Global Warming; A Major Challenge For Science And Society Effectively Tackled By Friends Of Science (FOS)

Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball There is a large group of scientists who rarely express their views on climate change. They are scientists mostly working in the private sector…

Claim: The Climate "Denial" Conspiracy is Growing

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian reports that discussions of climate policy are being displaced by “attacks” on climate science. Naturally the Guardian, and the authors of the study,…

Run Away! The Anthropocene Has Arrived!!!

Guest post by David Middleton (Featured image borrowed from http://www.hockeyministries.org/rwt-blog-52316)   Unfortunately this article is behind a pay wall. While some of the points in the abstract are reasonable, these two…

How Thunderstorms Beat The Heat

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking again about the thunderstorms, and how much heat they remove from the surface by means of evaporation. We have good data…

Friday funny – Sustainable science

Josh writes: New Year is always a time to resolve to do better and maybe recycle stuff from 2015 that’s lying around doing nothing useful. Happy 2016! H/t to golf charlie for…

Meteorological Year (December to November) Global Temperature Product Comparison through 2015

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale It should come as no surprise that surface temperature products are showing record highs for the meteorological year of December 2014 to November 2015 and…

Filling in the sparse Arctic weather data

From RESEARCH ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS Optimized arctic observations for improving weather forecast in the northern sea route The current reduction in Arctic sea-ice extent causes unpredictable weather phenomena…

EU probe into British Drax Biomass Subsidies

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The British Drax biomass plan has received a substantial setback. The Drax project is a plan to “save” the environment by chopping down vast tracts…

Indian Energy Experts Baffled by Green Hostility to Nuclear Power

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Hindu reports on a fascinating top level debate occurring at a conference in India, between politicians and energy experts. The energy experts are struggling…

El Nino turns 'el mean yo' for California

Over the last few days California has been hit by a series of winter storms that have been driven by an El Nino aimed Jetstream pattern that has pushed further…

Claim: Climate Change Forced Bigfoot to Migrate to America

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The International Business Times claims that Gigantopethicus, a huge ape which died out 100,000 years ago in China, may instead have been driven by Climate…

Munich Re insurance company: El Niño And Global Warming Make Natural Disasters Less Expensive

Due to El Niño and global warming, 2015 natural disasters are much less costly than expected, according to a study by an insurance industry group. The insurance industry’s largest losses…

Poll: 73% of Americans reject so-called AGW consensus (but you wouldn't know it from the headline)

Guest post by David Middleton From The Hill… Poll: 70 percent believe in climate change By Timothy Cama – 01/05/16 10:41 AM EST   A new survey finds that 70…

Annual Global Lower Troposphere Temperature (TLT) Anomaly Update – Distant Third Warmest for 2015

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale As expected, annual global lower troposphere temperature (TLT) anomalies in 2015 for both the RSS and UAH datasets ranked a remote third warmest.  See Figures…

Data suggests Global Temperature tracks Aviation Fuel Consumption

From the “this is not the looney chemtrails idea” and the “how much of this can be attributed to climate jet-setter Bill McKibben?” department, comes this data. Guest essay by…

Claim: Large and increasing methane emissions from northern lakes

From STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY and the “methane bomb is so yesterday” department: Methane is increasing in the atmosphere, but many sources are poorly understood. Lakes at high northern latitudes are such…

Aussie Green Power Scheme Collapse

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – “The Australian” newspaper reports that a rise in costs, climate “fatigue”, and a rise in green tokenism has caused a collapse in…

Mysterious radio signals from space are much better test of Einstein's General Relativity

A new way to test one of the basic principles underlying Einstein’s theory of General Relativity using brief blasts of rare radio signals from space called Fast Radio Bursts is…

Shock Green Discovery: Negative Messages make Normal People Feel Sad

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A group of climate researchers have made the shocking discovery, that telling people everyone is going to die from the apocalyptic effects of manmade climate…

Antarctic Sea Ice as a "cork" to prevent CO2 release

From the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE and the “thank goodness Antarctic Sea Ice is growing” department comes this surprising finding. Melting of massive ice ‘lid’ resulted in huge release of CO2 at…