Funding the arts – or hurricane recovery

With only so much taxpayer cash, what should our priorities be in this year of big hurricanes? Guest essay by Paul Driessen A couple of friends recently said it was…

Giant hole in ice reappears in Antarctica after 40 years

Antarctica: Return of the Weddell polynya supports Kiel climate model After 40 years, a large ice-free area appears again in the Southern Ocean in mid-winter Currently, winter has still a…

Los Angeles will not replace dying palm trees – because 'climate change'

Los Angeles’ legendary palm trees are dying – and few will be replaced A beetle and a fungus are killing off the trees that have become synonymous with the city,…

Analysis says NOAA global temperature data 'doesn’t constitute a "smoking gun” for global warming'

Mikhail Voloshin writes this detailed analysis of NOAA and GISTEMP climate data  processing on his Facebook page: Random Walk analysis of NOAA global temperature anomaly data Summary The global temperature record…

Aussie Coral Reef Rises from the Dead

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – the Australian ABC reports scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science are surprised how rapidly the Australian Great Barrier Reef is…