From DURHAM UNIVERSITY The world’s largest canyon may lie under the Antarctic ice sheet, according to analysis of satellite data by a team of scientists, led by Durham University. Although the…
Year: 2016
Priceless photo – snow and palm trees juxtaposed in Southern California thanks to El Niño
Southern California has gotten quite bit of weather lately, thanks to the changes in the jet stream track in this El Niño year. readers may recall my post from last…
New research: Social scientists look for climate denial – and find it
By Larry Kummer, from the Fabius Maximus website Summary: The social science literature about climate change includes many oddities. A new hot paper about climate denial adds to that list,…
Claim: Greenland ice sheet melts more when it's cloudy
From KU Leuven and the “department of annoying back-radiation” comes this claim that flies in the face of the “big melt” under “thin clouds” aka nearly clear skies back in July…
Lewandowsky's Psychological Science publishing hoax reaches the media
From Paul Matthew’s Climate Scepticism blog: In the blogosphere, the hoax paper by Lewandowsky, Oberauer and Gignac, NASA faked the moon landing—therefore, (climate) science is a hoax was exposed soon after it…
January 2016 ENSO Update – It Appears the El Niño Has Peaked
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of many of the ENSO-related variables we presented as part of last year’s 2014-15 El Niño Series. For the series…
Growth rings on rocks give up North American climate secrets
3 millimeters of soil deposits detail 120,000 years of climate history From the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – BERKELEY Scientists have found a new way to tease out signals about Earth’s…
Graph vs. Graph = Political Journalism
Guest essay by C.R. Dickson Most people have no trouble relating to temperature, because they use it every day when they set the thermostat in their homes, adjust the temperature…
Inconvenient: iceberg calving helps 'carbon sequestration' and is 'helping to slow global warming'
From the UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD and the department of “unknown negative feedbacks” comes this interesting study. While there have been numerous claims that warmer Polar temperatures (due to posited global…
California's train of super-soaker storms analysed – more on the way
Extreme rain events fueled by the current strong El Nino have started to affect California. NASA estimated rainfall over a period of 7 days while NASA/NOAA’s GOES Project created a…
Global agricultural production demonstrates Ramankutty et al. is just more global warming hot air
Recently, there was the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth in the media over the threat of “climate change” as outlined in Ramankutty et al. published on January 6th, in Nature…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #208
The Week That Was: 2016-01-09 (January 9, 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…
Britain Bracing for Extreme Winter, as Torrential Rain turns to Snow
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to forecasters, Britain is bracing for extreme winter conditions which might last for months, as falling temperatures turn torrential rain into severe blizzards. Arctic…
A New System for Determining Global Temperature
Guest essay by Mike Jonas Introduction There are a number of organisations that produce estimates of global temperature from surface measurements. They include the UK Met Office Hadley Centre, the…
Why should Volkswagen be investigated for emission deception, but not government agencies?
Guest essay Paul Driessen The heat is on! Not the unusual winter warmth in much of the United States – but the unrelenting heat generated by propaganda and pressure campaigns…
It's official! You can stop worrying about "climate change" effects on the polar bears, seals, and walrus – they've seen it all before, including ice-free summers
Paleoclimate + genetic study confirms: Arctic species adapted to sea ice changes Guest essay by Dr. Susan Crockford A new paper that combines paleoclimatology data for the last 56 million years…
El Niño shortens the Pause by just one month
No global warming at all for 18 years 8 months By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The Paris agreement is more dangerous than it appears. Though the secession clause that this…
Appraising Marvel et al.: Implications of forcing efficacies for climate sensitivity estimates
Guest essay by Nicholas Lewis Summary – Different agents may have effects on global temperature (GMST) different to those which would be expected simply by reference to the radiative forcing they…
Professor Myles Allen: Normal Weather is a "Thing of the Past"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall IPCC Lead Author Professor Myles Allen, who just last year in 2014 stated that alarmism is unhelpful, appears to have changed his mind – his…
Evidence of the Medieval Warm Period in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania
By Sebastian Lüning Geoscientist and co-author of ‘The neglected Sun’ The climate of the pre-industrial past is of greatest importance to the ongoing climate discussion. Current climate can only be…
Ban-Ki Moon's Climate Finance Plan: Despots paying off Third World Debt with More Oppression
Guest essay by Eric Worrall United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon, and Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary General of the Commonwealth, have proposed that third world countries should be allowed to pay…
Global Warming; A Major Challenge For Science And Society Effectively Tackled By Friends Of Science (FOS)
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball There is a large group of scientists who rarely express their views on climate change. They are scientists mostly working in the private sector…
Claim: The Climate "Denial" Conspiracy is Growing
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Guardian reports that discussions of climate policy are being displaced by “attacks” on climate science. Naturally the Guardian, and the authors of the study,…
Run Away! The Anthropocene Has Arrived!!!
Guest post by David Middleton (Featured image borrowed from http://www.hockeyministries.org/rwt-blog-52316) Unfortunately this article is behind a pay wall. While some of the points in the abstract are reasonable, these two…
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