Solar Update June 2017–the sun is slumping and headed even lower

Solar cycle 24 has seen very low solar activity thus far, likely the lowest in 100 years. Guest essay by David Archibald   Figure 1: F10.7 Flux 2014 – 2017…

Study: Ambiguous pledges leave large uncertainty under Paris climate agreement

From the INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS and the “uncertainty monster hits both ways” department: Under the pledges made by countries under the Paris Agreement on climate change, greenhouse gas…

EPA’s Pruitt: Establish ‘Red Team, Blue Team’ of scientists to examine climate risk of CO2

Interviewed by Breitbart’s Joel Pollak, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says the American people deserve ‘a true legitimate, peer reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2.’ Pruitt calls for the establishment of…

While dissing Trump for pulling out of the #ParisAgreement, the EU’s CO2 Emissions Are On The Rise

The EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2015 for the first time since 2010. According to new data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), the 0.5% increase happened largely…

A Holocene Temperature Reconstruction Part 2: More reconstructions

By Andy May In the last post (see here) we introduced a new Holocene temperature reconstruction for Antarctica using some of the Marcott, et al. (2013) proxies. In this post,…

Surprising Convergence of Day and Night Upper-Atmosphere Temperatures

Guest essay by Charles Samuels A cursory review of articles about the upper atmosphere reveals many theories about the role of CO2 on temperatures aloft. By “Upper Atmosphere” we mean…