Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking again about the thunderstorms, and how much heat they remove from the surface by means of evaporation. We have good data…
Year: 2016
Friday funny – Sustainable science
Josh writes: New Year is always a time to resolve to do better and maybe recycle stuff from 2015 that’s lying around doing nothing useful. Happy 2016! H/t to golf charlie for…
Meteorological Year (December to November) Global Temperature Product Comparison through 2015
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale It should come as no surprise that surface temperature products are showing record highs for the meteorological year of December 2014 to November 2015 and…
Filling in the sparse Arctic weather data
From RESEARCH ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS Optimized arctic observations for improving weather forecast in the northern sea route The current reduction in Arctic sea-ice extent causes unpredictable weather phenomena…
EU probe into British Drax Biomass Subsidies
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The British Drax biomass plan has received a substantial setback. The Drax project is a plan to “save” the environment by chopping down vast tracts…
Indian Energy Experts Baffled by Green Hostility to Nuclear Power
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Hindu reports on a fascinating top level debate occurring at a conference in India, between politicians and energy experts. The energy experts are struggling…
El Nino turns 'el mean yo' for California
Over the last few days California has been hit by a series of winter storms that have been driven by an El Nino aimed Jetstream pattern that has pushed further…
Claim: Climate Change Forced Bigfoot to Migrate to America
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The International Business Times claims that Gigantopethicus, a huge ape which died out 100,000 years ago in China, may instead have been driven by Climate…
Munich Re insurance company: El Niño And Global Warming Make Natural Disasters Less Expensive
Due to El Niño and global warming, 2015 natural disasters are much less costly than expected, according to a study by an insurance industry group. The insurance industry’s largest losses…
Poll: 73% of Americans reject so-called AGW consensus (but you wouldn't know it from the headline)
Guest post by David Middleton From The Hill… Poll: 70 percent believe in climate change By Timothy Cama – 01/05/16 10:41 AM EST A new survey finds that 70…
Annual Global Lower Troposphere Temperature (TLT) Anomaly Update – Distant Third Warmest for 2015
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale As expected, annual global lower troposphere temperature (TLT) anomalies in 2015 for both the RSS and UAH datasets ranked a remote third warmest. See Figures…
Data suggests Global Temperature tracks Aviation Fuel Consumption
From the “this is not the looney chemtrails idea” and the “how much of this can be attributed to climate jet-setter Bill McKibben?” department, comes this data. Guest essay by…
Claim: Large and increasing methane emissions from northern lakes
From STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY and the “methane bomb is so yesterday” department: Methane is increasing in the atmosphere, but many sources are poorly understood. Lakes at high northern latitudes are such…
Aussie Green Power Scheme Collapse
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – “The Australian” newspaper reports that a rise in costs, climate “fatigue”, and a rise in green tokenism has caused a collapse in…
Mysterious radio signals from space are much better test of Einstein's General Relativity
A new way to test one of the basic principles underlying Einstein’s theory of General Relativity using brief blasts of rare radio signals from space called Fast Radio Bursts is…
Shock Green Discovery: Negative Messages make Normal People Feel Sad
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A group of climate researchers have made the shocking discovery, that telling people everyone is going to die from the apocalyptic effects of manmade climate…
Antarctic Sea Ice as a "cork" to prevent CO2 release
From the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE and the “thank goodness Antarctic Sea Ice is growing” department comes this surprising finding. Melting of massive ice ‘lid’ resulted in huge release of CO2 at…
Failed claim right out of the gate: Climate change altering Greenland ice sheet & accelerating sea level rise
From the “why worry, the 99.7% of the ice is still there” department and York University comes this climate claim that has to do with a natural event in 2012,…
Evolutions of Global Surface and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomalies in Responses to the 1997/98 and 2015/16 El Niños
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post compares the responses of global surface temperature anomalies and lower troposphere temperature anomalies for the 2015/16 El Niño and the comparatively strong 1997/98…
Four new elements added to the periodic table – all variants of "Unobtanium"
From the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and the “can’t touch this” department comes these new super-heavy and super-unstable elements that only exist for microseconds in an atom…
Daniel Davis’ insights about predictions can unlock the climate change debate
By Larry Kummer, from the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: Here are three powerful insights by Daniel Davies about predictions by experts. He used them to predict the outcome of the…
Drought buster? Up to 10 feet of snow this week for California's Sierra Nevada
Here is some good news for drought-stricken California; the latest forecast model output from WeatherBell suggests that the Sierra Nevada snow-pack will get a fresh dump of up to 10…
Greens Diversifying Away from the Dying Climate Issue
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Some Greens seem to be waking up to the fact that the climate cause is sinking, and are attempting to shift attention back to more…
Paris Climate Conference: A Sideshow To More Frightening Use Of False IPCC Climate Science
Guest opinion: Dr. Tim Ball President Obama used the Paris Climate Conference to advance his legacy: an agreement was mandatory no matter the truth or the cost. As a result,…
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