Study: Stressed Fish More Likely to Die If You Also Half Cook Them

Guest essay by Eric Worrall James Cook University researchers have discovered if you heat fish above their natural tolerance range while mistreating them (simulating catch and release), a lot of…

December 2016 Global Surface (Land+Ocean) and Lower Troposphere Temperature Anomaly Update – With a Look at the Year-End Annual Results

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides updates of the values for the three primary suppliers of global land+ocean surface temperature reconstructions—GISS, HADCRUT4 and NOAA NCEI (formerly NOAA NCDC)—and…

LA Times: California Cap and Trade Might be Unconstitutional

Guest essay by Eric Worrall LA Times suggests the centrepiece of California’s green policies might be about to collapse in the face of an ongoing legal challenge. The immediate threat…

Mainstream Media Ignores New Study: Present Sea Surface Temperatures “Indistinguishable” From Those During Last Interglacial…

…When Sea Levels Were Roughly 20 to 30 Feet Higher than Today Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Science recently published Hoffman, et al. (2017) Regional and global sea-surface temperatures during…

The Cruelest Tax Of All

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A “progressive” tax is one where the wealthier you are the higher percentage of tax you pay. On the other hand, I’ve said before that…

Facts, beliefs, and identity: The seeds of science skepticism

From the SOCIETY FOR PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY San Antonio, Texas – Psychological researchers are working to understand the cognitive processes, ideologies, cultural demands, and conspiracy beliefs that cause smart…

New website gives you the real deal on sea level rise and rates

New analysis and graphing tools for sea-level data at SeaLevel.info Guest essay by David Burton www.SeaLevel.info now has interactive regression analysis (line/curve fitting) and visualization (graphing) tools available for mean…

The Next Eco-Scare Story?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Now that Trump is President, what will replace the dying climate crisis narrative? The replacement scare has to be a comparatively new field, with vast…

The Economic Cost Of The Social Cost Of Carbon

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve crossposted this from my blog, “Skating Under The Ice“. The unscientific enterprise called the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) is a thinly disguised political…

Friday Funny BONUS -Reality hits home for Dr. Mann

Ah Dr. Michael Mann, keeps giving us gifts. As Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. once quipped: If Michael Mann did not exist, the skeptics would have to invent him. Looks like…

Humans, not climate change, wiped out Australian megafauna

Monash University, CU-Boulder show steep decline in megafauna shortly after 45,000 years ago From the UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER New evidence involving the ancient poop of some of the…

Friday Funny – "gone in an instant" – climate edition

At 1200PM EST today, Donald J. Trump took the oath of office and was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. At that same instant, the domain…

Trump posts first order of business – kill the Climate Action Plan and Waters of the U.S. rule

From USAToday: Trump begins with call to kill climate action plan WASHINGTON —- As President Trump delivered his inaugural address Friday, his new White House team posted a proposal to…

About intellectuals and climate alarmism

Guest opinion by Frits Bolkestein In the early seventies, the world must have looked frightening to Dennis Meadows and his team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, when they dealt…

"Trump Nominees Distance Themselves From His Climate Rhetoric"

Guest post by David Middleton Trump Nominees Distance Themselves From His Climate Rhetoric By Bill Murray January 20, 2017 Rick Perry, questioned by senators Thursday vetting him as a potential…

"Rogue Scientists Race to Save Climate Data from Trump"(AKA"The Phantom Menace")

Guest post by David Middleton AT 10 AM the Saturday before inauguration day, on the sixth floor of the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania, roughly 60 hackers,…

Polly Toynbee: Cancelling British Renewable Subsidies Destroyed the Industry

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Polly Toynbee, the voice of the Liberal British establishment, thinks just as wind and solar became economic, the British government destroyed the industry by pulling…

Russian Icebreakers Stuck in the Arctic Global Warming

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t 1saveenergy – Two Russian icebreakers have become stuck in metre thick ice fields, on their return from a journey to escort supplies to Russia’s…

@NOAA data demonstrates that 2016 was not the 'hottest year ever' in the USA

Today, there’s all sorts of caterwauling over the NYT headline by Justin Gillis that made it above the fold in all caps, no less:  FOR THIRD YEAR, THE EARTH IN…

Not quite Friday Funny – The winter of their discontent

If you are following Twitter and other social media, you probably have the impression that Friday January 20th, is doomsday. And for some who banked on a continuance of the…

2016 Global Temperature: The Pause Never Went Away

The Met Office yesterday confirmed that the warm record of 2016 was mainly driven by a very strong El Nino. Guest essay by Dr David Whitehouse, GWPF Science Editor Not…

Has recent summer sea ice loss caused polar bear populations to crash?

Press Release 19 January 2017 FROM: Dr. Susan J. Crockford, University of Victoria, Canada A paper published today finds that predictions of polar bear population crashes due to summer sea…

Latest Climate Crisis: Slightly Less Mild Weather by 2065

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new study claims that global warming will deliver 4 fewer mild days per year by 2065, and 10 fewer mild days by 2100 –…

President Obama Just Transferred ANOTHER $500 Million to the UN Green Fund

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Back in March WUWT reported how President Obama transferred $500 Million to the UN Green Fund. According to Mother Jones, he has just done it…