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…

How Thunderstorms Beat The Heat

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…

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…