Senator Whitehouse goes Full Conspiracy Theory on "Climate Denial"

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Senator Whitehouse has unveiled his “web of denial”, a vast conspiracy theory about why his side is losing the climate debate. US senators detail a…

Settled Science: Clusters of small satellites could help estimate Earth's reflected energy

From M.I.T. and the “Total outgoing radiation is actually one of the biggest uncertainties in climate change” department: Batches of shoebox-sized satellites could improve estimates of Earth’s reflected energy A…

Whitehouse & Co. organize "play-in protest" using kids as climate pawns

People send me stuff. In this case it is a groaner of a press release where kids too young to think will be used as political pawns for climate change…

Santa Pause may be coming to town… The "pause" might be back by December.

Guest post by David Middleton A funny thing may have happened on the way to 2016 being the hottest year in the history of “life, the universe and everything”… If…

Quiz: Which 30-Year Warming Period Is Recent?

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale THREE MAPS ILLUSTRATING SIMILAR GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES OVER DIFFERENT 30-YEAR PERIODS The GISS map-making webpage allows users to create global maps of surface temperature…

Blame Climate Change? New orchid looks like the devil

For some reason, this press release showed up in my Eurekalert news feed for Atmospheric Science. That makes me wonder how long it will take for somebody to blame this…

Clouds are moving higher, subtropical dry zones expanding, according to satellite analysis

Scripps-led study confirms computerized climate simulations projecting effects of global warming From the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN DIEGO A Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego-led research…