The New Dark Age – Exploiting Faith to Coerce Climate Obedience

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Climate worriers appear to be increasingly looking for ways to exploit people’s religious faith, to coerce ordinary people into accepting green destitution; into abandoning mechanised…

DeConto and Pollard – An Antarctic Science (Fiction?) Disaster

Readers may recall the announcement of the PR for the recent paper claiming Sea-Level rise from Antarctic ice sheet could double in WUWT. In a tongue and cheek way, I prefaced it…

The Philosophy of Climate Change

Guest essay by Leo Smith Introduction I decided to pen this, not because I am a ‘philosopher of climate change’ like the esteemed Rupert Read, whose self styled ‘philosophy of…

"Climate Hustle" goes to Washington: Skeptical film to premiere on Capitol Hill; Riveting panel with Gov. Sarah Palin and other guests

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 31, 2016 (March 31, 2016) The U.S. premiere of CFACT’s groundbreaking new documentary, Climate Hustle will take place at a Capitol Hill briefing in the historic…

Friday Funny – Dr. Gavin Schmidt throws Mann's tree rings under the bus

Readers may remember this Josh classic: In a December 16th Podcast with “Forecast A podcast about climate science and climate scientists” run by Michael White, Nature’s editor for climate science, Dr.…

Green Energy may have Just Cost Britain 40,000 Jobs

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Tata Steel has announced an immediate withdrawal from Britain, threatening 4000 steel working jobs, and 40,000 jobs in dependent industries. The main reason given for…

Accused of sexual harassment crimes, former IPCC head Pachauri claims: "I was set up"

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t James Delingpole – Disgraced former head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Rajendra Pachauri has struck back at accusations he has been ,…

No April Fools Joke – Arctic blast for Northeast USA to give snow, 10's and 20's to New York, Boston

From Joe Bastardi at WeatherBell: Been warning anyone that will listen for over 2 weeks now about April 1-10. Check out GFS lows next Wednesday He adds: EURO [forecast model]…

Tracking 'marine heatwaves' since 1950 — and how the 'blob' stacks up

From the University of Washington Unusually warm oceans can have widespread effects on marine ecosystems. Warm patches off the Pacific Northwest from 2013 to 2015, and a couple of years…

Oh noes! Model says: Sea-Level rise from Antarctic ice sheet could double

And a bunch of volcanoes could erupt, and a Carrington type solar flare event could happen, and an asteroid could hit the Earth. I worry about these far more than…

February 2016 Global Surface Temperature Anomalies May or May Not Have Been Highest on Record, According to the UKMO

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale UPDATE:  I used the phrase “may or may not” with respect to February 2016 being the warmest on record in the title and text of…

GWPF Calls On Government To Scrap Unilateral Climate Policies

The Global Warming Policy Forum is calling on the Government to delay the 5th Carbon Budget and scrap Britain’s unilateral Carbon Floor Price both of which are contributing to the…

Cruise Ship to Dare the North West Passage

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The North West passage is an infamous graveyard of ships, where the weather can turn deadly without warning, and floating ice is an ever-present peril.…

Renewables are useless: The Evidence is Overwhelming

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Al Gore has a problem. He seems to want people to believe that only climate skeptics oppose renewables. The truth is, a small but growing…

NOAA tweaks their poorly performing Climate Forecast System model to remove 'cold bias'

‘Cold bias’ removed from Atlantic From NOAA/NWS technical information notices (TIN) (h/t) to Dr. Ryan Maue and Larry Kummer. It seems the climate models can’t quite zoom in on the…

Al Gore and State Attorney Generals start another climate witch hunt (Update: schism develops)

From Blue Virginia: (video follows) Unprecedented Coalition Vows To Defend Climate Change Progress Made Under President Obama And To Push The Next President For Even More Aggressive Action NEW YORK…

Imagine the horrific fate of the losers after the climate policy debate ends

Guest essay by Larry Kummer, of the Fabius Maximus website Summary: The appropriate public policy response to climate change is one of the great issues of our time, driving one…

Al Gore joins farces [er, forces] with New York Attorney General to prosecute "deniers"

Al Gore/New York AG press conference on ‘the potential of commencing new investigations or joining ongoing investigations,’ on climate change. This press conference will likely cover everything from #CleanPowerPlan to…

Why are U.S. Taxpayers Supporting Numerous Duplications of Effort in the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)?

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale There are numerous duplications of effort in the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP): from multiple U.S.-funded climate-modeling groups, to multiple producers of the same…

Arctic sea ice wintertime extent sees a record low

Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to scientists at the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice…

An answer to: Is the rise in sea levels accelerating?

Guest essay by: Jan Kjetil Andersen There is a well-established consensus concluding that the global sea level has risen over the last century, and that the level continues to rise.…

Solar Update March 2016

Guest essay by David Archibald There are a couple of interesting features of the state of the Sun at the moment. Firstly the Oulu Neutron Count has had a rapid…

Study: Ocean temps predict US heat waves 50 days out

Pacific pattern often forms in advance of hot days in eastern US From the NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH/UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH BOULDER — The formation of a distinct…

Pavlof Volcano in Alaska Erupts Sending Ash Upwards 20,000 Feet

The Pavlof Volcano, which is about 600 miles southwest of Anchorage on the Aleutian Islands, erupted at 4:18 p.m. local time on Sunday, March 27th. The eruption sent ash 20,000…