Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See also the new Update at the end of the post.] I see that there is a new paper from China causing a great disturbance in the solar force … as discussed here on WUWT, the claim is that the El Nino Modoki Index, which is an index of sea…
Jury trial demanded in filing made in United States District Court, Lubbock, Texas today The cover page reads: LEONID GOLDSTEIN Plaintiff v. CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK, CERES INC., ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC., GENERATION INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLP, FORD FOUNDATION, THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS, GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL CORP., ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION CORP., THE CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY CORP., THE…
First, let’s get one thing clear, Joe Romm of the Center for American progress is paid to write stuff with headlines like this: Arctic death spiral: Icebreakers reach North Pole as sea ice disintegrates Oh noes! The headline gives the impression that this is a newsworthy event, it isn’t, all he had to do was…
Archaeologists may have finally located the historic vessel that disappeared 168 years ago in Canada’s north We’ve covered the Franklin Expedition before, so this from the Canadian Geographic Society is of interest: HMS Terror, the second of Sir John Franklin’s two ships that were lost in the Canadian Arctic 168 years ago, has been located in an…
Guest essay by Alberto Zaragoza Comendador CO2 is food for plants: a simplistic statement, but also a correct one. The factoid is so well-known, so basic, bringing it up in a discussion may only elicit a shrug or an eyeroll. Nevertheless, I have found that some very prominent papers on the topic of climate change…
Guest essay by Clyde Spencer The total reflectivity of Earth is important in energy budget calculations and in Global Circulation Models used to predict climate. If the value used is too low, it will contribute to models predicting more warming than is correct. I’ll demonstrate below why measured albedo is in fact too low as…
Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism The Russian Anthrax story is an iconic example of how a dubious hypothesis goes viral in the media simply by blaming global warming. The original hypothesis imagined “global…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Climate Change News – rich countries have failed this year to top up the fund which allows delegates from poor countries to pitch up to conferences and demand more climate cash, so the UN has appealed for poor countries to fund their own travel. Budget performance for the biennium…