excuses for “the pause” in global temperature. Reader “Al Gorez” emails: The climate alarmists have come up with a brilliant new excuse…

Formation of an unusual off-season North Atlantic Hurricane

From NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER: The low pressure area known as System 90L developed rapidly since Jan. 13 and became Hurricane Alex on Jan. 14. Several satellites and instruments captured…

President Obama Discovers a Climate Believer, Pays Personal Visit

Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Obama has paid a personal visit to one of the few Americans who is genuinely worried about the climate. US President Barack Obama has…

In your salad soon – climate specific franken-lettuce?

From the “science moves faster than climate change department” and the American Society for Horticultural Science comes this leafy nightmare sure to make greens go into a tizzy, because according to…

Has the PDO flipped?

Guest post by David Middleton Cyclical changes in the Pacific Ocean have thrown earth’s surface into what may be an unprecedented warming spurt, following a global warming slowdown that lasted…

How Strong Was That El Niño or La Niña? – No One Knows For Sure

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale We recently discussed and illustrated how the differences between sea surface temperature datasets prevented us from knowing which of the recent strong El Niño events…

US Court to hear "Climate Defence" argument in a Criminal Case

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Climate activists on trial for blocking an oil train may be about to set a controversial legal precedent. According to Mother Jones, for the first…

This just in: Ice Age postponed due to global warming!

Guest post by David Middleton, featured image borrowed from Meadow Heights PTA.   Global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions is blamed by scientists for intensifying storms, raising sea levels…

The abject failure of official global-warming predictions

Guest essay by Monckton of Brenchley The IPCC published its First Assessment Report a quarter of a century ago, in 1990. The Second Assessment Report came out 20 years ago,…

Another Climate Scientist Accused of Financial Fraud

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – Climate Scientist Daniel Alongi has been indicted by Australian authorities, and accused of falsifying half a million dollars worth of expenses. A…

World's largest canyon could be hidden under Antarctic ice sheet

From DURHAM UNIVERSITY The world’s largest canyon may lie under the Antarctic ice sheet, according to analysis of satellite data by a team of scientists, led by Durham University. Although the…