Guest essay by Eric Worrall A professor has received a $5 million grant, to investigate whether rising CO2 and predicted endless drought will make the Koala’s Eucalyptus leaf diet too…
Month: February 2016
In defense of satellite temperature data – Dr. John Christy's powerful Senate testimony yesterday
From the “yes, but satellite data is good enough when they want to scream the Arctic is melting” department comes this powerful takedown of recent claims about the satellite temperature…
USC: we can make fuel directly out of Carbon Dioxide
From the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA and the “fuel out of thin air” department comes this announcement that says right off the bat it can’t compete with oil, especially when…
Climate Models Are NOT Simulating Earth’s Climate – Part 1
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post will serve as part 1 of the 2015 update of the model-data comparisons of satellite-era sea surface temperatures. The 2014 update is here.…
Latest MET Prediction: Large Scale Cooling, Warming at High Latitudes
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t The Express – The British MET have forecast that large areas of the world will cool over the next 5 years, though they still…
A clock tune in honor of a true man of true science
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The generous businessman who sponsored the successful case against Al Gore’s sci-fi comedy horror movie An Inconvenient Truth in the London High Court in 2007…
2014 WAS THE HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD, BUT 2015 IS HOTTER THAN 2014 AND 2016 COULD BE HOTTER THAN 2015!?
Guest essay by Quang M. Nguyen, P.E. Summary As suggested monthly by the mainstream media since April 2015, NOAA and NASA officially declared that 2015 surpassed the 2014 record…
The Medieval Warm Period in Antarctica: How two one-data-point studies missed the target
Guest essay by Sebastian Lüning A common claim by warmists in the climate debate is the alleged absence of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) in the Southern Hemisphere. In a…
California's governor Brown should read this paper about drought – maybe it will get his mind off the bullet train to nowhere and onto reservoirs
Severe drought no longer caused just by nature UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Scientists at the University of Birmingham are calling on drought researchers and managers around the world to consider both…
"Phytoplankton rapidly disappearing from the Indian Ocean" or not.
Guest post by David Middleton, feature image borrowed from iHerb. A rapid loss of phytoplankton threatens to turn the western Indian Ocean into an “ecological desert,” a new study…
Glacial erosion, CO2, and volcanoes – the chicken and the egg problem
Increase in volcanic eruptions at the end of the ice age caused by melting ice caps and erosion UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The combination of erosion and melting ice caps led…
Massive NASA Hack, including Climate Systems
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A group of hackers, apparently part of a community of hackers who spend their time casually cruising poorly defended US government computers, have busted into…
Study claims there is no significant natural component to global warming, i.e. 'it's all your fault'
From the “language gives away the intent of the study” department comes this clear attempt at a headline. Long-term global warming not driven naturally Study “debunks” argument that warming is…
President Obama's hidden EPA Enabling Act
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – a group of lawyers at Columbia Law School have urged President Obama that he invoke a little known clause in the Clean…
New insights into the solar magnetic dynamo
From NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER NASA: Understanding the magnetic sun The surface of the sun writhes and dances. Far from the still, whitish-yellow disk it appears to be from the…
Remember when Pikas were going to be wiped off the face of the Earth due to climate change? Never mind…
From OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY comes this Emily Litella climate moment, we told you so… Study: Future for charismatic pika not as daunting as once feared CORVALLIS, Ore. – The American pika…
Study claims: Phase of the moon affects amount of rainfall
From the UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON When the moon is high in the sky, it creates bulges in the planet’s atmosphere that creates imperceptible changes in the amount of rain that…
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