Precipitable Water Redux

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my last post I investigated the mathematical relationship between the amount of total precipitable water vapor (TPW) in the atmosphere, and the clear-sky greenhouse…

Incredibly close lightning strike recorded on slo-mo video

This video from a dashcam was taken July 24th, 2016 in Chicago. The slo-mo of the lightning hitting a pole near the vehicle is one of the most intriguing things…

A possible Triple Climate Whammy for the UK ahead?

Guest opinion by John Hardy (UK) Abraham Hondius “The Frozen Thames” 1677 (during the Maunder minimum) Two separate indicators of climate change suggest that there is a risk of substantial…

Monsoon intensity in India enhanced by heat captured by desert dust from the Middle East

From the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN comes this interesting study. Like dust from the Sahara enhances tropical storm formation near the Cape Verde Islands, so does dust from the Middle…

Claim: CO2 can be stored underground for 10 times the length needed to avoid climatic impact

From the don’t store it in a fault zone department and the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Study of natural-occurring 100,000 year-old CO2 reservoirs shows no significant corroding of ‘cap rock’, suggesting the…

FAIL: Carbon-financed cookstove fails to deliver hoped-for benefits in the field

This is unfortunate that it didn’t work, but perhaps they tried to do too much here, like solve climate change and third-world social household habits all in one. The real…