Cowboys vs Farmers: Must be Climate Change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The history of the American Wild West is being replayed on the fringes of Nigeria, as heavily armed nomadic cattle herders compete with crop farmers…

A new lower estimate of equilibrium climate sensitivity

Steve McIntyre calls attention to a new paper  by J. Ray Bates of the Meteorology and Climate Centre, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College Dublin, Ireland in a journal called Earth and Space Science. The paper…

April 2016 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of the values for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature reconstructions—GISS through April 2016 and HADCRUT4 and…

Compulsory Courses for Any Curriculum; The Science Dilemma

Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball Science is pervasive directly and indirectly in every phase of modern life. While the majority are not directly involved in science, they need to understand…