July Temperature Recovers Slightly from Previous Free-Fall From Dr. Roy Spencer: The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July 2016 is +0.39 deg. C, up a little from the June, 2016 value +0.34 deg. C (click for full size version): The global, hemispheric, and tropical LT anomalies from the 30-year (1981-2010)…
Guest opinion by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley University College, London, one of the constituent colleges of what was once a respectable and serious academic institution, has declared open, vicious war on academic freedom. In doing so, it has forfeited the right to be taken seriously as a seat of learning. Last month Professor John Butterworth,…
From the UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE New research has found methylmercury — a potent neurotoxin — in sea ice in the Southern Ocean. Published today in the journal Nature Microbiology, the results are the first to show that sea-ice bacteria can change mercury into methylmercury, a more toxic form that can contaminate the marine environment, including…
The Week That Was: 2016-07-30 (July30, 2016) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Accusation Is Evidence? Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) claims he is seeking evidence of wrongful influence by Exxon for raising doubt that carbon dioxide (CO2)…