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…

Ooops! Alarm over 'sinking Islands' premature as sea level falls at Kwajalein Atoll

David Burton writes: Remember this little article by Nils-Axel Mörner, not quite three years ago? The Marshall Islands and their Sea Level Changes He discussed Kwajalein Atoll, in the Marshall…

Peter Gleick Resigns as President of Pacific Institute … Because of Fakegate?

Guest essay by Joe Bast On Thursday, March 24th, POLITICO announced disgraced climate scientist Peter Gleick has stepped down as president of the Pacific Institute, though he will remain there as…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #220

The Week That Was: 2016-03-26 (March 26, 2016) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental…

Air Freighting ice to Antarctica: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Scientists worried about global warming have embarked on a project to preserve the world’s glacial ice core record, by air freighting selected ice cores to…

Double The Atmospheric CO2? Fuggeddaboutit!

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach On another thread here at WUWT we were discussing the Bern carbon dioxide model used by the IPCC. The Bern Model calculates how fast a…

NASA Relativistic Interstellar Laser Launcher: We could do it NOW, for the cost of the NASA Climate Budget

Guest essay by Eric Worrall An American scientist has made a remarkable conceptual breakthrough, a design for a non nuclear relativistic launcher, capable of accelerating thousands of deep space probes…

Schism on the Left: James Hansen's climatic 'canon' gets fired from a cannon

I never thought the day would come that I’d be reposting something from David Appell. Yet, here I am, in agreement with him. I keep looking over my shoulder for…

An Open Letter to U.S. Presidential Candidates

Date:  March 27, 2016 Subject:  Extreme Weather and Rising Sea Levels From:  Bob Tisdale – Independent Researcher/Climate Change To: United States Presidential Candidates Dear Presidential Candidates: While reading this letter,…

Michael Mann bemoans Lack of Interest in Climate Change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Michael Mann, inventor of the climate Hockey Stick, is dismayed that despite the best efforts of Democrat candidates to promote climate issues, nobody seems to…

The Great Southern Whale Slaughter: The Price of the Green Obsession with CO2?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian reports that Japan this year killed more than 300 whales, for “research” purposes. Australia and New Zealand are criticised for not attempting to…

But Is It True? – The Research of Aaron Wildavsky Twenty Years Later

Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball In his fascinating 1950 book “Unpopular Essays,” mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote that “Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man…

Shock Discovery: Admitting Climate Uncertainty makes you More Credible

Guest essay by Eric Worrall An opinion piece published in Nature suggests that admitting there are unresolved uncertainties with climate science, improves your credibility with people who don’t already agree…

Empirical Validation of the Exponential Decay for Surplus CO2

Guest essay by Leo Goldstein My new scientific paper Empirical Validation of the Exponential Decay for Surplus CO2 further validates the conclusion that surplus CO2 in the air decays exponentially.…

Climate scientist Shukla investigation deepens

Science Agency Eyes Climate Change Professor’s Use of Millions From Taxpayers 3/23/16 The National Science Foundation’s inspector general appears poised to look into Jagadish Shukla’s management of federal grant money,…

Friday Funny: more upside down data

Steve McIntyre famously determined that Michael Mann was using a paleo proxy data series upside down in a paper. Mann’s response (though not directly because he doesn’t speak with mere…

New AMS survey busts the 97% climate consensus claim

Fully a third don’t agree that man is the primary driver Another survey of 4,092 members of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) from George Mason University (home of Shukla and…